jlow
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- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 2 weeks ago:
Well, just keep pumping in the billions until the bubble bursts and we can look for the next fad, to do it all over again, right?
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 2 weeks ago:
Surprise! 🎉
- Comment on What could the Cotswolds possibly offer JD Vance? I suggest a swim in one of its rivers 2 weeks ago:
Tldr but I hope she means one of these rivers:
- Comment on Campaign to de-proscribe Palestine Action grows in Britain 2 weeks ago:
Would he be in Labour if he wasn’t?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Stealing was always a crime only for the poor, the rich have been doing it for centuries. It’s only even more blatant in this case.
- Comment on Prince Harry denies giving Prince Andrew bloody nose at family gathering 3 weeks ago:
Who cares.
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 3 weeks ago:
Not working for me, just getting error messages when trying to redeem …
- Comment on 50 percent off and buy 1 get 1 free are the same deal. 3 weeks ago:
Only of you need two of the same thing.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 5 weeks ago:
It’s more secure than not using one (if it’s open source and offline), so just do it.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 5 weeks ago:
/s ?
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 1 month ago:
Haven’t seen a difference but I also block / downvote everybody / community that posts ai slob so …
- Comment on Tumblr’s move to WordPress and fediverse integration is ‘on hold’ 1 month ago:
Or might be a sign that capitalists wanna silo their networks once the hype has cooled down.
- Comment on Creative Commons is Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI 1 month ago:
Oh, I didn’t know that. Models were people have actually actively consented to their data being used for it (not “Wikipedia is CC so it’s fine”)?
- Comment on UK Stop Killing Games Petition's Map of Signatures ✍️ 1 month ago:
Go Scotland!
- Comment on Creative Commons is Introducing CC Signals: A New Social Contract for the Age of AI 1 month ago:
we give, we take, we give again, and we are all in this together.
No, the AI megacorps only steal and then make you pay to use their illegal and unethical services. How naive is this?
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 1 month ago:
What problems did you encounter? I dimly not using the official docker-compose file but one from else (because I wanted to use Http?) but personally I didn’t find it as complicated as setting up Immich or Invoice Ninja or other services that have multiple containers that need to talk to each other.
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 1 month ago:
Mmmh, I don’t think the app ever got disabled by Android during my days of testing (I actually reinstalled yesterday and having a look again, battery drain seems a bit better now so far … ). But obviously a system service is always gonna be prioritised higher than a user app. But as I said I didn’t have this problem with this app (actually the only one I can think of is Syncthing and with that I’m not sure if it’s not the app going to a sleep mode or something by itself).
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 2 months ago:
What does device-only mean in this context? That it’s only stored on your phone?
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 2 months ago:
It (theoretically) works without PlayServices. I’m on CalyxOS with MicroG enabled and while I was testing OwnTracks I think MicroG was using the Gplay Location services or something? I’ve since turned something off in MicroG location settings that was phoning home to Google and GPS is pretty bad now, not sure if OwnTracks would still be usable.
I think the official app tries to not be killed by Android woth the usual tricks (permanent notification, disabling battery optimisation):
f-droid.org/packages/org.owntracks.android
You can (theoretically) control how often locations are tracked and sent but for me was using the location service constantly and draining battery quite a bit.
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 2 months ago:
There is also
But I could never get it to ingest any data from the recc Android apps (this is probably a me problem, though, Linux Unplugged crew are using it).
- Comment on Good boy 2 months ago:
Jesus (pun intended), urinating has to be a mess with this. Wth. Is this real? It feels like that should count as torture or something.
- Comment on Google releases Magenta RealTime, an open source AI model for live music creation 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure it’s “open source” (as in not os, actually and probably trained on stolen data like always?)
- Comment on Police to collect ethnicity data for all cases of child sexual abuse 2 months ago:
Only for the stats never to be seen again when it turns out that they’re 98% Caucasian
- Comment on What exactly is a self-hosted small LLM actually good for (<= 3B) 2 months ago:
Esp. if the LLM just hallucinates 50% of the “facts” a about the users 👌
- Comment on An open (or federated) searchable catalog of hikes and hiking trails (alltrails alternative)? 2 months ago:
For Scotland there’s
with gpx tracos that you can use offline with Osmand or similar.
- Comment on This entire community 2 months ago:
Yeah, aboard the AI-slob hype train into fascism, very likely. But I think cryoto scams are stilk around so NFTs are probably as well?
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 2 months ago:
Let’s make some artificial rule like you need to be not on earth for 48 hours to be not on earth or something …
- Comment on This entire community 2 months ago:
Getting Twitter-NFT-Bros "Oh nononoo, don’t rightclick save, how dare you! " vibes from this 😸
- Comment on I understand this will be controversial amoungst scrubs who never got gud 2 months ago:
There will come a time in your life as well when you value it more than the satisfaction of finally having killed that boss after four hours.
- Comment on nyet 2 months ago:
Even if it might be the shape of the universe? How could that be bad!