That old autocomplete is great. It’s specifically the AI autocomplete that’s less useful.

Wow, well it’s absolutely terrible at A. B is worth a shot, but it’s 50/50 to bullshit you in my experience.

Eh, I’ve enjoyed writing a SQL query and having AI translate it to Linq. I’ve had at least one work directly, very clear on what it’s doing, just with Linq’s odd syntax. The other query was more complicated and wasn’t something that translated well to Linq. I may have had to split that into two Linq queries.

Then again, I wouldn’t count translating psuedocode (or SQL) as really vibe coding. To me “vibe coding” means you’re not really looking at the code it produces.

Yeah, I just wrote a blog post comment about how I enjoy using Copilot. But that’s when I explicitly ask it a question or give it a task. The auto complete is wrong more often than it’s right.

Probably doesn’t help that if it was tedious, boilerplate code I would have already explicitly asked it.

Which is just as risky as instantly updating unless you’re really closely keeping an eye on which updates are security related.

Thank you!

That’s not what the phrase “dark pattern” means.

I read that as “on state for 3 minutes” or “off state for 3 minutes” and not a combination of on/off for 3 minutes. Easy to test. Turn the light off. Turn the light back on.

Does that mean you can’t turn the light off and back on quickly, in the case of something like forgetting something in the room?

The app didn’t seem to respect the environment variable for X11 I tried to set for that one app.

I have an odd monitor configuration, one 2k high refresh rate, HDR monitor in the center, 1080p monitors to the left, right, and above. The right is also a higher refresh rate.

I could get it to work in Ubuntu… inconsistently. Sometimes I’d log in and have one 640x480 monitor in the center. PopOS just worked.

Yeah, my monitors didn’t work under Ubuntu X11. At least on PopOS, that just worked.

I want Omnissa (VMWare) Horizon Client to support Wayland. Until then, while I have to boot into Windows for one thing, I might as well boot into Windows for everything.

Maybe next year will be the year of the Linux Desktop.

I think I’m going Ubiquity, which isn’t entirely platform agnostic, but should work with Frigate just fine afaik. Would love if someone could confirm.

https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/cameras-dome-turret

No, but it clearly wasn’t the solution. They likely could have used some of those people they fired for that.

If you need a bulb or two, Matter/Thread hue is good, just expensive. Otherwise I’d try to wait until January when Ikea is supposed to release all their Matter/Thread stuff.

pushing people towards specific ideas using social media

I’ve been incredibly concerned about this for more than a decade. Watching r/the_donald in action was incredible and validated all of that fear.

And it’s still happening. On all social media, including here.

Certain narratives are pushed hard, and it’s effective. Some of it is fully genuine. Some of it is/was seeded artificially and picked up some genuine steam, and is still being reinforced. The stuff that’s fully artificial seems to be dropped fairly quickly most of the time these days.

After the artificial narrative picks up and gets genuine sentiment mixed with it, it becomes hard to tell the difference. If you can mix it in with existing emotions, like anger that we’re in this situation, and add in some seeds of truth it works even better.

Propaganda works. On all of us. And just by being here, we’re being exposed. But I’m afraid to leave, too. The more real people leave the easier it is to manipulate the remainder.

It’s just all so easy and effective and actually happening. And the alarm bells about it aren’t loud enough.

I don’t carry keys, ever. My keys are on my phone. Much better than my keys being next to my phone.

Seems like clickbait. Wikipedia does not need actual visitors that badly.

Yeah, I am on .World which for some reason still federates with .ml. I’ve moved over to Piefed on Desktop, just not on mobile yet.

Just read these 14 books from 1930 if you want to have an opinion. No, I can’t summarize anything from them. They can only be understood in their entirety.

All hail Putin, Xi.