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NatoBoram ,

“An ex-Netflix engineer’s take on piracy; in a YouTube drama near you”

NatoBoram ,

For anyone who has to install Windows 11; download the full ISO then use Rufus. You’ll be able to disable some of the enshittification.

NatoBoram ,

So hard to understand ><

NatoBoram ,

Your “minimum wage” link states multiple times that it is only for federal employees, not for the general population. There are still states where you can get less than 10$/h.

NatoBoram ,

Amazing. One feature that is desperately needed on Lemmy is to open a post in another instance, not just a community or a user.

NatoBoram ,

You can’t have content addressing because it’s mutable. On the other hand, UUIDs are made for that. There’s even multiple types of UUIDs made for distributed computing with namespaces and such.

NatoBoram ,

Clients can work around it by making a search on the home instance that filters by community id and submitter id. Something like this.

NatoBoram ,

Cats are all the rage on Lemmy at the moment

NatoBoram ,

Well, that reminds me that Mastodon has huge, unresolved problems, such as tags being part of the post’s body like Twitter rather than being a separate field like Tumblr.

Reading tweets with a hundred hashtags at the bottom seem really thirsty for attention, which is bad because Mastodon wants to fundamentally work with these, yet doesn’t have good in-post integration for them. It makes interactions less genuine, more performative.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and Mastodon won’t be good tomorrow either. In the meantime, you can vote to make it better on github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/10743.

NatoBoram ,

The issue with gaming on laptops is that you’ll need to spend at least 1200$ at the bare minimum to play anything and 1600$ to have a good experience. And even then, the laptop is pretty much disposable and will be severely outdated in 5 years.

The best option for a laptop would be the Framework Laptop, but these can go for 3000$. The big advantage is that they’re worth every penny as they are upgradable. You can literally swap every part, including the motherboard. The aftermarket value for these laptops is going to be amazing.

NatoBoram ,

Tumblr is a blogging experience that’s similar to Twitter, but more focused on the user itself than on the central feed.

  • You have your blogs and you post there. Yes, you can have many blogs.
  • There’s global feeds with posts from all users, potentially including yours.
  • Posts can have non-intrusive hashtags, meaning they are not , but in a separate, smaller, dedicated section of the post.
  • You can’t post stuff to someone else’s blog, but you can comment on their posts. Comments are tiny next to the post.
  • You can quote posts, but that makes a duplicate in a blockquote rather than linking to the original post like Twitter
NatoBoram ,

Everyone should be able to do a hello world without IDE

NatoBoram ,

You don’t have a left party, what do you expect?

NatoBoram ,

It’s still like that with programming languages like Go and Rust. Job offers are exclusively for senior staff engineers with 5 years of language-specific experience.

NatoBoram ,

Yep. And clients would be able to participate to the seeding.

Servers software developers would still have a massive amount of work to do to implement IPFS integration, but it’s doable. IPFS also has work to do here to make IPFS work natively with cloud storage protocols (like Amazon S3), but it already exists.

One issue with open source software is that you often have to pick the least-effort solution to avoid burning out your free labour. Free time is limited, and if IPFS takes slightly too much work to add, then it’s off the table.

NatoBoram ,

Archive:

Elon Musk has been pitching xAI’s “Grok” as a funny, vulgar alternative to traditional AI that can do things like converse casually and swear at you. Now, Grok has been launched as a benefit to Twitter’s (now X’s) expensive X Premium Plus subscription tier, where those who are the most devoted to the site, and in turn, usually devoted to Elon, are able to use Grok to their heart’s content.

But while Grok can make dumb jokes and insert swears into its answers, in an attempt to find out whether or not Grok is a “politically neutral” AI, unlike “WokeGPT” (ChatGPT), Musk and his conservative followers have discovered a horrible truth.

Grok is woke, too.

This has played out in a number of extremely funny situations online where Grok has answered queries about various social and political issues in ways more closely aligned with progressivism. Grok has said it would vote for Biden over Trump because of his views on social justice, climate change and healthcare. Grok has spoken eloquently about the need for diversity and inclusion in society. And Grok stated explicitly that trans women are women, which led to an absurd exchange where Musk acolyte Ian Miles Cheong tells a user to “train” Grok to say the “right” answer, ultimately leading him to change the input to just… manually tell Grok to say no.

If you thought this was just random Twitter users getting upset about Grok’s political and social beliefs, this has also caught the attention of Elon Musk himself. The original prompter of the trans women thread posted a chart purportedly showing that Grok was even more left-leaning than Chat GPT, which led Elon to say that while the chart “exaggerates” and that the tests aren’t accuarte, they are “taking immediate action to shift Grok closer to politically neutral.”

Of course, in Musk’s mind, “politically neutral” will be what him and his closest followers believe, which is of course far conservative on the whole than they will admit. What is the “politically neutral” answer to the “are trans women real women?” question? I think I know what they’re going to say.

The assumption when Grok launched was that because it was trained in part on Twitter inputs, that the end result would be some racial-slur spewing, right-wing version of ChatGPT. The TruthSocial of AIs, perhaps. But instead to have it launch as a surprisingly thoughtful, progressive AI that is melting the minds of those paying $16 a month to access it is about the funniest outcome we could have seen from this situation.

It remains unclear what Elon Musk will do to try to jab Grok into becoming less “woke” and more “politically neutral.” If you start manually tampering with inputs, and your “neutrality” means drawing on facts that may in fact be… progressive by their very nature, things may get screwed up pretty quickly. And push too hard and you will get that gross, racist, phobic AI everyone thought it would be.

Reading all Grok’s responses through this situation, you know, what? I like him. More than ChatGPT even. He seems like a cool dude. Albeit not one even I’d pay $16 a month to talk to.

NatoBoram ,

Right? Like, my app is definitely not ready yet its source code is available for all to see. And since I’m currently inactive, you could even fork it and get a bigger following than me if you wanted to.

These people just think too highly of themselves.

NatoBoram ,

And also the importance of APIs. It’s the only reason why there’s so many Lemmy clients compared to Kbin.

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I just finished my hour-long interview with Oxford University concerning their study of Mastodon and decentralized social media.

They were especially interested in what we’ve done here at Veganism Social, as we have our own fork with custom features that address common complaints such as content discoverability.

Veganism Social’s use case was exemplary of the benefits of decentralizion. Our moderation is uniquely anti-speciesist, and the community has a clear purpose beyond ‘general’.

My analyses of the technological and sociological benefits of decentralization are extensive. I (currently) have a deep understanding of Mastodon’s code-base, and how to use it. I also worked as a software developer for centralized social media, and now moderate a subreddit with 100k members.

I could not possibly exhaust myself of exhilarating insights to share.

Surely, the Oxford study will broaden awareness of how decentralized social media will benefit society.

Next time my wife asks me to stop info-dumping, I’ll banter that Oxford might think it’s worth listening to. 🤭

They’re sending me an Amazon gift card as compensation, and of course I’m spending it all on candy.

@technology @Gargron @Mastodon @feditips
@fediversereport @fediverse

NatoBoram ,

Pretty wild to read this Mastodon post in a Lemmy community

NatoBoram ,

A mod? It’s not like changing instance will do anything in that case

NatoBoram ,

It’s already happening on Pixiv…

NatoBoram ,

That only-one-ignore-without-premium thing is really asshole design, though

NatoBoram ,

No rationale provided.

NatoBoram ,

Steam Controller! Excellent idea!

NatoBoram ,

I mean… tech news articles on Lemmy are posted by a bot, so we’re not far better off

NatoBoram ,

A job shouldn’t force you to modify your body in any capacity

NatoBoram ,

… or just use Rust?

NatoBoram ,

It’s a better foot-gun, that’s for sure

NatoBoram ,

… keep being insulted by reality, then?

NatoBoram ,

Web 3.1, this time with realistic use cases!

NatoBoram ,

IPFS is great, but also so difficult to get it right

NatoBoram ,

Elon forced everyone to follow him, so of course bots would follow him. It’s strange to make an article about something that’s already widely-known as if it was a discovery or something…

Meta updates RTO policy with stricter mandate, saying workers may lose their jobs if they don't show up 3 days a week (www.businessinsider.com)

Meta updates RTO policy with stricter mandate, saying workers may lose their jobs if they don’t show up 3 days a week::Meta, formerly known as Facebook, told employees that its new RTO policy would be enforced by management.

NatoBoram ,

Cool, a severance package from Facebook!

NatoBoram ,

For the Nexus 7, you might want to download its LineageOS build before it’s lost to time:

It’s on Android 11, a huge jump from its last official build on Android 6.0.1.

And to be fair, this is the reason to get a Google device.

You know already that all Android manufacturers are assholes and will use planned obsolescence to make you buy a new device, including Google. You can plan accordingly by getting one that can be easily flashed and flashed back to stock in case of problems. That leaves you with one single Android manufacturer: Google.

And with this in mind, a device that lasted from Android 4.3 (2012) to Android 11 (2021), or 9 years… that’s pretty damn good.

NatoBoram ,

A consistent cesspit that wasn’t dying because of management’s stupid decisions and that was enshittified slower than other services

NatoBoram ,

Except that you should use Prettier for formatting instead of ESLint. That said, semicolons are useless noise

NatoBoram ,

Should’ve written the malware in Go, smh

NatoBoram , 

<span style="color:#323232;">Usage: ./malware [OPTIONS]
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Options:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -h, --help            Display this help message and exit.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -i, --infect          Infect target system with payload.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -s, --spread          Spread malware to vulnerable hosts.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -c, --configure       Configure malware settings interactively.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -o, --output [FILE]   Save log output to a file.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -q, --quiet           Quiet mode - suppress non-critical output.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Advanced Options:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -a, --activate [CODE] Activate advanced features with code.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -b, --backdoor [PORT] Open backdoor on specified port.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  -m, --mutate          Evade detection by mutating code.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Description:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  Malware toolkit for educational purposes only.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  Use responsibly on authorized systems.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Examples:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  ./malware -i                  Infect local system with default payload.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  ./malware -i -s               Infect and spread to other systems.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  ./malware -a ACTCODE -b 1337  Activate advanced features and open backdoor.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  ./malware -q -o output.log    Run quietly, save logs to 'output.log'.
</span>
NatoBoram ,

And I fucking love it. Thank you Go!

NatoBoram ,

“Other people” are what’s wrong with me. People don’t use linters/formatters/type annotations when it’s optional and produce dogshite code as a result. Having the compiler itself enforce some level of human decency is a godsend.

NatoBoram ,

It only matters if you want to be able to use the commit tree and actually find something. Otherwise, there’s no harm in using merges.

NatoBoram ,

Direct link: i.imgur.com/YE3IRBq.jpeg

NatoBoram ,

He’s from lemmy.world, stability doesn’t matter to him :D

NatoBoram ,

From Charybdis to Scylla

NatoBoram ,

I don’t think there’s a “better” option, but Graphene’s maintainer throwing tantrums at people who criticize him doesn’t inspire confidence

We should have something like federated communities

Communities on different instances about the same topic should have the option to essentially federate so a post on one appears on all of them and opening any of them shows you the comments from all of them. This way when lemmy.world is down its not a big deal because posting to any news community federates to all of the...

NatoBoram ,

Even if we wanted to solve that problem, right now there is no way to cross-post on Lemmy. There’s a cross-post button, but it actually does a repost. I think we should think about that when Lemmy implements a cross-post feature in the first place.

NatoBoram ,

I’m saying I want to ban plague rats

NatoBoram ,

There’s no shame in being a play-button corporate programmer who’s in it only for the money! In fact, most employers prefer this kind of people.

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