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- Comment on Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X 1 month ago:
I think a lot of the future of social media is going to be ease of use.
The issue (and strength) with Lemmy is there’s multiple instances. You’re not gonna be able to explain it to non-technical people, even as an experienced programmer myself I sometimes find myself getting confused by Lemmy. People don’t want to learn, they just want to use something that works.
Then again, KBin only had the one instance pretty much I think, and yet that died out anyway. So I think part of it is people just want to go where everyone else is, and that did end up being Lemmy and not KBin (although the maintainer of KBin also refused outside contributions which helped seal its fate lol)
- Comment on We are a lot more alike than we are different 1 month ago:
This is true, but some of us are actually very different. That’s not always a bad thing, either.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 month ago:
Technically yes, you’d have to find an exploit for your TV that allows for installing your own OS.
It’s not super feasible but it’s technically possible.
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 1 month ago:
Partial returners seems like a good name for it.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 1 month ago:
Yes, something like that would work. The stock OS would still be on the TV but as long as you don’t connect the TV to WiFi it should be fine.
- Comment on What good thing just happened in your life? 1 month ago:
Congrats! That sounds like actually meaningful work.
- Comment on What good thing just happened in your life? 1 month ago:
That’s awesome news, congrats!
- Comment on What good thing just happened in your life? 1 month ago:
Wow, 2 interviews in 11 months is rough. Last year it took me 5 months, I’d say around 20-30 interviews, and 6 years of experience as a dev.
- Comment on When Does Instagram Decide a Nipple Becomes Female? 1 month ago:
I think they call it “female-presenting”, so if it looks like female to them, then they ban it.
Instagram is stupid anyway.
- Comment on Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they laid off a lot of their QA team before and didn’t replace them since then.
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 2 months ago:
YouTube/Google and hiding data from the end-user, name a better duo.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 2 months ago:
UX is very difficult, unfortunately, especially for open-source projects where the contributors are usually programmers and not so much UX/product managers.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
I think I’ve probably only ever been blacklisted once in my entire career, and it’s because I looked up the reviews of a company and they had some very concerning stuff so I just ghosted them completely and never answered their calls.
In my defense, they took a while to reply to my application lol
Agreed though, eventually they will forget, it just needs enough time, and maybe you’d not even want to work there.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
Blacklists are heavily overrated and exaggerated, I’d say there’s no chance you’re on a blacklist. Hell, if you interview with them 3 years later, it’s entirely possible they have no clue who you are and end up hiring you - I’ve had literally that exact scenario happen.
The only way you’d end up on a blacklist is if you accidentally step on the owners dog or something like that.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
I mean, interviews have always been hell for me (often with multiple rounds of leetcode) so there’s nothing new there for me lol
- Comment on Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’ 2 months ago:
That’s about right. I’ve been using LLMs to automate a lot of cruft work from my dev job daily, it’s like having a knowledgeable intern who sometimes impresses you with their knowledge but need a lot of guidance.
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 2 months ago:
I didn’t other than for testing, in fact I had to research and figure out ways to bypass ad blockers, to prevent social icons from being blocked etc. I even wrote that company a brand new admin website to replace their old one, they liked it so much that they laid me off a few weeks later even though they were already underpaying me because they wanted someone cheaper to maintain it. I found a 30% higher paying job a few months later and been there since. lol
- Comment on if you quit a job you didn't like or was toxic, didn't the financial hit scare you? 2 months ago:
Well yeah, that’s why some people stick in toxic jobs unfortunately.
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 2 months ago:
Nah there were definitely games that had disappointing graphics relative to what I was expecting lol
Although it’s true, we generally were more forgiving about graphics back then than we are these days.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 2 months ago:
They just did, they are gonna work more with advertisers.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 2 months ago:
Looks like I was mistaken, then. Looks like .ml isn’t the largest, it’s just the one run by the two Lemmy maintainers, which for me (combined with .one keeping going down) made it my home instance.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 2 months ago:
That one isn’t the largest, no. The largest is .ml and it’s run by the two Lemmy maintainers.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 2 months ago:
Not all of us are tankies fwiw, I just wanted to be on the largest and most well-supported instance with generally the least amount of downtime.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 2 months ago:
That’s true!!! Ugly people are talented.
- Comment on Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 2 months ago:
That’s both disturbing and completely expected. I’ve generally always preferred monitors over TVs tbh, this is just another reason for it lol
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 2 months ago:
But I will not knowingly support this asshole if whatever his company produces isn’t going to benefit anyone other than him and his cronies.
I mean it was already not open-source, right?
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 2 months ago:
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 2 months ago:
I’m confused, how can a company that’s gained numerous advantages from being non-profit just switch to a for-profit model
Money
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 3 months ago:
Honestly, I do kind of agree with what you said tbh, you’re not wrong lol
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 3 months ago:
You are now resorting to personal attacks (which is against the rules) yet you are blaming Linux users for… using Linux? Suggesting it as a free alternative that people can try out at any time?
I don’t get it.