@it_depends_man@lemmy.world
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- on Google is sending a teensy-tiny AI data center to space - Engadget in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7h ago
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on Marvel's Wolverine motorcycle section and quicktime events are getting the wrong kind of attention because "the game plays itself" and "you don't have to press anything" in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
designed to show off explosions.
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on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Open Source and git mean this is basically a non issue. It’s just effort to manage it again.
People can fork a pre… 2020? version if they insist and if it’s enough people who want that, they can group up again and form a new community.
The problem AI slop coding is mostly the untested bullshit that causes problems. That’s not going to happen because I believe that a good bunch of stuff is thoroughly tested now, and also, this is maintainers doing it. If it doesn’t work, it’s their project, their career and their success on the line. And again, the worst possible outcome is that people have to roll back to an older version.
The code we use is not art the same way that gen-ai replaces “real artists”. I agree with opposing that tech in that area, and I agree with rejecting unchecked, untested, hallucinated nonsense in coding too, especially when it promises new features in corpo software that you are forced to use, and then have that fail on you.
But there will be a very normal selection process happening. If the process doesn’t work, the software will fail and lose users.
I fully support the people who absolutely reject it though, that means diversity of approaches and that’s good.
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on EA staff fear new Saudi Arabia owners will police their games: "Projects just won't get signed because they don't align explicitly with what the Saudi government wants" in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
It is so funny to me that the Saudis would invest into a creative industry that thrives on letting artists make what they think is right and then forbid them from doing that. And also expect that industry to then operate profitably, even though they just removed the basic foundation of that industry.
But there is no talking and arguing with people like that, so we can just get popcorn, watch and enjoy the Schadenfreude.
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on Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
Tools are just tools
I don’t think that’s true, but we simply disagree on that.
I don’t think he’s hypocritical. He simply doesn’t have to deal with that negative impact he “warns” about. He is in support of using it as a tool and thinks the criticism is invalid. That’s a consistent perspective, even if I don’t agree with it.
If he used LLMs to create bug reports, but also complained about LLM written bug reports he gets, that would be hypocritical.
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on Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
Torvalds was careful to frame this as a correction of language rather than a rejection of the technology itself.
Ok…
A maintainer burden few are talking about
Alongside the productivity gains, Torvalds described a less-discussed cost: a rising flood of low-effort, AI-generated bug and vulnerability reports hitting open source projects, including the kernel’s own security channels. He said it has become common for someone to run an AI tool against a codebase, file a report flagging a “possible” issue, and then vanish when a maintainer follows up asking for more detail or a fix.
Everyone is talking about that and it is surprising to me that he doesn’t recognize that as two side of the same coin. Why are you rejecting the low-effort, Ai generated bug reports, Linus, isn’t AI just a productivity tool? What’s wrong? Is it not being productive?
I say “surprising”, it’s not that surprising. It’s a “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” attitude. It’s willfully excluding the impact that technology has on people, and framing the outcome as coming purely from people and the existence of the technology not affecting the outcome.
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on Teamwork games? Like Rematch or Foxhole in c/games@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Depends on how serious you take it, team based shooters can be that.
I played “Nuclear Dawn” and “Natural Selection 2”, but they’re a bit old now. But games like “Arma” should work too. I didn’t play “Angels Fall First” but I did have my eye on it for a while.
I guess someone will recommend the milsim shooters like Squad, Squad 44, Arma (Reforger) though I fear it’s not as deep or organic (i.e. you need to be in a clan).
Well yeah, most of the time, randoms won’t appreciate the depth the game can offer and will ruin the experience. If you want “deep but organic”, that’s impossible because “organic” people will not go deep enough.
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on Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Also a very good point!
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on Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Sure, but they need the watermarking to later claim the copyright on the stuff that people do create in the open with their agents.
“They would never do that!”
“And even if they did, I would sue them, and then the justice system would…”
“uh… uh oh”
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on Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Well that’s useful. Good thing to learn!
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on How can i teach myself to contribute to these projects? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
How can I teach myself how to offer small improvements to the projects I use?
Programming in general?
Probably more that if you want to work on graphics software, you need to understand graphics programming?
That’s unfortunately very difficult. I know of no good way to do that. With specification based software, you can at least read the specification or related standard and then it flows from that how it should work. With programs that server a different, specific use case, there is a manual, and flow to things and then “things stick out”.
If there are issues, you just read a bunch of issues and read the code that they are about and get a feeling for why the issue is an issue and why the code is the way that it is.
I remember one thing I helped with for a short while, didn’t use the python “with” file writing dialogue, because the file they were writing was massive and opening it in one place, then doing a bunch of functions that wrote and appended to the file and then closing it somewhere else, was the best solution, even though it looked unclean at first.
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on Mark Zuckerberg Posts Deranged 6,500-Word Essay About Giving Everyone AI Superintelligence in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
That’s not deranged, that’s Mark Zuckerberg personally announcing his goals, ideas, policy, suggestions and plans.
Read it very carefully, pay full attention and take every single word seriously.
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on "Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
Remember that story about the chalk mark engineer with Ford? Chalk mark 1$, knowing where to mark 1000$ ? Same with code. “Code” is easy. Knowing what to write, why and where, that’s the hard part. LLMs have somehow managed to automate the code part, without the abstraction, at least in an error proof way. I don’t think “coding isn’t that hard” is insulting, and I don’t use C++ because I think it’s hard. But it’s not because writing something is hard, it’s because writing precisely what is needed is hard.
Anyway, this debate doesn’t matter, negotiate better, be active politically to ban stuff or not, complaining on the internet won’t do anyone any good. I know you’re emotionally invested in this, just… breathe and do something else? Idk. Also I’m not your enemy on this, so no need to attack me.
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on The return of supersonic flight hinges on the race to solve one big hurdle | CNN in c/technology@lemmy.world · 7 Aug 2026
I was not aware that the concorde flew for about 25 years? That’s honestly pretty amazing.
Overall unnecessary though. Unless they demonstrate that it’s somehow more efficient, by flying higher and faster and the trip being shorter? I doubt it though.
data "center"
Ok then.