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by kristjank 1y ago
I have also experienced this in the specific domain of well-learned idiots finding pseudo-explanations for why a technical choice should be taken, despite not knowing anything about the topic. I have witnessed a colleague look up a componen
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by kristjank 1y ago
I tread carefully with anyone that by default augments their (however utilitarian or conventionally bland) messages with language models passing them as their own. Prompting the agent to be as concise as you are, or as extensive, takes just
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by kristjank 2y ago
There is a pretty good amount of operation-critical stuff like power plants (especially nuclear), radars, traffic management and various finance/insurance/airline services that operate on VMS afaik. Something about very reliable c
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by kristjank 2y ago
Vibe Coding and the environments that enable it are the Turkish Hair Transplant of programming.
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Louis Rossmann opines on the Firefox debacle [video](youtube.com)
80 points by kristjank 2y ago|106 comments
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by kristjank 2y ago
I will write this for posterity just that the general sentiment does not go unnoticed. It's hard to keep defending the company I convinced most of my undecided-but-tech-savvy friends to switch to after the Manifest API debacle. Mozilla
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by kristjank 2y ago
That sounds like the Brave Rewards system that's opt-in afaik. It's a grift, but so far one that at least provides a decent user experience while being somewhere in the ballpark of just as bad as Firefox could be extrapolated to
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by kristjank 2y ago
For what it's worth, Waterfox has issues with the mozilla addon store at the moment. I was planning on Firefox Sync'ing everything over to my waterfox install, then deleting my account, but it's unable to install and reconfig
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by kristjank 2y ago
They believed we misunderstood and they were very much wrong. We know what you're trying to achieve and we're telling you not to do it. I have already cancelled my existing Mozilla subscriptions and am actively looking towards alt
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by kristjank 2y ago
Mozilla is going down the path of enshittification. I don't really care what the exact AUP, ToS and other legalese tomes boil down to, I should not need to agree to nothing but the license to use a piece of free software. If they only
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by kristjank 2y ago
> BTW, the feminine version of a restaurateur was “restauratrice.” The term was used in the mid to late 18th century, but thankfully never caught on. I don't know why the thankfully was needed. It looks like a pretty word to me.
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by kristjank 2y ago
As an outside observer, it's fascinating how clear the divide has become between the grassroots DEI companies and the ones just cargo-culting whatever pleases the investors. I have always assumed this will happen, but never in such &qu
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by kristjank 2y ago
The EU really loves such organizations, especially for regulatory purposes in a specific field like power distribution. The effect is that you get a revolving door between the industry and the regulatory bodies, making our lives a bit more
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by kristjank 2y ago
This webdev notion of abstracting 30 layers of complexity just to run bytecode is borderline lobotomizing and should be blamed for 8,000,000,000 Bytes of RAM not sufficing for a slightly-above-average desktop computer nowadays.
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by kristjank 2y ago
Great things are coming in the digital part of the RF field. Unfortunately, the knowledge transfer is failing greatly in the analog part of it...
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by kristjank 2y ago
Stumbled onto this randomly via the youtube algorithm.
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by kristjank 2y ago
The cutoff is at modern infotainment systems. If you still have a car stereo, you're probably good.
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by kristjank 2y ago
Yeah, it does not absolve them of anything, but Palantir and the other shady sigint/military intelligence companies at least pick their customers at a state level, unlike techbro startups that will jump in the bed with just about anyon
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by kristjank 2y ago
This is near-idiotic, especially allowing the AI to train on (however anonymised) actual healthcare data.
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by kristjank 2y ago
The violations that the average human has been unknowingly a victim of, courtesy of the advertising industry, are in my estimation so insurmountably numerous that I automatically consider someone working in advertising ontologically evil. M
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by kristjank 2y ago
The chain-and-cup adjustment is so simple, yet so effective. Such an elegant solution
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by kristjank 2y ago
Most countries in the EU are pretty fascist concerning vehicle modifications. So it probably falls on the Pulp fiction end of the spectrum "It's legal but it ain't 100% legal."
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by kristjank 2y ago
It also introduces a ton of lag, especially when more than a single device and some distance is involved (Mouse + Keyboard + Headphones makes my headphones cut out sometimes)
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by kristjank 2y ago
I don't consider that very extreme considering the persistent harassment by someone who, as far as I could tell by the mailing list archive and Overstreet's Patreon, was wrong about the subject matter and insisted on it multiple t
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by kristjank 2y ago
I am very much on the observer/user side of FLOSS, but the way Codes of Conduct have been applied since their widespread adoption have seen a lot of very productive developers ostracized for their emotionally unregulated methods of com
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by kristjank 2y ago
Huh, I like your comment. It's such a nice way of pointing out someone equating marketability to quality.
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by kristjank 2y ago
I am outraged by the lack of outrage over this enshittified dystopia. I would like to think myself better than that but things have really escalated to a point I really wish death and illness upon the advertiser leeches that started and con
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by kristjank 2y ago
It has allowed it, but it intentionally cripples alternative markets. For example, I cannot allow F-Droid to autoinstall and autoupdate apps on my phone if I don't have a rooted device.
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by kristjank 2y ago
Another Mozilla classic...
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by kristjank 2y ago
In my country, there have been devastating floods last year, displacing a lot of families. Of course, investigations have been done uncovering that a lot of the plots were not catalogued as livable, and were marked as such exactly because o

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