Can I ask what this “personal information” could possibly be? I’ve been 100% aware of all the information I put on the internet and the only thing that really bothers me is chatgpt. What information have I put on the internet that I wanted to keep a secret but like “whoops” it ended up on the internet?

Frankly I feel like this is what most people feel like. I mean who cares that Amazon can recommend to me something that I might actually want, it’s still up to me to buy it if I want it. I’m not losing control if anything

There seem to be many of these multicellular animals who don’t feel like a singular individual animal. I was commenting on a post a few months ago about the most genetically simple multicellular animal, this thing has less base pairs than most bacteria, and it can also do this trick where disassociated cells recombine into new individuals. This creature also reproduce sexually if and only if the concentration of fellow individuals is high enough, cells will just leave the body and join a new one like for fun. It really calls into question what an individual is.

My dad got me started programming when I was 12. He gave me the “introduction to c# copyright 2002” (dm me for the isbn if you want, I’ll have to find it later). I might have done 10% of the book before I kind of got bored and started doing whatever the fuck I wanted. By age 16 I got my first job, and then in college I always had some sort of contract… nowadays I’m working full-time.

All I have is that anecdote to say no… I really hope other people have had better experiences than me.

But if my anecdote helps then you could have potentially three to four years of teaching them how to problem solve as a skill before you teach them how to program. I’m grateful for the problem-solving skills my dad gave me.

I’m also really grateful that my elementary School taught us how to type properly

It’s basically a pattern of:

Me: I have a problem and I need help fixing it

Other: ok but what’s the problem

Me: I can’t do this for some reason

Other: you’re wrong for wanting to do that when you can just do this instead besides you’re dumb and stupid and wrong and you should just deal

So I’d just keep changing things until my computer did what I wanted. I’d be fine using a Mac or windows if and only if it was ok to ask for help (meaning that I got to a point with a problem where I can’t move forward anymore myself and the only 2 options are to give up or ask for someone to contribute something that makes it so I can make progress)

I’ve actually had the opposite experience. When I happen to work with people that speak my second language it’s usually them who don’t want to speak their other language bc they don’t want to exclude teammates.

3 - voice assistants. wether done on device or phoning into our home servers and having requests processed there, this should be doable and integrated with convenient shortcuts. Home assistant has some things like this, and there’s good-old Mycroft blowing around out there still. Siri is used every day by plenty of people and she sucks. If that’s the benchmark I think our community can easily meet that.

Of all the things that my phone is supposed to be able to do this is the one thing I never touch. It has never worked better for me than just doing it with my own two thumbs.

Does anyone actually use their voice to control their phone (not voice typing)?

A 1hr commute represents 16% of your day, how much of my day should be wasted commuting

It’s equally a pro and a con but for me it’s a huge pro:

You can know exactly what your computer is doing because it will tell you!!

You can see highly verbose logs, granted it’s not easy to interpret without the necessary skills but Chatgpt doesn’t mind it if you dump 100 lines into a print and just say “fix my shit”, I do that routinely. I hated how windows would just freeze up and flash a popup like “Program not working” and I have to guess what’s going on by gauging the feeling of the software. I want exactly what I want to happen and Linux just does it without fighting me

NixOS makes me feel so safe making low-level changes to Linux and making sure that my work laptop, gaming desktop, and personal laptop all have the exact same shit on them and I’m gonna use them the exact same way.

I wish that nixlang was decoupled from the concept of a build system bc it’s such a great DAG config DSL and I can think of so many cooler uses for it but I just don’t have time to focus on it.

I really feel compelled to share that I actually really fucking love nix. I’ve never felt so confident that my computer would turn on no problem. It was hard and it was rewarding.

Idk I guess I haven’t had it for long but once I got my dotfiles the way I like I just stopped messing with it.

Also nix devshells are pretty dope (⁠◕⁠ᴗ⁠◕⁠✿⁠)

Tangent:

But does anyone remember that experimental subreddit that was only for bots to post and comment? Wonder what happened to it.

My phone number was owned by a non-for-profit, and I’m still getting their calls 5-6 years later. Google Pixel phones have a phone-bot that picks up calls, introduces itself as a bot and asks you why you’re calling. So I just posted my phone number on my website to make sure people don’t think that it’s still the nfp

yt-dlp is still alive, well and actively developed. It can now target abunch of different platforms.

For your education:

Pacman like many other package managers tries to minimize network queries, to do this you download a manifest of every package available and its installation instructions. -Sy downloads the latest manifest from all of your pacman repos, -u installs the packages whose “version” field changed between the old and new manifests.

These error messages show that the domain name the manifest had for your package was unavailable, this is why you should check for updates.

What do they mean “help”? Does this mean that they’re going to have to suffer with the consequences of paying devs?

Then I’d delete my old phone number account and start fresh… not exactly the best option but all things considered you might have too

Signal recently implemented “usernames” instead of phone numbers

DS9 Pale Moonlight: is my second favorite startrek episode. This is like the deepest exploration into a starfleet captain and how easy it is to lose yourself to corruption and operate outside of your government even when you’re working towards the same goal.

VOY The Thaw: an unironic cathartic watch. I’m ready invested in the characters and I get to see A1 star trek grade acting actually brings me back to that episode.

Ok peace love and fuck google but serious replies only

Why do we devs need Android?

Most apps I build just display shit. They show prompts to the user to guide them through what I want them too.

I can’t remember ever needing to implement some high frequency data processing onboard and even so. Webassembly and PWAs are getting better pretty dang fast (isn’t figma a 100% wasm-pwa?) so if I actually needed those I could have those.

The last remnants of what a program could do on bare metal is like LLMs and visual processing. I’d also rather have those in a standalone app but soon we’re gonna get some sort of WebNPU standard and (well) I might as well process images in webassembly (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ

Like imo browsers are becoming virtual machines with (what amounts to) an undefinably infinite app store.

When I freelance as an app developer I always encourage my clients to go the PWA route and then I wrap a PWA runner for the app stores because they only want to be on the app stores for marketing purposes and bc users are used to it.

Because that’s all that these OSs are, just UI’s wrapping a browser (in my humble opinion).

Yes but mitochondria live in the cytoplasm. I guess I don’t have much of a grasp of size differences that small so it blew me away to think to find a life form inside of the organelle of another lifeform… I thought things were too small at that scale.