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pleroma.debian.social

Wouter Verhelst | @wouter@pleroma.debian.social

Debian Developer. husband. ex-FOSDEM organizer. Tennis lover. Amateur musician.

If it ain't fun, you're not doing it right.

@cmconseils
"Sorry, I don't bring my phone to restaurants because I don't want to get distracted, can you please bring me a paper menu? You can't? Okay bye".

It doesn't change them immediately, but it's the only type of feedback that will work.

Dear restaurant owners:
We ALL hate the QR code menu.
Stop.
-everyone

@bayindirh
What is it that makes eclipse a "complete workshop"? I have yet to see something that it can do which vim cannot. I mean someone wrote a c compiler in vim script at https://github.com/rhysd/8cc.vim
@foone

@bayindirh
4 _seconds_ is somehow 'fast'?
@foone

@mirabilos
They are configurable, you can tell it that your documents folder is ~/docs and make the video folder also be that, e.g.
@LinuxToday

Sending postcards on behalf of my cat

Postcard back with a doodle of a black cat, big speech bubble filled with cat noise gibberish sounds like brrrraaaa and mrrrrow

@foone
All your dreams are belong to us
@kay

- nightmare
- wake up
- leave bed
- open company Slack
- new Slack feature, on by default, begins with tutorial
- go back to bed
- choose nightmare

Before and after. Sometimes I really do love my work. Not always, but sometimes. It is nice to give kids a bit of humanisation on this dull hospital waiting rooms. They love to search the characters (there is a panel with all 53 characters to search for)

A waiting area in a medical facility featuring green tiled walls, several white plastic chairs arranged against the wall, a blue examination table, a hand sanitizer dispenser, and a fire extinguisher. The floor is a mix of brown and beige tiles. The image shows a brightly colored children's waiting area featuring a mural with playful animal illustrations, a rainbow, and nature scenes. There are several white chairs for seating and a blue cart against the wall. The overall atmosphere appears cheerful and inviting. A colorful children's waiting room featuring a whimsical mural with a waterfall, fantasy characters, and animals. There are white plastic chairs facing the mural, and a blue diaper change table against the wall.

A reminder that literal children use git forges like GitHub and Codeberg. It will generally be obvious, because they will use excessive amounts of emojis and emoticons and they'll lol and joke and most of all, they'll have a lot of self doubt.

Do NOT be a dick to them!

If they're failing to do something, politely and kindly help them to do it the right way.

If they have self doubt, explain to them that none of us know what we're doing and remind them that the beauty of FOSS is that you can learn in public and get tips from people from all over the world.

Don't preach that "meritocracy" bullshit at them.

Don't talk about "wasting your time".

Don't discourage them.

Be nice. You are the adult in the room, and there's a non-zero chance you are a role model to them. Do not crush their spirits. You have a responsibility as a FOSS maintainer to make your project a safe and welcoming space to new comers and that includes kids.

Do not be rude and destroy their dreams like some kind of monster.

@lzg
I mean, "AI broke prod" is the modern version of "computer says no"...

@foxyoreos
That's not my reading (more like, today's tech shows that something is possible even if we might prefer to do that with some tech that is similar in abilities but made in a different way), but I'm not him and I don't care enough to argue this further, so, meh ๐Ÿคท

@foxyoreos
Meanwhile it is certainly possible to see ways, in well prescribed and clearly delineated circumstances, where the tech can be used for good. In my reading, that's everything he's been arguing.

To say that it's not possible at all because it's not possible today is being dishonest with yourself about the truth.

I didn't see anyone disagree with the statement that it's not possible today, so to argue that is a waste of everyone's time.

@foxyoreos
It is a prerequisite to using, yes, but not a prerequisite to seeing the possibilities of the technologies and/or arguing that there are good uses of the technology.

OP has mentioned multiple times in this thread that he's not supportive of everything about today's version of the tech, so to tell him that there are terrible parts about it is preaching to the choir.

@foxyoreos
It's possible to argue for a technology that you can see could theoretically exist even if you don't see it existing today.

I mean, someone in the early eighties had a rant about a printer and decided he wanted to argue for a free operating system.
@mjg59 @petko

why do people say stuff like this because now i gotta get doom running on a cpap machine

in accordance with network security requirements the cpu on this equipment only supports our product software standards and is not compatible with other external software

@mirabilos
Very! I can consistently reach D2, though only barely and with a lot of air and not a lot of volume. If I had a lot of alcohol and/or not a lot of sleep the night before, I can *sometimes* reach C2, but it's rare.

I once sang with someone who could reach G1 (not a typo). Now *that* was impressive. And beautiful.
@bytebro

@mirabilos
I can reach E4 without warm-up. With warm-up I can get a little bit higher than that, sometimes up to G4.

I however did not say it was easy, nor that it is something I can sustain for long stretches of time without hurting my throat ๐Ÿ˜‰
@bytebro

Yes, current LLM bad, because of the unethical behaviour of the companies pushing it. And yes, that's reason enough to dislike current LLMs.

But the tech itself is not terrible, and if we can build it ethically, can be useful.
@mjg59 @Ced

@Ced
I don't think that anyone is claiming that we have that today. Certainly I didn't read Matthew's post that started off this thread in that way.

There's a subset of people in the free software community that go 'all LLM bad'. I don't necessarily agree with that.
@mjg59

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