Shanmugha

@Shanmugha@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Did I just find next distro to try? :) Kudos to them anyway (yay, that’s the kind of news I want to hear)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  With “30 years in programming” he could just say “fuck off”, but I am guessing not everyone is equipped for that. Using AI for good causes sits OK with me, but not recognising that something needs to be done at a higher level (set boundaries or just drop/find successor for the project that costs too much for him) - no. And I don’t like these slaps in the face

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Which brings the question why bother to hide it in the first place

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Devastating blow’: Atlassian lays off 1,600 workers ahead of AI push⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Made me chuckle)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unlikely, sure lol. Once again: I am not giving an llm write acess to prod

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wat. Since when do I need AI to setup infrastructure?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. As a tech people, I am not going to give an llm write access to anything in production, period

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨women⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, I implied rape. Men usually do not worry about getting raped while going home late

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨women⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, so women do not get raped?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨women⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But we can trust something else: it is more scary for a woman to walk some poorly illuminated city street late at night than it is for a man. So nah, “these figures may not be true” does not negate “this trend does exist”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Humans have used nukes. So… eh? Where is the surprise?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A-ha. All for the sake of children. Guess what makes my butt hurt: there are still people who buy this. And many of them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You laid it out so well I needed time to process it, my thanks :)

  Exactly. There is no systemic response to the issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ad companies are the ones destroying civilization⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They definitely try, but why do we let them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That (Youtube and Instagram etc. ) contributes, no doubt, but not a deciding factor. Way to check: is it possible to produce smart people from kids using electronic educational media without restrictions? May answer is “Yes, there is a way to do that” as in “no law of nature prevents this from happening”

  But education is veery fucked. Not just in US. For many decades, in many ways. And this is not going to be fixed with changing print books to laptops, vice versa or with any other superficial way of pretending to care. I wish enough people understood this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, don’t buy it. Paper does not produce smart people via some magic, screen does not produce dumb people via some magic. This works in a different, but fairly simple way

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'A Big F*ck You to Big Tech': New Jersey Residents Defeat AI Data Center⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh. One nice thing to hear, which is a rarity to me. Thank you for posting this :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm. A new way to tell something is shit without actually using these words

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you fell out of love with.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Overwatch. Got into it several years back, before it became Overwatch 2. Nice gameplay, balanced and diverse characters, I loved it

  Then comes realization thar matchmaking is fucked. Throwing someone who just installed the game into match between teams of players who have hundreds, if not thousands, hours in - that level of fucked

  Then comes realization Blizzard doesn’t give a fuck about lore they themselves built. WTF is these skins for Mercy that look like anime teenage girl? She is over forty, if I am not mistaken, and has seen tons of shit as battle medic - that level of not giving a fuck

  So… guess I am done with the game. I gave them years to come to their senses, but no more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No shit, Sherlock :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overwatch 2 Is Just 'Overwatch' Again And Five New Heroes Arrive Next Week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Years for me. I spent years before realizing that I’m never getting a good matchmaker

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, dependency hell is when two things you want to use depend on same thing, but different versions. The depth of dependencies needed to make “this one thing” work may or may not be a problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Given an example from another reply… yeah. Things are fucked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn. isEven come alive. But hilarious enough to watch someone do it :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Heard, not used though. isEven™ too, but I never thought it goes like this in anything intended for external use

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh. I never considered myself some hard-core old professional, but:

  The LLM will not interact with the developers of a library or tool, nor submit usable bug reports, or be aware of any potential issues no matter how well-documented

  If an LLM introduces a dependency, I will sure as hell go see it myself. Enough people do not do that for this to become a problem?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought exactly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tradition is just bullying by dead people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, “because fun” beats everything else :)

  Just today I got yet another insight about my own life along the lines of “it doesn’t matter that much what I do, but rather how and why, and with what level of awareness”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tradition is just bullying by dead people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the tradition and insight of those who are alive Tradition as in “we do this, because our ancestors did” is insanity, no questions there

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people still fooled by this dumb quiz's?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IQ test measures how good you are at passing IQ test :)