nehal3m
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- Comment on World Without Corporations 2 days ago:
If you’re going to be an asshole about it, pick something other than Blender. That is one of the best examples of how organizations produce cohesive software that adheres to design standards with the express purpose of making it user friendly. User friendly is not the same as easy. It means ‘respect the user’, not ‘fisher price’.
You’re espousing the exact attitude that drives people away from contributing to FOSS software to solve problems so please crawl into a deep hole and spam neofetch on your Arch Thinkpad, cretin.
- Comment on World Without Corporations 2 days ago:
I’m not saying it’s fundamental, sorry, I should have specified. You’re exactly right, GNOME is driven by it’s Foundation and so there is leadership in place to make sure that the software ends up as a cohesive whole. Software projects that don’t, or that create one after the fact, tend to be a lot less so.
- Comment on World Without Corporations 2 days ago:
I don’t disagree that it is a feature of organizations, but if you’re talking about creating a product that has been designed around a common philosophy and UX, that is diametrically opposed to fucking around with stuff. There’s a place for that and it does improve people’s skills, I also don’t disagree there. All I’m saying is there exists a tendency for software produced by organizations to adhere to a UX philosophy.
- Comment on World Without Corporations 3 days ago:
Fair dues, Microsoft managed to fuck that up in spite of itself.
- Comment on World Without Corporations 3 days ago:
Eh. One thing proprietary software has going for it is clear design goals and the leadership to create a cohesive UX. Open source projects tend to be a grab bag of tools that work well for developers.
Not saying I don’t love FOSS, but there’s definitely stuff that proprietary software does better in a practical sense, whatever else your opinion of it.
- Comment on Anon doubts WW2 Germany 3 days ago:
They didn’t?
- Comment on Magic Beneath The Forests 3 weeks ago:
LOL
You can always talk to trees though. You need the fungi to hear what the trees are saying.
- Comment on Don't Engage with Trolls 4 weeks ago:
The old thread I posted this in was deleted, but I wrote this:
Okay so hear me out. I have this pet theory that might explain some of the divide between genders, but also political parties, causing paralysis which ultimately might lead to humanity’s extinction. Forgive me if I’m stating the obvious.
I’m going to set up two axioms to arrive at an extrapolated conclusion.
One: Human psychology tends to ascribe more weight to negative things than positive things in the short term. In the long term this generally balances out, but in the short term it’s more prudent in a biological sense to pay attention to the rustling in the bushes than the berries you might pick from them. This is known as the negativity bias.
Two: The modern gatekeepers of social interaction, Big Tech, employ blind algorithms that attempt to steer your attention towards spending more time on their platforms. These companies are the arbiters of the content we experience daily and what you do and don’t see is mostly at their discretion. The techniques they employ, in simple terms, are designed to provoke what they call ‘engagement’. They do this because at the end of the day FAANG have not only a financial interest, but a fiduciary duty to sell advertisements at the behest of their shareholders. The more they can engage you, the more ads they can sell. They employ live A-B testing, divide people into cohorts and poke and prod them with psychological techniques to try and glue your eyeballs to their ads.
Extrapolated conclusion: These companies have a financial and legally binding interest to divide the population against itself, obstructing politics and social interaction to the point where we might not be able to achieve any of the goals that we need to reach to prevent oblivion.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
- Comment on Seems cool to be honest 1 month ago:
I think the movie projector DRM is such that theaters have to pay for every showing so probably prohibitively expensive.
- Comment on Traffic Will Never Be Fixed Here 1 month ago:
I know what will fix this, 28 lanes!
- Comment on Why Linux Is Simply Better Than Windows. 1 month ago:
A calculator stapled to a potato would be better than Windows
- Comment on Anon listens to dad-rock 1 month ago:
Yeah agreed, although I would consider Pink Floyd grandpa rock at this point
- Comment on Anon listens to dad-rock 1 month ago:
The unstoppable, never ending march of time is much darker than anyone could sing about.
- Comment on You probably shouldn't trust the info anyway. 1 month ago:
I’m not about to call myself the end all be all expert on LLM’s, but I’m a 20 year IT veteran in system administration and I keep up with tech news daily. I am the perfect market for new tech: I have a lot of disposable income, I’m tech obsessed and always looking for optimisations in my job as well as in my personal life. Yet outside of summaries (and even there I wouldn’t trust them) and boilerplate code that I could’ve copypasted from stack overflow I can’t think of a good reason to burn as much energy and money as the purveyors of LLM’s are. The ratio between expense and gains is WAY out of whack for these things and I’ll bet the market will correct itself in the not too distant future (in fact I have, I’m shorting NVDA).
I understand what these plausible next word generators are and how they work in broad strokes. Have you considered that you can’t tell what someone does or doesn’t understand by a comment?
By the way, you’re smarmy enough to tell me I shouldn’t be asking LLM’s for advice, but in the same thread you’re asking how to run a local unrestricted LLM to ask for not-entirely-legal advice? Funny that.
- Comment on You probably shouldn't trust the info anyway. 1 month ago:
Wrenches are absolutely awesome to apply torque. What are LLM’s absolutely awesome for? I can’t come up with anything except producing convincing slop en masse.
- Comment on You probably shouldn't trust the info anyway. 1 month ago:
Then they weren’t that useful to begin with.
- Comment on You probably shouldn't trust the info anyway. 1 month ago:
Kneecapped to uselessness. Are we really negating the efforts to stifle climate change with a technology that consumes monstrous amounts of energy only to lobotomize it right as it’s about to be useful? Humanity is functionally retarded at this point.
- Comment on Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower 2 months ago:
In a lot of meetings I’m expected to be in I mostly just listen and jump in to answer specific questions. When working from home I like to be active with chores during the meetings, I’ll just take them on my phone. Sometimes I do motorcycle maintenance! It helps me concentrate much better than watching talking heads.
- Comment on "what happened??" 2 months ago:
It’s possible, sure, but if pressed Valve will ban the account.
- Comment on "what happened??" 2 months ago:
No, it’s not. If Valve goes belly up you can kiss your games and the infrastructure they need goodbye. Also you don’t get to resell games you already own or give them away and selling accounts is against ToS. If you die your games are gone, you can’t give your account away legally.
- Comment on dch82 browses Lemmy 2 months ago:
The purpose of a system is what it does.
- Comment on Finally got some programming socks 2 months ago:
I was just kidding, it was a misleading joke that starts off implying your socks are disgusting (they’re not) but the punchline is your operating system.
In the past I was the Arch btw meme guy, nowadays I install Mint and get the fuck on with my day. Just stick with what works, you’re right. :-)
- Comment on Finally got some programming socks 2 months ago:
Disgusting. Kubuntu!?
- Comment on Bazzite Linux gets keyboard-less installation (good for handhelds) and smaller updates 2 months ago:
Love it. Haven’t tried it yet. Are there any cheap used handhelds (like sub 200 eur) I can try this on? Steam decks go for around 300 which is just a bit steep for an experiment. Unless it’s blow your buys nuts off amazing?
- Comment on Be an influencer. 💅 2 months ago:
Cory Doctorow wrote a great article about academic publishing a few days ago: pluralistic.net/2024/08/16/the-public-sphere/#not…
Things are looking up!
- Comment on Pondering my anomaly 2 months ago:
Unbelievorble.
- Comment on How the fuck do you meet new people? 2 months ago:
So in the vein of no stupid questions I’m going to ask you a stupid question. It sounds like you didn’t particularly value the relationships you used to have with your “friends in law”. Do you actually want to meet people to build friendships with, or do you feel socially pressured to do so? I’m here to remind you that you’re not required. A preference for solitude is perfectly fine.
Maybe you don’t have that preference in which case others have written up some good advice, but don’t feel guilt. Maybe getting to know yourself for a while is a good thing. It’ll make any attempts at bonding with others in the future easier and more rewarding.
- Comment on Anon drives a bus 2 months ago:
Sure, but you can ban imports and make them illegal to own just like any other thing. You can’t prevent all crime but that’s no reason not to try.
- Comment on Anon drives a bus 2 months ago:
I think it’s worth considering banning that type of battery, but a whole category of vehicles? There could be good reasons to ban the whole category as well but then state that, instead of making up some shit about batteries.
- Comment on Anon has trauma 2 months ago:
Easy, just jump out of a moving car every once in a while.