idriss

@idriss@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A growing number of young chinese people are avoiding Starbucks Coffee. US executives are furious.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  cool, now I have to worry if coffee is hallal or not too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, in addition to the other million benefits. Like being much lighter, isn’t a giant spyware, decent scripting engine, covers all features that office has and more (it had PDF export way earlier), … My bachelor degree dissertation was in libreoffice in 2013. Since then, nobody can convince me to go back to Office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do agree. Maybe we could normalize having bots that duplicate the good posts from there and discuss them here. But yeah, it’s not so obvious how to measure a “good post”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Polls show that 99.9% of people like to take polls”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true. Scrapping is a gold mine for the people that don’t know. I worked for a place which crawls the internet and beyond (fetches some internal dumps we pay for). There is no chance a zip bomb would crash the workers as there are strict timeouts and smell tests (even if a does it will crash an ECS task at worst and we will be alerted to fix that within a short time). We were as honest as it gets though, following GDPR, honoring the robots file, no spiders or scanners allowed, only home page to extract some insights.

  I am aware of some big name EU non-software companies very interested in keeping an eye on some key things that are only possible with scraping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Only people with money don't understand that being morally just while poor means your threading a needle through a litany of only bad choices.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the millionaire who wanted to prove that he could rebuild his wealth if he started from scratch again. He cheated a little bit because he used his friend apartment for free.

  Fast forward, he gave up after a couple of months and understood what the rest of us knew for ages.

  Wealthy people are delusional and no amount of reasoning will work with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To me it’s a feature and not a problem to have less people. I had more online human interaction in lemmy than I had anywhere else (except maybe facebook in early times). Look at Reddit now, good luck interacting with real genuine people. Everyone is shilling something and nobody is honest, plus the low quality posts count growing.

  I saw some studies a few years ago on how people are less interested in traditional social media and more interested in instant messaging 1to1 and small group chats. Also something about how group chats become dead after they exceed a couple hundred members.

  Just to say, I am more happy with the way things are in lemmy. I appreciate all aspects of Lemmy really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Louis part alone needs to be extracted out as a separate one. Interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see Lunduke and I pass. He said too many ragebaity ridiculous things that he discredited himself already.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo issues Switch 2 supply warning in Japan: 2.2 million people have applied to buy the new console in Japan so far, which ‘far exceeds’ Nintendo’s expectations.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the switch when you can have the steam deck? I am confused

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my teenage years I really tried to master it well. I score relatively high in chess.com and lichess but I share your sentiment. If you are a chess master it doesnt mean you are super smart it means you are super good at chess.

  Science confirms this in a way. Prof Andrew Huberman has a podcast episode about games in general and their effect the brain development and the takeaways:

  • Games can help the brain development according to publications because of the different experiences that you will never have irl
  • The positive impact was only noticed when you play a variety of games under different setups and not when you master a single game and play it a lot
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear Big Tech, Stop Shoving AI Into Operating Systems⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was taking the CCNA course then tests in 2013. I remember how they were pushing their IoT prediction in the courses so hard.

  IoT ended up cringe af. To control your vacuum cleaner, it needs to connect to a remote API server hosted in AWS then back to you sitting next to the vacuum cleaner. I could say at the time nobody wants that shit. Now I hate it even more and I skip all the smart products.

  I have a similar feeling about LLMs now. They are nice, they solve some problems nicely, they are far from perfect, I dont want them shoved everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud (PHP) vs OpenCloud (Rust)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  NextCloud is straight up unusable to me no matter how much resources I was throwing at it.

  OpenCloud seems promising. I would definitely like to play with it a little. I would also like to check check how can I help with a thing or two there.

  This seems like a similar story with matrix Synapse vs Dendrite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Genocide vs military op depends on side? I am on neither side, an observer from outside and I can see one fully armed side holocausting another side for the past 70 years and making sure nobody from anywhere in the world complain about it through lobbying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I get your point. But Microsoft knows exactly who is using their cloud and why (id proof and industry), vs something for everyone to grab (LF doesnt require id proof and industry). Microsoft is knowingly serving child murderers and it knows their tech is used to do exactly that.

  You cannot ban kitchen knives because there were a mass stab, but you enforce strict background check so you dont sell rifles to school shooters.

  In other words, impossible to enforce linux ban without removing the open source aspect of it and affect good people like, but totally possible just not serve somebody commiting a genocide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  nobody is profiting from that, so that’s not her point. Linux foundation isnt directly selling something used to detect a blow up kids