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dissident_coder
·2 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I started using Baking Soda on iOS/Safari and it's a game changer and it doesn't seem like YT can do anything about it.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I love Kagi, used my free searches and customized the crap out of it. It would absolutely be worth the cost if I wasn't penny pinching because of cost of living increases and inflation.

Oh well, back to bing with GPT4 chat/search.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
> The only Rails projects that I worked on that never had performance problems are the ones that never reached any scale. All Rails projects that gained traction that I worked on, needed serious refactorings, partial rewrites, tuning and tweaking to keep 'em running.

You'll be hard pressed to find any stack that doesn't require this.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Meta/Google/etc... at the end of the day are businesses, and the currency they deal with when transacting with us is our personal information and they convert that to dollars with their partners.

As I also value freedom of association, I am perfectly alright with them refusing to "do business" with me because I do not find the denomination and terms of the transaction acceptable.

I do not really have any inclination to want to compel them to serve me by force of gun, either.

I think both they and myself are better off in this scenario where we just choose to not do business with each other and I find some other business that has more acceptable terms - or I just go without, these services aren't as essential as some people think.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Without any evidence to suggest otherwise, it's just baseless conspiracy theory to think some "shadow figure" was secretly pulling the strings to make their preferred evil-capitalist-ideal version of BG3 (lol).

BG3 is indie because they financed the game with money they raised themselves and self-published. It's that simple.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
It's a bot prevention measure (allegedly). It also conveniently blocks out people that are more likely to not want to share all of their personal information with them. No skin off my back, the less toxic social media garbage I'm allowed to use, the better for my sanity, good riddance.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
AA and AAA are a statement of budget, size and scope of a project.

BG3 is a rare example of a AAA indie game.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
The CEO has openly stated they were given full creative control of what's in the game.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
> I fail to see what separates Alma from CentOS Stream at this point

Alma is getting their source packages from CentoOS Stream, but they are using the specific versions that are in the Redhat releases they are targetting. They aren't just rebuilding Stream sources from HEAD.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Alma Linux is getting their source packages from Stream but they are using the exact same versions that are in the current Redhat release.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
As far as I know the only censorship that was done to the game was the sexual content for release in the Japanese market.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Baldurs Gate 3 is also technically an indie game by the classical definition.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
"The science" has become religious dogma to many people, the complete anthesis of science. When people say they (follow) "the science" I don't even bother listening to what they have to say anymore.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
If NYT wins this, then there is going to be a massive push for payouts from basically everyone ever…I don’t see that wallet being fat for long.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I don’t really see it as good guys or bad guys - just that China (and Russia) don’t really care too much about American copyright.

And there seems to be an an obvious advantage from my perspective to having an information vacuum that is not bound by any kind of copyright law.

If that’s good or bad is more of a matter of opinion.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Even if they win against openAI, how would this prevent something like a Chinese or Russian LLM from “stealing” their content and making their own superior LLM that isnt weakened by regulation like the ones in the United States.

And I say this as someone that is extremely bothered by how easily mass amounts of open content can just be vacuumed up into a training set with reckless abandon and there isn’t much you can do other than put everything you create behind some kind of authentication wall but even then it’s only a matter of time until it leaks anyway.

Pandora’s box is really open, we need to figure out how to live in a world with these systems because it’s an un winnable arms race where only bad actors will benefit from everyone else being neutered by regulation. Especially with the massive pace of open source innovation in this space.

We’re in a “mutually assured destruction” situation now, but instead of bombs the weapon is information.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Someone probably did a join on a has-many association without narrowing down the right side of the join is my guess - creating a Cartesian product of the result. Can be easy to miss in code review if you aren’t super diligent about it.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
Recently started trialing Walmart Delivery Pass to get next day delivery from local stores. Actually pretty convenient to get my fresh produce, meat, dairy, etc… delivered along with whatever stuff I’d normally order from Amazon with Prime.

I was planning on keeping prime for video but the free shipping is less valuable to me now, but if they’re gonna make the service worse and charge me more for what I had before then I’m just gonna cancel.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I used to use HG for my personal projects but these days I use fossil and keep the database in dropbox, works shockingly well.
dissident_coder
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
What do you use for assets then, if you don't mind my asking..?