Tbf if its booting from ROM and doing the same job its not going to degrade.

Graphics cards from 20 years ago will still play 20 year old games just fine, its not like that computers job is gonna change anytime soon.

I get writing boilerplate and unit tests can probably be done by software well enough, at least when supervised.

Ill be honest, that’s not even my real issue.

My real issue is that programming, devops, systems administration. All of these things are art forms, every bit of them. From high-level application architecture down to the tiniest details of implementation.

Like how much of a library you choose to include, what you name your variables, what type of loops you use to iterate through data. How you choose to format and comment your code.

Giving these choices to the machine is like the painter giving their brush to it.

Just like images generated by stable diffusion will never be worth their fully-human painted equivalent. So too will LLM-developed programs fail to hold that value.

For what its worth, this isnt new. I’ve held contempt for VC-worshipping developers who see programming as a means to an end far longer than LLMs have been used for serious work.

Imagine letting an entertainment product write your code for you. Why the fuck are you doing this if you don’t even like the act of programming?

Microsoft is already making use of more AI, and bug reports aren’t code?

No you’re right. I’m the perpetrator. I asked my awful fucking government run by pedophiles I totally approve of to do that. I totally want that instead of healthcare and basic human rights.

Its almost like if you’re not part of a small club of old kiddie fuckers or their direct lackeys, you’re getting fucked too.

There isn’t ‘a victim’ of these people. There’s fucking hundreds of millions if not billions us, and even more who are dead.

What do you want? Me to uselessly martyr myself so they’ll be another “stupid dangerous tranny” on the news for a week for people use against us before forgetting it happened?

What? What more is it you want me to fucking do? Wave my magic american wand that makes my government stop being run by garbage?

Yeal well seriously, tomorrow the nazis are marching in my city near me, and I will be there. They want to remigrate my family. I don’t need 5 VPNs, i need to leave my phone at home and physically go there.

Your medicine you need to live isn’t actively being made illegal. The FDA is already being petitioned to make lists of us. There prepping to fucking camp us. This isn’t something I need to protest its something Im going to need to live.

But quit thinking of yourself as the main victim when your country’s bombing people for breakfast.

Did I say I was?

So less voting and more doing, chopchop.

Read the previous comment and try again.

Sorry friend im not your enemy

No, but this holier than thou attitude like you’re the only one willing to do something is obnoxious.

As someone who’s working on starting a diyhrt homebrew and joining the SRA: unless you’ve lived through the rise of fascism stfu, chances are if you lived here you’d be doin jack shit too.

Fascism/late stage capitalism is exhausting by design. If I didn’t spend the past decade removing corporate software from my computers I don’t even know how I’d be comfortable doing any of this safely

Proper privacy in today’s day in age requires, at least, an understanding of Linux systems administration/, basic network architecture, and virtualization.

That’s before we talk about neutralizing ME.

If you’re not splitting your identities/footprint across several permanent and burner VM’s w/ different public IP’s you’re probably doing it wrong.

How is that reasonable to expect out of the average person?

When you make a new user using adduser do you leave your full name, number, and room number?

Blank is blank, epoch is functionally the same as leaving it blank. Especially if it becomes industry standard.

Good distros will push default a dob of 1970-1-1, mark my fucking words.

Yeah I’m trying to leverage my homelab for my friends that can’t set one up just to make things even slightly better.

Ultimately there’s only so much you can do to fight fascism.

You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink, especially not when you barely have time in the day to take a drink yourself.

If someone doesn’t have time or will to put privacy over convenience that’s kind of their gig. It sucks but like I can’t fuckin’ change their life schedule/priorities.

I spend enough time documenting and working in my homelab, I don’t need other people’s too. I’ll be happy to point people towards information and documentation, but that’s about it.

However if you’re not willing to:

1. bury your nose in multiple wikis
2. change out the OS on nearly every general purpose computing device you own
3. Live most of your online life anonymously/pseudononymously
4. Run a homelab (technically not required but makes life nicer)

You should stop while you’re ahead.

If you have kids I have no fucking clue how you’d even begin.

At that point you’re installing rootkit anticheat just to get little johnny playing games with their friends, fucking nightmare scenario.

If you can’t open chrome on a pc, connect an android phone to it, and use a simple web tool you’re probably not capable of any actual level of digital privacy.

This isn’t me being elitist its just the fact that the resources needed to make this shit viable and easy are being tied up to corporations in order to make more easy-to-use corporate spyware.

Privacy under fascism takes time, effort, and education. Stop fucking expecting it to be OOTB. Society is literally engineered against that. Its not a reasonable ask of open source devs making privacy tools.

You scared the shit outta me because I thought this was official femtanyl merchant for a second.

Can I just type ‘roxorz boxorz’ and be done with it.

I mean I’ve faked one or two conversations because I always thought chatbots where cute toys as a dev.

Treating it like a humie is a no go.

Mod mic is a stick on mic so you wouldn’t have anywhere to stick it.

A good pear of over the head headphones and a modmic.

Lemme know when fairphone has a re-lockable bootloader to allow for choice of OS.

Yeah but if you make it an open format other hobbyists could make their own hardware/software about it.

Mostly a fantasy medium, but if people start using it for art, then hey neat.

No that’s the idea, it would be to make a piece of software which if thrown on a sbc with a DVD drive becomes a player.

Which really isn’t too far off of DVD and most bluray players.

Though I wouldn’t be shocked if the super cheap DVD players have some sorta all-in-one integrated asic for most of the job.

Would mostly be used by hobbiest making their own burned discs and small artists releasing stuff.