Fedditor385
@Fedditor385@lemmy.world
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 3 days ago:
I think the focus is digital media, and in that space media is the short of multimedia.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 1 week ago:
Media is more audio, video, image. Which fits social media.
Most forums and blogs are text-based or primary text. There is no blog sharing only images/videos/audio as posts. Also no such forum.
That would be my key differentiation - forums and IRC is social, but not really media.
- Comment on Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’ 1 week ago:
Not monotonous but non-creative. Any machine can do non-crative work. No machine can do creative work. You don’t need creativity to farm food, you do need creativity to invent new medicine.
In an average company that isn’t scaled worldwide, usually the cost of labour is 40-50% (paying wages). This means if we replace humans with robots, doing repetitive and non-creative work, we can make stuff cheaper by a lot. OFC unless the company boss, who is then left alone with all the profits, just decides to keep the prices with no people he needs to pay anymore.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 1 week ago:
You are right. According to the definition of social media, Lemmy is social media. However, “social media” would by definition fit any kind of digital communication media. A forum, or a blog, or an IRC channel are also, by definition, social media.
I would argue that the social media has a distinct association with Facebook, Instagram and the diverse spawns of those, and by association doesn’t fit anything else. At best, we simply lack a different term, which splits “old-school” stuff like forums and blogs. I view lemmy more like a forum. You have categories, and users can go into categories to start discussions. You don’t follow anyone. People also don’t create and post their own content, but rather seek discussions or share other stuff from the internet. It is social media, but it’s definitely nothing like Facebook.
We simply lack a better term.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 1 week ago:
It would be great if people stop using social media in general.
- Comment on we need more users 2 weeks ago:
So, basically instead of having one huge gatekeeper, we now have many smaller ones.
- Comment on How are people discovering random subdomains on my server? 2 weeks ago:
If you have browser with search suggestions enabled, everything you type in URL bar gets sent to a search engine like Google to give you URL suggestions. I would not be surprised if Google uses this data to check what it knows about the domain you entered, and if it sees that it doesn’t know anything, it sends the bot to scan it to get more information.
But in general, you can’t access a domain without using a browser which might send that what you type to some company’s backend and voila, you leaked your data.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 3 weeks ago:
“Default” is basically Ubuntu. By “default” I mean you can use most things without needing to ever think about which desktop environment do I have, which package manager I have etc… it “just works”. It is very bad for average Joe if it says “Linux app” and then you can’t install it using apt because it’s available only in another package manager.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 4 weeks ago:
It’s not the use case I am referring to - I am speaking about modern day games. As long as Linux is ignored by the gaming companies making AAA titles, it will never be a real option for the entire gaming community. An average gamer doesn’t know nor want to spend time setting up everything and hoping nothing breaks when the OS/layer/game gets the next update. It should be “Install” and then play without ever really thinking about any underlying tech.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 4 weeks ago:
- Game studios support - most games don’t support Linux natively (and no, I don’t want compatibility layer upon layer).
- “Default” Linux distribution for average consumers. Average consumers don’t want 2000 distro choices as they will rather stick to one Windows that having to think between many Linux distros and pick one.
- Comment on GitHub - DioCrafts/OxiCloud: ☁️ OxiCloud server, efficient and secure way to save all your data 1 month ago:
It’s not bitching if it’s true. Nextcloud has really poor performance alone, it tries to do to many things at once and none of it ends up being good. It was amazing for it’s time and it’s idea but it simply doesn’t scale, not technically, not with time. They need to redo the architecture and probably move to something better performing than PHP. I never heard anyone in any environment even considering PHP as an option in 2025.
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 2 months ago:
Same reason there is a sticker on car batteries that says “Not for drinking”.
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 2 months ago:
Agree, but then you would need to count a lot of things, and many of them would be general mass comodity like cars, electricity, heating… besides LLM’s being the new thing killing us, we have stuff killing us for ages…
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 2 months ago:
I guess my opinion will be hugely unpopular but it is what it is - I’d argue it’s natural selection and not an issue of LLM’s in general.
Healthy and (emotionally) inteligent humans don’t get killed by LLM’s. They know it’s a tool, they know it’s just software. It’s not a person and it does not guarantee correctness.
Getting killed because LLM’s told you so - the person was in mental distress already and ready to harm themselves. The LLM’s are basically just the straw that broke the camels back. Same thing with physical danger. If you believe drinking bleach helps with back pain - there is nothing that can save you from your own stupidity.
LLM’s are like a knife. It can be a tool to prepare food or it can be a weapon. It’s up to the one using it.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 3 months ago:
Same way you protect anything else valuable in your house - by locking the door and potentially installing (selfhosting) security cameras.
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 3 months ago:
I know a different guy from history who also has seen great potential in media for propaganda.
- Comment on Watch first, then wipe: Some China’s restrooms put toilet paper behind paywall 3 months ago:
Just shit right under it on the floor to show your disagreement.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 months ago:
Reasons I see:
a) the generation that grew up watching LTT is now at age where they don’t watch as much YT as they did before b) increasing amount of things happen which put viewers off c) consumer technology peaked and is now “boring” d) new generations don’t have as much interest in technology altogether
Let’s explain:
a + c) people watching LTT years ago were living in an exiting tech era where it boomed and you had mayor leaps in tech basically on a yearly basis. Moving from floppy disks to CD’s to USB sticks. CRT to LCD displays. 16-bit to 32-bit color. Solitare and Minesweeper to Call of Duty 4 and Need for Speed. Symbian and Blackberry to Android and iOS. Tons of manufacturers, tons of competition, tons of new and exctiting stuff.
Let’s observe the state today: iPhone looks the same for the past half decade. Android is basically just Google and Samsung. Storage is now all in cloud. New games are recycled and upscaled old games. Every new generation of hardware is same thing just 10% better/faster. New OS releases are just refinements without new features. Most changes are done just for the sake of change. Existing hardware can basically be enough for 5+ years. What is LTT realistically supposed to talk about that is interesting? There is simply no more interesting tech.
This ties in into d) - tech peaked, new generations “just use it as it is”, there is no need to tinker with it, prebuilt PC’s are more than fine for years to come. Since AI the IT job landscape seems to be in decline, both in demand and in pay. People do other stuff now that is more lucrative.
LTT is dependent on stuff happening so that they can make videos about it. But, stuff kinda just isn’t happening. Or the stuff that happens is just not noteworthy news anymore.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 4 months ago:
This made my blood boil, and then I remembered I switched to Linux a month ago… all good.
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech 5 months ago:
We are aware of the problem, but don’t really have a magic wand to create our own mineral and energy resources overnight, including production lines for advanced chips, defense, train a proper army all while maintaining social plans and investment into infrastructure. The time for solving the problem is long gone, and now the only thing remaining is to do the best we can under the current circumstances.
If we go to a trade war with Trump, we will also deteriorate the our economy and Trump can pull his military support leaving us with both economic downturn and extremely weakened defence capabilities. This can’t possibly be better than playing along, for now.
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on countries that ‘discriminate’ against US tech 5 months ago:
We kinda need all support we can get considering the blood-thirsty bear to the east. It would be very unwise at this point to go and poke the big hungry bear on the west. We can defend ourselves with a few sticks at best at this point. Or we have a bazooka, but politicians unwilling to use anything but a stick. One of those two.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 months ago:
Unfortunately, that is 0.1% of their global market that is affected. So, they don’t really have much to lose.
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 5 months ago:
So, their chips become unsuitable for enterprise servers. Datacenters avoiding them and buying AMD. Intel losing enterprise market share and revenue. Reduced revenue causes next layoffs, probably again people working on things that keep the business working. Shoots itself in the foot and being surprised about the consequences.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 5 months ago:
Getting expensive would be the wrong wording. The price of subscription is simply following inflation. Otherwise as long as the price stays the same while people get raises, you could say it’s getting cheaper.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 5 months ago:
It’s cheaper if you have 5 friends and take the family plan. I’m paying ~€2 a month for the last couple of years.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 5 months ago:
AI can only deliver answers based on training code developers manually wrote, so hod do they expect to train AI in the future if there is no more developers writing code by themselves?
Also, small fact is that they invested so much money into AI, that they can’t allow it to fail. Such comments never came from people who depend on AI adoption.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 6 months ago:
If it was simple and easy to install and play games on Linux as is on Windows, I would have switched over a decade ago.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 6 months ago:
Oh no! Anyway…
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 6 months ago:
American companies exist to maximize shareholder value. Remember that. There is no company, doing anything, for the better of the world or humanity. At least not as the primary motivation.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 6 months ago:
They don’t need any government assistance, they just need to take the millions they pay out to stakeholders, and invest them into automation. The money is there, just being handed out to a few people. Why should the government pay for something that sits on tons of cash but won’t use it?