Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)N

nickwitha_k (he/him)

@ nickwitha_k @lemmy.sdf.org

Posts
5
Comments
442
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?

    Jump

  • the main bottleneck with Lemmy seems to be the database performance, so with both projects depending on PostgreSQL

    Postgres being a bottleneck is a first for me. Not saying it's not possible, just... It's postgres. Wondering if it's more an issue with ORM, etc.

  • What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?

    Jump

  • using Python

    Full disclosure: I like Python a lot and have written a lot of it.

    That said, if not for my recent work experiences, I would be absolutely horrified at the idea of using Python for such a project. Between the type system and being interpreted, the performance and runtime issues are pretty painful. That and the historical greater dependence on external application servers really makes Python-based services something that really sucks to administer.

    However, as I noted, I have also recently seen Python performing far faster than it has any right to with highly-optimized use of multi-processing and offloading the server stuff to Go.

    I think I'm going to have to take a look at Piefed source this weekend.

  • I'm an Emacs developer

    Jump

  • Svalboard. Not am EMACS user (it's a fine editor/Lisp interpreter) but, even nice mechkb isn't necessarily going to prevent RSI or exacerbation of existing conditions. Best to change to a text-entry device that is designed with humans in mind.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • It scares me to think what people are doing to themselves by relying on this, especially if they're novices.

    Same here. There's a lot of denial going on but, LLMs are not good for anything that requires factual information. They likely will never be on account of just being statistical models for language. Summarizing long text where correctness isn't an issue is really one of the only places where I still think that they are good.

    Search? Not if you want anything factual with citations.

    Code? Fuck no. They constantly produce code of poor quality that may depend on non-existent libraries or functionality. More time it's spent debugging than writing code and it leaves the dev with a poor understanding of what the code actually does and ways to optimize/extend/etc.

    Generating literary smut? Well, it's not going to do as good of a job as a person who can create something completely novel but can be passable without likely harm to authors (I'd classify it as a tier below erotic fan fiction).

  • Rand Paul Fears Trump Tariffs Could Mean 1930s-Style Republican Wipeout: ‘We Lost the House and Senate for 60 Years’

    Jump

  • Breadlines?... Have you been paying attention to the actions of the last decades? They even arrest church staff for feeding homeless people.

    No. They just want people to die in the gutter.

  • Leaked Emails Expose Trump’s Devastating Revenge Plot on Dem. Governor

    Jump

  • Lawmakers are calling on the Social Security Administration chief to resign after internal emails revealed that the administration shut Maine off from the late-age insurance program in retaliation for publicly defying the MAGA agenda.

    This really seems like it should be more "20-years in prison gen pop, without possibility of early release" territory than "resign and continue life as normal after likely causing unnecessary deaths for revenge".

  • I may need to upsize from my TKL

    Jump

  • That's the DataHand, one of the few novel text-entry devices in the last few decades. It's sadly no longer made but ifyou want a modern one, check out the Svalboard.

    The Svalboard is made by one guy in California with FOSS firmware based on QMK/Vial. He took it on because his DataHand, which had enabled him to keep working with a wrist injury, broke and no parts were available.

    I got one myself after near disabling wrist RSI. I don't type as fast as I used to (yet) but I am able to work with a lot less pain.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • And Musk. And Trump.

  • I may need to upsize from my TKL

    Jump

  • If you want a modern one, check out the Svalboard.

  • Two-thirds of Americans now say they wouldn’t drive a Tesla — and most of them cite Elon Musk as the reason why, according to a new poll

    Jump

  • Hard no.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • Keep learning and asking questions! Maybe programming isn't something for you or maybe it'll be a big part of your life. You'll never know without giving it a try.

    Please don't get discouraged by the curmudgeons. Not all of us experienced in the field have given into grouchiness.

  • Synapse is the epitome of this

    Jump

  • In this case, it's a feature of the language that enables developers to implement greater amounts of parallelism. So, the developers of the Python-based application will need to refactor to take advantage of it.

  • Synapse is the epitome of this

    Jump

  • Proxmox vs. Debian: Running media server on older hardware

    Jump

  • It's also, I find, much more widely supported on a wider variety of hardware and with easier config automation.

  • The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great?

    Jump

  • Not really. They were going that way but backpedaled after having it made clear that they're never going to be BambuLab. I have a K1C. It gives root with an on-screen disclaimer. The only real challenge is that it overwrites everything when updating. It's Linux though, so, if I spend the time, once I setup my home server, I should be able to automate reloading the config.

  • Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”

    Jump

  • Oh it's the same shit as feudalism, but with technology... Thanks for letting me know that's what Techno-Feudalism means.

    Understanding the meaning and context of terms is very important.

    ... I guess we could add "global" to the front of it so you know it's not just happening in a castle in 14th century Europe, but all across the planet.

    I find "neo-feudalism" more appropriate. The previous incarnation already spanned the known world at the time.

    Like, how many castles were in Europe? Okay, compare that to how many Amazon's there are? It's not the same thing at all

    That's really a comparison that makes me think that, perhaps, learning more about feudal history would do us all good. A more apt comparison would be "how many Vaticans were there?" (depending on the time period, two).

    Rome was the seat of power through much of feudalism in the Common Era in Europe. Castles were extensions of the theocratic empire centered there, providing physical and visual/psychological enforcement of that power. Despite all of the war and megalomaniacal bickering, the feudal lords and kings all had the same boss.

    There's less difference than you apparently think.

    Sorry, I don't have time for this mind dulling discussion.

    I'm sorry that you don't know enough about history to understand how nearly identical the two are and didn't mean to cause distress, not knowing how attached to the term you were.

    G'luck.

  • Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”

    Jump

  • Exactly. And it makes it seem more special or at least a new idea. It's not. We already have historical knowledge of what has worked in throwing off the shackles of monarchy and what hasn't.

  • Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”

    Jump

  • I've read Varifakous and don't find his claim that it's anything new beyond the technologies used to be at all compelling.

    So no, the use of fuedalism isn't to indicate something about old school mechanisms of war, weaponry, brutality, or repression. It's a reference to the role of economic serfdom and the economic aspects of fuedalism.

    Teotihuacan was the center on an empire but it had no military.

    What I'm saying is that they even go with divine mandate at this point. Just because their not jousting and are using abstractions that are enabled by modern technology instead of castles doesn't make it fundamentally a different, new thing. Commerce and who could engage in it was heavily regulated by feudal lords and organizations that they ran or allowed to run.

    It's literally just the same shit with better technology. The far-right isn't that creative.

  • With the Democratic Party struggling to find a new direction, former President Joe Biden and former first lady Jill Biden have offered to jump in and help with fundraising and rebuilding.

    Jump

  • Criticizing an Arab for voting for a Jew is peak antisemitism.

    Know how I can tell that you are not communicating in good faith? Take a guess.

    Would you care to explain how Stein's religion, which I neither know about nor care about, is at all relevant? Or how disliking her as a politician, as well as human being, for her links to oligarchs and consistent lack of plausible effort to improve the US through political means has anything to do with what you suggest her religion is? Because claiming that involvement in that shit is stems from judaism seems pretty damn antisemitic of yourself (none of my hebros are inclined to associate with authoritarian dictators and I'd wager that they do more to affect positive change in their communities than she has in her lifetime).

    Now, maybe you made some incorrect assumptions in a heated context. You can feel free to own up to that, if it is the case.