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Cake day: February 22nd, 2022

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  • Great work. They haven’t commented on this matter for some time now and its good to see an updated comment on this issue.

    I use Grapheme OS, but do use Mull. I also use Vanadium and base Chromium. Each for different uses. Mull for general browsing (I have many extensions, but I feel a bit more secure by running NoScript).

    Vanadium is for when I need more functionality, and raw Chromium for inspecting responsive design of my own sites.

    The GrapheneOS community is a great asset to the Android ecosystem, and their mentality has always seemed to be security above all else (even above privacy), which is a voice that is needed in any organization.

    Again, thanks for doing this investigation.


  • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mltoTechnology@lemmy.worldThe Cult of Microsoft
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    I’ll push back a bit on this, though I generally agree with you. I’ve only worked for a small startup as my career in tech is still in its infancy, but in previous roles I’ve had in other industries, this cult like aspect of corporatism pervades to varying degrees.

    That said, when I first started socializing and networking with those involved in the tech sector, I noticed that there definitely is a subsection of the tech industry predominated by those who, in my view, took the concept of "There’s God In The Machine” thing way too far.

    This subsection seems to be mainly populated by those who have only a passing understanding of the tech itself and don’t actually write the code or architect the software. This subsection also seems to be populated by those who can code and do architect the software, but appear to me to have a selfish and shortsighted mindset reminiscent of stock traders and crypto bros, communities for which I personally have a particular disdain.

    This obsession and claim that tech can do anything from save the world to destroy the planet is very dangerous as it is a perceived pseudo reality that many people, both with power and not, seem to be desperately trying to make real (mainly fueld by a fear of the future and a desire to have some semblence of control over it through power mongering and vacuuming up influence in the present).

    And this problem of progress for its own sake with some ambiguous “tech will save us” mindset is only recently exacerbated by the claim that these chatbots are AI (IMHO making a mockery of the term, intelligence).

    Additionally, among this subsection, there seems to be an almost ravenous push for AGI, which, whether a boon or blight on future generations of humanity, they tend to argue is an inevitable outcome because technological and economic progress can never be nor should be slowed or halted.

    I have definitely encountered this sort of “progress at all cost” mindset in other industries, but never have I seen it so vehemently defended among a not insignificant subsection of an entire economic sector (tech). And I’d imagine it is particularly pronounced in the major FAANG companies.

    If you follow Ed Zitron’s other work, his recent articles and podcast episodes highlight a sort of “Villain of The Week” format, and so I don’t think it’s lost on him that this problem is not solely the purview of Microsoft, but rather is an indicator of a larger societal problem.

    Indeed the issue Zitron is highlighting here is simply the newest incarnation of the strange cultish mantle that the Tech Industry can and has taken on in recent memory. The topic of Tech Work as Religion/Cult is thoroughly explored in the 2022 book, Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion in Silicon Valley, by Carolyn Chen.


  • I recently got fitgirl’s Cyberpunk 2077 repack working on Artix Linux with Lutris by following this guide:

    It doesn’t take into account you also need to use GEProton as well (for Cyberpunk at least), but its easy enough to install GEProton via ProtonUp, and then just configuring the game to use GEProton in the settings via lutris.

    I got mangohud working as well, that was relatively simple.

    I also noticed that I needed to install and setup dxvk as an overlay for Vulkan.

    Yeah, it was a lot of setup and you need plenty of hard drive space as both the repack and the installed game are huge (have double the space available listed on the repack site).

    I have the game on Steam, but wanted to know how to do this, and it was not as bad as I thought it would be.



  • I created my account a couple years before any of the recent reddit migrations. I am always interested in alternatives to the status quo and simply searched in DDG “reddit alternatives” one day and bam, Lemmy came up.

    I signed up, but honestly I barely used it back then as the traffic was miniscule.

    I kind of just hung onto this account and it ended up being my main social media outlet now that there’s more people here. I’m hoping Lemmy thrives and attracts more users. It is objectively better than Reddit, it just needs more users and communities imho.




  • Yeah, YouTube is once again doing some shenanigans. My home IP address is not blocked from the YouTube site, and certain invidious instances are working. yt-dlp has the same issue as NewPipe (asks for captcha, sends back 405 by default). Using a VPN seems to solve the issue.

    I was a bit afraid that YouTube just outright blocked my IP, as others in my household use YouTube. Luckily it’s just NewPipe and yt-dlp, and a VPN solves it.

    Nevertheless, it doesn’t bode well that YouTube is going to such extreme measures to prevent NewPipe/yt-dlp access.



  • Given a long enough time frame, the vast majority of an immortal life would be spent buried beneath something or floating in the void of space. Think about it, you outlast planets and stars. When those go dark, but you don’t die…nothing to do but float in space.

    You might counter that with, "well yeah, but eventually I’d find other sentient life forms and/or people again.” And sure, maybe, but that wouldn’t last as long as you…and then you’re just alone floating in space again, for the vast majority of your life. The only thing to look forward to, since you will outlast everything, is the end of time itself.


  • This. Sorry but I’m a web developer and one of my colleagues obviously uses it without checking if it is correct, then bugs me or others when he doesn’t understand why it doesn’t work as expected. It is frustrating as hell and I’ve explained it to him multiple times:

    • Over prompt the AI if you are going to use it. Long lengthy prompts that are very succinct but give as much context as possible.

    • It is highly preferable to check other sources first like Stack Overflow. Even Medium articles can be better than using AI sometimes.

    • Type out what the AI output rather than just copy and paste. As you type line by line, explain to yourself what is happening.

    • Question everything. Do you think this code will work. Why will it work?

    • Test the code. If it doesn’t work as expected, trouble shoot it.

    • Don’t be afraid to scrap the whole thing and start over. Even open another prompt and try again if you really think the AI can answer the question (there are many cases where your problem is just too specific and the AI can’t).

    He does none of these things. I swear he is the laziest developer I’ve ever met, and I’ve met my fair share.



  • Lemmy should be the replacement for reddit IMHO.

    Don’t get me wrong. I’m enjoying the recent influx since the recent reddit migrations, while still staying niche. And I’m appreciating being amongst like minded, generally leftist communities here.

    But if it requires opening up the floodgates to idiots, fascists, and trolls in order to kill reddit, so be it. As long as there are no algorithms, advertisers, and spez’s, I’m all for more lemmings.


  • I use Thunder currently. My first Android Lemmy client was Jerboa, which was fine.

    I’ve tried Voyager, and I can’t remember right now why I didn’t stick with it, but I ended up just gravitating towards Thunder. It’s UI strikes the right balance between feature full and minimal imho.










  • To be fair. I get where they’re coming from. Some people simply don’t want to take the time to learn the Linux command line nor learn how to utilize the tool, balena etcher.

    That said, if one says “Is there a way to simply install a Linux OS”, I usually assume said person has at least a passing familiarity with burning an ISO as that is the bare minimum knowledge for starting the Linux installation process.

    Hence my assumption that they were familiar with said tools when they asked the question.


  • I meant a workstation OS. Or any Linux OS that’s not locked to a corporate account and probably filled with spyware.

    Yes, though I have not tried to utilize this:

    https://github.com/Quill-OS/quill

    I don’t even understand the first sentence of these instructions. “Mount the device” followed by a bunch of seemingly random letters and characters. Mount it on what? What do I do with these?

    These instructions require a very basic understanding of the Linux command line and file system. As does installing a Linux OS without a GUI helper.