Notices by Piko Starsider :verified_paw: (starsider@valenciapa.ws)

@soatok One of the worst parts of matrix's popularity is how they stained the reputation of E2EE: People _expect_ E2EE to be inherently buggy and user unfriendly, so they tend to delay or avoid trying alternatives that are E2EE.

@FediTips @HistoPol IMHO it should have autodetection ON by default, but it should also be smarter: very short messages should use the context of the conversation, otherwise use the language of the last post.

Plenty of people is blaming "AI" in the abstract for the recent RAM price spikes, but I haven't seen anybody around here point to the actual and direct culprit of it all: Sam Altman secretly bought 40% of silicon wafers (not even produced RAM, just the silicon wafers) from two of the biggest RAM manufacturers, at the same time. Not even with specific plans for what kind of RAM do with them. This is just to mess up with competitors.

Seriously, you can't hate OpenAI enough.

https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram-deal

@EvieBee Why not?

@Mux @afreytes It uses a virtual machine, so for gaming using Proton/Steam Play is the best option.

@jessew The kind of code I'm interested in has a lot of soul. The kind of code that when I ask a LLM I always end up saying "why did I even try to ask it? what a waste of time and energy" and I end up doing it myself better and faster. Even the biggest models just excretes very verbose code that just doesn't do what I need (if it works at all) no matter how well I "prompted" it.

However there's a kind of code that is shit and soulless no matter who or what writes it. Code that has been written a thousand times already but that I have to write it once more for some reason. For that kind of code a LLM shines, but not always. Even then, I only ask a LLM if the code is literally going to be deleted because it will very probably have subtle bugs that will bite us in the future.

@dalias You can just do "ip addr replace" instead of "ip addr add", it always works even if the device didn't have an address already. Same with "ip route replace", functionality which the old route command didn't even have: you have to explicitly delete the old route. By this metric, route is stateful and complex where ip is not! You can just replace the route.

The only problem I see is that bringing the interface up still requires a separate "ip link set eth0 up", but it's a no-op if it's already up so you can just alias it to write less.

@dalias @atax1a @avuko I find ip to be as simple (or as complex) as ifconfig, the only difficulty was it being a bit different so it messes up with muscle memory, but it's no big deal IMHO.

Note that ifconfig, route and several other utilities were part of the net-tools package, which unlike the BSDs it was not developed in sync to the kernel, it's a separate project. To support newer features, a rewrite was pretty much necessary, and if they rewrote the old commands with the old syntax it's very likely they would have broken things along the way, so they started a new tool to rule them all.

@atax1a @avuko not sure if it's my distro but I still have ifconfig and route and they still work. But don't usually need ifconfig or ip, network manager handles it all just fine.

PSA: Back up your stuff, now. And ensure that the backups work. If you don't know if your backups work, you may as well not have them.

@mekkaokereke I see. I didn't know about that one. That changes things. But her saying "What if humans just loved each other?" makes me kinda think she doesn't really know anything about the world. Like incredible levels of sheltering.

Is she lying? Maybe, probably. But I think that we can't deny she's really dumb.

I was very ignorant of the world a long time ago, even though I have had internet for years for some reason I avoided places that could teach me more about the world. This was before algorithmic content, so I don't know how it changes the equation in her case. I think that for someone that has experienced racism it may difficult to imagine how someone can not understand the concept of racism beyond the most superficial definition without being racist themselves. I believe it can be possible in this case, but who knows, rich people tend to be dishonest, so I'm more inclined towards your explanation now.

@mekkaokereke I'm inclined to believe it because I think she is *THAT* naive. I still remember her tiktok about communism, displaying her ignorance and naiveté.

@thomasfuchs VR is not like anything else. Corporate hacks tried to hype their shit vision of VR, with stuff that does work better with screens, but there are truly unique experiences in VR, that makes it worth it. Despite of corporations trying to take advantage of it, and not because of it.

I don't want work meetings in VR, I want to be an animal person with friends, and that's not easy to monetize. And I hope it remains that way. So people pay artists directly when they want a custom avatar for example. I also play games but it's usually much more intense and tiring, so it's kind of an entertainment category of its own.

@TheGoodSpace I would add anarch.cc, a private mastodon server hosting... you guessed it: trans women. Posting about anarchism and philosophy among other things.

Also a bunch of furry servers like blimps.xyz accused of federating with other servers (none of which did anything wrong either, as far as I know). And as we know most furries are queer.

I'm all for defending from harassment, racism and bigotry, but I'd like queer people to still have a community they can communicate with...

@kris @atomicpoet @socialmedianews Technically, yeah, but it's a tiny shadow of its former self. I was a fervient defender of XMPP and I had no use for it when 90% of my friends stopped using it and almost everyone were elsewhere already. And before that, the ecosystem was held back by Google, who refused to implement key features.

@atomicpoet @socialmedianews We should never forget how Google Talk killed Jabber/XMPP.