omg, I never realized that kitty and calibre were maintained by the same person. I’ve avoided each one independently because the dev is a dickhead, and boy howdy am I even more sure that I’m never going to use either tool.
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Badabinski@kbin.earthto
Technology@lemmy.world•Linus Torvalds says Linux kernel is out of 'stabilization phase' and using 'much healthier model' for AI contributions
301·12 days agoI’ve found that the quality of code produced by my team has dropped significantly since my org pushed everyone to use LLMs. “Let me throw an agent at it” usually means “here’s another headache of a PR for me to review.” Engineers with decades of experience are writing such utter fucking crap now, and it doesn’t matter how many docs I write for their fuckass agents to ingest, the quality doesn’t seem to be getting better. They can make their agent loop on it for functionality/bug and hallucination squashing, but that usually just means I get a bloated fucking mess to review. It’s miserable and it makes me want to go shovel actual hog shit.
Sincerely,
a very sad and tired senior dev who used to enjoy his job
Badabinski@kbin.earthto
Technology@lemmy.world•Man granted first-of-its-kind religious exemption against mandatory AI use at work
9·17 days agoI’d argue that humanism is a bit different from, say, Christianity. It has ancient philisophilcal roots, but it’s not like humanists are following texts from some crazy asshole tripping balls in a desert 2000 years ago.
I host an instance for my own personal use. It lives on my local network and nowhere else. I just use wg-tunnel on my phone to automagically VPN home when I’m out. It’s just not worth the headache to expose it publically IMO.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto
Technology@lemmy.world•The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
9·26 days agoYou’re absolutely right, I had shit all mixed up in my head. Oops 😅 thank you for the correction.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto
Technology@lemmy.world•The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs
17·26 days agoMITM HTTPS traffic without a key doesn’t really let you do much of anything, especially with stuff like HSTS. You can mess with DNS, but the whole certificate authority thing is meant to make it so you can’t redirect someone’s traffic to a malicious server.
This leaked private key completely destroys that guarantee, making it extremely scary. ~Plus, saved traffic for any site signed by this key which didn’t use PFS will be subject to post-facto decryption.~
edit: I don’t know wtf I was thinking, the decryption thing is nonsense.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto
Technology@lemmy.world•Other AI Companies Should Be Very Afraid of What Just Happened to Character.AI, According to Its Own Bankruptcy Documents: Be afraid.
15·1 month agoAt least according to Ed Zitron, they only appeared profitable due to creative bookkeeping. They timed the announcement of their shitty “annualized revenue” to coincide with the few months of vastly reduced rent at the datacenter Musk rented to them as well as the shift to token based billing for enterprise customers. Their inference is likely not profitable.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you still do the "L" thing with your hands to check left and right?
9·2 months agoI do on occasion. I was very frustrated when I learned that left and right comes as naturally as up and down for most people.
Having dealt with mountains of frontier-LLM-generated slop from once-good senior engineers, I’m feeling pretty competitive.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto
Technology@lemmy.world•Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US
3·3 months agoI use one of those every night and they’re awful. I buy them 5 at a time because they’re not very durable, and you end up with this especially irritating tangle of cables.
Look, I get it. It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process (sourcing ideas, creating outlines, refining prose, etc.).
Should we?
Badabinski@kbin.earthto
Technology@lemmy.world•Australians to get at least three hours a day of free solar power – even if they don’t have solar panels
19·3 months agoIf you want to use your own power and not give it to the grid, then don’t use a grid tie inverter. Get some batteries and only accept power from the grid, never feed back into it. If you’re feeding into the communal system, expect the rules to not always be exactly what you want. Don’t we all want people to use clean daytime solar power instead of dirty fossil fuel-based nighttime power?
Badabinski@kbin.earthto
Technology@lemmy.world•BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat
8·4 months agoI will continue to pray for Slate to not completely suck. There’s a “smart” module that has a cellular modem, but it’s something you have to opt into and pay for it.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•photon selfhosted lemmy client is absolutely nice
8·4 months agoOnly possible AI thing I see is
.zedin the.gitignore, but that’s not an indicator of LLM usage. Plenty of people use zed with all AI features disabled.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto
Technology@lemmy.world•DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'
4·4 months agoTry putting two spaces are the end of the line, or leave a blank line between each line.
two spaces at the end
of the line test.blank line
test.
Man, they need to hold another vote to get the verbiage of this cleared up.
The title of this post is incorrect. They are not banning cryptocurrency projects. See this message for why: https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1254#issuecomment-19923979
edit: man, I have no idea anymore.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto
Technology@lemmy.world•Weird Al Yankovic Turned Down “Nice Pile Of Money” For AI Ad: “I Can’t Be The Poster Boy For AI”
5·5 months agoWhat do you mean? His hair is glorious, especially for someone who is 66 years old.
Badabinski@kbin.earthto
Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI made $13 billion in 2025 and lost $21 billion doing it
10·5 months agoOpenAI has a trillion dollars in financial obligations they need to meet by 2030. I doubt Clear Channel’s financial obligations were in the same order of magnitude.

For those who (like me) have never heard of this distro:
and here’s part of their blurb about moss: