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  • NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone - Anurag Singh

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  • I wonder how many Nix cheerleaders are aware of OSTree based systems like Silverblue, Kinoite, Bazzite, etc? They provide the same immutability guarantees, but none of the pain and standards-defiance of NixOS.

    I think Nix (the package manager) is a much stronger sell than NixOS. You can use Nix to install your apps on top of another immutable OS, whereas otherwise you might go with Flatpaks, containers, AppImages, etc. It's certainly better than adding Homebrew or some other manager like Pacman.

    For devs, Nix is nice for people who can't or don't want to use containers for any reason (or want to use both!). I just don't see anyone benefiting from using NixOS except for Nix addicts.

  • CachyOS founder explains why they didn't join the new Open Gaming Collective (OGC)

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  • Well, fuck. I just learned about this drama, and it doesn't seem very positive for Bazzite's future. What is it about Discord servers that turns adults into spoiled brats? Idk whether Antheas' version of events are 100% truthful, but he's at least one point about some of the questionable changes recently, and I've seen some power tripping from the Bazzite devs wrt Ptyxis and Bazaar.

    Luckily, since it's ostree based I can switch back to eg Fedora Kinoite with a single command if things get too bad. It would be a real shame if Bazzite died though, as it's one of the best out of the box experiences for gaming PCs/handhelds. For now, I'm sticking with it.

  • AI Code Review Prompts Initiative Making Progress For The Linux Kernel

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  • Are we entering the Linux 11 era?

  • How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills - Anthropic study

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  • The study is about the impact AI use has on learning. Their experiment seems to test just that, unlike what you’re describing.

    The title is literally "How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills". Memorizing APIs isn't what most people would consiser a "coding skill".

    Debugging, systems design, optimization, research and evaluation, etc are what actually make someone a useful engineer, and are the skills a person develops as they go from junior to senior. Even domain knowledge (like knowing a lot about farming if you're working on farming software) is more useful than memorizing the API of any framework. The only thing memorization does is it saves you a few minutes from having to read some docs, but that's minimal impact, and it's something you pick up normally throughout the course of working on a project anyways. When you finish that project, you might never use that API again, or if you do it might have changed completely when a new version is released.

    remembering what you did an hour ago seems like a real world problem to me.

    Sure, humans have shitty memory, but that has nothing to do with AI code assistance. There are plenty of non-AI coding assistants that help people with this (like Intellisense/LSP auto complete, which has been around for decades)

  • Software Survival 3.0

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  • I think the more interesting experiment to watch is what happens when someone gets so throroughly lost in the sauce of vibe coding like this guy. Hopefully he had a psyche evaluation or MRI before this so science can learn from him.

  • During Data Races: What Is the Risk of Accessing Half-Written Variables? Is There Any?

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  • How commercially-available phone location data is used by ICE (and other law enforcement agencies)

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  • The psychopath who murdered Rene Good was recording her with his phone before he shot her in the face

  • How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills - Anthropic study

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  • In a randomized controlled trial, we examined 1) how quickly software developers picked up a new skill (in this case, a Python library) with and without AI assistance; and 2) whether using AI made them less likely to understand the code they’d just written.

    We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery. On a quiz that covered concepts they’d used just a few minutes before, participants in the AI group scored 17% lower than those who coded by hand, or the equivalent of nearly two letter grades. Using AI sped up the task slightly, but this didn’t reach the threshold of statistical significance.

    Who designed this study? I assume it wasn't a software engineer, because this doesn't reflect real world "coding skills". This is just a programming-flavored memory test. Obviously, the people who coded by hand remembered more about the library in the same way students who take notes by hand as opposed to typing tend to remember more.

    A proper study would need to evaluate critical thinking and problem solving skills using real world software engineering tasks. Maybe find some already-solved, but obscure bug in an open source project and have them try to solve it in a controlled environment (so they don't just find the existing solution already).

  • Just noticed Bitwarden premium goes from 10$ per year to 19.80$, what do people here think? Bitwarden launches enhanced premium plan: Complete online security for everyone | Bitwarden

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  • These features deliver additional security enhancements above and beyond basic password management

    Basic password management is literally the only thing I want from Bitwarden. Like @CoyoteFacts@piefed.ca I also pay for premium as a pseudo donation, but this may push me to self hosting too. It's not even the price increase, it's that this smells like enshittification and makes me wary to keep trusting them with something so important.

  • We can't even pump fuel anymore without holding a digital billboard (Netherlands)

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  • Someone should design a 3d printable cover that can be attached to cover the screen, and then go around covering them all.

    Paint or stickers might count as vandalism if you're caught, but a removable cover is probably safe

    Edit: sorry, the microplastics crept into my brain when I wrote this. Fuck 3d printing, just use a piece of cardboard and tape lmao

  • Cursor is better at marketing than coding

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  • It’s literally just a tool for large companies to stifle competition.

    This is obviously wrong, but reveals the direction a conversation with you would take. No thanks.

    Have a nice day.

  • Cursor is better at marketing than coding

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  • I wasn't really trying to give my opinion, but since you asked...

    I think copyright laws are a good thing for everyone. They're definitely not perfect, but they do much more good than harm. The problem (which is not unique to copyright) is that the legal system treats large corporations differently than individuals and small businesses. The recent AI hype wave has supercharged this problem, but it's not new.

    there is actually something inherently wrong with reusing code?

    Depends on what you mean. Open source software usually comes with a license attached, which is effectively a permission slip from its creator telling you what you can or can't do with it. Without that pernission, you'd be violating their rights under copyright laws unless you limit yourself to what counts as "fair use". That's perfectly fine, and I don't see why anyone reasonable would take issue with that.

    I know there are some fringe people out there who think copyright law shouldn't exist at all, and that no individual deserves the right to exclusively profit off of their creative works. I don't agree with that, and I don't see how open source would work in that scenario as nobody would want to release anything. It'd make exploitation of the poor by the wealthy even more extreme, as those with the means to mass produce derivative products (eg you own a factory that can produce paintings or whatever) would be the only ones making a living off intellectual properties.

    But this is getting way off topic. I just wanted to call that guy stupid.

  • Cursor is better at marketing than coding

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  • This is a dumb take. You didn't understand the assignment.

    "From scratch" in software engineering usually means it was written without a starting point, being based off an existing implementation. It doesn't mean it was written by someone who indepdently discovered computer science and software engineering on their own.

    You're trying to regurgitate a pro-AI argument you read somewhere that defends OpenAI and others' use of open source software to train their commercial models without paying, following open source licensing requirements, or even providing acknowledgement of their source (typically called "copyright infringement" or "plagiarism" when-non-billionaires do it). The argument you are plagiarising here tries to conflate human learning with AI training, which is as stupid as me saying that downloading movies for free is legal because I'm "training" my brain on that content.

    If you like AI slop, that's cool. Idgaf. But if you're going to wade into the controversies and politics though, maybe think a little harder before making a fool of yourself? The people you're trying to argue with likely haven't had their brain and critical thinking skills turned to mush by using LLMs as much as you have.

  • Do you know of any client-side search solutions for static sites?

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  • Awesome, this is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

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    Apple’s M3 Silicon Surrenders to Linux: A Technical Milestone for Open Source

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    Apple’s M3 Silicon Surrenders to Linux: A Technical Milestone for Open Source

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  • Meta Is Being Sued Over Whether WhatsApp Really Encrypts Your Messages

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  • By unfurl, are you referring to OGP metadata? That's pretty common and used by a lot of non-Meta software. That's probably loaded by your Whatsapp client directly.

    Btw, I'm not saying Meta doesn't read your links. Anyone who thinks Whatsapp is actually private is an idiot.

  • Systemd Founder Lennart Poettering Announces Amutable Company

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  • Systemd haters always freeze up when you point out the fact that Poettering did, in fact, know better and that systemd has been incredibly successful and beneficial for the ecosystem.

  • My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.

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  • I don't get it, are knives illegal in Italy? What if I want to cut my spaghetti?