NuXCOM_90Percent

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

Probably?

This is the kind of thing that a LOT of companies outsource. Mostly for ill.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Bad developers just do whatever. It doesn't matter if they wrote the code themselves or if a tool wrote it for them. They aren't going to be more or less detail oriented whether it is an LLM, a doxygen plugin, or their own fingers that made the code.

Which is the problem when people make claims like that. It is nonsense and anyone who has ACTUALLY worked with early career staff can tell you... those kids aren't writing much better code than chatgpt and there is a reason so many of them have embraced it.

But it also fundamentally changes the conversation. It stops being "We should heavily limit the use of generative AI in coding because it prevents people from developing the skills they need to evaluate code" and instead "We need generative AI to be better".

It was the exact same thing with "AI can't draw hands". Everyone and their mother insisted on that. Most people never thought about why basically all cartoons are four fingered hands and so forth. So, when the "studio ghibli filter" was made? It took off like hotcakes because "Now AI can can do hands!" and there was no thought towards the actual implications of generative AI.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip -5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (4 children)

Shit code review is not code review. If you just rubber stamp everything or outsource it to someone who will, you aren't doing code review.

Aside from that:

LLM generated code is more likely to have subtle errors that a human would be very unlikely to make in otherwise mundane code.

Citation requested

My current least favorite thing is LLM generated unit tests that don’t actually test what they say they do.

If I had a nickle for every single time I had to explain to someone that their unit test doesn't do anything or that they literally just copied the output and checked against it (and that they are dealing with floating points so that is actually really stupid)... I'd probably go buy some Five Guys for lunch.


Its like saying that the problem is that you are using robots to assemble cybertrucks rather than people. The problem isn't who is super glueing sharp jagged metal together. The problem is that your product is fundamentally shite and should never have reached production in the first place. And you need to REALLY work through your design flows and so forth.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 17 points 8 hours ago

Yeah.... that is a pretty shit article?

Describing Bilibili as "a social media company" is like describing Google as "a search engine" or Microsoft as "the people what make the calculator app".

Duckov seems solid from what I have seen. It also has the full might of Chinese Youtube behind it and has been doing sponsorships with basically any influencer who will take the money. Its as simple as that.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 14 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

You will never have resources to "test absolutely everything". It is ALWAYS about building out personas and deriving tests from those.

What this tells us is that one of two things happened:

  1. This was not tested at all
  2. The testing harness resets the environment after every check (e.g. "does process close when killed") rather than involving a manual reset (i.e. "close and re-open task manager")

The latter is a lot more common than you would think since it makes it much easier to automate these harnesses rather than having a human at a VM. But... this is what happens when you don't step through the entire workflow.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 74 points 9 hours ago (8 children)

That is the reality.

The problem isn't "vibe coding" (anyone who has ever managed early career staff will be able to attest that... the bar is REAL fucking low). The problem is a complete lack of testing or any sort of "investment" in caring if production breaks.

A lot of it is general apathy induced by... gestures around. But it very much goes beyond just the obnoxious rise in brain drains over "vibe coding". Personally speaking, I am THIS fucking close to driving over to my company's head of IT's house and burning it down with him in it (For legal purposes, this is a joke) as that entire team continues to think "We'll just wait until people tell us what is broken" is at all fucking acceptable.

But pretty much any SDLC is going to be built around code review. And code review is how you handle developers of different skill and sanity levels. Whether they are old hats who have been in the basement since before you were born, youngins who can't stop talking about Rust, or chatbots.

I very much align with the WKUK gag of "comedy is tragedy remembered"

But the key is: it is YOUR tragedy. Not someone else's. Hence, know your audience.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

With that attitude, I don't think you have to worry about anyone visiting you.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Gasp, shock, and amazement: it is almost like having a populace with more guns than books is a bad idea.

Still.. this is REALLY fucking fast. Less than 9 months in and they have one foot in the bunker. Which... is probably the actual reason behind The Ballroom.

I guess I just hope it is because kirk got got and not because they know things are about to get even worse.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah. Some very good friends of mine are a German couple and one of them has talked about how she remembers being scared shitless one day and all the precautions that were taken for the next year or three over radiation and the like. She'll join in for jokes about russia mismanaging things and actually really enjoys the STALKER games, but I also remember how she was very clearly having a mild panic attack all throughout the Fukushima incident and the like.

Its a mindset I see with a lot of American millennials. Our big "disaster" was 9-11. And, unless you lived in NYC (or I guess near the Pentagon), odds are it was just a weird day where you got to go home from school early and weren't allowed to watch TV. My uncle was in one of the towers and I remember the panic as my mother was frantically trying to figure out if he was fine (he ended up walking home without his shoes and we still don't know what happened during his trauma induced blackout). But, for me? It was just sitting around at home with no real impact. And while I suspect this is why the Cranston Godzilla REALLY hits for me, yeah.

But if you were a kid who has memories of your family going batshit insane trying to protect you? That leaves trauma marks.

Then don't fucking parrot their nonsense.

"jokes" are fun until it is indistinguishable from the same bullshit the people raping humanity are saying. At every step of the way, call them out on their shit.

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, they very much fucking do. They'll be the first to talk about how the weather is getting wild and it is so great they live in florida where every day is beautiful except during hurricane season where they refuse to move.

They believe in the existence of climate change. They just refuse to do anything that will ever inconvenience themselves even the slightest iota. And they'll bend over backwards to insist "it is just sun cycles" to absolve themselves of any responsibility.

 

Feel this is a good accompanying piece for all the folk insisting on caping for a Blackwater merc wth a nazi tattoo because he said something they liked.

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My... shit I've been doing this since Lockdown, replay of the Armored Core series is just about out of the PS2 era and on to the PS3.

And that made me realize... I have no flipping idea how that works these days. I know I want an emulator (RPSC3) and I found a site that might have ISOs. And that is probably actually fine for AC4 since I don't think that got any DLC. But calibrations and the like were a thing.

From a bit of googling I saw people mention something called "nopaystation" that basically uses what I assume is a hacked/fake PSN to streamline this which sounds awesome (and that I would only ever dare use in wine because holy shit that sounds dangerous). I saw some guides that alluded to setting that up with RPSC3 but... they don't actually? But I also recall people mentioning using pirated Demon Souls and AC4 servers and... some of the Influencers I have seen very clearly play emulated PS3 games are not the kind of people who even know what an ISO is so that probably isn't the path folk are taking.

So... what are the current best practices/methods for actually grabbing PS3 games? And maybe xbox/360 if I ever decide I want to Mech Assault again.

Thanks

 

Still going to have narrative limitations and swimming based stamina (I assume there are some progress gates with that). But holy crap the number of times I tried to enjoy Dying Light 2 and just hated that I couldn't scale a wall or even effectively run away at night.

 

So I used to really like the 8bitdo controllers but firmware updates and reconfiguring on Linux is... not a thing. Theoretically a windows VM can do the former and I can use my android phone and tablet for the latter but... no. Combine that with finally getting around to playing Crosscode (beautiful game that goes on for way too long and has the jankiest engine ever used in a video game) and I ended up back on just an xbox series controller.

Then I found out that apparently Valve are finally adding support to Steam Input for 3rd parties so that I can theoretically map those back paddles and the like without grabbing my phone and shuffling dongles. And I also remembered that I have all those extra features on my Steam Deck that I never use because my brain isn't smart enough to remember two full control schemes per game.

And doing research on the 8bitdos and gamesirs and the like... at BEST you get a brief mention of "this has steam deck support but let's look at my phone games instead". Knowing how clicky a face button is is nice but I would also REALLY like to know polling rates under bluetooth, what modes expose the gyro, etc.

So is anyone aware of any websites/blogs or youtubers who tend to go into even a shallow dive on gamepads and Linux? Configuration software/firmware updating, what features are exposed on what connection type, etc. Would obviously prefer someone who understands what Linux is, but even just a heavy focus on the Steam Deck would probably provide enough data (for me, at least).

 

So with newer wayland+wine/proton improving HDR support, I figured... I would actually try. And, rather than needing to debug everything all in one go, I'd rather take a few incremental steps.

So is anyone aware of games with native linux clients/binaries that support HDR? Preferably with a menu setting so I can determine if the capability is detected rather than "I guess that light looks bright?"

 

So Amazon finally closed up the kindle 4 pc loophole (bah) and that means I need to learn how to find ebooks for the authors who insist on releasing exclusively on kindle.

Looks like ebook-hunter and the like are the way to go for that (and I set up a reminder to try to get an invite to myanonamouse and we'll see how that goes). But... that site uses tiny-files which is straight up cancer. Not the end of the world to click the same link and close the same blocked pop ups five times in a row for a one off but... yeah.

Back in the day we used apps like jdownloader to make this less painful but from checking out the flatpak... that might be actively malware at this point AND it wants me to install definitely malware browser plugins and the like.

So is there a better alternative? Preferably something I can run in a container on a random server.

Thanks.

 

I've used proton for a year or two now and it is fine. Great for use on my phone when I want to use public/airport wifi and it sort of kind of works with gluetun (the rotating port is annoying but it still is a forwarded port).

But I've increasingly been annoyed with Proton as a company and am looking to migrate my email/domain to fastmail in the very near future. I COULD continue to just pay for the vpn (60 USD a year is pretty reasonable) but also feel like this is a good opportunity to "shop around"

Checked the wiki and other FAQs (which all basically crib from said wiki) and they all basically boil down to proton or mullivad... except that mullivad apparently stopped allowing port forwarding which is a bit of an issue for any torrents and the like.

So are there any other good options?

Thanks

 

No worries tesla owners of lemmy: your president is addressing your biggest concern

 

This is a grey area for piracy since you need to own the ebook but... you also don't really "own" anything purchased in digital distribution and this is removing DRM from that. Suffice to say, if this were Nintendo they would try to sue you so it is probably more piracy than not.

Confirmed working as of a few minutes ago since I wanted to rebuild this with KVM.

Based on https://www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/comments/1c2ryfz/ and comments thereof.

  1. Create a new virtual machine. I recently used KVM directly but also had success with Virtual Box.
  2. Install Windows 10
  3. Disable internet access for the VM.
  4. Download and install Kindle 2.4.70904 (SHA256 2e2e4e5bb9fd585947244a4a62ce5baca47818c439d0213cc9a5a96f9a692119) from https://kindleforpc.s3.amazonaws.com/70904/KindleForPC-installer-2.4.70904.exe
  5. Run the Kindle app and disable updating (Tools > Options > General > disable "Automatically install updates..."). Optionally change the save path.
  6. Run the batch script disable_k4pc_download.bat (SHA256 656fbabfa9d1bb3fd1160100391fbf3886597633178e37cffcffe747d3b66567
    ) under step 2a at https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=361503 to ACTUALLY disable automatic upgrading
  7. Re-enable networking.
  8. Download and install Calibre. 7.13.0 from https://download.calibre-ebook.com/7.13.0/. This version is known working and all efforts I found used Windows so I went with the msi (SHA256 7c1b57b6f55076cc646a30eb6394ec00df18be373c3badf80d7ee39152ccffda
    ) since this install exists solely to strip DRM before I then add them to my Calibre-Web server.
  9. Launch Calibre and install the KFX Input plugin from the built in plugin manager
  10. Separately download the 10.0.9 version of the DeDRM plugin (newer may work but, again, lazy) from https://github.com/noDRM/DeDRM_tools/releases/download/v10.0.9/DeDRM_tools_10.0.9.zip. SHA256 of d46e7ff94a46dc871eb9b7e639e6da1883823cd5a9d705d53f51bd9c251aabda
  11. Launch Kindle, login, and download whatever you want to strip DRM from. I did run into some weirdness where I had an exclamation point after logging in but restarting the k4pc app allowed me to download books.
  12. In Calibre, add all the books you downloaded by clicking and dragging the .azw file from Explorer to the Calibre window. You must do this from the downloaded directory as DeDRM is dependent on metadata in the same directory. This can be automated using a batch script pretty trivially.
  13. Then convert them to a non azw3 format (mobi if you are putting it back on a Kindle. epub otherwise).
  14. And then all the epub files in your Calibre library should have had DRM removed and be ready to import into your real Calibre library (or in a random folder on your computer)

Update (so someone tell that dipshit who steals guides to upload his copy):

Looks like Amazon have blocked sufficiently old versions of k4pc from downloading ebooks now. Unclear exactly what the criteria are. Some people think it is any book published after Apr 22 2025. Others (self included) have noticed it applies to purchases after that. My suspicion is that different publishers have different deals with Amazon and their cutoffs are based on that.

So either way: The above is mostly useless now. Yay.

 

I've been using News for Nextcloud for the past year or so and love it. But it recently broke (refuses to pull any feeds) and reading the github issues... that app ain't gonna last much longer.

Briefly looked at the awesome selfhosting page and going to do a read through of those when my brain is a bit more sane. But any suggestions? My main requirement is that I need to have multiple android devices able to connect and sync even while off network (I can handle the anxiety that comes from tunnels).

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