Ooh, a walking Jellyfin server! That’s very convenient. And cute! :3

Cool design! What would be displayed on a monitor connected to the HDMI port?

I think the main problem is that far too few people are contributing to these projects and major decisions aren’t made collectively instead of by a single person. Isn’t Rimu effectively the sole dev for PieFed, in much the same way that Nutomic and dessalines have been the main people running the Lemmy project?

I think all of these people are reasonable per se, but there’s an old quote that I feel fits nicely here: “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” If there’s no one to challenge your decisions, you’re inevitably going to make some bad ones eventually.

Compare that with any healthy FOSS project where major decisions are a group effort. Things move more slowly but a single extremist view is much less likely to pass. Projects like that also tend to attract more contributors in the long run, because people can trust that their contributions (the time they spend coding, not snowboarding) will be evaluated objectively by a group rather than suddenly being discarded because they don’t fit one person’s worldview.

An update post from the admin: https://sopuli.xyz/post/50113243

I’m having a bit hard time believing the chart. Surely swimming cannot cause the same pressure than being 50+ meters under water? 50 meters is a lot.

My smart watch (Pixel Watch 3) has the 5 ATM rating. I have been swimming and showering with it regularly and haven’t had any issues yet. But according to that chart, maybe I shouldn’t be doing it.

If anyone who’s already played it is looking for an interesting second (or third) playthrough, try ignoring Delilah altogether. Never respond to her, and only radio her when the game won’t progress otherwise. The devs went to great lengths to avoid forcing the player to talk to her, and there’s a good amount of dialogue (well, monologue, actually xD) that you won’t hear when playing “normally”.

And I think this playstyle actually fits Henry’s character better. After all, he took the job to get away from everyone and everything, only to end up being constantly harassed by an overly social supervisor. Oh, and when the helicopter comes to pick you up at the end, you can just ignore that too and run back into the forest. It’s a bit of a secret ending.

I think Vim is great if you use it everyday and know it inside out. For those of us who don’t, Nano is just easier, not least because it tells you in the UI how to exit it xD

I think you barely get any gems from converting them (compared to converting wallpapers or emojis for example) so selling them makes the most sense. Or donating them like someone already suggested, if you got friends who are interested in crafting the badges.

Most new phones today have an IP67 or 68 rating, meaning a quick dip in a pool isn’t an issue. I think the standard says the device must survive being submerged in water for at least 30 minutes.

This also means pushing your friends into the pool can be funny again instead of having to pay to replace their phone!

There should be a pro dom(me) who first ties you up AND then puts you through hardcore needle play… by making sure you’re current on your vaccines.

Someone would pay for that.

I think it’s written that way because the instructions are meant to work on Windows too. But it still doesn’t make much sense. I think just saying “Install CMake” and letting the agent figure it out for the current environment would be a much better approach.

Also, I think the model they were using was working with outdated data. Why specifically require Java 21 when Java 25 is the latest LTS? And furthermore, why even link to a specific JDK implementation when it surely works with almost any implementation? Probably just makes the agent install the Temurin implementation even if the system already had a working java.

My point being if the author’s idea is to let AI handle the installation to avoid writing environment-specific instructions, it shouldn’t then have these hardcoded assumptions about the environment. So yeah, it seems they (and the AI that wrote it) didn’t really know what they were doing.

I have had this blog post about SDRs (Software Defined Radio) bookmarked for a couple of years now:

https://blinry.org/50-things-with-sdr/

Apparently the basic models only cost around 30-50 dollars. I’ve been thinking about getting one, but I haven’t had the time to dive into it yet.

Yeah, but I would never let an AI agent run commands on my machine without verifying each command. And at that point I would just rather copy and paste commands by hand, takes about the same time.

If the installation for example required creating some complicated host specific config files, then sure, I could see how that kind of a “runbook” could maybe be useful. But that doesn’t seem to be the case here.

It’s real

https://github.com/0xeb/ghidrasql#install-with-an-ai-agent-recommended

Haha, reading some of the responses in this thread actually reminded me of that xkcd but I couldn’t immediately find it. Thanks!

Oh wow, things really have gotten bad over there. For me personally, the much greater risk is that I forget my phone somewhere or someone steals it and in that scenario a weak password is the larger issue.

It seems there isn’t a single correct answer here. The threat model is different for everyone.

Yes, but that’s besides the point. If the convenient options for a normie user are

• Having a weak password
• Having a strong password and a fingerprint

Out of those the fingerprint with a strong password is way better option, imo.

In the USA, they can legally force you to unlock a device using biometrics.

Also, how does that work? Can’t they legally force you to enter your password too? Or can you claim you don’t remember it? If that works, can’t you just have a band-aid on your finger or something? Surely they cannot force you to take it off and risk getting an infection on the large wound you just happened to get yesterday…?

Where I live they recently implemented a minimum age of 15 years for riding e-scooters that can exceed 15 km/h and I think it’s a very sensible change.

I think it depends. Some people might be inclined to use too short or simple password because they don’t wanna constantly be typing a long password. It’s much better to have a strong password and fingerprint/face rec for convince than just a insecure password.

I was going to agree to disagree, but I couldn’t resist biting one more time because the link you posted turned out to be really interesting, but probably not for the reasons you were expecting… It’s past midnight where I live and I have work tomorrow so I’ll keep this one short.

Two things. First, just a reminder that like I wrote in my last message, I’m not arguing for any instance to re-federate Hexbear or Lemmygrad. It’s clear even just from reading this thread that most users don’t want to see them, and that’s actually a perfectly valid reason to maintain the status quo. But at this point it’s also pretty clear that ideological reasons and personal opinions are part of why those instances are so widely defederated and we are lying to ourselves if we insist otherwise.

Second, let me prove it by using your alt’s post you linked. I’ll be really frank here as you seem like someone who won’t take it personally. It’s obvious you feel very strongly about this matter, you’re good with words, and you’re not scared to influence others to adapt your ideals. Your post on discuss.online is honestly very well written if that was your goal. It’s manipulative, but not in instantly obvious way. It’s a textbook case actually: (All quotes below are directly from the post)

• Starts with an appeal to fear (“…we don’t even know how many users this is turning away from us…”)
• Overgeneralization from anecdote (“…Though I am by no means the only one that this has happened to - it seems to continually occur for each new user that joins here…”)
• Poisoning the well (“…at which point any further communication to them is already known to be in bad faith…”)
• Appeal to social proof (“…Many of the largest instances across the Fediverse have eventually already defederated…”)
• Loaded language (“…troll instance…”, “…flooding over here…”)
• False consensus (“…most of us…”)
• Shifting the burden of proof (“…the case for defederation from hexbear.net seems much more clear and straightforward - and really, why not?..”)
• Flattery (“…Discuss.Online’s much better admin practices…”, “…you are doing a fantastic job of being admins…”)
• Strategic concessions (“…That one I understand may be more problematic…”)

I could go on, but it’s late and I’m tired…

Then add what looks like a mountain of evidence, but is mostly a handful of trolls and douchebags, something you can find from almost any larger instance. Most people aren’t going to dig through the “evidence”, and just like that, discuss.online defederated Hexbear. It’s not my place to comment on the decision itself, especially since it doesn’t affect me. I’m just pointing what happened there.