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    7 days ago

    posted it. Got dunked on for AI slop

    101 upvotes and 14 downvotes… dunked?

    Anyway, I stopped reading and downvoted after the

    Ipso facto, for all the AI “Akshually” pedants, I’ve tagged this as AIP. Politely go fuck yourselves :)

    typing the word “politely” or a smiley doesn’t make a very rude remark any less rude.

    Moreover, splitting the community into a pro-AI faction and an anti-AI one isn’t healthy (for the community, whether it’s healthy for you is a can of worms that I don’t want to open right here and now) and ridiculing the other “faction” can only radicalize things and we already have more than enough of that, both in lemmy and, sadly, also IRL.

    So, personally, I donwvoted your post, not your project.








  • That’s way too tame… I fear it won’t attract 8M in funding.

    Jokes aside, the Christian commandments are quite lacking (insufficient) when it comes to contemporary morals… eg. there’s nothing forbidding discrimination or violence (short of homicide) or slavery or corruption or torture or neglicence etc. (and this is if one quite generously interprets “your neighbor” as “anybody else”, which is clearly not what the word means and which doesn’t explain why only some of the precepts have this “universal restriction”).

    I always find it weird when people cite the commandments as a moral compass without integrating them with (very much necessary) additional prescriptions.


  • It’s part of the official install docs for docker

    Not true.

    The “add user to docker group” thing is not part of the install instructions (also, there is no official install docs for arch - but that’s a moot point), it’s in a separate document that literally starts with [emphasis mine] “These optional post-installation procedures describe how to configure your Linux host machine to work better with Docker” and contains a big orange box warning about that being part of the docker group is equivalent to being root.

    Even if you think the docker doc could trick a newbie into thinking it’s ok to make your user part of the docker group (which I’d argue it doesn’t), you have to consider that:

    1. distros should be made by people who actually know what they are doing
    2. people who package something for an arch-based distro should at least read the arch wiki (which also clearly warns about the docker group)
    3. this whole thing is a very well known issue of a very well known software package, something that anyone who ever used docker with any seriousness (and most of the people who chose podman instead) knows very well

    You can say that the whole “docker group” thing is a very stupid idea and that it’s existence is squarely on the docker’s devs, and you could even argue that it’s a trap, but there cannot be any doubt that falling for this trap (that has big “this is a trap!” signs all over) is a major blunder for a distro.

    it’s a group that gets automatically when you install it on any distro.

    The issue is not the group existing, the issue is your user being part of that group.

    Yes, you can make your user part of the docker group if you so chose, but distros should not make that very unwise choice for you per default (just as they shouldn’t set things up to encourage you logging in as root or configure passwordless sudo for your user).




  • Most probably those services are started because some other service depends on them.

    After running systemctl disable someservice the service someservice is not “disabled” in the sense that it can’t be started, it merely isn’t started automatically at startup. If you want to make a service not startable, use systemctl mask (or, you know, uninstall/delete it?).

    systemctl list-dependencies --reverse mysql.service should list the services that depend on mysql.service.




  • There are both x64 and ARM64 RPM and Debian packages available for this closed-source Linux app.

    One more reason to stick to my current niche distro :-D


    BTW: out of curiosity, I just went to chatgpt.com and asked:

    briefly, what’s the recommended way to distribute a desktop app on linux?

    The answer wasn’t brief (at least for my definition of “brief”: it started with a bullet list of all possible packagings) but it ended with:

    If you want one recommendation: ship Flatpak + AppImage. Flatpak for normal installation/updates, AppImage as the portable fallback.