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- Comment on Why are some Linux community so toxic? 1 week ago:
For me, it has a lot to do with fatigue.
When I started interacting with people on those kinds of forums, I tried to be genuinely helpful, like most of us.
When you see the same question asked over and over and over, when you see the same flame wars happening over and over and over, there are two paths in the long term. You either stop interacting on a regular basis and only react to interesting questions because you are tired of repeating the same arguments, or you gleefully dive in the cesspool and become a toxic bastard.
It’s especially hard to keep having a nuanced debate when the comments are flooded with people who are confidently wrong (eg recommending an advanced or niche distro, or even worse, Ubuntu to a beginner), extremely opinionated users (the anti-systemd or anti-Wayland crowd) and so on. You just end up being lost in a sea of comments and unheard. So why bother? Let the flame wars rage and move on.
- Comment on How do you avoid AI music? 2 weeks ago:
There’s nothing wrong about using randomness to get your creative juices flowing. People have been using card decks, dice, Euclidean rhythms, sample and hold and so on for a long time (Andrew Huang has a lot of examples of tracks where the main instrument, theme and genre are randomly picked). I guess sanitized, corporate slop could be used the same way, as long as the artist is fully in control of the creative process. For me the line stops where slop is used as is, with no human creative input.
- Comment on How do you avoid AI music? 2 weeks ago:
They ran ICE ads and only stopped because the campaign ended, not because of massive backlash: theguardian.com/…/spotify-no-longer-running-ice-r…
They hosted and donated to the orange shitstain while disproportionately targeting “controversial” black artists: themarysue.com/spotify-supporting-donald-trump-is…
They pay hundreds of millions to nazi propagandists for the exclusive rights to spread their hate: apnews.com/…/joe-rogan-spotify-deal-76fa0e2c9d4b1…
The CEO stepped down to make AI weapons with Peter thiel : latimes.com/…/spotifys-ceo-owns-an-ai-weapons-com…
- Comment on How do you avoid AI music? 2 weeks ago:
Are you using Spotify ?
Because they are mainly known for 2 things:
- they are nazi cunts who platform nazi cunts and play ads for nazi cunts
- they flood their library with slop as a way to funnel money to themselves rather than to legitimate artists.
I’m not aware of a streaming service completely free of slop, but I know some like Qobuz are actively detecting and removing it.
- Comment on Valve hikes Steam Deck prices by more than 40%, blaming rising costs 1 month ago:
Mine has lost more than half capacity, I’m really tempted to replace it but tbh using a heat gun to melt the glue is kinda scary.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Holy fuck we’re both old. Shit.
- Comment on Do I belong in tech anymore? - On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal. 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they’ll eventually be considering your AI leverage when determining raises, layoffs, etc.
It’s already started. Where I work, LLM usage has become the one single metric to judge who’s a good and who’s a bad software engineer. It’s depressing and infuriating. I have very talented people on my team, but their low LLM usage makes them “worthless”. Meanwhile some morons who have always been shit engineers are called “champions” because they burn 2000 Claude credits a month.
- Comment on Astronauts are funny 2 months ago:
🎶_Too many Kochs_ 🎵
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Basically the whole shenanigans around cheating at every single turn to get a car in the points. Every single member of the team would get a disqualification/ban faster than you could spell “crashgate”. I think they could have written an entertaining story without breaking every single racing rule in the book several times per race.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
It’s a pretty solid movie if you don’t give an actual fuck about F1. It’s a wildly unrealistic fantasy film and I would have enjoyed it a lot more if it was set in a fantasy series. Grounding it in an hyperrealistic setting with real teams, real cars, real people on real tracks is too much of a cognitive dissonance for me.
The actual race footage slaps tho.
- Comment on Fake moo 5 months ago:
Bold of you to assume McD’s patties are pure meat. Probably half the weight is extra fat and pink slime, so you can easily double that.
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 10 months ago:
Because most of the time, the complicated stuff is just a few simple commands chained together.
99.9% of the time, git is easy. You don’t need to do everything on the command line, especially when dealing with diffs and merge conflicts. But in my experience most devs who flat out refuse to use it don’t understand most of the basic concepts because it’s all hidden behind a layer of abstraction. That’s why when I teach the basic concepts, it’s command line only. At least you know what that big Squash&Merge button does and why you should never click on the big Rebase button on main/master.
- Comment on Anon updates GNU/linux 11 months ago:
Fucking backend developers who can’t even
git commitwithout their fucking IDE handling it for them. - Comment on PLASTICMAXXING 1 year ago:
