FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker? 1 week ago:
What surprises me is that Samsung isn’t trying to get better hardware to get more market share.
You say this about the company that invented folding screen phones? lol
- Comment on Using Clouds for too long might have made you incompetent 1 week ago:
I get what you’re saying, but also see the other side - these services exist and aren’t ever going away, so the level of knowledge you need about these to use them at least competently is significantly reduced.
What their existence does mean is that there are thousands of developers who wouldn’t ever touch or learn any of this stuff previously are now actually learning it and using it. That’s a positive thing. Not everyone needs to be an expert on the inner workings of everything that a service provides unless you’re specifically looking for an expert.
Also……people lie on CVs and cover letters. If your ad has buzzwords and technology X, Y, and Z, then you should expect people with little to no knowledge of at least one of those things to have all 3 on their resume.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X platform investigated in France for alleged data tampering and fraud 1 week ago:
Tl;dr:
It said the two people alleged the suspected use of X’s algorithm for the “purposes of foreign interference.” It didn’t detail the alleged interference or how the algorithm was allegedly used.
The 2 people are politicians. Most likely a nothing-sauce.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 1 week ago:
Adding context is “knowing more” for a computer program.
Maybe it’s different in VS code vs regular VS, because I never get issues like what you’re describing in VS. Haven’t really used it in VS Code.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 1 week ago:
Interesting downvotes, especially how there are more than there are upvotes.
Do people think “junior” and “senior” here just relate to age and/or time in the workplace? Someone could work in software dev for 20 years and still be a junior dev.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 1 week ago:
They’re tools that can help a junior engineer and a senior engineer with their job.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 1 week ago:
They’re also bad at that though, because if you don’t know that stuff then you don’t know if what it’s telling you is right or wrong.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 1 week ago:
The reason it goes down a “really bad path” is that it’s basically glorified autocomplete. It doesn’t know anything.
Not quite true - GitHub Copilot in VS for example can be given access to your entire repo/project/etc and it then “knows” how things tie together and work together, so it can get more context for its suggestions and created code.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 1 week ago:
I’ve found it to be great at writing unit tests too.
I use github copilot in VS and it’s fantastic. It just throws up suggestions for code completions and entire functions etc, and is easily ignored if you just want to do it yourself, but in my experience it’s very good.
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 1 week ago:
Sounds like you just need to find a better way to use AI in your workflows.
Github Copilot in Visual Studio for example is fantastic and offers suggestions including entire functions that often do exactly what you wanted it to do, because it has the context of all of your code (if you give it that, of course).
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 1 week ago:
“Using something that you’re not experienced with and haven’t yet worked out how to best integrate into your workflow slows some people down”
Wow, what an insight! More at 8!
As I said on this article when it was posted to another instance:
AI is a tool to use. Like with all tools, there are right ways and wrong ways and inefficient ways and all other ways to use them. You can’t say that they slow people down as a whole just because some people get slowed down.
- Comment on Study (N=16) finds AI (Cursor/Claude) slows development 1 week ago:
Just like Stack Overflow then haha. It’s usually either
“I copied this persons code exactly, why doesn’t it work in my completely different codebase?”
or
“I copied this persons code exactly and it works in mine! I don’t want to touch it in case I break it cause I don’t get it”
haha
- Comment on Study (N=16) finds AI (Cursor/Claude) slows development 1 week ago:
If you already know what you’re doing, AI generating code is redundant.
Nah, it can be really useful for people who do know what they’re doing as it can be used to generate the “charlie work” (IASIP reference if you don’t know) things like unit tests and documentation and things like that pretty damn well.
- Comment on Study (N=16) finds AI (Cursor/Claude) slows development 1 week ago:
Sorry but a study of 16 developers isn’t a big enough sample to get any meaningful data, especially given the massive range of skills and levels of development.
I’m a developer and I use AI - not much, but when I think it can help based on the suggestions that it gives me since it’s integrated into visual studio. It doesn’t slow me down, it speeds me up. It could slow you down if you rely on it to do everything, but in that case you’re just a bad or lazy developer.
AI is a tool to use. Like with all tools, there are right ways and wrong ways and inefficient ways and all other ways to use them. You can’t say that they slow people down as a whole.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 1 week ago:
and b. this data is easy to rebuild over time.
You say that, but some shows and movies are getting very hard to find these days. I lost one show to an external HDD that died, and I have never been able to find it again :(. That’s part of the reason I recently went to a DAS in my setup instead of a NAS - backblaze backs the entire 40TB DAS up for ~$90 a year!
- Comment on How big is your media library? 1 week ago:
You got them all in uncompressed 8K or something!? How on earth does it take up that much space?
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 1 week ago:
You came at me saying I said something I didn’t. You’re the one not having a good faith discussion.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 1 week ago:
I didn’t say that trump got it under control, just that it is under control now while it was out of control at almost all time highs during Biden’s term.
- Comment on Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws 1 week ago:
No, they banned it because they don’t like pride flags being replaced, or male and female being the sex options, or black characters being replaced with more historically accurate white ones (no issue with the opposite though, shock horror). It had nothing to do with trolling or the comments section or throwaway accounts. It was ideological.
Yes, they can do what they want with their site. I agree. I didn’t say they can’t. I just pointed out what they do.
If they banned mods that put pride flags everywhere it wouldn’t bother me one bit. People can mod their single player games however they want, I don’t care.
- Comment on Streaming Subscriptions May Get Tougher to Cancel 1 week ago:
What type of logic is this? Because rules didn’t force them to make it easier it will get harder?
- Comment on Google Gemini is coming for your private apps. Here's how to stop it 1 week ago:
A whole article about how terrible this is, then towards the end they got clarification from Google and, surprise surprise, it was all an overreaction and they were fear mongering.
“This update is good for users: they can now use Gemini to complete daily tasks on their mobile devices like send messages, initiate phone calls, and set timers while Gemini Apps Activity is turned off. With Gemini Apps Activity turned off, their Gemini chats are not being reviewed or used to improve our AI models.
It’s just giving Gemini more local assistant abilities.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 1 week ago:
Movies: 7796
TV Series: 1443
Music (tracks): 37909
All up its pushing 45TB currently. All legal backups, obviously.
I’m trying to get all x265 for tv and movies, but am not converting 264 -> 265 myself as it works take forever and is lossy. Sonarr and radarr will take care of it eventually anyway with the way I’ve set up my profiles.
Subtitles are usually SRTs grabbed by Bazarr, stored in a subtitles folder inside each movie folder.
Folder structure is just the standard folder per movie, and folder per tv series with sub folders per season.
Music is 320kbps mp3 where possible, and for the last year or 2 I’ve been trying to get FLAC and then convert to mp3 (automatically) and archive off the FLAC for safe keeping.
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 1 week ago:
I don’t know how many government workers you’ve met, but I wouldn’t have much hope of that haha
- Comment on Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws 1 week ago:
That’s not why they banned it though, as they could have simply turned off comments.
- Comment on Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice 1 week ago:
People in government IT jobs who maintain Microsoft systems aren’t going to be contributing to FOSS codebases. They’re not developers.
- Comment on Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws 1 week ago:
No, that’s not the point. The point is that someone should be able to mod the flags in a single player game on their computer to be whatever they want, but Nexus Mods don’t think so. They want to tell you what you can and can’t do as a mod based on their ideology. Make a white character black? Go for it!!! Black character white? Banned!
Do you not see how this is an issue?
- Comment on Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws 1 week ago:
No, they removed the mod because they called it “bigotry”. Many others then re-uploaded the mod, which is what they’re saying is against the rules - uploading banned mods.
The uploader of the original mod didn’t break any rules, nexus mods owner/admins just didn’t like the mod ideologically.
- Comment on Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws 1 week ago:
Cool. Nexus mods gave a shit though, that’s the point. They banned the mod.
- Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 1 week ago:
Inflation is currently at the lowest it has been since the first 2-3 months of Biden’s term.
- Comment on Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows 1 week ago:
How do you know it doesn’t count against daily active users?
No one I know uses threads. When I tried it and followed the same public people I do on Twitter, their posts on threads had like 1% of the likes/shares/comments they had on Twitter.
Meta would absolutely lie to make threads seem more active than it is to try and get people to use it.