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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ditch the DIY Drama: Why Use Fedify Instead of Building ActivityPub from Scratch?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course you wouldn’t use an existing database engine as the foundation of a new database engine. But you would use an existing database engine as the foundation of an ERP software, which is a vastly different use case even if the software does spend a lot of time dealing with data.

  If I want to build an application I don’t want to reimplement everything. That’s what middleware is for. The use case of my application is most likely not to speak a certain protocol; the protocol is just the means to what I actually want to do. There’s no reason for me to roll my own implementation from scratch and keep up with current developments except if I’m unhappy with all current implementations of that protocol.

  Of course one can overdo it with middleware (the JS world is rife with this) but implementing a communication protocol is one of the classic cases where it makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spain public broadcaster calls for 'debate' over Israel's Eurovision participation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry but that’s Germany’s job already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Always explains so much⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that each woman has a different experience. Some women have such a light period that they only notice it because they find spots in their underwear. On the other hand, a woman with endometriosis will probably start being in excruciating pain the day before the period starts and will know exactly how long it lasts.

  Source: I know someone with endo. She also has a resistance to at least one OTC painkiller because she used to pop those things like candy. And a female coworker of hers (with a very light period) thinks that most women are exaggerating and that periods aren’t much of a problem…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are so cooked⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually, when people talk about bees dying, they mean wild bees. Unlike honey bees they aren’t cultivated by us. They also tend to be better pollinators than honey bees, adapted to local plants that honey bees can’t handle well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the current state of the news, April's fools aren't fun anymore because they can't be distinguished as easily as before⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends. “Donald Trump wants to annex Wisconsin as the 51st state” wouldn’t be funny. Pocketpair launching a Steam store page for the Palworld dating sim (which was last year’s April Fools joke) was.

  But yeah, this isn’t the time for political humor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hamster⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And the name of that hamster? Pikachu.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3's grip looks the most comfy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded. As far as pens are concerned, Uniball is where it’s at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People say they prefer stories written by humans over AI-generated works, yet new study suggests that’s not quite true⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find that LLMs also tend to create very placative, kitschy content. Nuance is beyond them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord in Early Talks With Bankers for Potential I.P.O.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Welp, there goes the neighborhood. If they want to do an IPO they’ll probably enshittify the hell out of the platform and jettison all remotely raunchy communities. Because nothing says “good investment” than a service that just drove out a fair chunk of its user base.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That undersells them slightly.

  LLMs are powerful tools for generating text that looks like something. Need something rephrased in a different style? They’re good at that. Need something summarized? They can do that, too. Need a question answered? No can do.

  LLMs can’t generate answers to questions. They can only generate text that looks like answers to questions. Often enough that answer is even correct, though usually suboptimal. But they’ll also happily generate complete bullshit answers and to them there’s no difference to a real answer.

  They’re text transformers marketed as general problem solvers because a) the market for text transformers isn’t that big and b) general problem solvers is what AI researchers are always trying to create. They have their use cases but certainly not ones worth the kind of spending they get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People never understand the sacrifices I make for them.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The prep and recovery blocks are also team calls; everyone prepares and recovers together, moderated by the scrum master.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because giving answers is not a LLM’s job. A LLM’s job is to generate text that looks like an answer. And we then try to coax framework that into generating correct answers as often as possible, with mixed results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember talking to someone about where LLMs are and aren’t useful. I pointed out that LLMs would be absolutely worthless for me as my work mostly consists of interacting with company-internal APIs, which the LLM obviously hasn’t been trained on.

  The other person insisted that that is exactly what LLMs are great at. They wouldn’t explain how exactly the LLM was supposed to know how my company’s internal software, which is a trade secret, is structured.

  But hey, I figured I’d give it a go. So I fired up a local Llama 3.1 instance and asked it how to set up a local copy of ASDIS, one such internal system (name and details changed to protect the innocent). And Llama did give me instructions… on how to write the American States Data Information System, a Python frontend for a single MySQL table containing basic information about the member states of the USA.

  Oddly enough, that’s not what my company’s ASDIS is. It’s almost as if the LLM had no idea what I was talking about. Words fail to express my surprise at this turn of events.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Run a fairly large LLM on your CPU so you can get the finest of questionable problem solving at a speed fast enough to be workable but slow enough to be highly annoying.

  This has the added benefit of filling dozens of gigabytes of storage that you probably didn’t know what to do with anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 05]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Zenshu really delivered with the last episode. That was a level of ridiculousness I did not respect this show to reach.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  System Shock (the remake) with a cut-down version of the Ironman mod to provide randomization. It’s only slight loot randomization so there’s no major pathing changes but it’s fun nonetheless.

  I like randomizers. They add some additional replay value to already good games. I must’ve played through randomized Bloodstained a down times already – and twice that for Super Metroid. (And then there’s the beautiful mess that is randomized Borderlands 2. I don’t think I’m ever going to finish a run but man are they wild.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technology Connections' thoughts on Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, this suggests to me that the ability to defederate might be a bug rather than an issue.

  If my instance doesn’t talk to the instance at foobar.example, I might be unable to see (parts of) relevant discussions. This is worse for a microblog like Mastodon than it is in the threadiverse but it’s still something to keep in mind even over here. And most non-enthusiasts don’t want to have to do that.

  Email is an example of a successful federated platform and it barely has defederation support. But in general all mail servers can talk to all other mail servers as long as they provide the right look-at-me-I’m-legitimate signaling. That makes email easy to use for regular people no matter if they use Gmail or their cousin’s self-hosted mail server.

  Perhaps that is how at least the non-threaded fediverse should work… However, that would also mean that some instance hosting heinous shit would keep being visible to everyone. It’s a tricky problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2024, Week 48]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good season so far. I’m following four shows (as I usually do) and I’m happy that three of them are good to great.

  Dan Da Dan is a rare instance of a show that can do everything. The characters are enjoyable, the comedy is on point, the action is punchy and easy to follow, and the show can even pull off drama really well when it wants to. Impressive. I don’t have much else to say, really.

  Orb is the freshest work I’ve seen since Frieren. Possibly fresher than Frieren, actually.

  There are virtually none of the staples ones would expect from anime; there is no world to be saved and society itself is more the villain than the literal torturer is. Stakes are personal but feel high. Action is very limited and it’s mostly a science-philosophical exploration of theological dogma through the lens of astronomy. It’s basically like a particularly talky Star Trek episode but in medieval Poland.

  On top of that, the characters, presentation, and story are all of high quality.

  I didn’t think the industry had something like this in it and it might beat Dan Da Dan as my anime of the season. While Dan Da Dan’s punches land flawlessly, Orb is a master of an entirely different martial art, one rarely seen in the genre.

  Demon Lord 2099 is nothing particularly special but is a solid example of getting your balance right. The magical and cyberpunk aspects of the show are well-balanced, as are mild comedy, action, and drama. The show is aware that it can’t take itself too seriously. Honestly, the most jarring element is the random V-tuber cameo that fails to match the art style. All in all a good mix, although not one that I will really remember much about in a few years.

  Mecha-Ude is a nice example of a show that doesn’t know where it’s strengths lie. The story is bland and clumsily told, the protagonist may as well not have bothered showing up, the action is stale, and the show is really bad at drama but thinks that’s one of its strengths. What it is good at is being silly – honestly, this could’ve worked well as a zany comedy. Its near-total lack of self-awareness keeps is from capitalizing on that, however.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolute slander⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, come on! The second picture shows that the three-packet hypothesis isn’t accurate either. It’s a 2.8 sauce packet cat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Nintendo went belly up today the retro community would have a field day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These days Microsoft are a major contributor to the Linux kernel, though. Sure, they’re trying to hold onto the desktop but on the server they’ve pretty much switched camps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Answer very carefully⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is your meme about oil rig explosions related to reposts you’re making this weekend?

  ○︎ No, it’s not related to weekend reposts
  ◉︎ I’ll repost this both on weekend and weekday
  ○︎ Yes, both for this and future weekends
  ○︎ Yes, I’ll repost this on every future weekeend
  ○︎ Yes, I’ll repost this purely on this weekend

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, I’m thinking of sodium-ion batteries. That’s 1990s tech and is currently in use for grid storage. Several manufacturers are currently bringing car-ready Na-ion batteries to market and there seems to be one production car using them in China (a version of the JMEV EV3, which I hav enever heard about before).

  Now, Na-ion is still less mature than Li-ion and that Chinese car gets about 17% less range compared do the Li-ion version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon questions our energy sector⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re currently bringing sodium batteries to market (as in “the first vendor is selling them right now”). They’re bulky but fairly robust IIRC and they don’t need lithium.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop whining. Do it yourself.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially if you didn’t have a lot of spare time. With an active community you can just dip into discussions when you have the time. With a community you’re trying to establish yourself you absolutely have to provide a steady stream of content until it (hopefully) takes off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Magic Words⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The software development industry version of this is “we really need to fix that soon but it’s beyond the scope of this PBI”.

  “Soon” is a shorthand for “we’ll put this on the backlog and never pull it into a sprint until it blows up in our faces, at which time we will gripe about how nobody bothered to fix it earlier”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But you can tune the specifications of the yarn to theoretically make the socks 2% more comfy. In practice your tuning efforts will make the socks less comfortable and tear more easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 104 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “You finished a computer game, Atticus.”

  *The truth was a burning green crack through my brain.

  Credits scrolling by, a reminder of the talent behind a just-finished journey. The feeling of triumph, slowly replaced by the creeping grayness of ordinary life.

  I had finished a computer game. Funny as hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.*

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue that unfun design elements can be useful in games if used with care and purpose. For instance, “suddenly all of the characters you’re attached to are dead” is not exactly fun but one of the Fire Emblem games used it to great dramatic effect at the midway point.

  Of course the line between an event or mechanic that players love to hate and one they just hate is thin.