melroy
@melroy@kbin.melroy.org
- Comment on RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years 13 hours ago:
Give me 1 month and I vibe code runescape for free if you wish.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 14 hours ago:
Destroy? Nah. I will reprogram them.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 14 hours ago:
Terminator sounds fun if it's stays Sci fi.
- Comment on 21 hours ago:
Now it's correct. Just a typo I guess 😬
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Blocking Ads*
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 1 day ago:
not sure why people dumb down.. if you don't like it, go to your representative if you are living in the US.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 1 day ago:
Yup
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 1 day ago:
Age verification bill is approved in California https://www.techradar.com/computing/software/californias-age-verification-law-is-proving-controversial-heres-what-you-need-to-know-and-why-some-linux-distros-are-in-the-firing-line
So yes basically the end result will be, Microsoft and Apple will implement age verification (aka ID check) on Os level. And Linux will not, meaning the state will prohibit the use of any Linux distribution that is not following their law.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 days ago:
I can't even type normally anymore in teams. Since it will hang my business laptop during typing. It's so awful.
Really Teams is the worst product.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 days ago:
Ah yes. Id verification. Subscription model.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 days ago:
And don't get me started on ID verification during windows install.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 days ago:
And code is stolen from atom. But yes.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 days ago:
Atom was indeed very good. There are still forks out there.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 days ago:
Move to Linux while you still can (unless you are living already in California and it's forbidden)
- Comment on Dashboard for my servers 5 days ago:
I use Grafana (with telegraf, Angie plugin etc.). Feel free to use any of my public available dashboards of mine: https://grafana.com/orgs/webmaster1989
- Comment on SelfHosting Guilty Pleasure(s) 1 week ago:
I bought the server hardware 3 years ago, so when the prices of ram were also fine. Today it's not fun anymore..
I really hope those ram and nvne prices go down again! I can't upgrade anything now. - Comment on SelfHosting Guilty Pleasure(s) 1 week ago:
Fact. I only use more then 1gbit/s for file transfers internally between computers or between the server and a computer.
- Comment on SelfHosting Guilty Pleasure(s) 1 week ago:
10gbit fiber locally doesn't mean I have this speed to the internet (I'm not).
- Comment on SelfHosting Guilty Pleasure(s) 1 week ago:
We used to need tools like Hamachi back in the days. And it was awful, didn't work and caused me way too much headache
- Comment on SelfHosting Guilty Pleasure(s) 1 week ago:
Third guilty pleasure is 10gbit/s fiber network at home.
- Comment on SelfHosting Guilty Pleasure(s) 1 week ago:
A second guilty pleasure would be looking at my grafana dashboards.
- Comment on SelfHosting Guilty Pleasure(s) 1 week ago:
Pushing my commits that trigger my own gitlab runners that build my c++ application across 32 cores/threads homelab server.
- Comment on At 25, Wikipedia faces a double threat: the rise of AI and the decline of local media— Human visitors declined in 2025, while AI crawlers are on the rise 1 week ago:
Wikipedia is getting the same faith as stackoverflow now.
I'm actually more in favor of more specialized wikis instead today. Like arch Linux wiki. Which I also contribute to. Or wine wiki etc.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 week ago:
Also I can't really answer the question if it's bad or not what happens to ntfy.sh since it really depends on how the maintainer is using Ai here. Whether he did test the code, and read all the generated code.
Ai in itself isn't the problem here.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 week ago:
Indeed also read the paper called Programming as Theory building. From 1980. Which is very relevant today again. Since people lose the connection with the code due to Ai.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 week ago:
You can run my text through Ai checkers if you wish. But it's not Ai generated.
I'm not just on my own instance. I'm the creator of the software: Mbin. Previously known as kbin.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 week ago:
Haha. I'm not a native English speaker.
- Comment on At 25, Wikipedia faces a double threat: the rise of AI and the decline of local media— Human visitors declined in 2025, while AI crawlers are on the rise 1 week ago:
Well. Maybe. But it's more complicated than that. The moderator was aiming for me it seemed. I never had such a bad experience online.
I'm not interested anymore in Wikipedia either; they can just figure it out. I'm never, ever contributing a single word to Wikipedia again.
- Comment on At 25, Wikipedia faces a double threat: the rise of AI and the decline of local media— Human visitors declined in 2025, while AI crawlers are on the rise 1 week ago:
Somebody else was agreeing with me, so didn't agree with the moderator either. But the moderator thought that this was an alt account of mine (which it wasn't, it was not me). And then it banned it from the platform. My account a 15 years account old. You can look it up, it's under my real full name.
But ow well. I don't mind anymore like I said. I hope there will be more Wikipedia alternatives.
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 1 week ago:
Ai can be powerful and destructive at the same time.
Ai coding can help a lot in accelerating software development. In the right hands that is. Meaning the software engineer still reviews the code. Test it. And takes responsibility. In those cases there is nothing wrong with it.
The problem is that some programmers are using AI without even looking at the end results. Just approves everything, commits, push and release. That approach is wrong and especially inexperience engineers might fail in this trap. So in this case the code has most likely a lot of duplicated code, full with bugs and other issues. Some issues you encounter it for the first time, since it wasn't tested etc.
In the latter story, you feel the impact. And the downsides of Ai. And only see the negatives of Ai. You might say it's Ai slop even. Or vibe coded. Which is correct.
Tldr: Ai can be very powerful in the right hands. It still requires a lot of human time and effort to get it correct. And if the engineer is too lazy then you feel the consequences.