Jayjader

@ Jayjader @jlai.lu

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Learning Rust and Lemmy lemmy.ml

24h ago

36-year-old left the U.S. for China—now pays $1,000 rent and $100 for groceries for family of 4: It's my 'version of the American Dream’
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Jayjader @jlai.lu 24h ago
Yeah, compared to the USA it's an improvement but compared to many places here in Europe it's almost appalling.

1d ago

Mastodon will get end-to-end encryption for private messages thanks to Sovereign Tech Agency

Ah, so it's more like Imgur for the fediverse. I imagine it would be possible for multiple servers to share a picts-rs instance, even if in practice it never happens.

1w ago

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 1w ago

Sometimes I wonder if Charlie Kirk wouldn't have been all for what his now-widow has been doing, given how much of a ghoul the man was in life.

1w ago

Mastodon will get end-to-end encryption for private messages thanks to Sovereign Tech Agency

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 1w ago

It reads like they're basically making an alternative to picts-rs, or am I missing some key difference?

1w ago

Mastodon will get end-to-end encryption for private messages thanks to Sovereign Tech Agency

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 1w ago

I didn't read any mention of the Public Key Directory server approach/proposal (c.f. https://soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/) in the post nor the two pages it links to. I think overall E2EE is important for messages, full stop, but I do hope that it won't be as user - opaque as Signal and WhatsApp nor as rough of a user experience as how matrix was when I used it back in 2019.

1w ago

A PHP Dev Just Solved a 20+ Year-Old KDE Plasma Problem No One Else Would

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 1w ago

I think what you're favorably describing stops being "vibe-coding" and starts simply being "coding with LLM assistance". And I suspect most people in this thread railing against vibe-coding are much less hostile to LLM assistance. In any case, I don't think saying that people "should start accepting this fact" will convince anyone that wasn't already, especially if you call it all "vibe coding".

1w ago

Global leftist leaders gather in Spain to mobilise against far right

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 1w ago

I want to disagree with you, but then I see the responses you got here and how many upvotes they got and I can't help but think that you might be right. Still, until we get transcripts and/or recordings of conversations had at this gathering I don't think there's much to be gained from speculation.

2w ago

I want to believe

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 2w ago

IMPOSTER

amogus

2w ago

Vous connaissez les échecs à 1 dimension?

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 2w ago

Drôlement difficile à ne pas finir en pat.

2w ago

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 2w ago

I'd agree with you in general, but this streamer spends 8+ hours a day talking about political news - not exactly "play video games for a few hours").

2w ago

I just tried vibe coding with Claude

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 2w ago

I haven't tried any Anthropic models personally.

So far, between the free online chats by OpenAI and DeepSeek, and the smaller models I've run on my own machine, the most useful things I have gotten from it were to treat it as an overeager student that lacks the first-hand experience needed to see the big picture, asking it questions that I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to and seeing if 1) it "understands" what I'm getting at and 2) it can surprise me with a viewpoint I hadn't thought of before.

Using them to double-check my own ideas seems to be marginally useful, especially when there's no qualified human being whose attention I can borrow. Using them as a sort of semantic web search can sometimes get me what I'm looking for faster than Google. If anything, they're an opportunity to exercise critical thinking; if I can tell where it's getting things wrong I can be fairly confident that my own understanding of the problem/subject is pretty solid.

Vibe coding, though? I have yet to see it work out. Maybe as some starting slop so that I can get to work refactoring code (and get the ideas flowing) instead of staring at a blank file.

2w ago

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th April 2026

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 2w ago

It's ludicrous to pay taxes on the wealth your robots make, but it's savvy business to charge each software-delimited robot as a separate being - just like charging per-cpu-core was!

2w ago

The Electronic Frontier Foundation is Leaving X (Twitter)

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 2w ago

Learned helplessness is an insidious foe, and one that market forces have tended to side with over the past 20 years (probably for far longer than that, but as I was a mere child back then I wouldn't claim it with as much certainty).

It's an "easy way" for those like you and me who have more or less already built up the know-how over countless small steps, but if you've never known "life" outside of these corporate surveillance playgrounds I imagine it seems very scary and deserted.

3w ago

Anon is worried about AAA sales

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 3w ago

As soon as I can assemble my own polycule, this will be the first game we play.

Followed by Slay the Spire 2 co-op.

3w ago

Axios used AI to fake an opinion poll

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 3w ago

Sadly, I'm not too surprised. Check this shit out, published back in November 2025: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.25137.

"We simulated 151 million American workers [using LLMs] to see what proportion of tasks they do that can also be done by AI".

Much more recently, Esquire couldn't get ahold of an actor for an interview and so decided to generate the actors responses using Claude: https://esquiresg.com/mackenyu-one-piece-roronoa-zoro-interview/.

We had the photospread, but nothing directly uttered by the 29-year-old. With a driving need for a feature, we had to be inventive. Harnessing our creative license, we pulled his verbatim from previous interviews and fed them through an AI programme to formulate new responses.
Are these the words we expect from Mackenyu? Or are they just replies from an echo chamber of celebrity-hood that we want to believe is from him?
With the absence of information, can new insights be gained?
Nature abhors a vacuum, and in its place, a story fills the hollow.

Somehow it is currently accepted by a certain portion of people that LLM-based systems can be used to replace actually existing human beings.

3w ago

Bondi firing a reminder that even ultra-loyalists get dumped by Trump

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 3w ago

I saw a Democrat on some news station say that she was about to be questioned about the Epstein files until she got fired. Maybe they're trying to avoid her lying under oath?

3w ago

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 3w ago

On a similar note, washing my hands in warm water after after they were chilled by the morning air felt fuckin' magical.

3w ago

Tax dollars at work

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Jayjader @jlai.lu 3w ago

I agree that in the short-term, NVidia stand to make more money as a destroyed datacenter prompts it's owners to rebuild it. However, until the armed conflict stops, there might be a pause on datacenter construction in the region - why pay to (re)build a datacenter if it's probably going to be blown up again? From my (admittedly limited) reading of history, most reconstruction only happens in the years following an armed conflict's end.