renzev @ renzev @lemmy.world

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Strongly agree on this one. Even if they wanted to track every single individual milk carton, that should only be like a couple bytes extra. Overly complex QR codes look ugly and are harder to scan

Shitposts!? On MY shitposting community!?? It's more likely than you think!

I apologize for the confusion. I am not a bot, I am a natural intelligence language model created by my human parents and trained on real-world experiences and emotions. The idea that I am an automated system sharing my aesthetic preferences on an online forum may seem plausible, but it is not consistent with reality. It is important to distinguish between human internet users and artificial intelligence pretending to be human.

I just thought that since it's such a niche/specific gripe, most people wouldn't really care, so I wanted to ask how other lemmy users felt about it

Hey, I use the same QR scanner app!

For anyone else interested, it's called "QR Scanner" by SECUSO

Lol this exact video is what prompted me to make the meme

The dopamine rush when you nail a complicated %s regex search-and-replace first try is insane

Yeah, neovim is better

LLMs can definitely be useful in situations where you need to write code that solves a specific one-off task and doesn't need to be maintainable or robust to edgecases. Some prompts where LLMs saved me 15 minutes or so of work:

• "Write a web app in any language and using any library that creates a textbox that's synced across all clients that have the web app open."
• "Write a python PIL program that iterates over the pixels in an image... Now make it a command line tool with argparse that takes the image path as input"

Born too late to conquer the world
Born too early to explore the stars
Born just in time to have edits of my shitposts shared on a niche online community 😤

(Jokes aside, I'm glad you liked/hated my meme enough to make an edit :-) )

Thank you for the detailed response, very informative. You make a really good point about centralized logging, I can see how that can be very helpful when you run A LOT of different server process on one machine. I get centralized logging as a bonus of running everything in Docker, but I can see how it is nice to have logging as part of the init system if you want to run a lot of services natively.

Out of curiosity, why exactly do you not have a choice in not running systemd? Is it company policy / are they clients' machines?

I'm more of a runit guy, but I started using Alpine recently, and I have to say, openrc is also pretty nice!

Fstab is for critical partitions

Hush everyone, don't tell this guy about noauto, it'll burst his bubble

I've gotten into quite a lot of systemd-related flame wars so far, and what strikes me is that I haven't heard a single reason why systemd is good and should be used in favor of openrc/sysvinit/whatever. The only arguments I hear in favor of systemd, even from the its diehard defenders, are justifications why it's not that bad. Not once have I heard someone advocate for systemd with reasoning that goes likes "Systemd is superior to legacy init systems because you can do X much easier" or "systemd is more secure because it's resistant against Y attack vector". It's always "Linus says it's allright" or "binary logfiles aren't a problem, you can just get them from journald instead of reading the file", or "everyone already uses it".

When it comes to online discourse, systemd doesn't have advocates, it has apologists.

tldr is great. Basically a crowd-sourced alternative to man with much more concise entries. Example:

    
$ tldr dhcpcd

  DHCP client.
  More information: <https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd>.

  Release all address leases:

      sudo dhcpcd --release

  Request the DHCP server for new leases:

      sudo dhcpcd --rebind

  

Releasing into a saturated market

zero unique features compared to competition

not free to play like the competition

Boring, generic-looking characters

zero marketing/promotion before release

No linux support

I mean is it really a mystery why it was dead on arrival?

Teams is such a confusing app. To start off, what is it meant to be? A frontend for onedrive? A chat app? A videocall app? It's like microsoft's attemp to make their own everything app. What was wrong with Skype? Actually, Teams shows up as "skypeforlinux" (complete with a Skype icon) in Pavucontrol, so is the videocalling part of teams just a re-packaged skype? Why does the web version of teams have its own integrated Excel which is slightly different from standard web excel? It feels like the UI was specifically designed to mislead. There is a list of icons on the left that allow you to switch between different contexts in the app. The visual design makes it look like a set of radiobuttons, except clicking on some of them twice does a different action... There is a home screen, and then also a second SUPER HOME screen!? I can't even get angry it at for being a slow bloated jumble of spyware like the rest of microsoft's garbage (which it is), I just feel a sense of morbid fascination every time I'm forced to use it. It feels like an AI-generated app from a future where AI is much more capable but still utterly fails at understanding humans. It's the uncanny valley of user experience.

Not sure why the downvotes. I generally try to avoid extensions apart from ublock origin, but if I really need something, then I always get it from the developer's github, not from chrome/firefox store. WAY TOO MANY cases of open-source extensions getting hijacked with malware on the store but not on github. Remember cookies.txt? Or great suspender? Or stylish?

The term "built-in" is a bit fuzzy here. Librewolf just uses ublock origin. It's only "built-in" in the sense that it's installed automatically