Wispy2891
@Wispy2891@lemmy.world
- Comment on Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy 3 days ago:
AND there are many “free” tracking apps where people are tricked to give their valid tracking codes to see the shipment status. The owner then resells those valid tracking codes in bulk to scammers
- Comment on A Steam dev is deleting his own game after girlfriend made him realize AI is bad 4 days ago:
Wait, a steam game with vertical aspect ratio??
- Comment on Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source 5 days ago:
Maybe that once every 2 years when you upgrade to major version it does it automatically? You save 15 mins every 2 years?
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 week ago:
Already before the LLMs for me it was the last chance before I would post over there. The desperation move. It was too toxic and I would always get pissed to get my question closed because too similar or too easy or whatever. Hey I wasted 15 minutes to type that, if the other question solved the problem I wouldn’t post again…
In the beginning it wasn’t like that…
I went to watch my stack overflow account and the first questions that I posted (and that gave me 2000 karma) would have been almost all of them rejected and removed
- Comment on This EV Was Already Cheap, Then Dacia Knocked Off Nearly $6,000 1 week ago:
False, it’s made in China, but from Renault itself as Renault kze
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Preview of tickets incoming in the next days:
“Do I have Copilot included?” “Is it the same as Copilot in Word?” “Do I need an extra license?”
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
They really have a massive talent. It’s not easy to have such a consistent record in choosing stupid and confusing names, rebranding stuff with no reason.
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 1 week ago:
Even the older Windows XP managed 50 tabs, and that’s because it kept crashing past that number because of its paging file failing to keep up, not because it had hit the 5GB memory ceiling.
Windows XP 32bit can’t hit 5gb memory ceiling, the 32bit memory addresses don’t allow that
- Comment on Rather than fully cracking down on scam ads, Meta worked to make them harder to find - Sherwood News 2 weeks ago:
Harder to find? When I accidentally go to Facebook I exclusively get scam ads (I disabled ads personalization, though)
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 weeks ago:
YouTube doesn’t have a search bar. It’s for requesting recommendations on the feed. Search an obscure singer once in your life? For the next 6 months he will be present in your feed.
If you need to do search you have to use newpipe or similar alternatives
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 weeks ago:
Most cars are basically bricks without the main unit, for example the air conditioning is set using proprietary commands on the can bus from the fancy touchscreen. Or setting all the options of the adas, sensors and so on
- Comment on Holiday Upgrade Disasters 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Luckily I did a snapshot then copied on a separate drive using btrfs send.
I shut down everything, there’s no activity… that’s why I feel weird to see all this rebuild activity, yet so many hours passed…
A scrub usually takes less than an hour…
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 2 weeks ago:
I notice that you used the free interface without registration. While a bit of a hassle to register, I saw that behind the registration wall they use longer contexts/bigger models. Without registration it’s more prone to abuse so they might condense/truncate responses from chats: by design, the bots have zero memory, so the whole chat history needs to be appended at every question => long chats lead to expensive API calls => free users get history truncated or condensed.
Also, the normal system prompt is something like “be a sycophant and always please the user no matter prompt” and it will lead you do stupid stuff if you ask, so you need to go to the settings and change it to something like:
From now on, stop being agreeable and act like a high-level consultant: blunt and honest. Don’t validate me, don’t soften the truth, and don’t flatter me. Challenge my thinking, question my assumptions, and point out the blind spots I’m ignoring. Be direct, rational, and unfiltered. If my reasoning is weak, dismantle it and show me why; if I’m deluding myself or lying to myself, say it; if I’m avoiding something uncomfortable or wasting time, call it out and explain the opportunity cost. Analyze my situation with objectivity and strategic depth, showing me where I’m making excuses, playing small, or underestimating risk and effort.
For example this question that i had: (all paragraphed, writing from memory, i routinely wipe all the chat histories)
can I bypass gpg verification on fedora when using dnf?
gpt-5-mini from chatgpt free:
it’s absolutely possible! just use the --nogpgcheck flag
gpt-5.2 from api with the previous system prompt:
i won’t tell you how to do that, it’s an incredibly stupid idea, a bad habit and doesn’t actually solve the problem
finally, don’t blindly trust the results as they might still be incorrect, use that as a hint on how to proceed
- Comment on Holiday Upgrade Disasters 2 weeks ago:
I told myself “with this 4 days of holidays i can easily rebuild the btrfs array”. 3 days later it’s still crunching numbers at 50MB/s… (but with all this time passed at that speed the drives would be able to fully rewritten multiple times…)
- Comment on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached 3 weeks ago:
From the headline I assumed it was some weird bug, instead it’s enshittification of an open source project. Suddenly they chose to hold ransom of the free users data, so they have to contact sales to know how many thousands of dollars you need to pay every year to access those old messages. It’s self hosted, this limitation doesn’t make sense, it’s pure extortion
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
False, italian has a word for toe that is separate from the fingers of the feet (alluce)
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
Look at this video from 4 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGHokrbjlz8
I updated even on the beta version and at the beginning I was like “well it’s a beta, surely they will fix it”… Then it launched with the broken taskbar and I thought “surely this will be patched in a week” - it took TWO YEARS
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
The taskbar on windows 11 for the first two years didn’t support dragging and dropping on icons or opened applications. It was completely unusable
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
When you think about having the taskbar on the right or the left, all of a sudden the reflow and the work that all of the apps have to do to be able to have a wonderful experience in those environments is just huge
It was working fine in windows 95. Suddenly all programmers became incompetent and can’t handle something like that?
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
In the launch version of windows 11 and for over TWO YEARS it didn’t even support drag&drop. It was working fine even on windows me
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 4 weeks ago:
Tried that browser on Linux. It crashes when you save a file. It doesn’t let you click on the URL bar to edit it (only keyboard works). “If it compiles, it ships, no testing needed”
- Comment on Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026 4 weeks ago:
Even cars
Ford is cancelling their electric pickup because they will convert their ev battery factory in a factory that makes batteries for datacenters
- Comment on Windows Marketshare since 2010 4 weeks ago:
TIL there’s a new operating system that came out less than a year ago but already captured 5% of the market, passing ChromeOS and Linux
This stat is rubbish because they’re basing it on web views, and the millions of ai scraping bots are influencing it
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 4 weeks ago:
No, don’t even buy LG.
I bought a dumb LG panel for my bedroom and I had to buy black enamel paint to go over the status LED. When the panel it’s off, the indicator LED it’s BRIGHT. BLUE. BLINKING. And it’s so powerful that I still see it because the light leaks from the small plastic vents. I also had to additionally insert a Shelly 1pm smart relay in the socket and program it with the logic “from 8pm to 8am if power usage is under 5 watts, cut the power; repeat the check every minute”
When the panel is on, instead, the status LED it’s off 🤷🏻♂️
- Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names. 5 weeks ago:
I Remember a decade ago i read a post on blogpost on exactly this
I wasted thirty minutes to search but I didn’t find it, but it was something like Michael Jackson was shocked to learn during his First tour in mainland china that the locals gave him the Hanzi 迈克尔·杰克逊 where the last character means “inferior” or something like that, instead in Taiwan the locals chose 麦可·杰克森 which has a better meaning.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 month ago:
I explain what I mean: those algorithms have no memory at all. Each request is made on a blank slate, so when you do a “conversation” with them, the chat program is actually including all the previous interactions (or a resume of them) plus all the relevant parts of the code, simulating a conversation with a human. So the user didn’t just ask “can you clear the cache” but actually asked the result of 600 messages + kilobytes of generated code + “can you clear the cache”, and this causes destructive hallucinations
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 month ago:
I have no experience with this ide but I see on the posted log on Reddit that the LLM is talking about a “step 620” - like this is hundreds of queries away from the initial one? The context must have been massive, usually after this many subsequent queries they start to hallucinating hardly
- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 1 month ago:
The Elon burn was epic
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 month ago:
It is exactly why I’m an apple hater, as an owner of an iPad mini and Intel iMac. Both are basically bricks.
The iPad can’t even be used to browse websites because Apple it’s so magnanimous to tie browser updates to the operating system. Once the os is EOL, the browser is EOL, and all the third party browsers too, as Apple forces devs to use the system browser as engine (= Firefox, Chrome for iOS basically are glorified Safari skins). Apps for iOS almost all require the latest version and you can’t download a previous version unless you have a Time machine and you press download before the cutoff. Imagine on Android if apps required Android 15 and greater. Instead most of them can still run on Android 10 and even earlier.
The iMac, despite being a 4th gen Intel with dedicated AMD GPU, it’s also a brick. Every app (including Firefox, Chrome, etc) requires a recent MacOS version (here devs aren’t targeting latest and greatest, but still is annoying). Of course Apple still ties Safari updates on the operating system. Imagine on PC if apps required Windows 11 24H1. Because newer versions of MacOS don’t have the driver for my dedicated GPU, they can’t be tricked to install a newer version (I tried, it’s unbearable to use MacOS without GPU acceleration, with all that eye candy it’s a must have)
At least the iMac could run a different operating system… Debian shows a black screen and I would need an external monitor, Arch somehow turns off the USB ports on the back and I can’t use keyboard and mouse… I have to use Windows 10…
- Comment on Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos 1 month ago:
The short description seems to be written by a LLM, why?