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- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 2 hours ago:
The Windows team has been looking for ways to remove the deeper hooks ever since the CrowdStrike outage last year.
- Comment on Steam Survey for July 2025 shows Linux approaching 3% 2 hours ago:
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 6 hours ago:
What if being offline for a very long duration of time - means that when connecting it again - the firmware update bricks my TV?
We don’t see many updates that outright brick your product (yet). What we do see is updates that just happen to make your product run much slower than it used to. There’s always excuses why it is necessary, but in the end those updates tend to lead to sales of new devices.
Keeping the device fully offline is a defense against such an update.
Myself, I don’t see any reason for my TV to ever be online, so I take some comfort that it will not receive such an update.
- Comment on Wikipedia editors adopt a policy giving admins the authority to quickly delete AI-generated articles that meet certain criteria, like incorrect citations 8 hours ago:
How would you determine that a cited source was wrong?
Subject matter experts do still exist. They’re dying off, and it’s unclear how many more we intend to create. But we do still have some.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 21 hours ago:
Lemmy is ironically incredibly tech illiterate
I disagree with all these self hosting Linux running passionate open source advocates, so they must be technology illiterate.
- Comment on The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now) 21 hours ago:
it’s possible to both increase efficiency of combat machines and not increase the chances of civilian casualties and friendly fire (when somebody is at least trying to not have those).
But how does this work help next quarters profits?
- Comment on Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice. 1 day ago:
Haha. Thanks!
I try to apply Wil Weaton’s law as consistently as I can.
Also I forget who said it but I ask myself “would am asshole say that?” and if so, I try to say something else.
The faking it part is weird, since it applies to everyone I interact with, for different reasons:
- Coworkers - I just need to earn money to buy stuff. Plus, they’re just in the same boat.
- Staff at places I shop - they’re just trying to get by, and don’t need my crap to make their day worse.
- Actual friends - they probably don’t realize how much I appreciate them, so every little bit helps.
I guess my philosophy is we’re all going through some shit, so I hope I’m making it a little easier where I can.
- Comment on Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice. 1 day ago:
Here’s some ways I can relate:
- I would rather not talk unnecessarily at work.
- But I am aware that I occasionally come across as rude, abrasive or disdainful.
I found that people began to forgive my occasional accidental rudeness after I built up habits for myself to proactively communicate to others that I like them.
Now I have a whole set of habits that don’t take me much energy to apply, and make others feel likes by me. It helps tremendously when I later put my foot in my mouth, which I still sometimes do.
I don’t mean to imply that is your situation. It was my situation, at a time when I felt as you do now.
- Comment on Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings 2 days ago:
“intensity, clarity, and bold execution”
Not just “intensity”.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 5 days ago:
Yes. I guess no more nine volt batteries in Europe. Or maybe we should focus on banning the sale of assorted lengths of wire.
- Comment on Puppets Explained, Sybok Teased, TAS Episode Scrapped, And More ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ SDCC Reveals 1 week ago:
I’m sad about the puppets being muppets instead of practical creatures,
I agree. It feels to me that Start Trek has not leveraged creature shop puppet special effects much, over the years. More frequent practical puppet effects would be a welcome addition.
- Comment on Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming. 1 week ago:
The world would probably be a better more peaceful place if he could find a pair of heels that fit, and the right place to rock them at.
Even if he’s not into that, there’s still more lifestyle options he may have missed.
- Comment on "A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing. 1 week ago:
- Comment on If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do? 1 week ago:
Nice try, FBI.
- Comment on ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds 2 weeks ago:
So the billionaires are getting ready to try and lower everyones pay
🌍👨🚀🔫👩🚀
- Comment on ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds 2 weeks ago:
Haha. Trained in racism is going on under the hood.
- Comment on I can hear the 8-bit theme playing now 2 weeks ago:
Raiden is their oldest. He was away at college when this picture was taken.
- Comment on Impressive free and open source RTS 0 A.D. gets an essential patch update 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard nice things about this, but didn’t realize it’s an Age of Empires clone. I will have to give it a try.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 2 weeks ago:
The best is when they use iPad notes or even their fucking contacts to save info lol
That’s awesome, worrying, adorable, and still more secure than using the same password everywhere.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had users have separate written entries for “Office”, “Skype”, “Hotmail”, and “Windows” because they don’t understand those things are all one Microsoft Account.
In fairness to them, I get a new email every month or two from Microsoft letting them know that they merged another account that I didn’t ever ask them to.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 2 weeks ago:
makes me worry what I’ll be like when i need some young whippersnapper so that I can pay via personal, irrational, conditional thinking.
Sometimes I share this fear.
But then I think - I’m on Lemmy, so I think “I’m still hip to new jazz.”
But then I remember that Virtual Reality will be commonplace someday, and something somewhere will require it - and I know in my heart that I’ll complain loudly about it before, during, and after I use it.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 weeks ago:
It’ll almost certainly be an AI model backed by 1000s of “trainers” in 3rd world countries doing it, but only until the model is fully trained.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 weeks ago:
This would be better than most of the crap being proposed or implemented.
But, since the keys are presumably reusable, they’ll presumably get borrowed shared by and among minors almost immediately.
There could be some “Netflix account sharing” style work to deter that, of course.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 weeks ago:
So…coming soon: an app that can match up images of friends or colleagues with a summary of their pornography preferences.
This could at least liven up some boring meetings or dull parties…
- Comment on Does vibe coding sort of work at all? 5 weeks ago:
Is all vibe coding actually like that too or does some of it actually work?
It’s all like that.
How bad that is - for you - depends on your patience and your learning style.
When I use it, my experience usually lets me recognize the mistakes and correct them quickly. So it’s just a lazy convenience. Most of the time.
I’ve had it make subtle mistakes that cost me significant amounts of time to cleanup after letting the vibe code run for a few minutes.
I’m aware that particular mistake cost me more time that vibe coding has ever saved me.
I don’t mind, because my employer is excited about AI right now, and I get paid for my time, and I don’t work unpaid overtime.
So - to your implied questions:
Is AI bad at coding?
Yes. It will get better. But today, it is worse than most people think. Obvious problems are easily fixed. Subtle problems are being released daily all over the Internet to combine to cause headaches later.
Should you try it, anyway?
Of course! You’ll learn something and it might do a good enough job for what you need. If you stick with it, you’ll learn enough to do what you need.
Is vibe coding a better oath forward than learning a programming language?
Absolutely not. If you need to succeed, and had to pick one, learn to code.
But they’re not mutually exclusive. It’s probably impossible to vibe code for long without learning to actually code.
So I say, Dive in! You’ll be complaining with the rest of us, soon! Maybe together we will make it a bit better.
- Comment on Big Tech CEOs Spent Millions to Influence Trump and Republican Lawmakers, Attempting to Secure Billions in Tax Handouts Paid For By Ripping Health Care, Food From Families 5 weeks ago:
“U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, pushed Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon; Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta; Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla; Tim Cook, CEO of Apple; and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, on their attempts to secure billion-dollar tax handouts paid for by ripping away health care coverage, food assistance, and other services from millions of American families.”
I wish headlines like this would use their names. These aren’t an amorphous immoral blob responding to stimuli, these are specific human individuals who can still be held accountable to the rule of law:
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Sundar Pichai [are] Attempting to Secure Billions in Tax Handouts Paid For By Ripping Health Care, Food From Families
- Comment on Let’s Encrypt ends certificate expiry emails to cut costs, boost privacy 5 weeks ago:
Time to go out and buy a “The Far Side” desk calendar, and mark the correct page, I guess.
- Comment on How do animals in the Peppa Pig universe work? 5 weeks ago:
Animals is Peppa Pig get dumber as they age, and some become so dumb that the rest cage them or eat then. Peppa’s father is about 70% of his way there, already.
I joke. But on a serious note, there’s so many better children’s shows out there. I hope you manage to switch it up, before it becomes the favorite of any young people in your inner circle.
Some of the jokes in this show seem targeted to adults, which makes no sense, as absolutely nothing in this show is watchable to anyone above the age of 4.
Exactly. They don’t seem to know who the intended audience is.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen the Lego games mentioned here. (Lego Indian Jones, Lego Batman, etc.)
They tend to be story driven, and have excellent amounts of play-testing, resulting in an enjoyable playthrough that I’ve always been able to finish.
(Except Lego Dimensions, which was developed separately, and not to the same play-testing standards.)
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 5 weeks ago:
I may have missed it, but Dave the Diver deserves a mention here.
Boss battles are very rare, and slow paced enough that I have not run into the dreaded “I understand the pattern but I lack the dexterity”. (I often have this problem with other games.)