jimmy90
@jimmy90@lemmy.world
- Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated? 1 day ago:
with Rust getting popular the architecture is there to make huge savings without having to be a rocket scientist
the rocket scientists are also getting involved and regularly outperforming even optimised C code
- Comment on Do you rebuild your container images yourself? 1 week ago:
i do look out for new images that could be a drop in replacement
the new no-distro movement of containers is very interesting
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 1 week ago:
buying into rust was good and will hopefully prove the language further
not going to save them but can make their platform better for those that don’t move to linux
- Comment on HyperCard on the Macintosh 2 weeks ago:
kinda like VB with a DB
- Comment on London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig 2 weeks ago:
a jewish religious symbol mashed together with a nazi symbol can easily be interpreted as anti-jew racism
i’m guessing there was no similar islamic symbol representing the genocidal intents of many islamic terrorist movements and countries
- Comment on Do you ever feel like your life is "scripted"? Like everything is written by some entity controlling your life? Like you live in a fictional universe? Is this feeling normal/common? 2 weeks ago:
i think this is a common side effect of being self aware
little existential crises before getting back into life
- Comment on I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right. 2 weeks ago:
yeah i don’t get why the ai can’t do the changes
don’t you just feed it all the code and tell it? i thought that was the point of 100% AI
- Comment on I tried Five Guys last night 2 weeks ago:
did you win the case?
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 3 weeks ago:
the linux content is even that great on Lemmy
more just cheer leading; in a good way
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 3 weeks ago:
nah reddit is fine for loads of things
better than lemmy in fact but then it has FOUR orders of magnitude more active users
- Comment on The Death of Listening 3 weeks ago:
i certainly listen to people and there’s another skill which can make, in person, another human listen to you
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 3 weeks ago:
it’s famously better at that
- Comment on Expecting a LLM to become conscious, is like expecting a painting to become alive 3 weeks ago:
true
also expecting models to have reasoning instead of the nightmare hallucinations is another fantasy
- Comment on The British Empire 4 weeks ago:
god save the queen
- Comment on How to propperly Ansible and selfhost without burning out? 4 weeks ago:
ditch ansible
learn nixos
be motivated
- Comment on Second Palestine Action Prisoner Hospitalised 4 weeks ago:
i think they could do a lot more good staying alive
martyrdom is not politically effective these days
- Comment on Is lemmy dying? 4 weeks ago:
slowly yes
- Comment on Cloudfare outage post mortem 5 weeks ago:
honestly this was a coding cock-up. there’s a code snippet in the article that
unwraps on aResultwhich you don’t do unless you’re fine with that part of the code crashingi think they are turning linters back to max and rooting through all their rust code as we speak
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 5 weeks ago:
yes we need more authenticity online more real humans and the privacy folks wont be there but we will
- Comment on I never understood what it was people did on Twitter. I understand it even less now that it is X. 1 month ago:
i thought whatsapp would make a public version and clean up at some point but they never did
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 1 month ago:
I think truenas and unraid are the only user friendly experience out of the box. Everything else needs a lot of configuring. I don’t think you can call system administration gate keeping
- Comment on Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t think AI will destroy the web 1 month ago:
this web? the web i use all day? every day? is destroyed by AI already
damn
- Comment on Is (Matrix) Element Server Suite overkill for a dozen users? 1 month ago:
i’ve been running it for 2 users for a very long time
frankly it’s a bit of a pain to setup but it works and it doesn’t need 2 cpus and 2 gb ram
- Comment on China bans influencers from speaking on ‘serious’ topics like finance or health without university degree 1 month ago:
we need more mechanisms to correct bullshit coming from all forms of media
- Comment on How often do you update software on your servers? 1 month ago:
my nixos containers and the podman containers inside them update nightly around 03:00
- Comment on Help with home server plan 1 month ago:
NIxOS is great for servers
- Comment on The people who protest against the Palestinian Genocide would be the same people who protested against the Holocaust. 2 months ago:
you’d think we’d be able to see the genocidal intent of the arabs easier given this experience, although it began before wwii
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 2 months ago:
nonsense, software has always been crap, we just have more resources
the only significant progress will be made with rust and further formal enhancements
- Comment on I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves. 2 months ago:
only for the intellectually diverse
- Comment on Just like in the movies. 3 months ago:
directors that reach for the color grading tools they now have need to go back to film school