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What were they making before this thing?

The silly sounding answer is that you just have to try stuff. You won’t know what you’re into unless you go look for it.

I also suffer from looking at other people enjoying things and thinking “that’s great for them but I don’t do that stuff”. You’ll always have the time for indoor time wasting when the weather/budget/whatever is in the way.

It’s very easy to feel zero urgency to go out and do stuff and to look back and think “huh did I waste two months I don’t remember anything happening recently”. Just look up events and meetups and hobby clubs in your area, you can just check it out and leave without losing anything. Sadly corporate social media is where a lot of stuff gets posted, but you can find a lot of stuff just fine without an account.

You can also think of not just what the “event” is but also what kind of people you think would go. I’m not necessarily that interested in TTRPGs but I know those events would attract interesting people I have common interests with.

I remember looking into this, the number of books I have that I’d like to scan are not enough to justify building one of these unless they can be folded up and passed on.

Might be best to just get a plexiglass slab with some kind of anti glare covering and try to get flat pages

I’ve seen this in Abu Dhabi. A bit creepy but it came with inbuilt convenience like letting your party members each pay for their items or splitting into X portions (you can pay for n*X portions if you want). Sure it’s handy but just give me a paper menu for fucks sake, let me ask the staff for a recommendation

Oh you like homecooked meals from a person instead of fast food? What, do you think McDonald’s is served flash frozen by a robot?

Especially with the World Cup stuff that you can turn off with two clicks. Everyone and their dog watches football, this is the single most uncontroversial thing the nerd browser can add to appeal to new people

S(he) be(removed)ed 😔🙏

It was periodically backed up to the repo. The file has the same name. I just downloaded a few different versions of it from the file’s version history on the db0 fork, and decoded them by pasting the plaintext into a web page that does the decoding on-device. I wasn’t in the file on date A and was in it on date B, I found that by trial and error.

I wouldn’t worry too much about it

Oh I was wondering if I could see the date I was added. Where can I see the commits?

So I figured it out. The original repo got nuked ish but the db0 fork keeps the commit history (I know nothing about git) and some trial and error leads me to understand I was added between March 27 and May 30. Interesting. I wonder what post it was.

Definitely raises an eyebrow if corpo media says “hey lefties check this out” and hits the FOMO button on a “popular must-read” I’ve never heard of before. Doesn’t automatically mean it’s a problem, but something to note I guess.

The title sounds like something I’d definitely skim in a bookstore.

Oh are they finally admitting they’re bets now at least?

Huh. It was seemingly random where I am. Always interesting to see what’s standardized around the world. Smaller/less important markets are full of stuff that are initially designed for specific faraway places.

I’m genuinely curious to know how those people end up in those coms or on the Fediverse at all. I don’t get the impression they keep tabs on this part of the internet.

Back in the day, random people falling into random internet corners was a product of boredom and a relative openness to trying out new Internet forums, I feel like most non-techy people just would not step anywhere outside of like eight walled gardens now

Just skimming this thread (I don’t even know what Zig is) and this automatically flagged something in my mind. Ugh. Make it fucking end already

I remember GPT2TC, LLMs were a very interesting niche little proof of concept software area for a few years before

<incoherent exasperated gesticulations>

I know but I mean a literal 1 in 1 out female-female Ethernet box that is triggered by a dumb remote. I err on the side of dumber is better.

This is why I think remote Ethernet jacks should be a thing. Like the same as those HDMI input multiplexers, but just to connect and disconnect a device from a wired connection. Glue that shit to the bottom of the remote. Boom. Parents get to rot their brains in front of the screens just like how they warned you not to do decades ago, and they get to enjoy doing something to stay “safe from viruses”

On the flip side, if you’re vibe coding an app you should seriously consider whether it’s something you want to open source or make available publicly. There’s a social contract that comes with that.

This is the attitude of an existing programmer who is using these tools. What I’ve found on here is a specific pattern that keeps repeating:

A post is sharing/advertising a project. The poster is two hours old.
The poster is extremely coy about how their project was made despite obvious slop in the post body. They’re a bit clueless about anything that looks like a social contract that comes with that and think there’s something strange or accusatory/interrogatory when people ask questions they think are too difficult or technical
Some Lemmy users have generally polite but fundamental critiques and questions the poster can’t answer or thinks must be gotchas
The poster has a crash out about us all being mean/unappeasable/anti-AI/luddites/Linux users/godless commies and is usually the only one downvoting comments, even ones that read like genuinely interested, though cautious
The post and account are deleted

There’s a clear disconnect. You’re talking about the homelab community which is a bit different but I specifically remember someone making an accessible Android UI and being extremely frustrated at people asking for the entire code to be released, and at people saying there’s not enough features there for that poster to be looping in advertisements on a fucking home page UI.

I get the impression that primarily-slop coders on some level think they’re doing programming, because of how you can get functional prototypes of code that is way above what a total beginner can write on their own. They think having code that compiles (whatever it’s usually Python there’s no compiling) means the hard part is over. They don’t seem to understand that the questions and concerns about vibe coding aren’t moral complaints but genuine concerns about liability, running code even the author doesn’t understand, and a complete cluelessness about what they should be doing to evaluate the code besides prompting it to be “good with no mistakes”.

That Android UI project seemed like a little thing a few people could install on their grandparents’ phones. It’s normal for the author not to understand every little thing. But being totally clueless and being offended at the suggestion, being entitled to put ads in it to get 0.0016 USD per year per grandma in exchange for taking up a quarter of her screen forever, not understanding why this looks scummy, why refusing to release 60% of the code looks scummy, why half the questions are being asked at all.

Again this would not be a problem if this wasn’t now expected for a significant portion of any projects you find online. A lot of projects are the first genuine effort of someone out there and they’re not perfect but they didn’t feel like the unceremonious implosion of the entire philosophical concept of personal computing.

And I’m fucking shit at writing good code and I’m pissed.

Low volume high end cars usually had a lot of overengineered solutions to problems that are now easily solved in modern budget cars by software and new materials/manufacturing. They could come up with a complicated battery system that gives them more design flexibility if they wanted to. They fucking should frankly.

The one in the pictures had a fuel bladder system IIRC. Not as exotic as figuring out asymmetrical distribution of multiple different sized battery boxes, but they did weird stuff to make their cars all the time. That’s the point of exotic cars that look stupidly different from other cars.

Cars are a weird one because they are a big part of the system of why the world sucks and luxury cars are just absurdly expensive status symbols. But fancy cars used to mean cool engineering! I’m even all for keeping most cars running on gasoline so long as there’s 90% fewer cars on the road. Usually online you can’t hate cars (the economic-social phenomenon ) and love cars (cool torque machine living room) at the same time. And I hate that

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