Bilb!

I have some sympathy for these people, but some don’t seem to realize that Microsoft is not going to be upset over them leaving. They are not valuable to Microsoft as users. If they are unable or unwilling to pay now, Microsoft wants them gone. They are being shown the door. Making a post about deleting your copilot+ subscription or whatever is like bragging about being kicked out of a nightclub.

It’s more than enough some types, but I agree, probably not the average lemmy user. I’m happy enough with their search results to pay for a higher tier.

I get that. I wouldn’t publish the code anywhere until an alpha is more or less ready and pretty well tested, and yes, I understand the importance of making sure it behaves in an expected, performant and pro-social manner with the existing compatible fediverse apps.

I’m not too worried about it, but thanks for your genuine concern about my reputation. ;) Since I’m the one writing the code, I’m more worried about the quality of that, if anything.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been working on (yet another) ActivityPub based micro blogging application and LLMs have been enormously helpful and so far as I can tell, correct. Often it cites the AP specs and its extensions, as well as specific implementations from existing major AP apps. It can show me expected outputs, what responses from my app should look like in response to different requests from other servers, and quickly give context for features like Mastodon’s shared inbox. I’m not having it simply generate code, but I think I’m still moving way faster than I otherwise could. I don’t recall it ever giving me incorrect information.

It’s the first time I’ve used an LLM as a tool this way, and I’m pretty impressed with it. I’m using the assistant made available through Kagi.

This is kind-of a non-sequitur to begin with, but we should not be burning oil to make energy— it’s stupid. We should stop doing that as fast as is possible, and the culture war element mentioned by the person you’re replying to is a obstacle that needs to be dealt with. As you’re keen to point out, it’s useful for manufacturing many vitally important things, so no longer setting it on fire is the only sane move. (Among many other reasons.)

Right, I almost, and probably should have, mentioned that. They use a different, parallel system that is also not available to the kind of alternative devices people on this site are interested in.

This is misunderstanding the problem, I think. This is not a weakness in GrapheneOS due to being an AOSP derivative, it’s a weakness imposed by Google on all alternative OSes whether they are AOSP derived or not. They present a scannable code that will only be cleared if you scan it with Google’s Android.

Unless there’s something else going on here. Either way, anger should be directed at Google, not GOS or its users. (annoying though they might sometimes be ;)

I mean, natch, lol. But thank you for letting me know! Point 3 looks interesting.

We feel the same. It could be so much better than it is. It’s never clear why the order of files is why it is.

I had a palm centro and it was the coolest phone in my highschool. I had a non-phone palm device before that too, as a hand-me-down. It had the writing system for text input which was really cool. I loved those Palm devices.

I have an Echo Mini, and I have come to really enjoy using it, both as a DAP and a usb DAC. I will say, the software isn’t great. For example, whenever I add new files to the SD card, “favorites” are just wiped out, rendering the feature basically useless. Sorting is weirdly inconsistent. These are things that could be fixed with firmware updates,

I don’t get why the firmware is closed source. Don’t they have much more to gain by opening it and allowing enthusiasts to help improve it? What is the benefit of keeping the source secret?

I find Navidrome to be pretty fantastic. I set it up on an orange pi I had laying around just last week.

Alright, nobody is allowed to use the word “quietly” in headlines anymore!

Aaaannd it’s dead. Lol

I’ve been building up a collection though, so if it works as a “bring your own collection” service it might be useful to me yet.

That’s doesn’t even really qualify as a backup. A snapshot, maybe.

That’s true if you’re proxying your traffic for DDoS protection, but you don’t need to do that to use them as a DNS, if you must.

Its become quite a trend with headlines, huh? I guess it implies “we’re airing some dirty laundry, come look!” With the hopes of boosting click-throughs.

Could it be… Satan?

People like saying lately “the purpose of a system is what is does” or something like that, so if we’re being realistic here you’re on to something.

Right, put a bit more simply— the people whom the government really serves are nervous about the subjects being angry at them, so this measures of surveillance and control will be pursued and implemented with relative ease.