Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Mbin.
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Rimu@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your SettingsEnglish20·3 days agoI remember when MS made the perfect control panel in Win 2k and XP then spent the next 20 years making it worse and worse just because.
And here we are.
Rimu@piefed.socialto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Finance / Investment self-hosted apps?English2·8 days agoLol, rip
You’re going to have to prioritise.
Find changes that:
Save a decent amount of money Are low risk Don’t take too long to do Can be easily backed-out of
Rimu@piefed.socialto Linux@lemmy.ml•What kind of mindset do you need to be succesful starting and continuing to use Linux.English2·15 days agoThere are probably a variety of mindsets that will do it.
For me, I think it was just really wanting to get away from being under the boot. Get away from the walled gardens. Like that feeling after using LinkedIn, except for the OS. Hearing the call of freedom, authenticity and humanity.
Rimu@piefed.socialto Programming@programming.dev•AI: a fork in the road for open sourceEnglish3·16 days agoIncreasing amounts of code running on my computer and in the online services I use will be written by generative AI.
Emphasis added by me.
Thing is, it’s not black and white most of the time - usually a developer is using Gen AI as an assistant in some capacity. There are a wide range of ways to do that with really big differences in how firmly their hand remains on the wheel of where things are going. Only in the most extreme “vibe coding” scenario would it be fair to characterize the code as “written by AI”.
There reaches a point somewhere on the spectrum of dependency on AI where quality would suffer and developer capacity-building would be stunted. Where that point is, is a more productive question than a binary Yes or No to all AI.
Rimu@piefed.socialto Linux@lemmy.ml•TIL Kitty terminal can show a dock panel on Linux desktops!English1211·21 days agoCool, but now SSH into a remote server and then try to open nano. It doesn’t.
After using it for 3 weeks I concluded that as Kitty breaks the fundamentals all the nice shiny isn’t worth it.
Rimu@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams says company targeted teens with advertisements based on their ‘emotional state’English132·29 days agoEven teenage girls?
You seem to be saying that teenage girls should have known FB was manipulating them and just closed the app.
Rimu@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 PercentEnglish7·1 month agoMaybe reduced demand in USA will lower prices everywhere else…
Rimu@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blockingEnglish953·1 month agoGoogle has put a lot of effort into detecting and blocking stuff like this. They call it “click fraud”, if you want to look it up.
It’ll just mean they start ignoring clicks from you.
Rimu@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead EndEnglish7·2 months agoThat’s very cool.
It’ll be interesting to see how it goes in a year’s time, maybe they’ll have raised their expectations and tightened the deadlines by then.
Rimu@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•The Anti-Intellectualism of Social Media DesignEnglish15·2 months agoAs well as the algorithm, there are also structural things.
For example tweets limited to 160 characters favor simplistic solutions, which the far right provide. An endless stream of random unrelated nuggets of ideas create a fugue of confusion, perfect for injecting disinformation. Ruined attention spans can only grasp simplistic solutions. Video-based media means surface appearance matters more than substance. And so on.
Rimu@piefed.socialto Technology@lemmy.world•Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You FreeEnglish6·2 months agoPreach!
I think I’m in love. That’s the best text mode rendering I’ve seen and I’ve tried them all.
Try https://piefed.social/ on lynx, I tried pretty hard to make it usable in a text-mode browser.
offpunk is very different from all others I’ve tried. Very small.
Rimu@piefed.socialto Web Development@programming.dev•[Question] Fun website technologies?English5·3 months agoCheck this out https://kitten.small-web.org/
MailCow is similar except uses docker. I expect that will mean easier maintenance as it is less tightly bound to the underlying OS.
Could be, although codeberg goes down more than anything else I use so this could be normal.
If you don’t want to see it, you’re not going to.