tegiddrone (u/tegiddrone)

tegiddrone commented on Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs wsj.com/politics/policy/j... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

nebula8804 · 7 days ago

>I worked with a company that could not keep up with the rising SWE salaries and thus attracted a different kind of SWE.

Maybe im misunderstanding you but I would think that any level of SWE skill would be a minimum amount of competence such that they wouldn't fall for Trumps tricks? SWE is rearranging bits accordance to logic...so you need to know logic no?

tegiddrone · 7 days ago

Oh, I WISH that was the case but I'd estimate only 10% of SWE would fit your model of minimum competence... and yeah a lot of that 10% are browsing HN. I recall in 2016 asking coworkers why they voted trump. "My 401k" was a frequent answer.

Vibe coding existed long before AI, especially in web/startup/enterprise information systems. You don't need to be a critical thinker to make a successful RoR app.

tegiddrone commented on Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs wsj.com/politics/policy/j... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

Herring · 7 days ago

In 2023, 28% of U.S. adults scored at or below Level 1 literacy, indicating significant difficulty with everyday reading tasks. https://www.nu.edu/blog/49-adult-literacy-statistics-and-fac...

You guys are surrounded by other college-educated SWE, you have no idea how bad it is out there.

People without a college degree went Trump 56-43. People with a college degree went for Harris 56-42. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...

tegiddrone · 7 days ago

Yeah, it is an interesting bubble to be in. I worked with a company that could not keep up with the rising SWE salaries and thus attracted a different kind of SWE. I definitely felt the difference in education with the new hires. Reading comprehension/attention was weak. AI will easily replace them, I guess.

Finding the data on this would be convenient but its still unclear to me. I'm not a fan of how that article from NU cites its sources loosely, including lazily citing Wikipedia.

tegiddrone commented on Why consumer choice is stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it fireborn.mataroa.blog/blo... · Posted by u/zdw

tegiddrone · 11 days ago

Let us all reflect on AI with a core point this article is trying to make: that we build habits around a product. The industry goal is to have our dependency. What a fabulous position to be in where we can’t think or code without a subscription their LLM assets.

tegiddrone commented on Open source is not about you (2018) gist.github.com/richhicke... · Posted by u/doubleg

tegiddrone · a month ago

A tiresome sysadmin I've been talking to is under the impression of: "well, if <open-core-saas> stagnates or otherwise shifts focus away from our interests then someone will just fork it, duh!" .. when glancing thru Discord successors

tegiddrone commented on In praise of –dry-run henrikwarne.com/2026/01/3... · Posted by u/ingve

tegiddrone · a month ago

I’m interested to know the etymology and history of the term. Somehow I imagine an inked printing press as the “wet run.”

tegiddrone commented on YouTube Playlist Downloader github.com/Linuxmaster14/... · Posted by u/linuxmaster14

tegiddrone · 2 months ago

I've been glancing at ytdl-sub, which does the same thing but with interesting options to rate limit.

https://ytdl-sub.readthedocs.io

tegiddrone commented on PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance digitalpublicgoods.net/r/... · Posted by u/fsflover

alisonatwork · 3 months ago

This situation is so frustrating to me, and despite my attempts, nobody seems to get why it's problematic. I still have a Facebook account from over a decade ago that I use occasionally to access stuff that is only visible on Facebook, but by the time Insta kicked off I had already decided social media was bad, so I never got one, and it didn't seem like a great loss because I wasn't that interested in looking at other people's photos anyway.

Except now, apparently - and I'm still not exactly sure how - business owners and activist groups and event promoters communicate everything about what is going on via... photos?! I suppose it's the digital version of flyers, except you could see flyers posted up all over town, in all the record stores or cafes you already frequented, friends could hand you them when they saw you out and about, you'd get bombarded with them when you left related events... And none of those situations forced you to enter a heavily-surveilled gated community owned by a spectacularly wealthy foreign company notorious for enabling genocide, live streaming murder etc.

I was at some event a couple weekends ago and an organizer came up to me saying that there was going to be an after and just check the Insta for the address, and I'm like... But I don't have that? Can't you tell me now? And because the site is login-walled even when at some point later in the day the thumbnail did appear, trying to click on it to see the details resulted in the login block and so I missed out.

But I am well aware that I am a teeny tiny minority of people involved in this boycot and so I'm only really hurting myself. The way I've heard it described by activists is that using Insta (or X or YouTube) is like tacitly accepting that we already live in a panopticon and thus all resistance has to take place within full view of the authorities, it just needs to be smart and present itself as something that isn't actually resistance, or that works around censorship using codewords, or this, or that, "just like how it's done in China". And it's like, great, the new generation of western activists who actually still live in a society which grants them some civil liberties have decided they're all doomed to exist under the totalitarian jackboot and practice their resistance accordingly. After all, you can't build a movement out there on the actually free fediverse or the small web where there's only a smattering of nerds.

I don't know if I should be depressed or just suck it up and get that stupid Insta account.

tegiddrone · 3 months ago

I have seen organizers get stuck in the dopamine loop of focusing on inspiring content that "increases engagement" and getting fixated on moderating trolls that it actually gets in the way of doing impactful work. I definitely on the depression train on this front. It's far worse than digital versions of flyers, people aren't incentivized to focus show up when they can just keep scrolling for their fix.

tegiddrone commented on Nostr nostr.com/... · Posted by u/dtj1123

rgreeko42 · 6 months ago

My "apolitical" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt. What an odd word to use in the first sentence of your product description, which also includes the word "open", an inherently political concept in this context.

Did/does Nostr have some cryptocurrency connection or am I thinking of something else?

tegiddrone · 6 months ago

I concur and "apolitical" is probably not the best word. I think it is an attempt to convey that the platform can't ban people. It is resistant from infrastructure censorship. Here is an example specific use case:

https://how-nostr-works.pages.dev/

I find that example pretty humorous... Damn, what kind of controversy is Pamela spreading?

I like it but feel nervous that there is synergy with the bitcoin space. Hype and validation is thick in that space

tegiddrone commented on What about using rel="share-url" to expose sharing intents? shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/edent

kemayo · 7 months ago

Looking at ShareOpenly, I think this is basically a reaction to "Mastodon instances make social sharing complicated from the web". A "share to Mastodon" button is impossible, and a button for every Mastodon instance in existence is impractical. Thus a "fuck it, I guess just put in a URL and we'll work out how to send something to it" solution.

Speaking as someone who never ever uses a share button I think this is misguided, we should just remove that entire class of widget from the web, and people who want to share things can copy-paste the URL into their platforms of choice.

tegiddrone · 7 months ago

I agree. Except we aren't there with web literacy and having that integrated UX is significant.

tegiddrone commented on A Practical Guide to Running Local LLMs spin.atomicobject.com/run... · Posted by u/philk10

tegiddrone · a year ago

Is there a spreadsheet out there benchmarking local LLM and hardware configs? I want to know if I should even bother with my coffeelake xeon server or if it is something to consider for my next gaming rig.