Who was it that said that the mark of a good leader is that everyone working under them is smarter than the leader?

By that metric, the C level are the dumbest people in a company.

Came to post this, glad to see it’s already here.

Nice little utility tool box that does a ton of helpful stuff in a small package. Super easy to self host and container images easily available.

Ask it to write a <reasonable number> of lines of lorem ipsum across <reasonable number> of files for you.

… Then think harder about how to obfuscate your compliance because 10m lines in 10 min probably won’t fly (or you’ll get promoted to CTO)

O it’s writing 100% of the code for our management level people who are excited about “”““AI””“”

But then us plebes are rewriting 95% of it so that it will actually work (decently well).

The other day somebody asked me for help on a repo that a higher up had shit coded because they couldn’t figure out why it “worked” but also logged a lot of critical errors. … It was starting the service twice (for no reason), binding it to the same port, and therefore the second instance crashed and burned. That’s something a novice would probably know not to do. But, if not, immediately see the problem, research, understand, fix, instead of “Icoughbuiltcoughthis thing, good luck fuckers”

In my head too. We can share though.

I’ve been getting recommendations for videos with 2 to 10 views. Noticed it about three months ago.

I’ve just realized the back seat of my two door car is a death trap thanks to your comment.

… Good thing nobody ever rides back there and it’s just used for storage.

2005: Because server side is PHP… Obviously.

Life hacks. Get on board.

Me to all restaurants, stores, basically anybody : I’m not installing your fucking app.

Edit: I realize I’m abnormal and most people are fine with it, but I’m not okay with it and I won’t do it

Somewhere out there is a person with a single folder named “music”, with zero sub folders, containing thousands upon thousands of tracks with names like “1.mp3” and “1 (1).mp3” and they’re totally okay with it.

Just thinking about it makes my skin crawl.

Something I found today - ask it for the lyrics of your favorite song/artist. It will make something up based on the combination of the two and maybe a little of what it was trained on… Even really popular songs (I tried a niche one by Angelspit first then tried “Sweet Caroline” for more well known). The model for those tests was Gemma3. It did get two lines of “Sweet Caroline” correct but not the rest.

The new gpt-oss model replies with (paraphrased) “I can’t do that because it is copyrighted material” which I have a sneaking suspicion is intentional so there’s an excuse for not showing a very wrong answer to people who might start to doubt it’s ““intelligence”” when it’s very clearly wrong.

… Like they give a flying fuck about copyright.

That IS uplifting.

I cut my teeth on Linux when red hat was trying to make things “user friendly” with control panel like guis but they consistently couldn’t do what I wanted so I had to learn the terminal anyway.

25+ years later, I’ll use a gui if it works and it’s easy, but I still have trust issues that I don’t have with a config file. You put shit in a config file, it’s going to do what you asked (right or wrong) or sigterm trying… And I appreciates that.

That said, I do mostly gui config on my daily driver these days. Servers however… No gui, no problem.

At least you didn’t have to worry about Ruin manipulating it.

… Sorry, I’ve been reading the Mistborn series and just finished “The Hero of Ages”

Yeah… I should expand. The penguins are just my favorite part of those movies and it matches the Linux motif that I started with yet falls apart, you know, when I name a windows laptop rico-w : P

Mine are named after the penguins from the Madagascar movie : Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico.

Unfortunately there’s only four so I often supplement with a suffix. For example, I’ve got an old windows laptop kicking around that is “rico-w”

… I should really commit to a naming scheme with a wider array of options.

Second this. Think I heard about it on lemmy, been using it ever since. Built in editing, copy to clipboard, save to file, all the stuff I need.

I’ll find something else to screw up and cause it to break, don’t worry.

Yep. Haven’t used windows besides poking at other people’s machines and trying to figure out wtf is going on in about 20 years.

I’m just as clueless as you bud, but I’ve got a bootable Linux drive I can plug in. Come on, you know you wanna… It’ll be great, you’ll love it. It’s free