lambalicious
@lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Contract for self-hosting help 1 day ago:
It’s not wrong to want to reward someone for providing an above-baseline service, which is what we (usually) can at most do here. Among other things, they are literally asking for someone to hold their hand. That’s instruction-level commitment, not just “passerby internet comment”-level commitment, and I see it as fair to both request the service for a price and provide the service for a price.
- Comment on What did you accomplish during the monthly outage? 1 day ago:
I picked back the backup of some code I wrote 6 years ago so that I can resume the project.
- Comment on Postiz v2.11.3 - open source social media scheduling tool! (creation modal refactored) 3 days ago:
Any Mbin in the plans, or is it too similar to lemmy?
- Comment on Throwing ideas out for lemmy 5 days ago:
But how about the crocodile / Florida Man posts. They’d be from Florida, right?
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 6 days ago:
humanist view of the world
Sure, but isn’t he the same guy writing the backend to specifically exclude or editorialize the posts by the member who does thorns?
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 6 days ago:
However, even what I would consider reputable tutorials such as ones you find on HowToForge, sometimes don’t quite turn out as expected
Yes, because that’s a natural process. Most tutorial s written by users cover the experience the user had in their own use case. They don’t / can’t cover the same ground or have access to the same levels of examination that the devs can have.
So, if you’re going to say don’t trust AI, then you have to also be skeptical of all tuts. I mean, that’s where the AI scrapers got the info in the first place.
Oh please. Stop licking corporate AI boot and drinking the kool-aid. There’s at least two orders of magnitude of truthfulness and trustability between “a discrete set of tutorials written to cover described use cases” and “a random mix and blend hodgepodge coke snort prisoner soup ectoplasm of all the above, fine-tuned to invent answers that produce gratification and brand dependence”. You saying that these two things are as trustable as each other suggests you have quite a misanthropic edge to your personality and/or are going through a stage of cult-of-personality (or cult-of-brand).
I trust the humans who write the tutorials that have em-dashes. I don’t trust an AI that just slurped and pirated the work of those humans to try and snake-oil me with a bunch of grammar mistakes adorned with em-dashes.
- Comment on Mattermost restricted access to old messages after 10000 limit is reached 1 week ago:
There’s IRC, XMPP, and nu-messaging with enshittification.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 1 week ago:
The manuals are written by experts for experts and in most cases entirely useless for complete beginners who likely won’t be able to even find the right manual page (or even the right manual to begin with).
Asking for help online just gets you a “lol, RTFM, noob!”
This is a thing that honestly still makes me seethe sometimes, because as much as the manuals are there and people should be told to read the manual before anything else, there is a vast difference between a user’s manual and a technical manual. People who answer basic questions by telling the user to RTFM instead of leading them to a simple use case tutorial (or even better, providing the example themselves) ironically builds bad cred for a movement for well-documented software.
The User’s Manual for a car covers, at best, how to turn the ignition on, how to drive, how to brake in difficult conditions and how to change the tires. Maybe it covers where exactly the friggin’ cupholder is. A Technical Manual for a car is for when there’s a real exceptional emergency that’s not simply covered by user service. The computer does not work and someone (not you, but the technician!) needs to know how to pin the RS232 connectors for the emergency interface of the onboard chip. The refrigeration liquid tube has broken off and you need to know what model or measurements the replacement needs to be and what heat can it withstand before it starts melting and likely obstructing the valve. You need to know if (or for how long) the car’s engine can withstand frontal semiautomatic fire and up to what reverse speed can the vehicle perform a safe J-turn maneuver in case you face an ambush.
~95% of manpages I’ve ever seen are Technical Manuals. ~70% of “help” for non-browser systems, as well.
What beginners need to be directed at before anything else is the User’s Manual.
And if that one is not available, go get writing it.
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All that said, none of that excuses turning to AI. AI is explicitly and specifically for when you don’t want things to work, or for when you are specifically looking for someone to bullshit you. They are for evading responsibility, not for finding solutions.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 1 week ago:
Are you really comparing LLM output to be on the same level of… hallucination-ness, than a Gamefaqs tutorial for a SNES game from the late 90s?
I know tiktok has deep-fried and rotten the brains of entire generations but this is just ridiculous.
- Comment on Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views? 1 week ago:
This has been rethreaded so many times I feel like it deserves an entry in knowyourmeme. Opinions are like asses, everyone has one, everyone things someone else’s stink, in the end, what matters is you can support Lemmy without actually supporting the developers (eg.: support your local instance).
- Comment on Would blockchain work better for the Fediverse, instead of Email Style Instances? 1 week ago:
The blockchain is always a scam.
- Comment on Loops publishes their recommender algorithm 2 weeks ago:
Heck, the way people are being nowadays, it’s “read” that’s doing the heavy lifting.
- Comment on What is the best way to support Lemmy specifically and the Fediverse in general financially? 2 weeks ago:
Still better investment than putting your money in, say, Felon or Trump stuff.
- Comment on What is the best way to support Lemmy specifically and the Fediverse in general financially? 2 weeks ago:
To support development financially, the first best way is to donate to the devs, for which people have already posted links.
The second best alternative, in particular for the people who are butthurt about the devs having their given political position yet hypocritically continue to fund or promote things like iPhone child labor, Amazon, Walmart or US taxes, would be to financially support the maintainers of the Lemmy instance(s) you are in. Most instance have their own “donate” / “support” link somewhere. Check yours.
(another advantage to supporting the instance you are in is that you would, usually, experience sooner or larger improvements in return for your investment. Better storage or network plan for your instance = better speed or uptime for posting lolcats)
Third best way, probably, is to finance public or state-level advocacy for Lemmy and/or Fediverse general. Alas I don’t know what if any organizations exist there nor how are they taking money (and report on its usage).
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 2 weeks ago:
Nah. But if what you want is to prevent rather than palliate or delay (AIs will get throug Anubis, in fact from what I read some of them already do), then pretty much your only option is real-person authentication, so that if stuff does get leaked, you have a discrete list of people who to hold accountable.
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 2 weeks ago:
0.- Take it out of the public.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
And even if it won’t, there’s still the benefit of some variety in communities so that people can choose.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Eh, it’s not like they are going to somehow get better at it without practice…
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 3 weeks ago:
If MySQL is more robust than SQLite of all things, something is going seriously wrong.
Then again, it’s 2025. I no longer bet on what to expect from reality. Next someone points me to a mail indicating linux kernel will move its bookkeeping to MongoDB.
- Comment on 700+ self-hosted Git instances battered in 0-day attacks 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t Forgejo support SQLite as a backend?
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 3 weeks ago:
Not really conductive as long as most funds are siphoned by the C-suite ranks. Get rid of the C-fat first, maybe even turn Mozilla into a co-op, then have the People fund it.
- Comment on Still relevant, hasnt changed much after 2 years 3 weeks ago:
No thanks. This is a dark pattern towards centralization. Just go back to reddit.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 4 weeks ago:
Exactly! And that’s why the choice in the UI is important. My understanding is previous versions of PF at least let your viewers know you offer salads. There’s no (good) reason why the very minimum useful version of that can’t be maintained. Comaps and OSMand for example are map applications, but they let me know when a given location has an associated Wikipedia article for example. They don’t even need to implement something like a Wikipedia Viewer itself; just offer the links. Links are cheap, and are the foundation and backbone of both the internet and of any useful concept of a “fediverse”.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 4 weeks ago:
so, an old style BBS?
I’d be all in.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 4 weeks ago:
Because PixelFed is purposefully hiding the salad option from them. Which is what we are complaining about: it’s lying to our potential customers about us. Note that it didn’t do that before.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 4 weeks ago:
This is great yes and IMO how it should be done. It’s not necessary fr eg.: PixelFed to implement themself all the functionality to process forums, videos, cooking recipes, Pokémon boxes, microblogging, macroblogging, nanoblogging, femtoblogging, nanopicturing, macroboosting, etc. Just one: linking (and, well, properly announcing the link is there).
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 4 weeks ago:
You sly dog you made me open my network tab to see if there actually was an image there! (there is, it was just being blocked because of my uBO setting for fetching remotes).
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 4 weeks ago:
No, you as a poster in the Fediverse are selling pizzas and salads. PixelFed is “misrepresenting” you, for lack of a better word, by telling people you only sell pizzas. The thing is, it wasn’t doing that before. It was purposefully made to hide useful information that was there before. IMO there should be a sticky “this user has other content which is not images” headbar or something. Only removable as an opt-in per account followed, so that it is not possible for people to say that PF purposefully hid information.
- Comment on Is Pixelfed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on? 4 weeks ago:
The problem is not “you ordered a pizza yet are complaining it isn’t a salad”. The problem is you are selling pizzas and salads, but the middleman is undercutting you on the delivery of the pizzas, leaving your clients with the fake impression you sell only salads and/or provide a bad service.
All that said, from an interface design perspective the current mode is exactly how it should happen. Pixelfed and pretty much everything else are purposefully subset-specific apps. All that’s needed is the reminder (as visible as possible) that content you are looking at is incomplete and you can find the more complete version on this or that URL or app. Same principle as if I wanted to eg.: design a “hashtag explorer” for the Fediverse. I’d focus on that instead of the posts (and pictures); but what I can’t ethically do is prevent my users from discovering their existence.
- Comment on ZaneOps is a great self hosted PaaS alternative to Vercel and Netlify 4 weeks ago:
PaaP! Platform-as-a-platform!