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Gnubyte@lemdit.comOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Want to use some form of ChatGPT but don't want to use the cloud? Run ChatGPT4all locally. It has an API server in the options menus too.English1·2 years agoMaybe there is confusion in what I am saying. Yes. That is not ChatGPT’s API:
What I mean is - it literally has an API server you can run yourself if you want to programmatically talk to it. Here is a screenshot of the menu option.
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a current or growing trend only you seem to have concerns about?English39·2 years agoI think it’s especially the money and LGBTQ+ and non sexual norms that are driving people to the right. I notice when I talk to a lot of younger guys theyre tired of hearing about it.
Because it’s pushed on so much of their TV shows and things they like that they side with political candidates that are conservative at a young age and they further grow into it. These are conservative candidates with lots of money usually.
I hate to say it but it was universally cool to defend LGBT people when the media and TV shows didn’t push it. Because you were defending an oppressed person. Now it more so feels like it’s popular which means it’s no longer an obscure thing, the anti culture is the new trend.
I want to disclaim that I don’t agree with any of this other than to say this is my observation of the behavior. I play rainbow six ranked on Xbox and use the looking for group party finder with a buddy of mine. We group up and encounter a lot of guys in the army and Marines, a lot of teenagers and this is cumulatively the culture I’ve heard. Same thing on like world of warcraft classic and using discord to raid but those guys run older typically.
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Programming@programming.dev•What are your programming hot takes?English236·2 years ago🌶️🥵Many people consume Facebook meta company’s tech stack wholesale, don’t know how to actually traditionally program their way out of a paper bag, and web dev and devops caused a massive layoff (250k people) at the end of 2022, start of 2023 because it was all vaporware. They consume the same software in droves if the other guy uses it.
There is an entire subculture around it that is just a bunch of medium.com writers, YouTubers and twitter handles just trying to get the clicks for their ad money. Some of these guys have never written valid software or done anything noteworthy. If you meet them head on you’d find they have enormous egos and can’t find a counter argument when presented with reason.
I’ll even add on that there are many programmers who don’t know how to code outside a web app.
Why is something like [react, graphql, react ssr, devops, tailwind, unit tests, containers] vaporware?
- there are other frameworks even with component libraries that are easier to read the code for large codebases, better maintained, and have cohesive full stack solutions, and even faster to develop in, to name one quasarJS or even just plain ecmascript
- if you look at the anatomy of these enterprises using these solutions they’ve evolved to have micro front ends requiring armies of workers.
- devops is a sales term, the actual implementation of it is so contextual that you’d probably find you don’t need a full time job for it half the time and most are relatively easy to setup inside of a business quarter
- not everything is Facebook scale: unless you’re padding your resume why did some of these get adopted? How complicated does your app need to be? Did you really need to transpile JavaScript for it?
- unit tests were code to test your code that you’re going to have to functionally test anyways: you’re telling me that you have to write your code…twice? How the hell did this ever get justified to mangers? Why did the culture not evolve into literal automated smoke tests of the actual builds, instead of testing whether a function that is probably type annotated is going to fire anyways???
- docker/containers suck ass: great that they solved a problem but created a whole new one. we moved to python and JS which were JIT without artifacts and suddenly everything needs a generalized build system to run it. C lang variants and Rust lang compile to a binary you can just run… Ship the small ass binary not an entire container to run your shitty web app
You know the stuff I don’t hear about?
- Javascript and Python were steps in the evolution but never the end goal. I’d even say the same of java. There are new solutions but JavaScript in the browser especially should be replaced.
- eye appeal is buy appeal
- that eye appeal shouldn’t always mean you need to use a library or framework; vanilla apps work okay too.
- binaries/artifacts/installer packages > containers
- automated testing of the actual end product
- well written logging to the point someone can tell what the application was doing without seeing code
- using all these compsci algorithms to actually write new products and searches from scratch instead of being a framework baby: do you actually need ELK or Splunk for your search? Really?
- you probably don’t need MySQL for a lot of projects, I bet you an async library with sqlite would be the same for many of these projects.
- small teams with feature rich apps using SSR, the value of an SSR web app
- the value of a SPA
- the value of traditional desktop software and not using REST APIs
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into?English192·2 years agoGaming. It used to be an MMO for like $15 a month. Now it’s a new game for $70, the game has DLC for $20-$30 or skins or some battle pass.
😂 thanks for the chuckle
We need an article summary bot up in here man. I got walled off after a few paragraphs and it wanted my email to store in their database😅
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI now tries to hide that ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books, including J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter seriesEnglish1·2 years agoI’m not sure about that at all. At what point does a computer program become intelligent enough to not have human rights but have some cognition of fair use.
I think it needs to be really hashed out by someone who understands both copyright law and data warehouses, and some programming. It’s a sparse field for sure but we need someone equipped for it.
Because I don’t think it’s as linear as you’re describing it.
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?English2·2 years ago- Too much fluff on interweb
- assume others online are writing in brevity
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?English23·2 years agoI’ll generalize and say there are many my age in their 20s that watch things like TikTok and shorts that are conditioned for the fastest intake of media. This means ignoring the written word outside of texts.
Even myself, if I see a wall of text in an article, I know to skip the fluffer ad-reads down to paragraph three, then skim. To be fair most articles could be wrapped up to maybe two paragraphs but get extended for ad spots. Outside the context of reading articles on say lemmy, especially online, there is a largely missed hear mean not what I’m saying operating in good faith that often gets missed online. For example if someone posts an article about how smoking kills you, and I post a comment that “yes but its a creature comfort” I am not refuting it kills you - I’m merely suggesting that its a rough world and that people have vices to cope.
Nuance and assumption that we’re acknowledging it is often lost on people.
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI now tries to hide that ChatGPT was trained on copyrighted books, including J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter seriesEnglish2325·2 years agoOur ancient legal system trying to lend itself to “protecting authors” is fucking absurd. AI is the future. Are we really going to let everyone take a shot suing these guys over this crap? Its a useful program and infrastructure for everyone.
Holding technology back for antiquated copyright law is downright absurd.
Edit: I want to add that I’m not suggesting copyright should be a free for all on your books or hard work, but rather that this is a computer program and a major breakthrough, and in the same way that if I read a book no one sues my brain for consumption I don’t think we should sue an AI: it is not reproducing books. In the same manner that many footnotes websites about books do not reproduce a book by summarizing their content. With the contingency that until Open AI does not have an event where their reputation has to be re-evaluated (IE this is subject to change if they start trying to reproduce books).
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Has the Reddit exodus killed the former Lemmy culture?English4·2 years agoAre those the super communists that are like fuck any place that’s not Russia and China? Lol
If so I guess I feel the pain but I just give em the block
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Has the Reddit exodus killed the former Lemmy culture?English61·2 years agoThings are fine man. There’s just a lot of de federation lately which I don’t think is exactly right.
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Technology@lemmy.world•It’s time for Americans to embrace small carsEnglish57·2 years agoI’d entertain this much more if getting in a car crash with a bigger vehicle didn’t mean death. My dad used to work in the ER and also commute in the snow. It’s not that bigger equals safer but sometimes slightly larger means not getting demolished.
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft Finally Realizes Nobody Wants Its Windows 11 Preinstalled BloatwareEnglish213·2 years agoMmm that’s not really realizing anything.
You know what sort of tom fuckery I had to get into to get my gaming laptop working? I had to find a sketchy windows 10 LTS IOT ISO, run some registry hack then find and install all my drivers just because the regular working consumer edition of windows is such a bag of bloat…
For hardware I paid for…! Next time I’m just going with system76 right out of the gate. I just kept reading reviews about things not working right or still being in development so I bought a mainstream laptop with a warranty.
A lot of linuxy or FOSS sort of stuff is still buggy despite being better than it was ten years ago. No one talks about it. Purism phone, pine phone, Linux gaming, the steam deck, etc. They all have major flaws or sometimes breaks in functionality. Where mainstream has breaks 1/10 even the best Linux setup has breaks 1/5 of the time minimum. And that’s great but it still sucks that you have to look elsewhere because mainstream is a monetization sponge in all senses of the phrase.
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Technology@lemmy.world•All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EUEnglish1·2 years agoI hope so. I don’t plan on renewing my iphone for awhile, I like pixels open firmware stuff with graphene and even just Android. But I hate carrying around the extra special apple cable
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Technology@lemmy.world•All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EUEnglish1·2 years agoUSB C has been pushed for at least four years now. No it does not have a good track record.
Maybe Google is nice enough to comply. Fair! But apples larger and doesn’t. Which speaks volumes. You know what I mean? It’s ironic because USA does nothing about it…at all. But it’s unfortunate because every iPhone still uses that crappy lightning cable and AFAIK I read something saying they make $200m a year on accessories like those cables and adapters.
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Technology@lemmy.world•All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EUEnglish11·2 years agoI see something like this every few years.EU has to make a fine so heavy that it’s impossible to just pay as a tax of doing business.
Unless that’s all it really is.
Gnubyte@lemdit.comto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•lemmy.world blocked the largest piracy community in all of lemmyEnglish6·2 years agoWhen feds come a knockin’? Fuck yeah it does mean you’re responsible for them, yeah man. Lmao. We just had our server admin purge some pervert agenda pusher. Because first off thats fucked up and next it could have the server seized.
Some dusty law enforcement won’t care if its just one bad apple. Especially if they get whiff that its a “community”.
Its locally hosted including the model and the runtime. You can have your program open up a server and bind ports locally if you want to run your own server and not just a desktop GUI.