Install Guix

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Cake day: March 17th, 2026
  • uuj8za@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI SucksEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated.

    Everyone should take this with a huge grain of salt. Like all other internal company stat reports, it’s bullshit and manufactured.

    Example: my company has recently introduced a gate on CI. All commits must have “Co-Authored-By: X”. Technically, you can set X=None, but most people aren’t doing that because we’re not stupid and we know the commit history can easily be data mined and used to generate stats on who is or isn’t using AI. And we don’t want to get fired.

    Result: 99% of all new commits use “Co-Authored-By: Claude”. Every commit I make now has “Co-Authored-By: Claude”. Am I using AI? FUCK NO. But, now I have to add that stupid line to any work I turn in.

  • uuj8za@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible — No One's HappyEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I’m not sure limiting customization is actually a good thing… There are legitimate customizations and innovative inputs that people like.

    For example, Logseq has a fancy text field that can bring up a submenu if you type two left brackets. Something like this is pretty specific to Logseq (or at least certain notes apps) and this would be much harder to replicate in a native app.

    Or are you saying Logseq shouldn’t do that? And it should assume that the notes area is just a plain text field? I guess that would be considered more “expected”.

    At least in my experience with Vala and GTK, this would take significantly more effort. Not impossible. Just way more effort.

  • uuj8za@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Native Apps Should Be Avoided Whenever Possible — No One's HappyEnglish
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    14 days ago

    Most native apps collect far more data than their website equivalents ever could. They request permissions to hardware, sensors, and background processes that browsers deliberately restrict.

    On March 27, 2026, the Trump administration released an official White House app for iOS and Android. … Apple requires apps to submit a privacy manifest disclosing what data they collect. The White House app declared an empty array. Zero data collection. Meanwhile, the actual binary contained ten analytics frameworks, including the full OneSignal SDK with a sub-framework specifically for location tracking

    Hm. Didn’t think about it like that.

  • uuj8za@piefed.socialtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How many and how much are your subscriptions?English
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    15 days ago

    I don’t think you need too many subscriptions for self-hosting. Just the domain. And that’s only if you want to be fancy. You can just use an IP address. Or services like Netbird give you a free domain (whatever.netbird.cloud). Uh, what else. Uh, the electricity subscription? My server idles at about 70w. It runs 24/7. (Netbird and Tailscale are free options for creating VPNs.)

    That’s kinda the point of self-hosting that you don’t have subscriptions.

    starting into homelab/selfhosting.

    There is a 1-time up-front cost though. You need to acquire hardware and right now AI is messing everything up. Hardware is at an all time high. Maybe you can find more affordable used hardware somewhere.