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- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 1 day ago:
"Creators led this revolution"
The same way cows lead a slaughterhouse.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I think that would be most people these days.
- Comment on Tens of thousands join anti-government protest in Madrid 2 weeks ago:
They have powerful (and generous) international allies these days. No wonder they feel empowered.
- Comment on An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate 2 weeks ago:
Could also be two separate things? I have a) dumped Windows and b) installed Lineage.
- Comment on An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate 2 weeks ago:
We're outsourcing thinking to a bullshit generator controlled by mostly American mega-corporations who have repeatedly demonstrated that they want to do us harm, burning through scarce resources and rendering creative humans robbed and unemployed in the process.
What's not to hate.
- Comment on KDE targets Windows 10 'exiles' claiming 'your computer is toast' 2 weeks ago:
It is 2025, and the KDE project is still using the glory of the desktop cube to appeal to Windows users.
The desktop cube has been our single most powerful tool on the path to world domination.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 3 weeks ago:
Not strictly a scam, but there's a little money to be made creating viral content on Facebook. They receive a tiny portion of the ad revenue from Facebook when they generate engagement.
It's just Facebook sucking really.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
A rule of thumb for weirdness in age difference is age/2+7, leaving you at 51/2+7=32,5. So going by that, 30 is a bit on the young side, which is obvious also from the fact that you felt the need to create this thread.
If one person would be in a position to judge you for it (or rightfully feel weird about it) it's your daughter. It's safe to say she seems cool with it, so whatever.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 3 weeks ago:
Users report that clicking the Start button can spike CPU usage by 30% to 70% on at least one core, depending on the hardware configuration.
Good grief. And that's coming from a GNOME user.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 4 weeks ago:
I'm sure you could have a fruitful conversation with the crowd insisting it was written by AI. :)
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 4 weeks ago:
This is just obviously not the case to anyone who bothers reading it. It's an original piece of writing.
The only thing that could hint at AI here is the use of em-dashes, which is a bullshit tell—I use them all the time myself as well. They're right there for anyone with a compose key on Linux.
- Comment on Fairphone 4 is not getting Android 14 after all 4 weeks ago:
Might not be easier, but if there are unforeseen problems at this point maybe it doesn't make sense to prioritize the launch of 14 when they'll immediately have to start catching up to 15.
Fairphone maintains a stock version of Google Android. They've teamed up with Murena to offer Fairphones sold with /e/OS, but they're not responsible for software updates on those devices. My Fairphone 5 with /e/OS is still based on Android 13, for what it's worth. I guess that might change with the launch of /e/OS 3.0 in June.
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I imagine parts of the US is probably pretty ideal for this. Where I'm from you'll find remote places where it would make sense, but you probably wouldn't want to drive around in a rather low riding sports car on the roads in these places. I guess this thing probably won't be street legal in Europe anyway.
- Comment on The Copilot Delusion 4 weeks ago:
I think chapter 2 does a good job presenting the advantages.
Maybe you inherited someone else’s codebase. A minefield of nested closures, half-commented hacks, and variable names like d and foo. A mess of complex OOPisms, where you have to traverse 18 files just to follow a single behaviour. You don’t have all day. You need a flyover—an aerial view of the warzone before you land and start disarming traps.
Ask Copilot: "What’s this code doing?"
It won’t be poetry. It won’t necessarily provide a full picture. But it’ll be close enough to orient yourself before diving into the guts.So—props where props are due. Copilot is like a greasy, high-functioning but practically poor intern:
- Great with syntax
- Surprisingly quick at listing out your blind spots.
- Good at building scaffolding if you feed it the exact right words.
- Horrible at nuance.
- Useless without supervision.
- Will absolutely kill you in production if left alone for 30 seconds.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 78 comments
- Comment on A new Europe community for discussing current events, news, and just content relating to Europe 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I understand your point and I think it might be the only way of silencing these trolls. Perhaps making it this explicit is the only way of providing clear enough guidelines, I just feel like it's a bit bombastic as a point 2.
What left me a bit reluctant was your comment that other communities "are hosted in Germany which is a Zionist police state". I'll be the first to criticize Germany (this is precisely what got banned me from !europe@feddit.org half a year ago, after all), but this seems a bit bombastic especially when paired with rule 2.
I already got banned for criticizing Germany, I don't want to get banned for defending them as well! ;)
- Comment on The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million 4 weeks ago:
I guess the problem is that if you take your car to the plane, then your plane somewhere else, suddenly you don't have your car. And then if you drive somewhere else you don't have your plane any more.
I think it's pretty obvious that rental cars and commercial flights make a lot more sense for most scenarios. But I guess it's possible to imagine scenarios where this vehicle makes sense, either for extensive round trips or for places where car rentals don't exist but the roads are nevertheless pretty good.
- Comment on A new Europe community for discussing current events, news, and just content relating to Europe 4 weeks ago:
They don't have a general rule to ban all protests, but they did ban several of them and cracked down on protests pretty effectively early on. As is reported in plenty of media.
- Comment on A new Europe community for discussing current events, news, and just content relating to Europe 4 weeks ago:
Well, the entire thread is still there except my deleted comment reading as follows:
insufficient avenues for engagement beyond voting.
Funny what banning protests does to a country.So you can see in the thread that I provide sources, such as the New York Times:
The country’s authorities have banned many protests in the name of fighting antisemitism. Critics say such restrictions are discriminatory.
To me, this seems relevant in a thread about how German youth feels that their avenues for democratic participation beyond voting are restricted. Besides, I was not banned for alleged misinformation, but for "derailing".
Even if I was wrong, which I do not believe I was, I hardly see my comment being worthy of a ban in a reasonably moderated community. Discussion, yes.
- Comment on A new Europe community for discussing current events, news, and just content relating to Europe 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for this! I will contribute for sure.
- Comment on A new Europe community for discussing current events, news, and just content relating to Europe 4 weeks ago:
I got banned from !europe@feddit.org at some point for raising the German response to pro-palestinian protests as a potential democratic problem. Seems European enough to me. 🙃
- Comment on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected 5 weeks ago:
I think maybe it does, but I'm a pretty normal user who just used the Murena quick installer to get /e/OS. Reading up on Magisk after some web searches I quickly realized it was more than I could bite over without spending too much time trying to figure it all out. If people insist on making apps I can't use I'll just accept that I won't be using them at this point. Their loss.
- Comment on Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected 5 weeks ago:
I live in Denmark, their state identification app does not work if it detects that the Android ROM is not straight from Google. So when I switched to /e/OS I couldn't access anything any more. So yeah, in my case the solution was ta give up on one pretty critical app.
Thankfully the solution was as easy as getting one of those old fashioned code chips, and everything else seems to be working fine (including banking apps from other countries). So now I'm rocking /e/OS and I'm pretty sure there is no way I'm ever going back to Google Android.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
What is it like?
For me, it's my favourite thing in the world. I feel more at home when I'm in the middle of the mountains not having seen people for days than when I'm in any building I've ever lived in. We evolved for these conditions, and at least for some of us it resonates with our souls - much like the ocean calls to others.
The experience of hiking is a bit like running, just dragged out over days. In the beginning you have energy. At some point you get tired, and you might want to stop for a while and you're worried if you're going to make it. And then you push through, and suddenly your body is in walking mode. So don't get too worried if you start feeling tired early in the hike.
As for the tent, the experience varies a lot. Is it raining? Are there lots of mosquitoes or midges? Is it cold? Are you walking until sunset, or do you have time at the camp site? What is the terrain you put your tent on?
You generally don't have the answer to those questions. I have had a wide variety of experiences in tents - crazy tent pole-breaking winds, thunderstorms beyond anything I believed was possible, floods, cows trying to graze underneath the tent in the middle of the night. Most of the time though the biggest event is waking up to the view, or going out to take a leak at night and enjoying the night sky.
The important thing is to always be flexible and open to improvise. When you're in up there you're at the mercy of the mountain, and you adjust your plans accordingly. Many mountain folks believe that the mountain has a will of its own that needs to be respected, and I don't hink it's too far from reality. Following from that is that the experience is never completely predictable, which is part of what makes its appeal infinite.
Enjoy!
- Comment on The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases 2 months ago:
Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.
- Comment on The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases 2 months ago:
My bet would be tax evasion and money laundering. ;)
- Comment on The European Union fines Apple 500 million euros and Meta 200 million in separate digital cases 2 months ago:
I think it must be seen not in light of the monetary blow, but in light of the fact that the EU is pushing hard for these actors to change directions and to end some of their abusive behaviour.
Traffic fines are not there to bankrupt drivers or to finance the state, but to encourage people to drive safely.
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- Comment on Am I going crazy, or has people's spelling gotten awful lately? 2 months ago:
The Android keyboard always worked well for me, but I don't trust them one bit. So I changed my phone keyboard into something that is worse at guessing what I'm trying to say, but I'm somewhat confident I am not being surveilled through it.
I started using it a month or two ago, and ever since I have started making a billion typos when writing on mobile.
Also, I guess the demography of the communities you're in matters. I think quite a few of us over here are not native speakers. Sometimes I'll also write with my keyboard set to the wrong language by accident, "leasing to all mines" of freaky autocorrects.
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 2 months ago:
Especially if they don't take themselves oversly seriously.
Be your goofy self, if people are turned off by that you would never be happy with them anyway.