utopiah
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- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 4 hours ago:
Micro$lop is all about “AI” so no surprise there.
Glad I moved away from Github and self-host for few years already.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 2 days ago:
I agree with everything you wrote but I’m not sure how it helps clarify what I said earlier. So… I think we agree?
On your final point I think the big difference between then (before LLMs) and now is that until recently a very demanding PR, in the sense that the person asking for the merge would have a good idea yet didn’t really get something about the project and thus needed a lot of guidance, it was seen as an investment. It was a risky bet, maybe that person would just leave after a lengthy discussion, maybe they’d move to their own project, etc… but a bit like with a young intern, the person from the project managing that PR was betting that it was worth spending time on it. They were maybe hoping to get some code they themselves didn’t have the expertise on (say some very specific optimization for very specific hardware they didn’t have) or that this new person would one day soon become a more involved contributor. So there was an understanding that yes it would be a challenging process but both parties would benefit from it.
Now I believe the situation has changed. The code submitted might actually be good, maybe not. It will though always, on the surface, look plausible because that’s exactly what LLM have been trained for, for code or otherwise, to “look” realistic in their context.
So… I would argue that it’s this dynamic that has change, from the hope of onboarding a new person on a project to a 1-shot gamble.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 3 days ago:
Using a 2nd hand Pixel 8 I got for 180 EUR running GrapheneOS, daily driving it since I received it.
- Comment on I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots 3 days ago:
IMHO what it shows isn’t what the author tries to show, namely that there is an overwhelming swarm of bits, but rather that those bots are just not good enough even for a bot enthusiast. They are literally making money from that “all-in-one AI workspace. Chat - MCP - Gateway” and yet they want to “let me prioritize PRs raised by humans” … but why? Why do that in the first place? If bots/LLMs/agents/GenAI genuinely worked they would not care if it was made or not by humans, it would just be quality submission to share.
Also IMHO this is showing another problem that most AI enthusiasts are into : not having a proper API.
This repository is actually NOT a code repository. It’s a collaborative list. It’s not code for software. It’s basically a spreadsheet one can read and, after review, append on. They are hijacking Github because it’s popular but this is NOT a normal use case.
So… yes it’s quite interesting to know but IMHO it shows more shortcomings rather than what the title claims.
- Comment on Spicy spicy 5 days ago:
So… I might be neurospicy or retarded or both or either… but IMHO it’s perfectly rational to sort. It means you get access to the sum or individual pieces way WAY faster than otherwise. What’s arguably less rational though is if you can’t help yourself, even in a life or death situation, and have to sort coins instead of doing CPR. Then it’s not normal.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 1 week ago:
Ragebait marketing.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 1 week ago:
If it doesn’t ignore artistic intent (good luck with that) I’m fine with it.
Sounds like “It it were to work as expected it’d be amazing” i.e every single entrepreneur out there, backed by VCs who know it’s impossible but don’t mind cashing out of the delusion. Bubbles are propped by this kind of sentiments.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
I’m not saying it’s a good strategy, just that since SoftBank it’s basically core to the VC default playbook.
I believe it’s been tweaked, thanks to Musk, Enron and banks to subsidies transitioning to too big to fail.
So, it might not work, ever, but I still think if you look at the large VC rounds, that’s what they are funding, to be so big nobody can reach you at any cost.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
Damned, edited, thanks! (shows the benefit of discussing ;)
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
Indeed, as they said in Italian “if my Grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike” … the reasoning might be theoretically correct but in the current situation it’s not the case.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
Run up their bills until they can’t afford to be speculative any more.
Sadly I don’t think you’ve met venture capitalists… they will use your usage as a KPI for success. They have a runway longer than you can imagine, check the history of Amazon or Uber. They can be unprofitable for years, heck longer than a decade, and they are fine with it because they are claiming (and sadly sometimes right) to be cornering a trillion dollar market.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
Won’t repeat what I wrote just hours ago in lemmy.world/post/44130119/22616090 but just the ending :
"I would personally consider instead Bottles, GOG (have different problems), Steam (obviously not open source and basically monopolistic position), etc.
Overall I think preventing discussion is healthy (even though sadly sometimes needed, here I lack context, maybe the issue poster did this numerous time on other platforms, title definitely was provocative) but removing provenance is NEVER a good choice. They want to use Claude on their repo? Absolutely fine (even though not to me) but hiding it makes it instantly untrustworthy to me. In fact I even argued in the past that even though I personally do not use GenAI/LLMs (for coding or otherwise) except for testing it should always be disclosed precisely so that others can make THEIR choice in consequence, including using or contributing, cf …benetou.fr/…/AgainstPoorArtificialIntelligencePr…"
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 1 week ago:
In retrospect that whole value proposition is nuts.
The suggestion here is to spend 10min, let’s say 1h if the connection isn’t far and the USB stick (or microSD) is slow… for something you will then use for years onward. Typically one does NOT re-install an OS frequently unless they want to (e.g. tinkering quite a bit or distro-hoping).
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 1 week ago:
Right, and to be clear I’m not suggesting to “just” buy a PC without an OS.
I’m suggesting both PC manufacturers and OS providers make an effort to facilitate that step.
One good example IMHO would be Raspberry Pi and its Imager. Yes you get your Pi but that’s not just it, you can get install Raspberry Pi OS … or Ubuntu, Apertis, RISC OS Pi, … but also media ones e.g. LibreELEC, OSMC, etc … or emulation with RetroPie, Batoccera.linux, … but still more with RaspAP, MoodleBox, … and countless others. You follow the steps thanks to a colorful GUI, put a microSD card in when prompted, wait, remove it, but in the SBC, boot and voila.
I’m not claiming it’s perfect or that anybody could do it but I believe it’s a good compromise ihelping people getting the OS they need if only they are genuinely ready to spend 10min for it.
- Comment on From millions of dollars to under a grand: The dramatic fall of the NFT 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately for you you don’t have what it takes. You need to be a proper psychopath to scam others.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 2 weeks ago:
You’re English is good don’t worry about it. What I meant to say is that we should stop talking about a hypothetical time when Linux would become mainstream, that’s in the past. It’s mainstream since at least since February 2022.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 2 weeks ago:
Right but Framework is basically new, founded just in 2020. Also I believe most people who go on their website is precisely because of this kind of options. I don’t think, sadly, they are representative of the broader market.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 2 weeks ago:
Well 100% in fact as that’s NOT the definition of “out of the box”.
- Comment on After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes 2 weeks ago:
There you go stockanalysis.com/stocks/…/revenue-by-segment/ but TL;DR: AWS is more than 15% of their revenue and it keeps on growing.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 2 weeks ago:
Genuinely no idea why people keep on using YouTube.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 2 weeks ago:
I don’t understand the argument. Linux already is mainstream since there are millions (number out of my ass, I don’t actually know) of devices people buy and “just” use Linux. Those clients are no tinkerers or developers, “just” gamers including I bet a significant proportion who are not even adults. My bet is when those people are asked “Are you using Linux?” they either don’t know, or don’t care, and yet when they finally realize they are actually using Linux daily they probably think “Wow, it’s not that complicated, it just works” and thus it will change mindsets at scale.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 2 weeks ago:
You can buy computers without an operating system installed on it
AFAIR that hasn’t been the case in most places for a while precisely because Microsoft made partnerships with OEMs to avoid that situation.
I believe new laws were added, e.g. in Europe, but I would be curious were this was the case. In fact I remember the opposite, namely that most computers one would buy always came with an OS, Windows for PC and MacOS for Apple computers. Even computers that one would buy in part that would be assembled for them from non OEM would also have the options to have an OS. In fact I’d be curious about example of fully assemble PCs, not just parts, that could be purchased without an OS before the law in the places where its the case now, would prove an OS-free option. Can you please share examples?
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 2 weeks ago:
Linux will never be the mainstream OS
The SteamDeck prove that wrong, it’s already mainstream.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 2 weeks ago:
Learn about a tool that is basically in the middle of most of the crucial interactions in their lives? From receiving an email to vote, to booking an appointment to get a password, to working, to dating, to browsing an encyclopedia, to entertainment broadly, to creating music, to …?
I’ll stop there but yes, even though learning is scary I think if the safety net is clear enough (namely you just can’t mess up so badly your brand new computer won’t work) then it’s worth investing in.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 2 weeks ago:
… or maybe we can finally decouple from OEM for OSes? Maybe could JUST buy a computer and not be forced an OS on it?
Sure I admit it feels nice to unwrap a new device, turn it on, set up few options and use it. Yet, the alternative it to turn it on, plug a USB drive on it, turn it on, set up few options, wait for 15min tops for installation to proceed and use it.
It’s actually a ~15min difference but it could bring so many good practices.
- Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 2 weeks ago:
Ah, so niche but of course there is a great Wikipedia article for this, thank you!
I was listening to the podcase episode 318 “Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein w/ Tim Schwab” of Tech Won’t Save Us thinking that honestly I had such a low esteem for Gates surely it couldn’t get worst. Well, I was clearly very wrong.
Now to read this after listening to the podcast is a great example showcasing how dearly Microsoft KEEPS on fighting for its monopolistic position. It’s not a “oh it just happen” kind of situation. It’s a constant investment of resources in the worst kind of ways, not into making the product better, but rather this. Again, unsurprising but whenever people argue about Gates being a “good” person or how Microsoft “changed” and isn’t what it was in the 2000s they are unfortunately very naive.
Anyway, digging into this, thanks again.
- Comment on LibreOffice criticizes EU Commission over proprietary XLSX formats 2 weeks ago:
It’s like noticing a car crash and looking back… you know you shouldn’t and yet it’s somehow mesmerizing. So… where can I actually read about this please?
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been using a CMF Nothing with /e/OS installed by Murena for a year now and I can say it’s been a breeze.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 2 weeks ago:
a special case somehow.
IP, e.g. Mario, Zelda, Pokemon.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 2 weeks ago:
Better integrated than Steam? I’d be curious to hear how.