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fievel

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C++ Software Engineer Big interest in OpenSource communities for years now. 20+ years linux user. But a newbies in fediverse, had heard about it before but needed the help of twitter (for mastodon) and reddit changes to give a real try. Also a fan of Stephen King books. Was [email protected]

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I purchase mostly digital books because I use to read at night next to my sleeping partner and e-reader is the easiest way for me. Also O don’t have a very big house to store all. Now from a piracy vs purchase point of view: I actually buy ebooks as a mark of support to authors I like very much. Now I must confess that for some very popular authors, I trend to think that one book pirated or one book bought won’t change a lot for them. So I buy mostly less known or indie authors at the end.

fievel ,

I’m volunteer to donate because of I accidentally die, rather that it deserve someone who would have more luck than me rather than no one.

Now in Belgium it works a bit differently. Everyone is, by default, considered as a donor.

You can then register to either refuse it or to impose it whatever your family says.

This is because the law is that the doctors must always ask the family if they are ok to give organs from diseased family member even with the “by default donor”, with the registration you can say “don’t ask my family and just do it”.

This can be used in two situation in my opinion, the first one being family that have different conviction and may refuse despite the opinion of the diseased. The second situation (mine) being not wanting to worry grieving family with one more difficult decision to take.

fievel ,

Internet Relay Chat.

fievel ,

The stand, by Stephen King

fievel ,

I’ve also used Startpage and DuckDuckGo, they all have their strengths

Can you develop? Why do you prefer qwant over ddg for example.

I also dropped Google search mainly for two reason. First privacy, making money with my private data and so on. Then I find Google search is less and less good, the first thing being that sponsored links are first even if they don’t match well the search keywords and even not looking at sponsored links I think the results are much worse than in the past.

I now use duckduckgo and I’m happy with it but I can try something else.

fievel , (edited )

Coming back to this after a while trying out. Qwant is indeed very nice in Europe at least. I tested it and adopted it, I also like the fact it have a map based on OSM which is nicer than the Apple thing in DDG.

fievel ,

By chance, I’m doing more or less the same as you. I initially read lotr when I was ~15 yo (I’m nearly 40 now). I also read it in French those years ago but I’m rereading now the real thing in English. Loving it too.

fievel ,

Kobo Clara HD. Pretty old now (I bought it in 2018), but it still got updates. I’m very satisfied with it (well I’ve not tested any other). Perhaps the only drawback if I had to change would be to have some kind of physical button to turn pages, but with the configuration options that it have it’s really not necessary.

fievel ,

With my Clara HD, I can upload with calibre but what I do more often is to convert epub to kobo specific one Kepubify. The reader can read regular epub but you don’t have book progression, meta data etc the same as with the kepub.

Then put the result on a local web server (even possible on android if you’re on the go). I then use the built-in kobo web browser (in beta menu) to browse and download the book.

fievel ,

Is it sorted in some way (preference?)?

fievel OP ,

Clearly my main concern… But after reading a lot of reinsuring comments, I’m more and more convinced that human will always be superior

fievel OP ,

I’d like to thank you all for all your interesting comments and opinion.

I see a general trends not being too worried because of how the technology works.

The worrysome part being what capitalism and management can think but that’s just an update of the old joke “A product manager is a guy that think 9 women can make a baby in 1 month”. And anyway, if not that there will be something else, it’s how our society is.

Now, I feel better, and I understand that my first point of view of fear about this technology and rejection of it is perhaps a very bad idea. I really need to start using it a bit in order to known this technology. I already found some useful use cases that can help me (get inspiration while naming things, generate some repetitive unit test cases, using it to help figuring out about well-known API, …).

fievel OP ,

Well I seen, I even code reviewed without knowing, when I asked colleague what happened to him, he said “I used chatgpt, I’m not sure to understand what this does exactly but it works”. Must confess that after code review comments, not much was left of the original stuff.

fievel OP ,

I probably should have used llm to help me write a clearer question :D

fievel OP ,

I think you raise a very good point about explaining the problem… Even us as “smart humans” have often great difficulty to see the point while reading PM specs…

fievel ,

Not sure it fits with what your son like but I think it’s around this age my own son started reading the Harry Potter series.

fievel ,

You can still post your image to an external image sharing service (see below some), and you put the link in your post (or embed it with markdown ![alt text](https://myurl.com/img.jpg) to place it anywhere in your post/comment).

fievel ,

I read every night with a kobo e-reader (next to my partner who generally sleep before me). I use night mode and a very dim brightness (2-3 %, the max I use is 4 %). It’s sufficient in my opinion.

About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity (www.ft.com)

About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity::About 75,000 staff to be given access to ‘PairD’ tool with advice to validate ‘accuracy and completeness’

fievel ,

Exactly, this makes me very anxious. Feeling that we’re just cutting the branch we are sit on …

fievel ,

Also:

fievel ,

What is considered as active ? Is someone connecting to his account and lurking considered active ? Or, someone who just up/downvote without commenting or posting ?

fievel ,

Definitely for osmand+, I think this is one of the best opensource app on Android (and the fact being openstreetmap based is a definitive plus because you can correct the map for benefit of the community).

fievel ,

Didn’t knew this one, still a fan of osmand but why not give a try

fievel ,

In my developer career, the littlest commit I did was the removal of a single ‘;’ which was causing a wonderful to debug bug ;)

fievel ,

Learned a few (meaning of foobar,…), remembered some and enjoyed a lot. thanks for the link.

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    fievel ,

    Now from the article (which might have been updated since posted, no criticism of OP), it’s clearly unrelated to the football (soccer) match. Seems more related to the events in Israel…

    fievel ,

    Nowadays it’s video for everything… Am I the only old bear that prefer plain old textual tutorials?

    fievel ,

    IMHO the website is sufficiently usable on a mobile browser. You can still use “add to home screen” to have a shortcut on your favorite launcher.

    fievel ,

    If you want or need something chromium based, a good alternative IMHO is Vivaldi, although partially open source.

    Does anybody else continue to frequent Reddit, albeit without an account?

    There are simply some communities I can’t find on Lemmy. For example, I use subreddits based on admissions to specific colleges that would never be able to function on Lemmy due to its size. I’d much prefer to abandon Reddit altogether but the information I need is usually only there.

    fievel ,

    Only when a search on the web bring me there and anyway I deleted my account so only without an account (wouldn’t say anonymously, even if my browser block trackers this is not ever possible)

    fievel ,

    I recently started using Duck Duck Go instead of Google.

    I still had this thought that Google was the best technology as I went from the early web (remember… altavista.digital.com, yahoo, …) and I remember that Google was really a game changer when it started to become popular.

    I tested setting DDG as default search engine in my desktop and mobile browsers, thinking that when I don’t have expected results I would go to Google… I never had to switch to Google because I was wrong, DDG is as good as Google while being better from privacy point of view.

    For the browser I use Vivaldi on both android and desktop.

    fievel ,

    Didn’t knew this existed at all, will look at this definitely because I have problems with usb C plug on my phone that doesn’t hold very well the connector…

    fievel ,

    Exactly this is the problem, when I talk non-geek (including my wife) about privacy they answer “what the hell have you to hide !” … It’s so difficult to convince people :'(

    Twitter client privacy friendly with notification

    As I’m not using it actively for months and want to stop using it, I want to delete my Twitter account. However I still have one use-case that prevents me doing that. My city local police is sending some traffic related news only on Twitter and I use the notification functionality of Twitter official client to be informed as...

    fievel ,

    Very interesting post, congrats…

    The more I read and see about AI / deep learning and the more I feel anxious…

    I’m anxious because we seen during the covid crisis how many people were easily convinced of fake news and complotist theories that were by no way realistic, now I imagine that with the power of a forged argumentation from chatgpt and deep fake from midjourney… How to convince people they are wrong then…

    I’m also anxious about the changes that will occur in the job I love, software engineering… I don’t want to spend the rest of my life fixing bug in code automatically generated by an AI. Or worse to loose my job because some manager think I can be replaced easily by a bot …

    fievel ,

    Well written code do not require comments, using good variable naming, dividing in simple operation through anonymous namespace functions well named. Sometimes comments are still required but should be avoided because they trends to not remain in sync with updated code and IMHO it’s worse to have lying comments rather than too few…

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