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In-reply-to » Hmmm 🧐 I'm annectodaly not convinced so-called "AI"(s) really save timeā„¢. -- I have no proof though, I would need to do some concrete studies / numbers... -- But, there is one benefit... It can save you from typing and from worsening RSI / Carpal Tunnel.

@prologic@twtxt.net Ah, I see. Yeah, you might be right. (Still a fragile process due to the general AI wonkiness, but it can help to some degree, yes.)

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In-reply-to » Hmmm 🧐 I'm annectodaly not convinced so-called "AI"(s) really save timeā„¢. -- I have no proof though, I would need to do some concrete studies / numbers... -- But, there is one benefit... It can save you from typing and from worsening RSI / Carpal Tunnel.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I guess I wasn’t talking about the speed of interesting text/context, but more the ā€œslownessā€ of these tools. I think I can build/ solutions and fix bugs faster most of the time? Hmmm šŸ¤” I think the only thing it’s able to do better than me is grasp large codebases and do pattern machines a bit better, mostly because we’re limited by the interfaces we have to use and in my ase being vision impaired doesn’t help :/

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In-reply-to » Hmmm 🧐 I'm annectodaly not convinced so-called "AI"(s) really save timeā„¢. -- I have no proof though, I would need to do some concrete studies / numbers... -- But, there is one benefit... It can save you from typing and from worsening RSI / Carpal Tunnel.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yes, although I have a feeling that speech recognition or other means of entering text could be better and much less computationally intensive. šŸ¤”

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In-reply-to » Advent of Code will be different this year:

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I think if I was younger, with more energy, and wasn’t blind with leber’s disease (look it up) I’d be fineā„¢ But yeah I get the whole ā€œexhaustingā€ apart. I’ll join you this year, since there’s only 12 puzzles and as you say, we can ā€œtake our timeā€ it might actually be fun! (as opposed to exhausting and pressured).

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In-reply-to » Advent of Code will be different this year:

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, lots of people are welcoming this change, saying they are relieved that there are fewer puzzles. And ngl, I, too, have been very exhausted at the end of the month. It’s a lot of fun and I loved it each time, but yeah, it can be exhausting.

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In-reply-to » Advent of Code will be different this year:

@movq@www.uninformativ.de This is actually a good positive change I think!

Personally, I’ll probably stretch it out over 24 days. Giving myself more time to solve each puzzle and I really want this event to last the entire month. šŸ˜…

I might even do AoC this year with the elevated stress/pressure! – The last few times I’ve tried, I’ve always felt far too much pressure and felt like a failure šŸ˜ž (mostly ya know because of my vision impairment, I couldn’t keep up!)

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In-reply-to » Der ganze Vorgang ist archetypisch für die seit Jahrzehnten vƶllig ohne Not stattfindende politische Selbstverzwergung Europas.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de My impression also is that good sysadmins are missing. No wonder if they all get laid off because they’re ā€œnot doing anythingā€ and developers can just operate their shit themselves. Or so the bosses and plenty devs think. Sadly, that’s the general view.

Hell no, devops is bullshit in my opinion. Most developers (including myself) are rather bad at administrating. A good sysadmin offers other skills. Great admins appear to just sit around, but they’re much more proactively working than programmers who also operate the same stuff. The latter have a waaay more reactive work model in comparison. When things have already gone south. The sysadmin, on the other hand, would have noticed and thus prevented the vast majority very early on when it was far from becoming a problem in the future.

At least that’s my personal experience in all those years in different projects and what my mates tell me from their companies. Sure, skills can be learned, but it’s just not happening (enough). And obviously, there are people out there who excel in both disciplines, but they are rare. Most fall in one of the categories. Not to forget, plenty are just bad at everything. :-)

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In-reply-to » That was a very non-fun day at work.

@prologic@twtxt.net

Are we some of the only people in the world that realize how fucking dumb all this Internet-connect shitā„¢ really is?

Yeah, but don’t ask me why that is. I’ve never gotten a satisfying answer when I talk to people who hype this kind of stuff. (I mean just normal tech people, not CEOs or something.) They just shrug it off and/or think that my concerns are paranoid. šŸ¤”

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In-reply-to » You just gotta love products with articial weights in them, because they would ā€œfeel cheapā€ otherwise.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hm, that might actually be (partially) true. Some external CD drives (without such a weight) start to spin/wiggle when the drive spins up and down … Although I guess that’s not really the case for Audio CDs as they are run at a fixed low RPM value, I think. šŸ¤”

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In-reply-to » That was a very non-fun day at work.

@prologic@twtxt.net That sounds horrible. šŸ˜… I wouldn’t want to own such a car. (My plan is not to buy a new car after my current one finally broke down entirely.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org First time I heard about eCall. I don’t think I like this. 🫤 Feels like another attempt at going for complete surveillance. Yes, yes, it’s about ā€œsecurityā€/ā€œsafetyā€ … it always is.

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In-reply-to » That was a very non-fun day at work.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Holy fuck! Whoever bought such a bed fully deserves this. There isn’t the faintest trace of pity on my face.

@prologic@twtxt.net I don’t want to defend this, but at least over here a SIM card is necessary for the mandatory emercency call by law in case of a crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall Of course, this enables all sorts of other shenanigans.

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In-reply-to » That was a very non-fun day at work.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, this is similar to my 2025 GWM Cannon Ute (truck) that we recently bought. It has this app called the ā€œGWM Appā€ that lets you view various health/stats of the vehicle, open/close the door, locks, control the A/C etc, all from your Mobile Phone. – But… Guess what?! :D It has a goddamn fucking SIM card in the head unit (dash) somewhere that once you ā€œconsentā€ and agree it signs up to some god knows what local cellular service and all that wonderul functionality is controlled by, guess what… A fucking goddamn CLOUD service! da actual flying fuck is wrong with these people?! – Are we some of the only people in the world that realize how fucking dumb all this Internet-connect shitā„¢ really is?

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In-reply-to » You just gotta love products with articial weights in them, because they would ā€œfeel cheapā€ otherwise.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ah! Maybe, but just maybe, this weight helps to keep the device from wandering around if a CD is spinning inside. CDs should be pretty well balanced, though.

Good luck with the replacement of the capacitors and reviving this player! :-)

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In-reply-to » That was a very non-fun day at work.

@prologic@twtxt.net Yeah. The actual services don’t run on AWS, apparently, but often it’s just the login service?! The whole Atlassian suite was ā€œdownā€ today because you couldn’t log in. But if you already were logged in, it wasn’t much a problem.

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@movq@www.uninformativ.de streamlining jenny.vim?

index adc0db9..cb54abc 100644
--- a/vim/ftdetect/jenny.vim
+++ b/vim/ftdetect/jenny.vim
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 au BufNewFile,BufRead jenny-posting.eml setl completefunc=jenny#CompleteMentions fo-=t wrap
+au BufRead,BufNewFile jenny-posting.eml normal $

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In-reply-to » You just gotta love products with articial weights in them, because they would ā€œfeel cheapā€ otherwise.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org That’s from a radio / CD-player thingy that someone in my family gave me so that I can try to repair it. (Indeed, some capacitors have blown up. But if that doesn’t fix it, I don’t know what to do. šŸ˜…)

There’s nothing on the other side. This really is just a block of metal that acts as a weight.

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In-reply-to » Anyone interested in starting up the monthly social calls we used to have? šŸ‘‹

@prologic@twtxt.net built it (as in banner reminder, etc.) and I will come! Joke side, I will join for 30-45 minutes each month, sure! No main topic, no pre-conceived themes, just folks getting together to chat and rant, or whatever. Count me in!

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In-reply-to » You just gotta love products with articial weights in them, because they would ā€œfeel cheapā€ otherwise.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Where the heck did you find that? What is that thing? Yeah, totally looks like an attempt to make some garbage feel more solid. Unless this steel plate is actually used for attaching bolts from the other side or something like that. Which I highly doubt, given that there are muuuuuch cheaper options to install various types of nuts in plastic.

Yeah, this goo makes it just harder to disconnect. I bet it doesn’t add water protection to the connections at all.

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In-reply-to » Everything in the realm of ā€œsmartphonesā€ is such an incomprehensible clusterfuck. I want to throw this thing out the window.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de he sure does! LOL. It is more like incomprehensible stuff that comes out. Sometimes I manage to get what he was trying to say, but more often than not I have no idea. 🤣

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In-reply-to » Everything in the realm of ā€œsmartphonesā€ is such an incomprehensible clusterfuck. I want to throw this thing out the window.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Speaking of ā€œclusterfucksā€. Every fucking time I try to type something on my fucking goddamn iPhone’s little tiny ass on-screen keyboard it ends up typing out ā€œI love you!ā€ 🤟 For fucks sake šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļø – Given the size of the fucking goddamn on-screen keyboards on these things and folks with limited/poor vision, can’t we figure out what I meant to type instead of spitting out total garbage nonsense that I had no intention of typing that makes me just look silly and stupid?! 🤬 Ask @bender@twtxt.net how many times this has happened on IRC whenever I’ve been on my phone šŸ“±

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In-reply-to » (#mmjt4va) @arne Joa, ’n Vierteljahr, dann biste durch, oder? šŸ˜‚

@arne@uplegger.eu Wer mir mit Werbung im Buch kommt, hat verschissen. šŸ˜‚ Hatte ich kürzlich auch (in einem Roman von 2025), da wurde immer wieder sehr auffƤllig eine bestimmte LokalitƤt erwƤhnt. Ganz am Ende hab’ ich dann gesehen, dass auf den letzten paar Seiten diese LokalitƤt nochmal explizit einen ā€žFlyerā€œ platziert hatte, das war also durchaus ein Werbedeal.

Nervt stark. Ich hab’ schon für das Buch gezahlt, da will ich nicht noch ā€žangeworbenā€œ werden. Dann mach’ lieber das Buch leicht teurer oder setz’ einen Spendenaufruf rein, wenn die Finanzen so knapp sind. šŸ¤”

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In-reply-to » Well, it sure has been a while since I last posted here. Just up late doing yet another Linux installation. Debian turned out to be about as stable as a plutonium Jenga tower, and Alpine refused to boot, so I gave it the boot. Here's to hoping that Arch fares better. Oddly, I've always found Arch to be considerably more stable than other distros...

@dce@hashnix.club Arch is the most stress-free OS I’ve ever run (I last reinstalled it 14 years ago, only rolling updates since then) – but to be honest, I sometimes wonder what role my general choice of software plays. I mostly run minimalistic software or programs that I wrote myself. I guess that greatly reduces the chance of breakage. šŸ¤”

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