Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

Right, having now used MS Sharepoint, initially in curiosity and subsequently in anger, I am now very clear that I never want to do so again.

@andrewducker

Umberto Eco:

“Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community. Then they were quickly silenced, but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It’s the invasion of the idiots.”

Link Post: Being online doesn't make people more aggressive or hostile; it allows a small number of aggressive people to attack a much larger set of victims. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/5-types-people-who-can-ruin-your-life/202209/are-we-all-becoming-more-hostile-online

@strypey

Many small, single subject matter models makes the most sense to me.

@jalefkowit

when the data centers steal all the ground water

water pressure is going to be the least of our worries

Just one more centralized service bro, just one more single-source unmodifiable app bro, just one more monolithic server farm operated in secret by a single corporation bro, this time we'll get it right bro...

Ugh, Python got over 500 #GSoC applications this year and so many of them are absolutely trash, didn't follow any of the instructions. Most years about half of our applications are like this. But usually we have a lot fewer applicants and the submissions were blank files not plausible AI nonsense.

So I'm stuck reading hundreds of incredibly low quality nonsensical submissions today in hopes to take some workload off my other unpaid volunteer mentors. This is not the volunteer gig I signed up for 15 years ago when it was mostly working with new contributors and not their AI chatbots and I'm grumpy.

#AI #Python #OpenSource

For example, the cost to make an #iPhone 16 Pro could rise by $300. That increase alone is more than three times the current cost of an iPhone Battery Fix Kit. Even as the costs of parts like batteries rise, #repair will still be the smart choice.

If you want to ensure your content does not get indexed by big tech LLMs, just keep it in your robots.txt file.

Yesterday I requested a person to pay for support as they desperately asked me for immediate help with their #libcurl problem (for a huge international company doing an expensive commercial device), seemingly in a hurry.

To which the user said no thanks, closed the issue and vanished.

The open source life.

Oh wow. Servo is an independent web browser rendering engine. They are considering the use of AI for code, if I understood this correctly and they're asking for feedback. I'm not not sure what this would entail. My take is that there are a lot of reasons not to like AI tools (ethics, politics, energy-use, lack of correctness, efforts for confirmation, lack of creativity). Oof.
https://floss.social/@servo/114296977894869359

Anybody interested in Servo could start by reading this essay comparing Servo and Ladybird. The controversy surrounding the Ladybird main author is at the bottom, in the comments.
https://thelibre.news/servo-vs-ladybird/

In my ~20 years of doing co-op development, it's always seemed like a contradiction that we want our government to be democratic, but our economic institutions to be dictatorships. It's part of what drew me to co-ops. It's depressing to understand that our corporate overlords also see this contradiction, and want to resolve it in the opposite direction.

If you have a daunting big task, take it and break it down into lots of little tasks. Holy shit! Look at all these tasks you have now! Better take a nap.

@hakona whenever there was something tricky to configure on linux, i wrote a script to do it for me. that way, when i needed to configure it again, i could just re-run the script. you know what happened, obviously. years later, when i ran the script? it didn't work anymore. because they'd changed something

@jk Oh, definitely.

Don't run package updates every 2 weeks.

I run package updates when I'm forced to, at gunpoint, by Linus Torvalds personally.

I guess I appreciate that he cares, he had to fly all that way after all.

(Seriously though, the package distribution model is to create a set of interrelated dependencies that are all supposed to work with each other in arbitrary configurations, and I'm fairly certain that's not actually a tractable problem given the sheer scale of the package repositories these days).

@jk One cannot resist but wonder how many of there issue would've been present if Valve had sticked to Debian