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woltiv

@woltiv@mastodon.social

Aging software developer, father of two, Christian.
Enjoys AI art, self-hosting services, photography, nature, being a movie snob.

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mcc, to random
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Hard to imagine a signal that a website is a rugpull more intense than banning users for trying to delete their own posts

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

Like just incredible "burning the future to power the present" energy here

woltiv,
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@mcc I think the banned people are in the right, but how did OpenAI not already scrape stack overflow? I've seen samples of ChatGPT's slop that told me the exact same wrong answers that were available on stack overflow (and its sister sites).

I wanted to test it and they reverted one of my protest edits almost immediately by Progman

SomeGadgetGuy, to windows
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It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.

It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.

It's inescapable.

It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.

It won't matter if you're a master expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.

If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.

I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."

woltiv,
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@SomeGadgetGuy MS Recall would also not make me want to use another public Windows computer ever. Library, hotel, etc.

Gargron, to random
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We've updated the rules of our flagship server mastodon.social today. Most are the same with some clarifications, but one rule is new: Content created by others must be attributed, and use of AI must be disclosed. Profiles that only post AI-generated content will not be tolerated.

woltiv,
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@Gargron One of the first things I interacted with on mastodon was a little bot that would post a poll, then generate an image based on the winning option. It was clearly marked as AI, I think those kind of things should still be allowed. A blanket "profiles that only post ai-generated content will not be tolerated" is too strict.

kde, to kde
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If you don't use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/windows-operating-systems/microsoft-now-says-your-pc-is-in-need-of-repair-if-youre-not-using-bing-with-edge

They are not wrong.

To mend your machine:

  1. Ditch Windows
  2. Install Plasma
  3. Your computer is ready.

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

@kde

A laptop running the laters version of Plasma, Plasma 6.

woltiv,
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@kde @kde I've been using Plasma 6 as my daily driver for three weeks now, and it's really good! I'm grateful for all the time that developers, testers, and doc writers have spent on this project. I decided to ditch Windows after getting yet another nudge to "please create a microsoft account".

kissane, to random
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A few weeks back I encountered a FOSS guy here explaining that when he sees open source devs ask for money, he blocks them and then stops using their code because they're morally wrong and he only wants to work with tools made by people who are doing the work for the right reasons. (I'm paraphrasing to avoid indexing the post.)

I've resisted writing about it because I'm slammed, but the question I can't shake is: Who benefits from the ideology of "pure" volunteerism?

woltiv,
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@kissane If I'm using open source and a dev asks for money, I give it. I could never finish listing the FOSS software I have used over my lifetime. I'm happy that companies like Canonical and Redhat can pay people, but if the small projects need help, then I'm always happy to donate.
And in my professional life I'm lucky enough to have a sympathetic boss. If my company is using some FOSS he always approves my requests to send larger donations.

Gargron, to random
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I'm tired of hearing about AI, to be honest. I never cared for it. I don't respect people who use generative AI, and I despise companies that sell out people's data to train it. Yes, people will lose jobs to it, but the world will not be better for it. It's just that consequences are rarely immediately apparent in such complex systems.

woltiv,
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@Gargron On a personal level I really enjoy generative AI. On a societal level I think it needs to be handled carefully and regulated so people aren't put out of jobs, or so that there's a safety net if your job is affected.
I've been trying out chatgpt and it's hilariously bad at certain tasks and gets a lot of details wrong in the domains that I know a lot about.
It's nice to have black-and-white hot takes, but reality is gray.

nixCraft, to linux
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Do you agree?

woltiv,
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@nixCraft Agreed on one and two, for three you need patience, skills, and the willingness to waste a lot of time (which is money!)

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Why has the Internet never produced a recipe site that provides a flowchart instead of list of ingredients? It's such a more intuitive way to do recipes, and I have to mark up all of mine.

woltiv,
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@ZachWeinersmith That's an interesting idea, could you post an example of what one would look like? For a recipe like chocolate chip cookies, I would think it would be a simple flow. Is there more to it?

thelinuxEXP, to linux
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So, a while back, I asked you to recommend your favorite command line utilities.
I got 187 answers, with 3 recommendations for almost each of them, and I sifted through these to land on 12 picks that I either started using myself, or that I felt would be very useful!

So, here are 12 terminal apps and utilities that you recommended:

https://youtu.be/nCS4BtJ34-o

woltiv,
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@thelinuxEXP Are you going to do a blog post somewhere?

nixCraft, to random
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Support for Windows 10 will end in October 2025. Rip goat. Would you upgrade to Win 11 ? Or something else? https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-of-support

woltiv,
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@nixCraft I side-graded to Linux. Not all my favorite software works, but I don't feel like a faceless corp is monitoring me to figure out how best to monetize my use of a computer.

EndeavourOS, to random
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https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/the-end-of-a-project/55573

woltiv,
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@EndeavourOS Oh you got me good. I had just settled down on EOS and then I read the complete blog.

Thanks for to the EOS team for all the hard work!

nixCraft, to linux
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Somebody compiled KDE version 1 on Debian 13. It is a miracle that you can even able to compile it. Source https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/comments/1buqeeo/kde_112_kde_1_compiled_on_debian_13_trixie/

woltiv,
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@nixCraft This is when linux UI design peaked. It's all downhill from here.

gamingonlinux, to random
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Hi all, Liam here, CEO of Linux Gaming, Master of the Terminal.

There's a disturbing lack of pizza donations lately: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/support-us/

woltiv,
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@gamingonlinux Hey the squeaky wheel gets the grease. Just used paypal to send you what I think a pizza costs in your strange Britbucks.

woltiv,
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@gamingonlinux You're welcome, and thank you for yours! Your site is indispensable now that I'm full time Linux on my home computer.

dangillmor, to random
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"AI" is killing search... https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/01/pulumi_ai_pollution_of_search/

woltiv,
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@dangillmor I've started using the date filter to make my searches only return stuff from before 2022 or 2023. The web was already getting spammy with SEO nonsense but now it's 10 times worse.

system76, to StableDiffusion
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Watch Stable Diffusion and Blender work like magic on the Thelio Major, featuring AMD’s zen 4 Threadripper! Here's a closeup of our demo for

video/mp4

woltiv,
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@system76 Ah, I meant what app was providing the neat little load graphs.

woltiv,
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@system76 That's pretty fast! What terminal system monitor was used in that demo?

gamingonlinux, to Steamdeck
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It Takes Two now Steam Deck Verified, EA App launcher no longer required https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/it-takes-two-now-steam-deck-verified-ea-app-launcher-no-longer-required/

woltiv,
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@gamingonlinux that's great news! I got it running with the dumb ea launcher on LInux but it was a real pain.

gamingonlinux, to Steamdeck
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Proton 9.0-1 released with expanded game support for Steam Deck / Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/proton-9-0-released-with-expanded-game-support-for-steam-deck-linux/

woltiv,
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@gamingonlinux I'm new to linux gaming (been playing Elden Ring pretty seamlessly) - is this release turning the "experimental" branch into the official 9.0 branch? Like, right now is there a difference between 9.0-1 and experimental?
Edit: to put it another way, if I had a game that only works with Experimental, will it work with 9.0-1 now?

rasterweb, to Blog
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Please enjoy my blog that is free of ads, and free of tracking, and won't ask you to subscribe to a newsletter. You can even just grab the RSS feed and read the full posts that way.

I just want to publish things and share ideas and art with the world because the Internet makes it so damn easy (and cheap!) to do so... and I wish more people took a similar approach.

➡️ https://rasterweb.net/raster/

woltiv,
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@rasterweb I've subscribed to your RSS feed, happy blogging! Also, nice sketch of Old Bay. I grew up near in PA near the MD line and ate a lot of crabs.

gamingonlinux, to steam
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Steam / Steam Deck stable client update released fixing lots of bugs, including a CSS change to "reduce package size and reduce feature leaks" 🤨 🤨 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/steam-steam-deck-stable-client-update-released-fixing-lots-of-bugs/

woltiv,
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@gamingonlinux Gotta wonder how big the CSS class names were if they had a material impact on the package size. Maybe autogenerated names like class="big_hero_unit_for_game_id_858588333_aka_half_life_3_oops_we_cannot_put_this_here"

danluu, (edited ) to random
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This study that looks into what errors CS students make is fascinating:

https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/lk-smol-tutor/paper.pdf

Among other things, it really shows how reasoning about computer programs is not intuitive to people, even people who've had years of training (the class is an optional class mostly taken by 3rd/4th year CS majors, with 10% grad students)

woltiv,
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@danluu This is interesting but it would be even more notable if this was done with different languages. I agree with part of the conclusion that if the majority of programmers converge on a certain misunderstanding, maybe we should change how the system works. Kind of like changing an API after working with it for awhile and realizing it's not ergonomic.

woltiv, to GNOME
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I'm not seeing "add thumbnail mode to the file picker" anywhere in the five year plan https://foundation.gnome.org/strategicplan/

gamingonlinux, to linux
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Tiny Glade is a gorgeous castle-doodling game that's real clever to relax with and a demo is out now https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/tiny-glade-is-a-gorgeous-castle-doodling-game-thats-real-clever-to-relax-with/

woltiv,
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@gamingonlinux This game is fantastic, thanks for posting it!

gamingonlinux, to godot
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Pest Apocalypse is a new hilarious survivor-like game with a death-mobile, so it's basically VANpire Survivors 😏 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/pest-apocalypse-is-a-new-hilarious-survivor-like-game-with-a-death-mobile/

woltiv,
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@gamingonlinux Solid joke :D

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