atomdmac

joined 2 years ago
[โ€“] atomdmac 4 points 1 week ago

It's true that manipulation of information has been the practice of the powerful for a long time, but I don't think it's accurate to say that the degree or scale to which it's been possible to do has remained the same. As an analogy, consider that both knives and nuclear bombs have the ability to kill people while having quite different implications, particularly with regard to the health and flourishing of our species.

Obviously AI isn't all bad. It's not even "bad". It just is. But the blast radius of a Bad Decision by a Bad Actor is much wider if armed with these new tools.

[โ€“] atomdmac 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can't be sure but I have a feeling that you and I have different bodies because I can't cope without breakfast.

[โ€“] atomdmac 2 points 1 year ago

I also like how they just left the license plate unredacted too.

[โ€“] atomdmac 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So like, there's this Gate, right?

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Bram Moolenaar Has Died (thenextweb.com)
submitted 1 year ago by atomdmac to c/technology
 

Thanks to Bram for the amazing text editor and the terrible scripting language. You will be missed.

[โ€“] atomdmac 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It makes me sad yo see this down voted with so little actual engagement with the content. Come on, Lemmy, you're better than that!

[โ€“] atomdmac 5 points 1 year ago

I would like to join other posters in welcoming migrants from /r/im14andthisisdeep

[โ€“] atomdmac 20 points 1 year ago

Haha fucking roasted eem

[โ€“] atomdmac 1 points 2 years ago

Would you personally believe a company if it told you what it's internal motivations were? For me I guess it would depend on the company but I struggle to think of a company that I would trust in this regard. That's especially true when it comes to tech companies which often are operate unprofitably for long stretches of time with the assumption being that they'll be able to make massive profits in the future.

[โ€“] atomdmac 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Has it gotten better at other stuff? Are you posing a possible scenario or asserting a fact? Would be curious about specific measurements if the later.

[โ€“] atomdmac 3 points 2 years ago

I'm a subscriber and received no such notification. This is the first I'm hearing of it.

[โ€“] atomdmac 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

For those looking for alternatives, I would only suggest Plex if you're OK with hitching your wagon to a different company with interests possibly competing with your own. Its great software and easy to set up but they can remove features you like and use at any time. It may be a risk worth taking for you but go into it with eyes open. I dropped them when they removed photo sync and started getting more aggressive about their content offerings.

Jellyfin is my current home and I like it a lot but I recognize that not everyone wants to deal with the setup and troubleshooting.

For some middle ground, there's also Emby which is a commercial version of Jellyfin.

[โ€“] atomdmac 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is a good user name :) TMV forever!

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time tracking (self.neovim)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by atomdmac to c/[email protected]
 

I've been using Wakatime recently and while I like the functionality quite a bit I don't really want to pay $15 per month to use it. It seems a little steep to me so I'm looking for free and open source alternatives. Does anyone here have one that they like?

Edit: I started messing with https://timetagger.app and writing a quick adapter to start/stop the clock from neovim. I've beentestingg it out over the last few days and so far, I really like it

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