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by ltr_ 4mo ago
is there an enshittification watch site? or something to track acquisition and red flags in products/oss projects? itsenshittifiedyet.info if not, what would it take to do that? i think it can be vibed in a weekend. edit: s/of&#x2
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by ltr_ 4mo ago
good prices, but I don't see info on the token cache hits prices (in/out), are they available?.
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by ltr_ 1y ago
in the meantime im having lots of fun coding and using AI, reinventing every wheel i can. 0 stress cos i don't do it for money :). I think a lot of people are having a tantrum because programing is not sexy anymore, its getting easier,
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by ltr_ 1y ago
just want to say that, to self host feels like the 2000's, and that's a refreshing good thing, you feel in control, away for all the enshittification we are experiencing right know. I'm having a blast with a group of friends
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by ltr_ 1y ago
how to flush all this shit away? so they will have to learn to swim.
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by ltr_ 2y ago
I remember one of the students in our school replaced the Windows 95 startup logo with the goatse.cx picture of every computer of a new lab, the rector of the moment called an emergency gathering in the gym BEGGING the students to change it
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by ltr_ 2y ago
Q: any resource to learn about modern approaches for real time game protocols?
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by ltr_ 2y ago
oh the memories, the CTCP ping with the string "+++ATH0" string on the message, or the `/skin "/con/con"` command on Quake2 online games, and the ";cat /etc/passwd" on old Unix's f
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by ltr_ 3y ago
When I read about Markov Chains and hallucination of LLMs, the first thing that comes to my mind is Reggie watts [0] performances, also remind me i used to do the same thing when i was bored in the classroom, but on my paper notebooks,just
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by ltr_ 3y ago
I agree with your sentiment and resonate with some of my opinions on languages (been reading about TT and abstract math in general for a while as a hobby) my opinions so far (subject to change as i read more): dynamic typing = just one type
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by ltr_ 3y ago
> What's preventing it from happening now? Just improvising with the idea and trashing more on big tech: I would say, nothing, if something like that gets to happen, my guess, it will be silent, away from the noise, would not be a
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by ltr_ 3y ago
(im just going to ramble about it, cos im really mad about the state of IT right now and i cant articulate some ideas well) sometimes i fantasize about the concept of "your IT person", kind of your local barber, general practitio
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by ltr_ 3y ago
nice to see effort to shake a little the terminal space, and that you can receive 6MM dollars to play with it, but, having tried things like nushell i came back to zsh after i realized that is too much of an investment for something that ca
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by ltr_ 3y ago
nice to know, kind of suspected that. for me, a good non sleep night = bye cockroach mode and hello overenthusiastic maniac for a week. quite a ride. 100% recommended.
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by ltr_ 3y ago
as a it contractor for financial institutions i would say that we earned a lot of money just filling holes made by the previous ones and making our own in the process for the next one. that's what it is, make up problems to solve it la
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by ltr_ 3y ago
every 'Every X will become a Y sooner or later' title will become 'Every X becomes a monoid sooner or later' sooner or later
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by ltr_ 3y ago
shocking, bullshit tech for bullshit people improves bullshit.
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by ltr_ 3y ago
in my experience all middle management people that wants everyone to go back to the offices are useless pieces of crap.
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by ltr_ 3y ago
this has nothing to do with bad engineering, it's about stupid greedy investors/managers with to much power on decision making, decisions that they should not make. this is sad and an embarrassment to tech people. this industry is
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by ltr_ 3y ago
i always had this question: how realistically is to, having an standard spec and interoperable protocols, for toxic apps of big international tech companies that provides """services""", so instances of impleme
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by ltr_ 3y ago
is there a thing like rlwrap or "kakkeys" for zsh (or in the browser like vimium)? i use kak as my main editor, but i don't like to mentally switch to vi keys for anything else every time.
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by ltr_ 3y ago
just curious: what would be the answer from FSF/OSS people to , cheating and opensource games/libraries?. i mean if for example dota2 were open source it would be fairly trivial to make scripts to send commands on events (even clo
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by ltr_ 3y ago
The recent news and hype around AI motivated me to create a project on my personal computer with limited resources, using minimal code[0] to combine ChatGPT[1] with computer vision. This efficiently extracts structured data from virtually a
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by ltr_ 4y ago
I thought the same, modern c++ (>=11) felt like a new start for the language. it's a complete different beast nowdays.
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by ltr_ 4y ago
for this kind of errors is why you always leave a comment on your code
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by ltr_ 4y ago
when you have no money, all ads are irrelevant. it made me be ad blind, so I block them all.
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by ltr_ 4y ago
I came to the conclusion that anything that involves speculation on any market is unethical. maybe it was necessary before , but today is just not efficient.
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by ltr_ 4y ago
tangential : Two weeks ago (and for a while) our country's twitter-sphere (Chile) was completely and obviously dominated by bots, they were starting and inflating trending topics with absurd lies, spreading fear and chaos in favor of &
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by ltr_ 4y ago
coop game EXACTLY like wow (5/10/20) instances, with time runs, achievements and item progression, etc. and where you have to think very well your strategy in every pull. edit: typo
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by ltr_ 4y ago
anecdote time - Months ago this same question arose in my head reading something about graphs of cause and effects over other dimension (like time), If I remember well, they mentioned something about information pockets and how you can take

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