theneverfox

theneverfox , 1 day ago

How many people? Or corporations? Or did you mean politicians?

theneverfox , 1 day ago

It's quite possible, although I'm inclined to blame it on turnover and pressures for deadlines

I've come to see software kinda like a plant. If you neglect it, it rots, because all software is contextual and the world moves on. If you keep growing it, it starts to rot from the inside. If you carve out down to something smooth and streamlined, it can last a long time and just need TLC to bounce back

Ultimately, if you want something to be big and to last, you have to prune it, transplant it, and continuously work on it. There's no direct money to be made there though

And it helps a shit ton to have people around long-term. It can take years to learn a big stack, but having someone go "wait, if we do this we need to rexamine how we delete photos" is how you avoid fuck ups like this

theneverfox , 2 days ago

Tomorrow I'm finishing up a game jam with a friend, then Sunday I'm driving for like 12 hours to visit with family

theneverfox , 2 days ago

It's called "monopolize gaming without paying for developers". The beauty of it is, if you ruin all of modern gaming and buy out all the existing hits, you can shove in monetization and project insane profits

At least until indie gaming takes over, your stock price will go to the moon

theneverfox , 2 days ago

I'd personally love an ev bike, but it'd be wasted on me right now. I really want an electric car because you could run the AC all night and power a computer - I want a little hotel on wheels

theneverfox , 2 days ago

That title is amazing

theneverfox , 2 days ago

Ultimately, do they care? Most shareholders are in it for the stock price, this kind of thing might affect it slightly but I doubt it'd shift the needle much

theneverfox , 2 days ago

Seriously... The closer to three edge we get, the faster enshitification goes. No one is writing algorithms with users in mind... Not for a paycheck anyways

We're getting to the point where we all need to carve out bubbles of curated Internet for our friends and family

theneverfox , 16 hours ago

Nah, I'm thinking much bigger. I've got an AI that can transcribe video, I'm working on one to summarize and put facts into a knowledge graph, I've got one that can hold a conversation, and I've got a script that scrapes sites and does natural language processing. I just need an agent to tie the pieces together and some control scripts to manage the containerized pieces

The idea is, my assistant will go out, read up on programming topics and build knowledge graphs with references to the source, and I'll fix my biggest issue - shittified searches crippling my work speed

Then, I'll send it off to find content. It'll transcribe/summarize videos and rank them, research topics and come back with reports, and trawl my socials to find new things I might find interesting

I plan to take all that, then let my assistant create video channels to watch and additional content to read if Lemmy is slow. And if my friends and family show interest, I'll add in hosting and an internal social media and convince them to run additional nodes at home

I've been working on it for a while because I saw this coming, I've got most of the key pieces already.

And that's the bubble of Internet I'm building - AI curation of my Internet life, it'll happily work away the hours deshittifying a bubble of Internet

theneverfox , 2 days ago

In our current economic system? Absolutely, declining population is a huge problem.

As far as physics? The world doesn't care about imaginary human numbers. Production continues to soar through the roof

We made all of this up. At any point, we could say "hey, this is a dumb game that's making people suffer, let's figure out something else"

theneverfox , 4 days ago

Just pause awkwardly for a second, long enough to be felt but not long enough for them to start talking again, and bring up something unrelated

It'll hit them with the feeling of social rejection, but without the confrontation or giving them anything to latch onto. Nothing to get offended about or argue against, there's nothing to react to there

It might take longer, but it's not a request to stop - it's training them to not bring it up. It'll make them uncomfortable to talk about it - even if they force themselves it'll be uncomfortable for them

(Unless they're high on the spectrum, in which case direct is better all around)

theneverfox , 4 days ago

I feel like I've been going crazy, web searching as a developer has become a daily nightmare and all the devs I ask are like "yeah, maybe it's gotten a bit worse? Haven't really noticed"

theneverfox , 5 days ago

Desensitisation therapy of course

theneverfox , 5 days ago

Exactly... And ultimately they are beholden to shareholders. Which are largely in it for the stock price, not the dividends - they want numbers to go up, and they don't care if it crashes the company in a few years when they're no longer holding the bag

Money today is worth more than money tomorrow. With enough data and analysis, riding companies into the ground is the optimal way to make money

theneverfox , 5 days ago

How is it a half measure? Not everyone can (or should) be a symbol

You could post your legal name and other socials on here... It would do nothing to make you more convincing imo. But by that logic, not doing so is a half measure

theneverfox , 10 days ago

What's a CD?

theneverfox , 10 days ago

Why don't presidents fight the war?

theneverfox , 10 days ago

Democracies hate this one simple trick...

When lawmakers want to take a bribe, all they have to do is legalize it. Or, skip all that and go for the goal - convince executives and the courts it's legal, because you did bribery with extra steps. It's a totally new thing I just made up

theneverfox , 12 days ago

My digital friends are way more willing to accommodate my bullshit

theneverfox , 12 days ago

I take lots of pictures, I just don't post them anywhere

theneverfox , 13 days ago

Didn't you hear then? It's a key, now start sticking it in things

theneverfox , 16 days ago

Added zip code to the reseller portal when batch-creating transactions in <main-project>

I try to start off descriptive, in case I want to diff a few changes back. After that, sometimes I write notes or general reflections on life in there... Until yesterday I thought no one was reading them

theneverfox , 16 days ago

Do you have any plans to open source your coffee list? I want to add this feature where I get an iced coffee in the morning

theneverfox , 16 days ago

I think long messages are a good habit. Start with something readable in the history, past that who cares? Most people rarely read past the preview, and if they do they want details

I think it's great because it makes you reflect on what the goal was and what you did. I sometimes stop to make a quick change as I'm writing, or just collect my thoughts before mentally dismissing the task

theneverfox , 17 days ago

Military-aged thing?

theneverfox , 16 days ago

Well I just learned the term today, but it seems to have the implication "these are men who could be military. They could be hidden insurgents

theneverfox , 16 days ago

"We're just asking questions!"

theneverfox , 18 days ago

Personally, I love having a ton of them - I wish there were more

I don't mind standard progression ones, they at least give me a rough idea how far through the storyline I am

But the high end ones are way too few - I like having an unlockable goal to work towards if I'm not done with a game by the time I finish the in game progression. I want them to be hard, maybe even require multiple playthroughs with a severe handicap. Not tedious collecting... But like in Prey when you had to play through with only human, typhoid, or no abilities unlocked. Then you had to save everyone and murder everyone - I had fun trying to combine as many as possible into a playthrough

My problem is that people get upset when 100% is a long and hard road, and a lot of games have lowered the bar to keep them from getting upset. Might as well make prestige achievements that put the total over 100% at this point... Hell if I launch something on steam I might do free DLC just for that

theneverfox , 18 days ago

I'd be careful about that friend

With the aggressively anti-user and poorly thought out moves tech companies have been making lately, I wouldn't put it past Microsoft to start using little discrepancies like that to go after people

It would be dumb, way more effort than it's worth, and likely extremely invasiv... Probably not likely, but I would've said the same about a lot that's happened in the last couple years.

But all the same, in your shoes I'd look into blocking that on the off chance it puts a target on your back

theneverfox , 17 days ago

Exactly! I left two achievements in Prey because while I loved it, a fourth playthrough was too much - years later I still remember the map intimately

But then there's games like saints row 4...I loved it, it was just pure fun. I was having such a great power fantasy I even got all the collectables. I tried to keep going, but I ended up just mindlessly jumping around until I faced reality

Or for a more recent example, satisfactory. It was great fun - I restarted just before the endgame to extend the experience. Then I did everything... There was so much more map left and I could've built so much more if I just had a reason. They get a partial pass because it's still in development and mods could give me a second, longer, playthrough but I wanted to enjoy the updates before I burned up all my desire to play

Give me some stat scaled enemies, maybe a bit more basic progression, and a flimsy reason so I can have my fill of the gam

theneverfox , 17 days ago

As long as you're not doing it now I wouldn't worry, you'd need very detailed information to tell you apart from steam. Privileged information I'd never have considered Microsoft yanking a year ago, but a year from now? Unlikely, but not unbelievable anymore

Shooting yourself in the foot trying to punish users seems to be the new SOP for tech giants these days...I no longer would put anything past them

theneverfox , 18 days ago

I always wondered... So in theory trackers are harmless. But for a bird? They're freaking huge. Birds fold their legs up tight to sleep. It's a small fraction of their body weight on one side, all the time, for months or years... That can't just be a minor inconvenience

It's got to be like wearing a work boot on one foot and a tennis shoe on the other every day

theneverfox , 18 days ago

This is exactly why HR departments exist. Had OP collected evidence, told management with a paper trail, and they failed to stop it? Or worse, told off OP because they don't want to deal with it?

The jerk could maybe get charged with a misdemeanor related to harassment or misuse of technology... Maybe the UK has something harsher or more specific, but at the end of the day it's a bit extreme to put someone in jail or pay OPs wages if they were forced out of work

The company on the other hand? They have a legal obligation to maintain a safe work environment. They also have deeper, easier to access pockets. A lot easier to get a lawyer to pursue that, which is expensive even if they win in the end

If they're clearly shown to have not taken reasonable action, they'd at least be on the hook for any lost wages or medical costs (not sure what decent therapy runs over there, less than the US I'm sure but I'm guessing not cheap). Even if OP quits or decides not to show up, it could be until they get a new job at similar pay with some extra thrown on top

HR's job is to cut this off before OP needs to be paid off, or much worse finds a lawyer. They don't care about the employees, so safest could be to fire the guy - the least they're going to do is officially reprimand the guy and follow up with OP to make sure it's not worsening and OP isn't feeling litigious

theneverfox , 19 days ago

A couple of my friends, a girl and gay guy, once brought me into a hobby of theirs. Several days a week, they sat at the college food court and went boob watching.

That day I learned something truly profound about the human condition. Everyone appreciates boobs - we might wrap them up in sexuality or envy or stranger complexes, but beneath it all there's a universal aesthetic appreciation

theneverfox , 20 days ago

Ok... Why the fuck is anyone asking LLMs for personal data? This doesn't sound like an LLM problem, it sounds like someone is exploiting a gap in the law unethically before the law catches up

theneverfox , 20 days ago

They also lay the eggs from needlessly higher than necessary, so that they might crack one of existing eggs while their at it

theneverfox , 22 days ago

I feel like the key is consistency and not confusing the message

This is me, except these are all different levels of small chance I might want to go when the time comes. If it falls through or there's not a slot for me at that point I won't be offended because I didn't commit, and once I commit I follow through

Maybe it's a source of friction with some people, but I'm not big on planning. It's just a constant weight around my neck, even if I want to go and know I'll enjoy it

I've got three weddings this year, and the first has been weighing on me since the Xmas before last (it's at the end of the summer), the second since I heard about the engagement this Xmas and started dreading immediately, and the last is this winter and had me locking up for days. And these are all ones I said yes to immediately, but still every time someone brings them up my heart races

If your friends are actually being honest with you about their feelings, don't plan around them. Give them a casual heads up, and another one when they need to make a decision and start planning.

If they say "I'll think about it" when they mean "I want to keep my options open, I might get FOMO if y'all do something without me", let them scramble to catch up... Draw a clear boundary that sucks less for everyone

If they actually mean it how I do, the relief when it comes down to the last minute to act and someone says "you don't have to go, it's totally fine, we'll hang out when we get back" is so real. It makes me want to meet them halfway, because if I know it's not a let down to back out on a warmer "ask me in a couple weeks", the stress goes down.

I get to think about it stress free for a bit and sit with the idea. I get to decide how much I want to go vs how much I don't want to do the things necessary to go

theneverfox , 21 days ago

She invented the foundation of the technology

We call Alan Turing the father of modern computing, because he invented the foundation of the technology

Women more directly involved wouldn't be the "mother" of the technology, they would be the "creator"

theneverfox , 21 days ago

Time splitting is just lazy frequency hopping, change my mind

theneverfox , 21 days ago

802.11: am I a joke to you

theneverfox , 20 days ago

From a human perspective, yes, that's exactly what it does

If you want to get pedantic about the technical details, it's not time splitting if you're not splitting the time...

theneverfox , 20 days ago

What I mean is if you don't slice time into slots, you're not using time slicing. It doesn't make sense to talk about time slicing at all anymore

Two devices can transmit at the same time with all sorts of setups, even on the same frequency. And it's not inaccurate to describe time slicing as "a method to allow multiple devices to transmit and receive simultaneously"

The question isn't valid. Being truly pedantic would be pointing out that any number of devices can transmit at the same time, you didn't say the messages would be received

theneverfox , 20 days ago

Einstein didn't lay the foundation for the technology, he laid the foundation for the standard model. We call him the father of modern physics. He made the math work, the bomb was already being developed by the Germans. He didn't come up with the idea, he didn't come up with the technology, he just consulted.

Oppenheimer built and led the team that built the bomb. The theories weren't complete, the technology didn't exist, no one had laid out an equation that enabled the technology - they did all that in the Manhattan project.

Every person called the father or mother of <field of science> is a hero, in both the literary and personal sense. They represent looking at something in a new way - their name is an embodiment of a certain way of thinking.

You took a shot at that for no reason

theneverfox , 20 days ago

I really have no idea why you're acting like this is a common argument people get into...

This is a very old and organic tradition you're criticizing as an outsider. It's given by the community as a person's contributions change into a legacy that will inspire new generations and ingrain respect for the shoulders you stand on

Without understanding the what and why, you're arguing against a cultural practice in the scientific community. I'm trying to give you context, and you keep trying to poke holes instead of trying to understand

theneverfox , 19 days ago

You too

theneverfox , 22 days ago

Fedora Atomic a chance, it's an extremely nice family of distros (e.g. Bluefin/ Aurora, Bazzite, etc.)!

Can you elaborate on this? I landed on nix for my PC turned server and haven't regretted it, but I've been hesitant to go all in on my main laptop (I'm wary of my laptop iGPU and GPU switching becoming a config issue, and I'm dreading having to configure my wsl dev environments again...)

Windows is getting blatantly terrible enough I know I'm just putting it off, maybe a cool new technology might help make it sound more fun

theneverfox , 22 days ago

Ok, when I googled it earlier I saw "containers and roll back to previous version" and I made a note to do more reading

Your write up was good, much clearer than what's on fedora and Wikipedia. And the fact you pitched immutable OS's in general first caught my attention... The concept is a no brainer. Decouple the os and the rest of the software, and don't bother digging into one of a kind conflicts when updating things - just make it rebuildable and create it fresh. You never know when the wrong bit will flip

Nix's "learn this one thing, configure it once, and you're done" stuck in my head. And after a different distros, a couple lines installed Nvidia, Nvidia's docker package and docker

But then I had to configure WiFi and spend half an hour learning why I couldn't mount an external drive and how to manage it... I still have no regrets, I've got a USB that should start converting my friends and family's old PCs into a self organizing AI/self hosting cluster... Hopefully it works next month lol

But not what I want in a daily driver. I want something that'll quickly do what I tell it and gracefully handle the fact I have 6 versions of Java and no idea why I need a version from 2018 specifically. And that I'm going to add a repo to install something and instantly forget what I did if it seems like the best path forward at the time

You've sold that pretty well - my takeaway was that atomic fedora is very modular and low side effect and also an interchangable foundation I can swap out and roll back easily... At this point, if it can run containers and the drivers I need, it sounds like a great option.

I used to use VMs so every 6-12 months I could start clean with the latest and run setup scripts for my dependencies... It was just easier than debugging some conflict. This sounds even cleaner - I swap out the base at will, and the stuff I've built on it should stay intact. Plus it sounds much more testable

So my main concern is will it run on an HP omen - it has zero Linux support and a bunch of concerning driver needs, but it does have a second m2 slot... What's the worst that can happen? Except apparently some models forget they have fans in Linux and I just know the iGPU-GPU switch will cause some problem with sleeping... But Windows is only going to get worse

Now that you've convinced me this might be the best course (I only see less problems than other distros would have), and I've talked myself into giving it a go, is there any recommended reading or key concepts I should look into? Any particular flavor(s) you'd point me to first?

theneverfox , 21 days ago

Well hey listen, I appreciate it. I would've spent who knows how long waffling between distos that I don't feel drawn to, and even if I came across an atomic flavor, I probably would've just assumed it was marketing fluff

Good ideas need advocates, and this is a good idea... It's a promise of an OS I want, not just running from one I don't

I'm probably going to look at bazzite first. If I have containers that can run LLMs on my GPU, that checks off everything on my wish list except gaming. I'll read up on it though, you've given me the context I need to care about learning more