moved from piefed.social/u/rozodru due to qutebrowser issues.
it’s Nostalgia bait. I don’t know why this is suddenly a new trend online. Like the articles recently that for whatever reason are about how great Zip disks were. no…they weren’t. no…you weren’t there.
Next thing you know there’s going to be articles about how great a 28.8 dial modem was or digital cameras that used floppy disks were peak for storage. No Julia, they weren’t.
To be fair I would say the vast majority of Mac users are using their machines purely for browsing, note taking, etc regardless of what model they’re on. Most buy a Mac so they can prop open the lid and show off the Apple logo to everyone else. It’s a status symbol, it’s a flag of conformity.
So the Neo fills that niche without spending an arm and a leg to do so AND you can actually easily repair some things on it. As a netbook it’s perfect.
well I can understand why Indians are the most nervous about it. I’ve dealt with off shored Indian devs for years, they “perform” about on par as AI coding agents which isn’t saying much.
At least when the AI fucks up it’ll admit it when you confront it.
sooooo apply the same rules to the adults? here’s my old man yells at cloud moment but you don’t need your cell phone in school. I got through my entire schooling without one, teachers didn’t have one. if there was an emergency or you needed to make a call well that’s what the front office was for.
I mean hell in high school kids just had pagers and if a teacher caught you looking at it during class they’d just take it away.
You mention Windows Me and Vista as low points but Windows 8 was such a donkey that your memory must have blocked it so you could go on with your life.
Good lord you’re right. I had completely forgotten about 8. I know I had it, I must have had it but I don’t actually remember using it. It’s like a gap there between 7 and 10 that is just gone from my head.
I’d say i’m cautiously optimistic but honestly i’m just not optimistic. They want to ‘remove bloat, reel back AI, etc’ and I’m just going to ask “how?”
how can they possibly improve their OS when the past year updates to 11 have been the worst in the companies history. the past few months alone have been an absolute cluster fuck and that’s saying A LOT considering this the same company that gave us ME and Vista.
Before rebuilding the OS they need to take a seriously look internally and rebuild teams, management, etc because its’ clear as day the company that they have currently cannot produce the potential OS they seem to want to produce.
if I remember correctly I just responded to a job ad posted on craigslist. They said they needed a web developer, didn’t say what it was for and I only found out it was porn when I was at the actual interview. Literally one of the interview questions was ‘how do you feel about porn?’
more FOSS projects NEED to get off github. there’s been countless things I’ve stopped using because I refuse to open another github account to simply post an issue or contribute to something.
in the early 00’s I worked in the porn industry as a web developer. Pretty much every standard of media consumption can be traced back to the adult entertainment industry. VHS? porn. DVDs? porn. I was working in the industry when Bluray vs HDDVD was just ramping up and there were many discussions within the industry at the time on insider web forums (shout out gofuckyourself) about which one to back. Well you can easily guess which one we went with as you can still buy blurays today. They were cheaper to produce than HDDVDs.
like watching streaming content online? thank porn. At the time we were uploading mpegs and what have you to thumb sites (thumb nail galleries, those mini sites that just had like 6 to 10 “preview” images of porn that were all over the place) until a few of us at Digital Playground figured “would be a lot easier for the user to just have the vids play in real time in their browser as opposed to them having to download the stuff.” we saw this new fangled thing called Youtube and figured we could embrace that and adapt it to porn. so we started “tube sites”. rest is history. in fact for a time up until recently you could still see some of our original code for streaming on pornhub/various other manwin sites as…well…they bought us all out and used it.
Going back to the DVD stuff it was called within the industry the “golden age” because my god companies made so much money off DVD sales it was insane. it dwarfed online subscriptions. We had a massive warehouse in Tucson Arizona that was just constantly shipping out DVDs like 24 hours a day. So when DVD sales started dying everyone friggin panicked and that’s how Manwin/Pornhub was able to just buy up everyone in the industry.
it’s like saying the hammer I was using that blew up my house “went rogue” because I kept the propane tank underneath the 2x4 I was hammering a nail into.
the providers API allowed for potential destructive actions without confirmations, backups were kept on the SAME volume as the source and wiping said volume results in deleting all backups, no version control either.
COMBINE ALL THAT with the fact they relied on Claude which is NOTORIOUS for guessing, not verifying ANYTHING even though it says it does and whose solutions 8 to 9 times out of 10 are hallucinations…perfect storm.
exactly. the whole point of these things is that they MUST provide you a solution. Any solution. doesn’t have to be accurate, doesn’t have to work, can be completely made up as long as it’s a solution and as long as it’s provided quickly. I’ve seen people feed into the prompts stuff like “don’t hallucinate” or “verify all this online before proceeding” etc and it’s not going to do any of that. it might TELL you it’s doing that but it won’t.
Claude is notorious for guessing, not verifying, and providing the quickest possible solution. Unlike GPT which will fluff all it’s solutions to essentially waste your time and eat up more tokens, Claude just wants your problem out the door so you can feed it another problem ASAP.
If you use Claude for anything in your daily work you might as well just have a magic 8ball sitting on your desk. It’s a hell of a lot cheaper and provides about the same quality.
It’s already happening. I’m looking to “retire” this year (which essentially means I’m just quitting this bullshit, I can’t deal with it anymore.) I’ve been doing consultation/contracting dev work for the past several years and about 2 years ago I pivoted from that to essentially doing code review for AI slop for my various clients. It’s always the same song and dance of “this is why your new fancy AI produced crap doesn’t scale, this is why there are exploits, this is how you fix it with real devs, yadda yadda yadda”. I was naive and hoped I could make a difference by hoping these startups and small tech houses would get the picture and pivot back to utilizing actual devs. hire people back and what have you. But none of them have. So I’m getting paid and wasting my time talking to CTOs and upper managers and I might as well be talking to a brick wall. they’re all going to continue to ride this AI train until the wheels come off and even when the carriage is missing all the wheels they’ll try to push it along down the tracks.
it’s hopeless. I’ve given up. I know it’s not something unemployed or under-employed devs want to hear but this is the conclusion I’ve come to within the past couple months. I hate this industry now. absolutely hate it. I might just focus on FOSS stuff, contribute to random projects or start maintaining some and call it a day. but the passion for coding and anything tech related has been sucked dry from me thanks to LLM’s and AI.
it’s been the same since cinema existed. Hollywood finds a trend that is popular and then runs it into the ground. 3D films. Star Wars clones. Slashers and Action movies in the 80s. Die Hard Clones, Disaster Movies, and Teen movies of the 90s. Hell back when Charlie Chaplin was making movies studios were pumping out knock offs like you wouldn’t believe. the “Beach Movies” of the 60s. The Western. so on and so forth. And of course recently adaptations of 80s toys and comics.
So yeah there will be a few AI only movies for awhile until the audience eventually gets sick of them and then Hollywood pivots to a new trend.
If the article is right and the compilation includes ALL versions of Ecco and Times of Time that’s not bad considering each game came out on the Genesis, Master System, Game Gear, and Sega CD. Seems like the Dreamcast/PS2 Ecco Game isn’t included as I believe that was made by a different studio.
ah so it’s fine when you develop software and tools to spy on your userbase and hell people who aren’t even in your userbase but when it comes to the higher ups at meta using YOUR data to train YOUR AI that’s too far huh?
I absolutely loved that game. I was really bummed when they shut it down but like you said there was maybe a handful of people that played it. Reminded me of EVE Online without all the bullshit.
I love Bullet Train to Iowa, great song. Apocalyptica is another great one. But yeah Conditions of My Parole really doesn’t sound like their other stuff. Maynard kinda pulled the same thing with A Perfect Circle and the track The Doomed which sounds insanely epic.
I’m one of those guys who in my teens I just didn’t get Tool or A Perfect Circle. I didn’t understand why everyone loved them. But now in my 40s I get it. I love all of Maynards stuff now. Tool, Pusicifer, A Perfect Circle.
cool, cool…Hey Reese which LLM’s have you invested in that you’re now advocating more women utilize them? OpenAI? Anthropic?
She’s not stupid. She’s trying to get a return on investment.
the fact this thing has apparently been happening for a week or more is weird. It’s like front end web dev 101 type stuff and the fix is quite simple a junior should be able to take care of it. So I’m leaning towards it was an AI “assisted” bug and none of the vibe coders know how to fix it OR what’s more concerning to me is they no longer have any qualified front end devs on staff to fix it. you can literally fix this thing via your browsers dev tools right now if you wanted to.
but yeah if you start looking at the youtube front end you’ll quickly see it’s all pretty much vibe coded now. Another clear as day tell on that is the subscribed shorts section. it’s been broken for months and the fix is easy, they just don’t know how to do it.