friend_of_satan

joined 1 year ago

Don't feel that way. Take this as observing your opponent taking a misstep. This is an opening.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Spreadsheets are such a killer app.

Anybody know a good TUI spreadsheet app that can import and export csv, or even just a TUI csv editor? I have been unable to find one.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Chill out, I already had enough reasons to not use those sites.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

One of the big turning points for Facebook for them to increase the difficulty of switching was cutting off RSS as a way to syndicate content into Facebook. After that, content had to be manually created in Facebook, instead of automatically imported from a third party source based on standard protocols. This forced people away from their chosen content authoring system into Facebook's opinionated, inflexible, ad infested walled garden.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

But here's the thing: all those other platforms, the ones where I unwisely allowed myself to get locked in, where today I find myself trapped by the professional, personal and political costs of leaving them, they were all started by people who swore they'd never sell out. I know those people, the old blogger mafia who started the CMSes, social media services, and publishing platforms where I find myself trapped. I considered them friends (I still consider most of them friends), and I knew them well enough to believe that they really cared about their users.

They did care about their users. They just cared about other stuff, too, and, when push came to shove, they chose the worsening of their services as the lesser of two evils.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Awesome. How much more time off to google software engineers get? I guess it's none.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 38 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Does this mean "AI was used as a fancy autocomplete"? Because that's my number 1 use case for AI like copilot, and if that's the case, over 25% of my code is written by AI. But let me tell you, it still gets it wrong, repeatedly making the same syntax errors no matter how many times I correct it. It starts to get it right, then later reverts to making the same syntax errors, even making up variable names that violate widely known public APIs.

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

OWC instructions for updating their firmware on macOS are basically "Install parallels. Install windows 11. Run the firmware updater."

https://eshop.macsales.com/support/owc-thunderbolt-3-dock

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Seriously! What is smart about these things? It's smart not to buy this bullshit. It's 1984 doublespeak just like the "open" in "OpenAI".

[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The phrase "these days" makes it sound like there's more to it than this thread. Obviously after this post nobody would want to buy LG, but it sounds like there are other reasons.

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