Draghetta

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

And to think Africans complain about their rectangle borders, Americans are just fine!

[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 months ago (17 children)

Funny how this is supposed to be absurd - upside down duck, cake, “bizarro” and all - but it’s actually pretty accurate. So many products out there that require you to download their shitty spyware in order to do the things they are supposed to do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Sure, but honestly I hate the idea of having different runtimes. That’s the reason why I like neither snaps nor flatpaks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Real. Though sometimes running a recent version of something is a real challenge, unless it ships in appimage. If it’s a small program you can usually backport the package from unstable or just build it yourself, but if it depends on some rust or js libraries or whathaveyou you have to do so much crap you might as well just be running trixie

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

SUSE was a German company a century ago, then it changed hands more than a soap bar in a public restroom and now I have no idea if it’s even a terrestrial company anymore

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As slow as you expect, at least on anything that requires gpu such as watching videos

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Only two questions

  1. How do you see through it

  2. When can I buy it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not saying it can’t be, but I’ll be more convinced by an article that is a bit less emotionally loaded. It’s clear that the author has a bone to pick with Microsoft, and it reads as it’s written by a high schooler who wants to LARP as a journalist.

Just to be clear I have been in big tech corpos with cult-ish undertones and I have also seen the mindset poppycock shoved to my face multiple times, it’s not that I find their contents hard to believe. I just find that article hard to trust.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

To what end exactly?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (5 children)

More than some nefarious corpo, I think this is more an evolution of the same problem that existed before AI was popular.

Some people realised that their credibility as a job candidate was tied on a very surface level to their GitHub profile, so they sought to optimise it. They started going to cool projects and proposing absolutely stupid merge requests, like “replace single quotes with double quotes in README.md” or “improved spacing in this sentence” in the hopes that the developers would go “well why not”, so they could show that they contributed to tensorflow or redis or what have you. Already years ago, a lot of FLOSS projects were plagued by spam PRs.

Now coming up with absolutely stupid reasons to issue a PR is a tedious job and you have a very fierce competition of people doing the same thing as you, so… why not gain the edge with AI?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Did you misread my sentence?

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