@mobyduck648@lemmy.world
mobyduck648
Sailor, software engineer, musician, terminally online.
Englishman in Wales.
member since 5 Jul 2023 16:51
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- on gender neutrule terminology in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9h ago
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on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
He has also called pensioners ‘dependents’ who shouldn’t get to vote
Amusingly I’m pretty sure this would tank the conservative vote pretty badly in most Anglophone countries. It certainly would in the UK.
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on Australia, the Land of Bluey, Tim-Tams, and Kylie Minogue: Not Having Those Pervert Glasses, Seeks to Pass “World Leading” Ban on Them. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago
Don’t forget the drop bears and sasquatches with enormous capacity for recreational drugs.
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on EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago
If you give these people 25.4 millimetres they’ll take 1.6 kilometres.
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on [US] House passes bill requiring AM radio in all new cars sold nationwide in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
The UK used to have powerful AM stations which operated from ships outside of territorial waters, they’re long gone except for Caroline which still exists (they even have their ship still) but as a legal station.
It’s kind of challenging to do it on the land as a clandestine pirate since physics demands a large (as in hundreds of feet) aerial to radiate anything decent as well as usually a large set of radials for the aerial to work against. It’s a more annoying version of the same problem amateur radio people have when using the 160 metre band. Of course it can be done, and people did it with much worse tech than what we have now, but it’s not something to do at high power lightly. The voltage at the end of an AM/MW transmitter aerial is often pretty bracing for example.
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on Bernie Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans - penalty on par with illegally developing rogue nuclear weapons in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
Yeah in my view (not US but applies regardless of country) the better thing would be to beef up court capacity then start prosecuting the absolute buggery out of anyone who uses, or negligently allows, a model under their control to commit crimes.
If you’re the master of a ship, your responsibility doesn’t end when you set the autohelm. Same with models in my view.
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on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Is it that relevant in this day and age? I was taught you put £ (or whatever currency you’re using) first when you’re writing so Johnny Fraudster can’t turn your 100£ into 1100£.
That all feels a bit immaterial on the web.
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on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
I’ll be honest Americentrism annoys me too, but we can hardly complain when we’re on lemmy.world of all places.
America is the largest Anglophone country so you can’t really complain about them being numerous on an international English-speaking audience, not exactly their fault they did a lot of baby booming in the late '40s.
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on We ignored the signs. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 25 Aug 2026
The whole point is that you’re paying them as a service rather than them using you as a feedstock for the ad industry. I don’t object to paying for search personally.
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on We ignored the signs. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 25 Aug 2026
I think Kagi has a ‘small web’ feature.
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on Chinese video platform Bilibili is going global to challenge Youtube in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
I think being the only browser with a credible stance on ad blockers will help them in the long run.
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on Trump admin empowers private US firms to go after transnational cybercriminals in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
God damn them all, I was told
We’d cruise the seas for crypto gold
Exploit no box, nor engineer
Now I’m an old black hat and in rent arrears
The last of Donald’s privateers
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on Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?' in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 13 Aug 2026
It’s not just about how many examples of a language exist in the LLM’s distribution though, dynamic typing is a poor choice if you’re using LLMs for software in my view because it turns compile-time errors into runtime errors which will only be caught if the LLM writes a suitable test; an area that they still leave a fair bit to be desired in.
The whole virtue of dynamic typing is that it reduces cognitive load on the programmer, if you’re using LLMs there’s no reason to do that in my opinion, you’re offloading a bunch of cognitive load to begin with so expressiveness and constraint is more important than human ergonomics. Yes there’s loads of JS in an LLM corpus but a lot of it is going to be poor examples, because it’s generally quite easy to write JS badly. If you use typescript you’re at least forcing a few common hallucinations to produce compile-time errors which the model has immediate feedback for, and you’re giving the model more context on what it’s seeing.
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on Everyone's asking, 'Who's Json?', but nobody's asking, 'How's Json?' in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 13 Aug 2026
As a software engineer I avoid JS as much as possible frankly! Its typing semantics are genuinely horrible, personally I’d never consider eschewing typescript in this day and age.
Then again I’m the sort of masochist who thinks we should all be writing Scala so maybe take this with a pinch of salt.
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on Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
hotter and more humid than Satan’s asshole
Genuinely the UK at the moment, which is not a sentence I thought I’d say but well into our fifth heatwave I’m praying for rain in Wales of all places.
Fuck climate change.
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on Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
There’s hating technology in general and then there’s hating the US West Coast tech scene specifically in my opinion.
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on Woman Calls Out Doctor Wearing Smart Glasses During Consultation Where She Had To Take Off Her Clothes: 'They Need To Be Banned' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 12 Aug 2026
I have a neurological vision disorder which I suspect augmented reality glasses would help a lot, but sod letting Meta see my life from a first-person perspective 24/7, or the lives of anyone around me for that matter. Also I suspect a genuine medical device would have to be made very obvious, you don’t want accessibility tech being mistaken for pervert tech. I wouldn’t take the risk frankly! It’s like if I’m talking to someone and they have a hearing aid in that’s fine, but if they’ve got headphones in I’m going to feel a little cheesed off on the face of it.
Also not American but I work for a trans-Atlantic company, those things sound like a PHI nightmare in a medical setting given Meta’s habit of indiscriminately hoovering up data like as many labradors in a pantry.
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on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
It can be done, I just bought an e-ink phone and it’s caused my use of commercial social media to plummet. Admittedly I’m saying this on Lemmy, but I think Lemmy has more in common with the forums of yore than ‘social media’ as it’s generally understood.
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on YouTube’s AI slop detector incorrectly targets Kurzgesagt as other creators fear same fate - Dexerto in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Aug 2026
I don’t think any human artists have made an album about the Isstvan massacre.
How on Earth are there warhammer fans who haven’t heard of Bolt Thrower?
Mate doesn’t pluralise well though, ‘I’m going out with my mates’ is fine but ‘hi mates’ sounds wrong. Also a lot of it is in the delivery, calling someone ‘mate’ can be anything from friendly to neutral to hostile depending on the tone and the words which precede it.