Mondez
@Mondez@lemdro.id
- Comment on MAGA has been swooning over an Army soldier and her pro-Trump message. She is AI 36 minutes ago:
Sadly being smarter doesn’t stop you being ignorant.
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 41 minutes ago:
Point of order, if you mean pirate as in infringe copyright, that isn’t stealing.
- Comment on How many projects involve LLM-written code now? 1 week ago:
There is a significant difference between AI assisted and AI produced from what I’ve seen and experienced so far.
Assisted takes generated code and uses it to inform the code actually written, letting it fulfill a boiler plate function or the place of a junior coder at worst.
Then there are those project committing the AI produced code largely unreviewed and unchanged.
Former is mostly fine but needs an experienced coder who trained writing code unassisted (where are new coders of that caliber going to come from now?), the latter is a morasse of slop.
- Comment on We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch 2 weeks ago:
They never state who it’s more efficient and cost effective for, so I’m sure it’s true… from a certain point of view.
- Comment on Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers 4 weeks ago:
Hopefully be a massive teachable moment to humanity?
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 1 month ago:
So the fact you didn’t pay kind of leads I to where I was going, that model isn’t sustainable for AI, would you subscribe to get access to that information? How much would you pay? Because that is what those pushing AI want to happen, they want yo be the gatekeeper and you have to pay the toll to access information.
As for the usefulness of AI for technical questions. Well I’m the other side of the learning curve from you, I need detailed answers to complicated technical questions and AI fails to provide a correct answer 9 times out of 10 and worse is misleading in its answers with basic mistakes or out of date information which would trip up inexperienced users or lead them into bad practices.
It’s only useful in giving me a direction to start, I still have to go to the likes of stack exchange and read and understand the primary sources it was trained on to get a useful answer and understanding. In general it saves me very little time and isn’t that helpful.
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 1 month ago:
Did you pay for the AI service you used to do that and if it hadn’t been available would you have just started reading the online resources the AI trained on and got to the same place eventually?
- Comment on Installing **self-hostable** services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ??? 1 month ago:
I’d argue that it’s self managed but not self hosted, it’s still running on somone elses computer and they ultimately control what you can and cant do with it. The distinction is murky though because a lot of the discussion here is about managing services rather than the hosting infrastructure (though of course there is some of that too).
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 1 month ago:
Sadly the virtuous circle of profits being put back into research and development seems badly broken in so many business now.
- Comment on Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch 1 month ago:
You have niche hardware that no one has bothered to reverse engineer. There is niche hardware that works better in Linux too, but you don’t complain about how difficult windows I’d when there is no support for it.
At least it’s likely to get linux support at done point if it’s popular enough, maybe complain to logitech so they know supporting linux is something their customers want?
- Comment on Why does my ISP sometimes give one IPv6 and another with a different subnet? 2 months ago:
IPv6 should never be behind NAT which is a hack to extend the address space of Ipv4.
- Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison 2 months ago:
- as old as 32bit time_t
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 2 months ago:
Only difference is lack of updates for security and latest android, turns phones into ewaste long before the end of the hardware useful life.
- Comment on Apple will let iPhone users in Brazil get apps and services outside of the App Store 2 months ago:
Still got the onerous signing procedure that still makes devs pay a tithe to Apple like in other markets I assume?
- Comment on Apple will let iPhone users in Brazil get apps and services outside of the App Store 2 months ago:
Installing?
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 2 months ago:
That in itself might act to make linux attractive as it can be a much lighter weight alternative to windows to stretch the useful life of hardware they own.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 2 months ago:
In my experience neither of those are true, on linux unless a dependency was dropped a 4 year old program will still probably work fine and a 20 year old program on windows will likely have some glitches which may or may not be problematic.
- Comment on Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices 2 months ago:
When I dual booted it was to try and get away from the win.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day everyone 2 months ago:
Worse, unless you have the source code to that 70 year old software it’s probably even less useful.
- Comment on Happy Public Domain Day everyone 2 months ago:
No, copyright applies specifically to the code, eulas and copyleft such as GPL rely on that fact. The logic itself can’t be, but the specific implementation can. It’s why clean room reverse engineering is fine, but a tainted decompilation direct from a binary may not be.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 2 months ago:
Except that isn’t what we have, we still have proprietary crap that is just open core now and that open core is dominated by a single corp that can dictate what standards it wants just like when IE was on top.
- Comment on Did Microsoft do anything right in 2025? Wins, fails, and WTF moments 2 months ago:
Less diversity isn’t good, the argument wasn’t in favour of proprietary software, it was against platform monoculture.
- Comment on Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried 2 months ago:
It’s more complicated than that as control acts as a barrier to entry preventing competitive start ups entering the market and disrupting it so established players probably don’t care as they can bare the cost of compliance if they have to.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 2 months ago:
Worse is that it likely won’t be able to distinguish between intentionally titilating material and material intended to educate. Only over 18 are allowed to learn about human physiology after submitting identifying information.
- Comment on What DDNS providers you guys recommend? 2 months ago:
Can you do letsencrypt dns challenges against the free tier now? This was one reason I moved to duckdns. Plus I kept forgetting to login to keep the account alive so it would just stop working until I logged in and reactivated. Duckdns do emulate that experience with their random downtime though 😂
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 months ago:
Those are the the ones that somone has managed to find in closed source software…
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 months ago:
I don’t think it is that is more polished, it’s just you pay for them to do the stuff you need to do yourself with reverse proxying, opening ports, securing stuff. This is only an issue if you are sharing outside your network of course.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 months ago:
Why bother self hosting at all then? Paying somone else to do it for you and the deal constantly getting altered is pretty what you signed up for.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 months ago:
That’s because you had somone elses servers doing that part for you.
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 3 months ago:
Fully aware and autonomous? Sounds like AI talk to me…