Jayjader
@Jayjader@jlai.lu
- Comment on Some thoughts on Surf, Flipboard's fediverse app 2 weeks ago:
Wanted to try it, signed up for the beta, still waiting on my invite code.
On the surface, bluesky integration makes sense if they’re trying to onboard people onto “the social web”. Still, I’m disappointed they seem to want to be a curated view on what they determine is a feed, and not some kind of plug’n’play feed viewer beyond RSS.
- Comment on Orb 2 weeks ago:
“Pondering my cell” just didn’t have the same ring to it… Sounds like I’m suck in jail
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 3 weeks ago:
Ok but if it allows anubis to judge the soul of my bytes as being worthy of reaching a certain sure I’m trying to access, then the program is not making any calculations that I don’t want it to.
Would the FSF prefer the challenge page wait for user interaction before starting that proof of work? Along with giving them user a “don’t ask again” checkbox for future challenges?
- Comment on Plant Slurs 3 weeks ago:
It’s a bit clearer in french; “weed” is “mauvaise herbe” which literally translates to “bad herb/grass”.
- Comment on What else should I self-host? 3 weeks ago:
To my knowledge, there is 1 feature that forgejo has that gitea doesn’t: it can generate a new ssh key for you at the click of a button that can be used to push repo changes to another git forge.
I have several personal repos on my forgejo instance that are each setup so that they mirror themselves onto my Codeberg account at noon every day.
I also have a gitea instance on a raspi on my local network that itself will push out changes on certain repos to the (public-facing) forgejo instance.
I can push and/or pull to any of the three origins as needed, but usually I just push to the gitea when I’m at home and the forgejo when I’m not, and let the mirroring take care of propagating changes to Codeberg.
- Comment on The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker 3 weeks ago:
Part of the problem is also that, while an acre of land can feed a family of 4, there’s no way to generate enough surplus from that single acre to be able to afford a tractor in the first place. So the tractor creates the need for much larger farm plots being owned by a single person, which way up all the supposed extra free time the automation/mechanized tool was supposed to bring.
In the end, less people can work the land to sustain themselves and the only people better off are those who already had more than enough to go buy.
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 4 weeks ago:
I see the tumblr culture is already present, congrats! Although I never personally used tumblr, my understanding is that more than features or functionality it was very much the culture that its users cultivated that made that site special.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
Also, wasn’t Trump the reason the largest non-nuclear bomb in the USA arsenal was first used in combat? The bomb that had never been deployed in the almost 15 years since it’s creation specifically because the US military thought it would create too many civilian casualties?
The same Trump that allegedly wanted to nuke hurricanes to disrupt them before they hit the US’s coast?
The dude just wants to play with the shiny toys and see things go “boom”. He has literally stated to his own biographer that
When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different."
I suppose it suits him just fine that Israel is now flirting with open warfare with their neighbors.
- Comment on Child Welfare Experts Horrified by Mattel's Plans to Add ChatGPT to Toys After Mental Health Concerns for Adult Users 1 month ago:
Paging Ray Bradbury… www.libraryofshortstories.com/…/the-veldt.pdf
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
I have gotten cynical to the point of assuming the “endgame” here is properly kicking off WW3, so that Trump gets an excuse to drop a nuke or two on an adversary.
“The last time we had a world war, we won it! We were the best - and we won it with our nukes, our big beautiful nukes - it’s really a shame we haven’t used them since, don’t you think? We ended the war by dropping 2 on Japan, and now Japan is our best friend. Why don’t we drop some nukes on Iran? Don’t we want them to be our friend?”
- Comment on I'm not okay. 1 month ago:
Alexa, play Owl City - Fireflies
More seriously, I’m pleased to see I’m not the only person who views this as a terrible loss.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 months ago:
I suspect there is wisdom to be learned from forest management, specifically how regular, small controlled burns are how you avoid huge, unmanageable forest fires.
- Comment on ‘AI is already eating its own’: Prompt engineering is quickly going extinct 2 months ago:
Which raises a larger question: Did prompt engineering roles ever truly exist?
All experts interviewed for this piece were skeptical. The market itself was real enough: The North American prompt engineering market was valued at $75.5 million in 2023, with a compound annual growth rate of 32.8%. But whether that translated into formally titled roles is another matter.
… How can the market be “real enough” if we can’t tell if any jobs actually existed? Maybe I just don’t know enough about economics.
- Comment on French culture 2 months ago:
Yeah, that’s closer to the truth. Also, state education makes sure that we are at least aware of a certain few parts of our history, from executing our King and subsequently fighting off most of Europe to preserve the republic, to armed resistance when the Nazis occupied and the state capitulated, and finally De Gaul’s staunch non-alignment (as far as Western former empires go). Not to mention that the biggest improvement in the collective safety net for our society was obtained thanks to an ostensibly leftist coalition in the 1930s.
So it’s very much in our collective consciousness that we can protest, and that it’s a pretty normal thing to do, all things considered.
More to your point, I don’t know how many people here in France still expect protests to meaningfully obtain anything nowadays.
- Comment on Bluesky may soon add blue check verification 3 months ago:
The example case they give is more that the New York Times account can verify that a given, other, account actually is the account for one of their journalists.
To do that with domains, NYT would need to create a subdomain of theirs and let the journalist use it. At that point, might as well let the journalist use their own domain as well as have the NYT account verify the journalist’s account.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 3 months ago:
That’s one of the least worrying aspects of abolishing copyright for me. but then again, the whole “control what others do with your creation” never sat right with me in the first place. I tend to fall into the “property is theft” line of reasoning.
With regards to profit sharing in particular, well, I think copyright law is a paltry, dirty bandage that covers up the festering wound of for-profit art. At the very least, the wound needs to be cleaned and the bandage changed.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 3 months ago:
Unironically: the patriarchy. “Women and sex exist to serve men’s interests” thus, pleasuring a women in a manner most often associated with that of a man being pleasured by a women (oral sex aka blowjobs here) is ceding too much power to women.
They’re actually confused why women won’t touch them? Jesus.
My thoughts exactly.
- Comment on Late 1900s 4 months ago:
This one gets me, as when I learned of the concept of “classic rock” Nickelback’s “How You Remind Me” had just came out.
- Comment on I love the future. 5 months ago:
I guess our compensation is being able to be content with what we already have, and not having to constantly worry about someone finding out.
- Comment on Is this a c/ for making fun of conservatives? 5 months ago:
Lol. The kings left in Europe have little power over their people, and even less over their governments. I doubt Trump wants to be a figurehead that everyone ignores when it comes to actually governing.
Not to mention over here in France, we got rid of our kings. And when they came back, we ended up getting rid of them again.
- Comment on I love the future. 5 months ago:
I wish I could set aside my convictions and care for others to make money this easily.
- Comment on Has America Reached Its Tipping Point with Ignorance? 5 months ago:
The whiplash from the two titles in your second pic really hit me hard
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 5 months ago:
To extend your metaphor: be the squirrel in the digital forest. Compulsively bury acorns for others to find in time of need. Forget about most of the burial locations so that new trees are always sprouting and spreading. Do not get attached to a single trunk ; you are made to dance across the canopy.
- Comment on "How decentralized is Bluesky really?" by Christine Lemmer-Webber 5 months ago:
A second good read is her follow-up/response post: Re: Re: Bluesky and Decentralization
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 6 months ago:
Metal Gear Rising : Revengeance
I watched a few playthroughs earlier this year, and was struck by the games’ vibes. Maybe I’ve become jaded, maybe 2013 was just a different time, but the over-the-top-bombastic, gratuitous-yet-totally-sincere meditation on power, violence, and humanity feels incredibly relevant, not to mention a breath of fresh air compared to the games I see coming out today.
It’s also very similar to the type of video game I’d like to make someday, so it counts as homework as well!
Not to mention it feels like half of the media/art that I love from the past 10 years has been heavily influenced by this game, so playing it could give me a fuller appreciation for them.
- Comment on Arch Linux and Valve Collaboration 10 months ago:
To be fair, weren’t Valve the first company to do that? People were really annoyed at having to install steam just to play some Half-Life.
Of course, that was only 1 launcher, no launcher-in-launcher shenanigans back then.
