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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Very interesting opinion, thanks for it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I think a bit the opposite: I'm really worried about the trend to give people only information they care about. I think it's essential to be able to have information about everything. Of course there will always be stuff you don't care about but having it automatically filtered out is dangerous in my opinion. In GAFA-powered social networks, you are only given pieces of information about your own opinion, you never have something that make you question yourself about your opinion. The power of independent and open media like Lemmy is to not rely on such biasing algorithms.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As of now, I backup stuff (mainly pictures) from my phone to a linux file server using rsync in termux (launched through the tasker plugin and automate). I search a replacement to get rid of the automate application that I need only for that, is not Foss and require to run in background in order to use it. Do you think Syncthing can deserve my use case ? Of course I can RTFM but...

 

Thought that if we are so easily bored in our modern society, much more than were our grandparents for example, it's because of technology that simplify all our daily activities. When it was necessary to do the laundry in a basin, it took a lot more time than just pushing on a button to launch the washing machine, then there was no time for boredom. What do you think?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

A good one IMHO is Omnivore.

Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution for people who love to read.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago (2 children)

A good chair for sure. I think this is the most valuable thing you can ask for.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As a Heliboard enthusiast and pretty happy with it, I would like to ask you what you find wrong with it, what you miss from the original ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

yep but nothing prevent you from using an hosting service, there are plenty on the web, or you can selfhost

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The issue with the current time zones in Europe is that they are far from being natural... The more you go to the west the later the sun is raising and setting, the more you go to the east, the opposite. Current western European time zone is too large... There are initiatives to improve that but will it be done ?

For example: https://timeuse.barcelona/what-we-do/permanent-time-zones-eu/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It's indeed noisy, we schedule it to run when we're not at home.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (13 children)

A bit on the costly stuff but I find the vacuum cleaner robot (not sure it's called this in English) very useful. The house is cleaner to be vacuumed every day (even if it's not as efficient as manual vacuuming or cleaning). Especially with pets and children.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Indeed, being Belgian and an adept of the real French fries (double cooked) I was not convinced at all. In the end, I still prefer real fries but I find the air fryer very practical to cook (or warm up quickly - unlike microwave oven it does not make stuff soft) all sort of food.

 

As almost every readers, I have some favorite authors from which I like to read everything they publish. But I wonder how I can efficiently "follow" their publication. Do you know about a service (free, at least as in free beer, at best from the foss world)which can offer such syndication? I'm thinking about a personalized rss feed, or a e-mail, or any way. For the moment, I just look from time to time to their website or social media page but the issues I have are:

  • I look when I think about it (it would be better to be somehow notified)
  • It's time consuming and inefficient
 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/25160716

Pretty interesting video ...

 

Pretty interesting video ...

 

Ok let's give a little bit of context. I will turn 40 yo in a couple of months and I'm a c++ software developer for more than 18 years. I enjoy to code, I enjoy to write "good" code, readable and so.

However since a few months, I become really afraid of the future of the job I like with the progress of artificial intelligence. Very often I don't sleep at night because of this.

I fear that my job, while not completely disappearing, become a very boring job consisting in debugging code generated automatically, or that the job disappear.

For now, I'm not using AI, I have a few colleagues that do it but I do not want to because one, it remove a part of the coding I like and two I have the feeling that using it is cutting the branch I'm sit on, if you see what I mean. I fear that in a near future, ppl not using it will be fired because seen by the management as less productive...

Am I the only one feeling this way? I have the feeling all tech people are enthusiastic about AI.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Number of (active) Lemmy users seems to stabilize and I think this is a great thing. Indeed we got a lot of users when reddit shutdown its API (I was among them despite being a long time oss user), many have left, but the community seems now to stabilize to ~ ½ of the big grow in june '23. I think this is very nice for lemmy, we can be proud of this project.

The stats come from: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

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