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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Nobody should feel a strong need to upgrade after only two generations. Same deal with most tech like GPUs and CPUs.

    I use my phone a lot and my Pixel 7 is fine. The primary factors driving my last couple upgrades were battery degradation and software support. Neither should be a big problem with a Fairphone.

    I’m also trying to decide whether to stick with the Pixel/GrapheneOS ecosystem or go for Fairphone.

    How hard/expensive was it to replace your battery? I looked on iFixIt and it seemed a lot harder than my orevious phones.



  • GenderNeutralBrotoScience Memes@mander.xyzCursed
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    It’s not necessarily the most efficient, but it’s the best guess we have. This is largely done by trial and error. There is no hard proof or surefire way to calculate optimal arrangements; this is just the best that anyone’s come up with so far.

    It’s sort of like chess. Using computers, we can analyze moves and games at a very advanced level, but we still haven’t “solved” chess, and we can’t determine whether a game or move is perfect in general. There’s no formula to solve it without exhaustively searching through every possible move, which would take more time than the universe has existed, even with our most powerful computers.

    Perhaps someday, someone will figure out a way to prove this mathematically.


  • GenderNeutralBrotoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldCloudflare blocking AI crawlers
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    do they just want everything to be crawled

    Yes. Web crawling has been a normal and vital part of the web from day 1. We’d have no search engines without crawlers.

    The web is user-centric by design. I’m sick of tech companies trying to flip the script and hoard information, most of which is not theirs to begin with (e.g. Google, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc.).





  • 20 years ago I would have taken this as satire. Today, reality is far more absurd.

    They clearly don’t understand what pride is about, or why it’s needed in the first place. I don’t go around showing my “straight pride” because there is literally nobody out there trying to make me ashamed of being straight. Never in my entire life have I felt unsafe because I was straight. I never had to worry about my family rejecting me if they learned I was straight. Being straight has never affected my housing security. I have not been subjected to verbal and physical assault because I am straight. Nobody has ever, to the best of my knowledge, been sent a brainwashing camp for being straight. There is not a single country on earth where it is illegal to be straight, and there never has been.

    You cannot say any of those things about being gay. That’s why gay pride matters. These are not problems of the past. They are all problems today.






  • The concept is real. I mean, anyone who thought “vibe coding” would be a viable career path for long enough to actually have a career was just not paying attention to reality.

    Right now it legitimately takes some expertise to get good results from AI coding. (Most people doing it now get, at best, convincingly passable results.) But the job of a “vibe coder” is much simpler than the job of a conventional programmer, and it will become increasingly simple to automate out the human’s role. It’s not like progress is going to suddenly stop. The fruit is hanging so low that it might as well be on the ground.


  • I can’t directly compare, but I really like my Boox Go6. It runs Android, so you can install regular Android apps on it. I use Koreader as my ebook app, and I manage my library manually. I buy all my ebooks DRM-free so I just drop them into a folder (and I sync that folder to my computer and phone using Syncthing, which took a lot of manual setup but works great).