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shayway commented on Wayland is flawed at its core and the community needs to talk about it old.reddit.com/r/linux/co... · Posted by u/tannhaeuser

mindcrash · a month ago

No software is perfect, and if we really want to discuss flawed then IMO we should talk about systemd instead, which took one of UNIX' (and later on GNU/Linux) most famous core architecture principles - namely "do one thing and do it well" - and took it out to a kill site.

And yet they'll have to pry my OpenRC, cronie, and sysklogd from my cold dead hands...

shayway · a month ago

Systemd seems prime for a rethink like X11 has received with Wayland. I hope that systemd becomes the next target for cross-distro development and collaboration once Wayland has settled in a bit more.

shayway commented on Librarians tired of being accused of hiding secret books that were made up by AI gizmodo.com/librarians-ar... · Posted by u/vitalnodo

wccrawford · a month ago

My wife runs one locally. She's pretty happy with it, but I have to bite my tongue when talking about it with her.

People frequently take all the good books, all at once, and don't return them.

Someone just emptied out half of it yesterday, and I don't even think they were picky. They just took a whole shelf of books.

It's such a crappy thing to do, and there's nothing that can be done to stop the bad actors.

shayway · a month ago

I'm sorry to hear that.

Where I live actually has the opposite; there are ~6 within a mile, and they're usually completely full. People are always dumping huge collections into them, to where I never even have the chance to give back myself.

I don't know what makes it different here. But it is possible for them to work without safeguards.

shayway commented on As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise npr.org/2025/12/28/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

IlliOnato · a month ago

You may check these videos by Oleg Kuvaev. 100% generated using AI. Everything: text, music, characters, voices, editing -- all done via prompts, using multiple engines (I think he mentioned about a dozen services involved). I would not call it "high art", but it's definitely not a slop, it's an artist skillfully using AI as a tool.

https://youtu.be/A2H62x_-k5Q?si=EHq5Y4KCzBfo0tfm

https://youtu.be/rzCpT_S536c?si=pxiDY4TPhF_YLfRc

https://youtu.be/wPVe365vpCc?si=AqhpaZHYb4ldSf3F

https://youtu.be/EBaGqojNJfc?si=1CoLn4oeNxK-7bpe

shayway · a month ago

While we're sharing AI generated videos, IGORRR's ADHD music video [0] is definitively art, zero question about it. I don't think typing a prompt in and taking the output as it comes is art -- good art, anyway (the point-and-shoot photography comparison is apt) -- but that doesn't mean AI can't be used to make truly new, creative and unique art too.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGIvO4eh190 (warning, lots of disturbing imagery)

shayway commented on You can't design software you don't work on seangoedecke.com/you-cant... · Posted by u/saikatsg

johnfn · a month ago

I don’t know. At my place a lot of cowboy engineers decided to do things their own way. So now we have the random 10k lines written in Redux (not used anywhere else) that no one likes working with. Then there’s the part that randomly uses some other query library because they didn’t like the one we use in 95% of the code for some reason, so if you ever want to work with that code you need to keep two libraries in your head instead of one. Yes, the existing query library is out of date. Yes, the new one is better— in isolation. But having both is even worse than having the bad one!

shayway · a month ago

It's essentially the same problem as https://xkcd.com/927/ [How Standards Proliferate]

shayway commented on How we lost communication to entertainment ploum.net/2025-12-15-comm... · Posted by u/8organicbits

mrkeen · 2 months ago

This is so dramatic it's hard to recover the original complaint.

Dansup has built a photo-sharing app on top of ActivityPub, and we humans are a lost cause because the app doesn't also do text-only messages?

Is that the gist of it?

shayway · a month ago

I've noticed a funny tendency among some Fediverse passionates to have strong feelings about how others should be using it. Author says "We could not both be right," but that's rather antithetical to the value proposition of decentralized social media, IMO.

A healthy user-empowered ecosystem naturally has some fragmentation; that's a sign it's working as it should to accommodate different tastes and visions. You can't use the same metrics for judging monolothic systems driven by a central authority as decentralized ones.

I share many of the author's opinions on communication vs entertainment, but the framing around an intentionally open and flexible system like ActivityPub leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

shayway commented on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo blog.mozilla.org/en/mozil... · Posted by u/recvonline

lionkor · 2 months ago

Well Ladybird [0] it is

[0]: https://ladybird.org/

shayway · 2 months ago

I'm reading HN on my laptop outside, and a ladybug landed on my screen right as I was reading this comment. It's sitting there as I write this. I know this doesn't contribute to the discussion in any way but it's so neat I just needed to share.

shayway commented on This is not the future blog.mathieui.net/this-is... · Posted by u/ericdanielski

acedTrex · 2 months ago

> Does it matter? Like how does it matter?

It matters because the amount of influence something has on you is directly attributable to the amount of human effort put into it. When that effort is removed so to is the influence. Influence does not exist independently of effort.

All the people yapping about LLM keep fundamentally not grasping that concept. They think that output exists in a pure functional vacuum.

shayway · 2 months ago

I see what you're getting at, but I think a better framing would be: there's an implicit understand amongst humans that, in the case of things ostensibly human-created, a human found it worth creating. If someone put in the effort to write something, it's because they believed it worth reading. It's part of the social contract that makes it seem worth reading a book or listening to a lecture even if you don't receive any value from the first word.

LLMs and AI art flip this around because potentially very little effort went into making things that potentially take lots of effort to experience and digest. That doesn't inherently mean they're not valuable, but it does mean there's no guarantee that at least one other person out there found it valuable. Even pre-AI it wasn't an iron-clad guarantee of course -- copy-writing, blogspam, and astroturfing existed long before LLMs. But everyone hates those because they prey on the same social contract that LLMs do, except in a smaller scale, and with a lower effort-in:effort-out ratio.

IMO though, while AI enables malicious / selfish / otherwise anti-social behavior at an unprecedented scale, it also enables some pretty cool stuff and new creative potential. Focusing on the tech rather than those using it to harm others is barking up the wrong tree. It's looking for a technical solution to a social problem.

shayway commented on LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted old.reddit.com/r/mildlyin... · Posted by u/bj-rn

bromuro · 2 months ago

I have poor eyesight and I don’t support this practice of linking old reddit on HN. Old website is unusable for me. I have to load the link in the native app to read it.

ctrl+F doesn’t work anyway as the comments are also buried in a “load more comments” on old reddit too. New website and app have a search comments field.

shayway · 2 months ago

Assuming the issue with old reddit is font & element size, does zooming in with Ctrl+ not solve the problem?

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shayway · 2 months ago

David Duchovny has never written a blog post about the identity of Jack the Ripper. Coincidence?