Beej Jorgensen

Like with spam and its basically zero conversion rate, yes. But I’ve seems to remain clear of it in the tags I follow. So far.

I just hope that the fediverse stays small enough to remain an undesirable target for AI slop mongers.

Most of my code and some non-code is under ~/src, but I have repos scattered all around for other things.

I think the difference is scale. Before it was x% of humanity making shitting opinions where x < 100. Now it’s x% of humanity+AI, where x is, say, 100,000% of humanity. I don’t think we’re currently equipped to separate the wheat from that much chaff.

People 100% aren’t going to pay to access every random website they want to visit. So what you’d end up with in a world without ads is only the big corporations being able to run a website.

I’m not so convinced. I run a website with zero ads or tracking and I’m not a big corporation.

I’ve been sticking with FF proper since it has the sync stuff that’s easily used. But it sounds like it’s about time to set up a sync server and run a FF fork.

My parents are in their 80s and this crap will push them to Linux.

I’m the same generation. My flowchart is: known contact, answer. Unknown contact, voicemail. Automatic VM transcriptions are great.

Yikes. Back to Newegg for me!

I don’t know the details behind it, but it sure takes its sweet time figuring it out. I’ve let it sit 20 minutes before giving up.

Yeah. Under a second to the launcher, and (just timed it) 6 seconds to load and run my existing world.

I haven’t measured it, but I can tell I’m noticably slower on standard editors than Vim.

When I had to match against misspells I found Levenshtein distance to be most useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levenshtein_distance?wprov=sfla1

Really? Mine launches in a few seconds. Maybe I haven’t explored enough. 😁

I started using one of the userspace oom killers a while ago and have been much happier. Instead of the system becoming unresponsive, suddenly Slack just dies. It’s great.

I played quite a bit of solo mineclone2/voxelibre. Really good stuff with a surprisingly short wishlist on my part.

It’s silly, but one of my favorite things is that it fires up the launcher in under a second. Reminds me of when software wasn’t bloated halfway to hell. 😁

Was that sadometer correctly calibrated to NIST specifications?

On the last system I put together I used xfs because I was thinking ext4 development was waning. TBH I can’t really tell the difference in my regular usage.

Word on the street is that xfs sometimes corrupts files, but I’m not sure if that’s true anymore.

Maybe on the next system I’ll be back to ext4.

When I was in college we had disposable film cameras. That was more than enough intrusion, thank you very much. I’ve always been incredibly happy that we did not have digital cameras in those years. 😅

I copied all my stuff out of drive several months ago and canceled my plan. But I only actually deleted the files a couple months ago, and they actually only got deleted about a month ago. And who knows if actually deleting files on Google does anything. I got to assume it’s all part of the data set at this point.

Edit: my chief regret at this point is that I didn’t write mountains of Star Trek porn fanfiction for their AI to consume.