For fucking WHAT?

never

… and therein lies the problem

I know that’s not the intention, but saying it like that slides into apology territory.

We should be absolutely appalled at the firing, maybe to a lesser extent, but there is no better time to point out this than during a big event.

It’s kinda like saying ‘protestors should not disrupt public spaces’, like they have done everything else, what else do people need to wake up and draw the line?

I’ve seen people on the internet suggesting Darktable as a solid Lightroom replacement… I don’t know anything about photo editing, but am curious - how bad is it?

We’ve just had survey at work about genAI, a large part of the devs use Linux and LLMs, yet nobody could explain how genAI works.

I was very surprised.

You would be surprised.

An awful lot of people, including Linux users, are into genAI. And not many understand anything behind it.

That’s the neat part.

Ever since ‘journalism’ has been reduced to reposting social media posts, there is very little reputation to be had.

The community notes appear many hours after the original has been posted, meaning that majority of interactions will be before any notes will be attached. And even the process of choosing the community notes is not transparent, so you can never be sure that the note does its job even after it’d added.

The current drive behind AI is not progress, it’s locking knowledge behind a paywall.

As soon as one company perfects their AI, it will draw everyone to use it, marketing it as ‘time saver’ so you don’t have to do anything (including browsing the web, which is in decline even now). Just ask and you shall receive everything.

Once everyone gets hooked, and there won’t be any competiton left, they will own the population. News, purchase recommendations, learning, everything we do to work on our congitive abilities will be sold through a single vendor.

Suddenly you own the minds of many people, who can’t think for themselves, or search for knowledge on their own… and that’s already happening.

And it’s not the progress I was hoping to see in my lifetime.

My favourite part of the day: commenting LLMentalist under AI articles.

How does neurological pain that is chronic and beyond apparent medical remedy fit into that categorization?

Karma, something holding you back from the past, I guess.

I mean yeah, I selfhost everything, but I hate that i have to learn and support the most useless shit ever just to earn a living.

It used to be fun being a dev, now I’m just repeating the same warning phrases about technologies.

I’m losing my will to live lately at an alarming rate.

I used to love IT, way back at the start of 00s.

Soon after the 10s started, I noticed bullshit trends replacing one another… like crypto or clouds or SaaS… but now with the AI I just feel alienated. Like we’re just all going to hell, and I hate the first row seating.

So we are moving away from >1GB node_modules finally? Or is it too soon?