I’m pretty sure brass was used because it was durable and stayed smooth to the touch in the elements unlike wrought iron, I don’t think they were trying to prevent the spread of disease

I wish the history of regular household stuff was better recorded

I scrolled around to find it. It’s an awful thing for someone to use as a catty quip but you really picked one of the worst things to post as a first experience given the culture here, not your fault. You actually made your case just fine, you could have said “it’s a voice controlled PDA that lets me use my phone less, I don’t ask it questions” and 99% of users would have been like neat.

Part of me wants to say don’t use the internet at all if you can’t ignore such an insignificant and offhandedly rude comment, if 100 people see your post you must assume at least one will be a combative cunt. Copypasta replies won’t endear you to most users either.

If you can handle unapologetic leftist politics you might come to find that Lemmy on average has slightly higher quality and less mean spirited comments, it’s funny that this was your first experience. Enjoy your time on the community space not designed to sell you crap you don’t need.

First time I ever see someone legitimately use that thing on the left. Here’s hoping you’re not using it in a way that liquefies your brain.

You have a new account so I’ll assume you’re new to Lemmy and I’ll give you a heads up that most of the people here are horrified by the effects of slop generation on the state of communication, information retrieval, work culture, and art/graphic design. And they’re on a fringe network in part to get away from it among other things on the big platforms. I’m sure most people here who read what’s on your screen thought “huh an actually useful way to do this good for them”.

I’ve thought about this exact problem and I find this very pleasing to look at. Nice work

I had this realization when I thought of disk images. A disk image is a file ergo everything that can be on a disk necessarily has to be a file of some kind.

It’s more like data is data is data to me but that’s so far from descriptive it’s like saying matter is matter.

Just so I understand, since I was looking into using ZFS for my storage before hard drives went up by like 400%: you set up things in an obtuse way and you got a failure that can’t be recovered from?

I somewhat wrapped my head around how ZFS data storage itself works, and was feeling relatively confident that it’s what I’d use.

I play through a modpack every few years usually when I’m between jobs. Last one was Nomifactory.

Probably the best value I ever got for paying for a game, I think my account is 15 years old

All the zoomers at work compare my working style to this guy and I think that’s the highest form of flattery

Lemmy operates more on Tumblr rules where you write out the word and people who don’t want to see it have already filtered it out in their settings. I think shorthand SA would have been fine. Hexbear rules would have you wrap the whole thing in a CW:SA spoiler and use SA in the body, which works. There’s no perfect solution. Your comment looks especially bad because your asterisks made a block of text italic (if that happens you should put a \ before them like this \*).

There was a whole thing in the Tumblrsphere apparently about zoomers, used to self-censoring from years elsewhere, bypassing the filters and reaching people who don’t like want to see that stuff, by using increasingly arcane or goofy replacements. The genie is out of the bottle now on that, and it’s just part of online communication now, but it’s interesting how we moved backwards on this.

Personally I think making readers guess the letter a in the word won’t make a difference. But if this makes you feel like you really made the world a better place for assault victims then knock yourself out.

On the flip side, if you’re vibe coding an app you should seriously consider whether it’s something you want to open source or make available publicly. There’s a social contract that comes with that.

This is the attitude of an existing programmer who is using these tools. What I’ve found on here is a specific pattern that keeps repeating:

1. A post is sharing/advertising a project. The poster is two hours old.
2. The poster is extremely coy about how their project was made despite obvious slop in the post body. They’re a bit clueless about anything that looks like a social contract that comes with that and think there’s something strange or accusatory/interrogatory when people ask questions they think are too difficult or technical
3. Some Lemmy users have generally polite but fundamental critiques and questions the poster can’t answer or thinks must be gotchas
4. The poster has a crash out about us all being mean/unappeasable/anti-AI/luddites/Linux users/godless commies and is usually the only one downvoting comments, even ones that read like genuinely interested, though cautious
5. The post and account are deleted

There’s a clear disconnect. You’re talking about the homelab community which is a bit different but I specifically remember someone making an accessible Android UI and being extremely frustrated at people asking for the entire code to be released, and at people saying there’s not enough features there for that poster to be looping in advertisements on a fucking home page UI.

I get the impression that primarily-slop coders on some level think they’re doing programming, because of how you can get functional prototypes of code that is way above what a total beginner can write on their own. They think having code that compiles (whatever it’s usually Python there’s no compiling) means the hard part is over. They don’t seem to understand that the questions and concerns about vibe coding aren’t moral complaints but genuine concerns about liability, running code even the author doesn’t understand, and a complete cluelessness about what they should be doing to evaluate the code besides prompting it to be “good with no mistakes”.

That Android UI project seemed like a little thing a few people could install on their grandparents’ phones. It’s normal for the author not to understand every little thing. But being totally clueless and being offended at the suggestion, being entitled to put ads in it to get 0.0016 USD per year per grandma in exchange for taking up a quarter of her screen forever, not understanding why this looks scummy, why refusing to release 60% of the code looks scummy, why half the questions are being asked at all.

Again this would not be a problem if this wasn’t now expected for a significant portion of any projects you find online. A lot of projects are the first genuine effort of someone out there and they’re not perfect but they didn’t feel like the unceremonious implosion of the entire philosophical concept of personal computing.

And I’m fucking shit at writing good code and I’m pissed.

I don’t understand, is this for keeping track of the charge level of battery powered sensors?

Also, the description in the page is painful to read. I haven’t gotten into HA yet but I’m keeping an eye on stuff I find interesting, but I really hope having to trudge through saccharine LLM output to understand what each project does isn’t the standard.