Hawk
@Hawk@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on the lifestyle 1 week ago:
It’s a lot more like Seaborn. It produces gorgeous plots with a lovely syntax that is quick and easy to use, but it’s not a full drawing toolkit like matplotlib.
If I need the plot to have a very precise aesthetic, mpl is great. But if I want a high quality statistical plot that looks great. ggplot2 will do it in about 2 seconds.
I have no idea how op thinks they could make a decent histogram any quicker than
ggplot(data) + geom_histogram(x= x). I mean you don’t even have to leave your shell/editor or extract the SQL into CSV. - Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 3 weeks ago:
We mostly use it privately, there are also a handful of software communities too that takes advantage of bridging.
Personally, I don’t care about Nazis, they come for the same reason I do, privacy and place to speak. I don’t have to let there negative disposition color the software.
- Comment on Static site generator for an idiot who doesn't want to learn a new templating language just to have a blog? 3 weeks ago:
Quartz
- Comment on Thoughts on HumHub? 1 month ago:
I suppose the problem that I had with Media Wiki is that every update would break extensions. Particularly mathjax and semantic media Wiki. I too amusing it with Docker which helps a lot.
So docuicki has a recent pages view which is really good and lists the user that made the edit. That’s what we use for a feed. There’s also an RSS plug-in that will display other feeds which is kind of nice if you want to discuss other articles.
We create Journal pages that link out to pages for events etc. The events are also linked to from a start page. We display the backlinks using the footer plugin.
Whilst it’s a bit different from social media in that there is no feed, it’s really nice that it provides, like a database of our family’s life in history.
We even have pages for cars and repair logs, computers and updates, everything. The struct plugin is amazing And you can always pop it open in SqliteBrowser too!
I’ve tried a couple of things and I just keep coming back to dokuwiki because it’s the best compromise.
- Comment on Thoughts on HumHub? 1 month ago:
No, I don’t. And that’s going to be one of our big differences here. Everyone in my family is tech literate and knows at least a little bit of programming.
I would strongly suggest dokuwiki. It’s like having a forever Journal of Family affairs and I really like it. I know it’s not quite the social media aesthetic but in my experience I found it to be the thing that stuck.
I would argue against Mediawiki though. It may be more user-friendly for some family members, but the maintenance becomes a nuisance And pulling things out of the database involves half a dozen joins.
Even though dokuwiki editing is text in markup, It’s not a hard concept to grasp and the simplicity makes it feel more tangible which may be appreciated by older family members.
- Comment on Thoughts on HumHub? 1 month ago:
There’s a plugin that does it, FoF or something, and then you can upload an image from your device and it’s pretty good. Some videos play others require downloading after uploading though.
Our family uses a post in flarum for a monthly feed and then moves a few of those images into a dokuwiki page with the gallery plugin.
- Comment on Thoughts on HumHub? 1 month ago:
I could never get mastodon to work with an app without using SSL.
I much prefer setting up a VPN and reverse proxy without having to deal with SSL. So it was really annoying not being able to use an app on the phone to connect to it.
- Comment on Thoughts on HumHub? 1 month ago:
We tried it and didn’t like the clunky UI.
We also tried Lemmy but it was a bit of a nuisance to maintain.
In the end we settled on a forum with a wiki.
We tried a few forums but in the end Flarum was the nicest, Just a bit of a pain to set the domain to be dynamic but it can be done with some PHP, alternatively, just use a reverse proxy with dnsmasq and wireguard pointing to that DNS.
As for a Wiki We have tried mediawiki, WikiJS And a couple others. I would recommend dokuwiki. (I hear good things about bookstack too).
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
This. Alternatively, 401K depending on a variety of factors.
- Comment on Mozilla grants Ente $100k 1 month ago:
How does it compare with Immich?
- Comment on 2real4me 1 month ago:
It is incredibly good. Cheese and chalk good. Using it with Aider really highlights how much the Dev space is about to change.
- Comment on Apple's mobile chips are now made in the U.S. — TSMC produces the older A16 Bionic at its Arizona fab 2 months ago:
Yeah that’s been my least favourite experience with Lemmy.
Many replies are hostile and highly opinionated.
I don’t have an answer for your question but it was a good question and it made me curious.
I’m in favour of domestic production but I would always want more information about it.
- Comment on How can I keep my forwarded port secure? 2 months ago:
Yeah if this is for a small number of users, I would recommend wireguard or tailgate.
Port forwarding is asking for trouble.
- Comment on Is linux actually gaming ready or is it just not for me? 2 months ago:
If a game doesn’t run on Linux, I just don’t play it.
Life is too short, I don’t care anymore.
I need Linux for work and I have no interest in paying for an OS that doesn’t let me have privacy.
So fuck it, if companies don’t write there software well enough… I’ll live.
I’d rather spend time in a bar anyway.
- Comment on Any non-tech-background self-hosters? 2 months ago:
Self hosting is your pathway to a tech background.
University for comp sci, in my experience around the space, is a complete waste of time. Just a piece of paper that may or may not equip the recipient with some skills that may or may not be relevant.
- Comment on Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites 2 months ago:
An old laptop with qbitorren in a docker container works quite nicely.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
All good man.
I think the point is that LLMs can replace people and they are quite good.
But they absolutely shouldn’t replace people, yet, or possibly ever.
But that’s what’s happening and it’s a massive problem because it’s leading to mediocre code in important spaces.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
The code was non trivial and relatively sophisticated. It performed statistical analysis on ingested data and the approach taken was statistically sound.
I was replaced by that. So was my colleague.
The job market is exceptionally tough right now and a large part of that is certainly llms.
I think taking people with statistical training out of the equation is quite dangerous, but it’s happening. In my area, everybody doing applied mathematics, statistics or analysis has been laid off.
In saying that, the produced program was quite good.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
Mostly internal data cleaning stuff, close etc, which I accept is less in scope than you’re original comment.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
My last employer had many internal tools that were fine.
They had only a moderate amount of oversight.
I had to find a new job, I’m actually thinking of walking away from software development now that there are so few jobs :(
It sucks but there’s no sense pretending this won’t have a large impact on the job landscape.
- Comment on Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding" 2 months ago:
Depends on the use case. Training local llms is a lot cheaper after Galore and there are ways to get useful local models with only a moderate amount of effort, see e.g. augmentoolkit.
This may or may not be practical in many use cases.
24 months is pretty generous but no doubt there will be significantly less demand for junior developers in the near future.
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws - Review Thread 2 months ago:
I really enjoyed bad batch, clone wars, rogue one and Andor
- Comment on What is the actual point of a bra? 4 months ago:
My favourite part of threaded platforms is the arbitrary and tangential discourse
- Comment on Expertise 8 months ago:
Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Asia.
I’ve never heard of Masters for PhD? Coursework is opposite direction?
- Comment on Docker or podman? 8 months ago:
They both kind of suck in their own way.
If you want to things to run at startup and you’re not on systemd, rootless docker is probably easier.
Otherwise podman is mostly fine but be careful of native overlay if you’re not on BTRFS, this causes some pretty long build times.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Or maybe I need product X to get by day to day but I can’t afford a health insurance plan.
It’s really not as simple as most people make it out to be.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 8 months ago:
Just install endeavourOS or something.
There’s a learning curve and a few games will break, but it is a much less hostile environment.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Well I use Bitcoin everyday and I’m grateful for it.
Banks don’t support the transactions I need to make.
- Comment on AI Art Generators Can Be Fooled Into Making NSFW Images 11 months ago:
How does this compare to auto111?
- Comment on I wrote a program for my boss. How legal is to to write the program again and make it FOSS? 11 months ago:
Have a discussion with chatGPT discussing a program you would like to write, use this to assist the development.
Evidence this as the source of the program. There is your re-research.
They might own the original program but it’s unlikely they broad concept.