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- Comment on 3 days ago:
Forgejo actions are supposedly modeled after GHA, but I’ve not used it even though I’m self-hosting Forgejo. I’ve considered trying it out soon.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 3 days ago:
I watch Rick Beato on YouTube. The guy loves music and appreciates every genre. When he reviews a lot of the newer top hits on Spotify, he genuinely wants to find something he can like, but a lot of it is unfortunately not at all original or musically interesting.
As a technologist, I genuinely want to like AI and give it a fair chance, despite how infuriating the tech bros pushing it are. For coding especially, it’s really hit and miss, though. Yesterday, for example, Claude did a pretty good job analyzing some C++ code and helping me make a Python UDP socket to consume its binary protocol, though the code is really messy and needed refactoring. Other times, though, it wastes my time generating hallucinated garbage. Also, if I get one more PR to review full of AI slop where someone didn’t do their due diligence, I could just scream.
You’re right that most of humanity doesn’t care, which is why the top hits on Spotify are mostly unoriginal and musically uninteresting background noise, and software quality is declining overall due to AI while companies continue to switch to subscription models to milk every last dime they can while most people go along with it. Humanity as a whole is a frustrating lot.
- Comment on The singular they is actually such a natural part of the English language, the people complaining about it almost certainly use it without noticing 3 days ago:
I don’t mind using they / them for non-binary people. It’s just that it takes a lot of mental energy to not embarrass myself by forgetting and using the gendered pronoun.
- Comment on Meta Reportedly Cutting About 1,500 VR and AR Jobs Amid Renewed Push to Become an AI Juggernaut 4 days ago:
The Frame will probably cost more because it won’t be subsidized by surveillance capitalism. I’d rather pay more and actually own my hardware instead of paying a down payment in cash to take possession of a device Meta still owns, and then pay with my data indefinitely afterwards.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 5 days ago:
A recent MIT report indicates that 95% of generative AI pilots fail to deliver measurable returns on investment, highlighting significant challenges in successfully implementing AI in businesses
CEOs:
- Comment on Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source 5 days ago:
Oracle sees itself as an activist organization, one whose goal is the advancement of the Israeli colonization project. Safra Catz, the company’s Israeli-American CEO, bluntly explained that any employees uncomfortable with supporting a genocide should simply quit. “We are not flexible regarding our mission, and our commitment to Israel is second to none”
Hmm, MySQL or PostgreSQL—how will we ever decide which one to pick.
- Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible 1 week ago:
Well, I guess this puts right about 30 years out now.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
Meh, I’ll wait for the emulator. At this point, I mostly emulate the Switch games I own on my PC because it’s more convenient to have all my games in one place without bothering with cartridges. Switch pro controllers are also overpriced, so I’d rather use my existing XBox controllers, but that requires a dongle for every controller and the Switch dock doesn’t have many USB ports. The 8bitdo singles only work half the time. Emulation is just a better experience, and Nintendo’s lawyers have been real assholes about it. Which is why my 20+ Switch games are the last things I’ll ever buy from Nintendo.
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 1 week ago:
You’re right, guess I should’ve said “enshittify further”.
- Comment on Discord in discussions of going Public Trading, economics expert discusses how that might change things 1 week ago:
Wonder what’ll be next after Discord enshittifies and alienates all the current users.
- Comment on AI’s Memorization Crisis | Large language models don’t “learn”—they copy. And that could change everything for the tech industry. 1 week ago:
Agreed, making demonstrably false or misleading arguments in an attempt to discredit something you disagree with is always a bad idea. The recent generative models are cool tech, it’s just that their benefits and potential to improve in the future are significantly overhyped due to perverse financial incentives. They’re still useful tools, they’re just not as Earth shattering as the tech bros want everyone to believe.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 1 week ago:
I considered getting one of these in the past for Frigate, but I ended up getting Reolink cameras with human detection built-in.
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCsDell is now shifting it focus this year away from being ‘all about the AI PC.’ 1 week ago:
On a related note, TIL AMD has an evolving competitor to Apple Silicon, except they named it “Ryzen AI” so everyone could ignore it. They apparently announced a couple new chips this week, and if it weren’t for a cgchannel article mentioning it in connection with Blender, video rendering, etc., it never would’ve registered in my brain that the SoCs might ever be useful for anything. Still RDNA 3.x, so meh, but I’m looking forward a future SoC with drastically improved RTX cores on par with Nvidia to use in a render farm at some point. They’re definitely not going to beat Nvidia if they keep using stupid names for their chips, though.
- Comment on TIL: Parental controls aren't for parents – Beast Hacker 1 week ago:
My policy is all child devices are blocked from internet access in the firewall except during specific times when I unblock it and am actively looking over their shoulder. Otherwise, it’s curated content on Jellyfin, including a library of downloaded videos from YouTube as well as other self-hosted stuff.
If a game or app requires internet access, too bad. I won’t even play games on my own devices that require a connection for that matter.
I have considered setting up a proxy server for my older child with specific domains allowlisted.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 week ago:
A product I use still has an old school forum. The mods asked a while back whether to switch to Discord, and the responses were a resounding “NO”. It’s nice to have discussions organized by topics with descriptive titles that are indexed by search engines and are self-hosted by each organization instead of being centrally owned and controlled.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
I knew it would be downvoted. I guess humans are evolutionarily hard-wired for conformity, because being ostracized from your tribe usually meant death. Considering all of the humans throughout history who were punished for going against the mob, only to later be celebrated, this is a maladaptive trait in many respects.
- Comment on Dell says the quiet part out loud: Consumers don't actually care about AI PCs — "AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" 1 week ago:
If I’m using AI, I definitely prefer something that runs locally and doesn’t have a surveillance capitalist business model.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 1 week ago:
This is not because AI is good at answering programming questions accurately, it’s because SO sucks. Sites like SO where experienced humans can give insightful answers to obscure programming questions are clearly still needed. Every time I ask AI a programming question about something obscure, it usually knows less than I do, and if I can’t find a post where another human had the same problem, I’m usually left to figure it out for myself.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
It would seem so.
- Comment on F*** You! Co-Creator of Go Language is Rightly Furious Over This Appreciation Email 1 week ago:
I upvoted you because I’m annoyed that downvotes often turn into a pack of chickens ganging up on a wounded chicken and pecking it to death. I usually upvote in this situation unless the downvotes are clearly deserved. Otherwise, I use downvotes sparingly and instead withhold my upvote if I don’t agree.
That being said, I don’t particularly enjoy programming in Go because of weird semantics and because of its missing language features like string interpolation and enums, as well as its use of pointers, which I find to be a lot of busy work with little benefit most of the time. I do actually agree with Go’s oft criticized error handling because it forces you to explicitly consider how to deal with every possible error, which I think is a good thing, though to your point, LLMs can reduce the workload here. Go’s concurrency and speed make it a good choice in many cases, though I’ll usually stick with something else if I don’t absolutely need Go’s benefits.
- Comment on genius 1 week ago:
With all the bad shit happening due to corrupt government agencies, it’s refreshing to read comments in this post about how the FAA is still anal as fuck like they should be, though flying on a Boeing still makes me nervous.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 1 week ago:
If it gets too bad, I suppose everyone still forced to use SlopilotOS will have to use Powershell to download Firefox. That is, until the SlopilotShell rebrand comes along.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Fair point, although if I don’t like what my company is using, I often install open source instead. Sometimes, that’s not feasible to your point.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Don’t really care what they call it, I’m not paying a subscription for software or running anything in the cloud that could just as well run locally. The fact that there are decent open source alternatives means I don’t have to give a shit.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 2 weeks ago:
I’ve used them quite a lot to stream games from a PC to a Steam Deck and a Nvidia Shield and agreed that the 2 projects are fantastic.
- Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 2 weeks ago:
Meanwhile, I just got a cooling pad for my $800 laptop with a RTX 4060 that makes it bulkier and heavier, but 20C cooler when doing Blender renders. The sleek $3000 MacBook Pro I got from work would only render at half the speed, though it wouldn’t need the cooling pad. As long as I can work from the sofa or bed on a reasonably powerful machine, it’s not worth almost quadrupole the price for thinner and lighter, especially with less muscle.
- Comment on YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake 2 weeks ago:
At this point, I assume about any warranty is bullshit. I definitely won’t pay extra for a warranty, because these companies aren’t in business to pay out money.
- Comment on The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, for men, standing up is just going to get piss everywhere. Men also need to wipe themselves afterwards, not just shake. Some men consider both of these practices to be overly-feminizing or whatever, but not having piss all over yourself and the bathroom is unequivocally a good thing.
- Comment on In a way, a gift card is kind of the opposite of a credit card 2 weeks ago:
It’s considered tacky to just give people cash, but that would honestly be a better practice.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 3 weeks ago:
If the only affordable option for using computers is cloud-based subscriptions, that’s when computers are no longer worth it to me. I’ll just take up something else.
