fievel
@fievel@lemm.ee
C++ Software Engineer Big interest in OpenSource communities for years now. 20+ years linux user. But a newbies in fediverse, had heard about it before but needed the help of twitter (for mastodon) and reddit changes to give a real try. Also a fan of Stephen King books. Was fievel@vlemmy.net
- Comment on People used to think it was our ability to love that made us human. But it turns out it's our ability to select each image containing a crosswalk. 3 months ago:
rotfl
- Comment on The percentage of the population who did/didn't know of Crowdstrike probably reversed in the past week 3 months ago:
Not sure, people outside IT world, at least in my country, still speak about the “Microsoft crash” and don’t know at all about Crowdstrike. Now that make me think that MS will probably try to sue them for the “ravages” to their corporate image.
- Submitted 3 months ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I’ve also used Startpage and DuckDuckGo, they all have their strengths
Can you develop? Why do you prefer qwant over ddg for example.
I also dropped Google search mainly for two reason. First privacy, making money with my private data and so on. Then I find Google search is less and less good, the first thing being that sponsored links are first even if they don’t match well the search keywords and even not looking at sponsored links I think the results are much worse than in the past.
I now use duckduckgo and I’m happy with it but I can try something else.
- Comment on What's the best way to read a book in a dark room? 10 months ago:
I read every night with a kobo e-reader (next to my partner who generally sleep before me). I use night mode and a very dim brightness (2-3 %, the max I use is 4 %). It’s sufficient in my opinion.
- Comment on About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity 10 months ago:
Exactly, this makes me very anxious. Feeling that we’re just cutting the branch we are sit on …
- Comment on Community for finding communities? 10 months ago:
Also:
- !trendingcommunities@feddit.nl
- !communityspotlight@lemmy.world
- !communitypromo@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Can't upload images? 11 months ago:
Anyway, I would advise to upload pictures to a pictures hosting service (plenty on the web, I put a few links below).
Using it in a post or a comment is straightforward in markdown:
.Even if allowed, hosting images is very space and bandwidth consuming leading to costs for instance owners…
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 11 months ago:
What is considered as active ? Is someone connecting to his account and lurking considered active ? Or, someone who just up/downvote without commenting or posting ?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Nowadays it’s video for everything… Am I the only old bear that prefer plain old textual tutorials?
- Comment on Bookwyrm Android Client 1 year ago:
IMHO the website is sufficiently usable on a mobile browser. You can still use “add to home screen” to have a shortcut on your favorite launcher.
- Comment on What's a good markdown editor with Material You? 1 year ago:
Well, not really a markdown editor by say but Joplin which is basically a note taking app has a very good built-in MD editor. Personally, I use it often to write markdown and then copy paste in regular editor…
- Comment on Which privacy-focused search engine are you using? 1 year ago:
I recently started using Duck Duck Go instead of Google.
I still had this thought that Google was the best technology as I went from the early web (remember… altavista.digital.com, yahoo, …) and I remember that Google was really a game changer when it started to become popular.
I tested setting DDG as default search engine in my desktop and mobile browsers, thinking that when I don’t have expected results I would go to Google… I never had to switch to Google because I was wrong, DDG is as good as Google while being better from privacy point of view.
- Comment on Has lemm.ee defederated from any other instances? 1 year ago:
It could be nice for transparency purpose to publish a list of reasons for each blocked instance. ( Could be even better if Lemmy supported that out-of-the-box but I don’t think this is a top priority right now).
- Comment on New rules for bots on lemm.ee & Lemmy programming stream 1 year ago:
As almost everybody seems to agree (with regards to the comments on this post), why don’t you simply state that reddit repost bots are forbidden on this instance and not generalize to each and every bot while there can be some useful use-case for news, aggregation from other Lemmy communities or so… I have the feeling that talking about reddit related stuff become a bit the elephant in the room…
- Comment on Twitter client privacy friendly with notification 1 year ago:
And I’m now free from Twitter (well in 30 days…) 🎉🍾🍺
- Comment on Twitter client privacy friendly with notification 1 year ago:
Tried with Feeder as RSS client and seems to suit my use
- Comment on Twitter client privacy friendly with notification 1 year ago:
Haven’t thought about RSS for years but yeah it’s a good idea.
- Submitted 1 year ago to askandroid@lemdro.id | 5 comments
- Comment on New rules for bots on lemm.ee & Lemmy programming stream 1 year ago:
Completely agree with you, some slight difference should be applied to this rule to state clearly what should be avoided and what is valuable.
- Comment on There is no such thing as an effective "AI detector", nor will there ever be one. 1 year ago:
Well written code do not require comments, using good variable naming, dividing in simple operation through anonymous namespace functions well named. Sometimes comments are still required but should be avoided because they trends to not remain in sync with updated code and IMHO it’s worse to have lying comments rather than too few…
- Comment on There is no such thing as an effective "AI detector", nor will there ever be one. 1 year ago:
Very interesting post, congrats… The more I read and see about AI / deep learning and the more I feel anxious… I’m anxious because we seen during the covid crisis how many people were easily convinced of fake news and complotist theories that were by no way realistic, now I imagine that with the power of a forged argumentation from chatgpt and deep fake from midjourney… How to convince people they are wrong then… I’m also anxious about the changes that will occur in the job I love, software engineering… I don’t want to spend the rest of my life fixing bug in code automatically generated by an AI. Or worse to loose my job because some manager think I can be replaced easily by a bot …
- Comment on New rules for bots on lemm.ee & Lemmy programming stream 1 year ago:
I think this might be useful for some kind of automatic aggregation of content from other communities or some specific cases. For example, I liked, when I was on reddit, the subreddit RedditRead on which each post was generated from other subreddit comments, one post by book found in the comment on a specific post in another subreddit. I thought about setting up the same here when I have a bit more time… Now, the posts would be all generated but users could still comments, so it’s not purely artificial stuff…
Maybe one alternative would be to authorize such bot content generated communities but clearly flags them as such in the community sidebar or so. So people who are ok with generated content can subscribe and those who don’t like can block.
In a general way, I have bad feeling about strong rules (except for stuff obviously wrong or destructive but here I don’t think it’s the case), and prefer case by case monitoring. In some cases it can be good for the community and in other very bad, and I find that saying just “it’s forbidden” is too easy and frustrating decision.