micka190

joined 2 years ago
[–] micka190@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Reddit and Twitter are filled to the brim with spambots and remain successful.

Just because it's where all the users already are. You couldn't start Reddit today, it'd immediately get spammed by AI bots and no one would stick around.

Hell, Reddit's API changes had a noticeable impact on most text-only subreddits I was a part of, and then the AI content just made a lot of the remaining ones die off. No one's rushing to Lemmy to fill those niches. They're just not participating in them online, instead.

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Some things are preventative. There's plenty of studies that show that the likelihood of developing a gambling addiction is higher for kids.

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it's fair to call out reviews that say:

"This works out of the box, and requires no tinkering at all. Anyways, here's what you'll need to do to get it to work."

Having to tinker with settings and commands is literally not what "requires no tinkering" means.

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The real problem with these videos is that Linus decides to try and emulate the average user, but then refuses to do even the smallest amount of troubleshooting "because the average user wouldn't do it". So it leads to a lot of moments where something doesn't work out of the box, there's a trivially simple solution that comes up as the first Google search result (if you ignore Gemini's output), but he doesn't bother and just throws his hands up (like the average user would, I guess).

It just gets frustrating, because their Linux videos end up being entertainment first, and educational... fifth, maybe?

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Yeah. There's been reports of silicon wafers being hoarded too...

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 134 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (15 children)

According to a Stack Overflow survey from 2025, 84 percent of developers now use or plan to use AI tools, up from 76 percent a year earlier. This rapid adoption partly explains the decline in forum activity.

As someone who participated in the survey, I'd recommend everyone take anything regarding SO's recent surveys with a truckfull of salt. The recent surveys have been unbelievably biased with tons of leading questions that force you to answer in specific ways. They're basically completely worthless in terms of statistics.

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Maybe I'm just dumb, but I always thought half of GitLab's features were unavailable to self-hosted instances. It's why I just self-host Gitea and Woodpecker instead.

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 12 points 5 months ago

Every sub I was active in has become one of two things:

  • Bot spam
  • Dead
[–] micka190@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure this kind of thing has been illegal since before Edward Snowden became a whistleblower, tbh. The US Government hasn't cared about people's privacy and the laws surrounding it for decades.

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

"Researchers scrape thousands of hours of news footage from their TVs!" is about as big a deal, honestly.

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

the Israeli military’s usage of Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology and artificial intelligence products

Genuine question, but doesn't this just mean that Israel paid for a Microsoft Azure subscription and used it to host web services? Like, anyone can do that. What am I missing here, exactly?

They say Microsoft have "deepened" their relationship, but how did they do that, exactly?

[–] micka190@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah. What company wouldn’t allow it?

My IT department uninstalled it from my work laptop, and told me not to reinstall it because - and I quote: "The only browser IT officially supports is Google Chrome."

What makes this doubly stupid is that I'm a web developer. I literally can't test my stuff on another browser...

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