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namingthingsiseasy

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  • I Hate Github Actions with Passion

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  • I've found the edit/test/debug loop in Jenkins to be much faster than Github Actions. It was quite a refreshing change when I made that transition.

  • I Hate Github Actions with Passion

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  • The best way I found to do this is by commenting out the portions of the build that take the longest.

    Which is stupid, but that's what you get with Microsoft products.

    (I get that there may be ways to test this locally, but I found this method to be the easiest.)

  • Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot

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  • I thought they renamed their entire product line to "Copilot" by now, didn't they?

    Uninstalling it at this point would leave absolutely nothing left!

  • it's just the worst

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  • It's called tivoization and started with a device called "Tivo" which was the first of its kind to attempt this procedure.

    There are probably lots of hardware devices in your house that use GPL software but prevent you from actually modifying it because the hardware will refuse to run modified copies. If a piece of software is licensed GPLv3, it would violate the license terms to do something like this.

  • Microsoft CEO wants you to stop calling AI "slop" in 2026

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  • This has to be the most pathetic thing I've ever read. A CEO just asking people to stop saying mean things about the garbage he's pushing out.

    It's just so pathetic. I'd be embarrassed if I were affiliated with his company in any way.

  • LLMS Are Not Fun

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  • That's certainly one possibility. But another possibility is that the people praise LLMs are not very good at judging whether the code it generates is of good quality or not....

  • Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here

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  • Agreed. To make it a bit more general, whenever I see people claiming to be able to predict the future with absolute certainty and confidence, that to me is just a sign they are idiots and shouldn't be listened to. Definitely had a lot of those in past companies I have worked in. A lot of the time, they're trying to gaslight people into believing in their version of the future so they can sell us garbage (products, stock price, etc.). They'll always get some fools to believe them of course.

  • Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here

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  • The number-one frustration, cited by 45% of respondents, is dealing with "AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite," which often makes debugging more time-consuming. In fact, 66% of developers say they are spending more time fixing "almost-right" AI-generated code.

    Not surprising at all. When you write code, you're actually thinking about it. And that's valuable context when you're debugging. When you just blindly follow snippets you got from some random other place, you're not thinking about it and you don't have that context.

    So it's easy to see how this could lead to a net productivity loss. Spend more time writing it yourself and less time debugging, or let something else write it for you quickly, but spend a lot of time debugging. And on top of it all, no consideration of edge cases and valuable design requirement context can also get lost too.

  • Developers remain willing but reluctant to use AI: The 2025 Developer Survey results are here

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  • I'm a slow adopter of new technologies like AI LLMs. My reasoning is that if it turns out to actually be a good product, then it will eventually prove itself, and the early adopters can be the "beta testers" so to speak. But if it turns out to be a bad product, then I won't have wasted my time on something that isn't worthwhile.

    Maybe a day comes when I start using these tools, but they clearly just aren't all that useful in their current form. In all honesty, I'm pretty sure that they will never be useful enough for me to consider them worth learning, but definitely not so today.

  • Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan

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  • Cupertino has complied anyway, and said it introduced “Notarization for iOS apps, an authorization process for app marketplaces, and requirements that help protect children from inappropriate content and scams.”

    Notarization requirements mean that they still maintain total control over the operating system and what software it can run. These kinds of onerous requirements keep the bar artificially high for competitors and are only possible because they are still enforcing their monopolistic control over the platform.

    So no, they're not complying at all actually. They're just doing the same thing in a different way.

  • Mozilla situation

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  • I don't think so. These AI stunts are all coming from a small group of Silicon Valley investors. They only want to focus on software that's widely used, so web browsers are a natural target. Mail clients aren't that popular anymore, so I doubt they'll advocate for fucking them up.

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  • The last Windows OS I used was XP, around 2004-ish. Even back then, it was obvious to me that, because it was closed source, that they could one day start acting against my interests, and there was nothing I could do to stop it. I saw open source as an insurance policy - it prevents vendors from acting maliciously against their users. In that very quaint, old time, nobody believed that MS would ever do something like that, but it didn't matter - the fact was that they could, so inevitably, they would.

    I'm quite proud of how prescient I was when I look at what they're doing today. No evil is too great to stop a greedy businessman.

    Anyway, I decided to just be brave and create a partition on my main drive and install Ubuntu on it. All I needed to get my work done was OpenOffice, LaTeX, a browser, a compiler, Python.... Everything worked better in Linux than Windows so even though I was dual-booting, I practically never used Windows again after a couple weeks. Later on, I switched to Debian, and the next laptop that I bought, I just wiped the hard disk and used Linux for the whole thing. I kept the recovery partition because I was paranoid but obviously never needed it.

    Today, there's no doubt in my mind that Linux is the best OS. Sure, Macs have better batteries, but if I'm doing productive work, then I don't really need more than an hour away from my charger. I could maybe agree that the BSDs are better, but I've never tried them.

  • Do we have No Man's Sky fans here?

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  • Agreed, and it feels like a waste of so much great potential when you consider the fantastic development they poured into it. Such a shame.

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  • I've only used Github Actions on one project, but I found it to be terribly overengineered and overly complex. I think that's more the fault of the team than anything else, but hey, Github is run by Microsoft, so I'm pretty sure they deserve some of the blame too.

    If you're self-hosting, I've found Jenkins to be pretty nice. Of course, forgejo has its own offerings as well.

  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • It's hard to beat the last one, but he somehow managed to pull it off.

    Then again, Mitchell Baker is still on the board of directors if I'm not mistaken, so it sounds like the rot is too pervasive for just one CEO to change.

  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • I was having issues with Librewolf on a work computer a few weeks ago, so I decided to try Firefox to see if it was LW's security settings.

    Holy shit, what a fucking trainwreck Firefox has become! It's so bad that I can't honestly recommend anyone use it anymore. The first time I started it, I saw all kinds of ads and trashy "news" articles that had no relevance to me whatsoever. Plus I had to reinstall all my extensions because they weren't signed and there's no way to disable that requirement. I was so horrified and offended, I just dumped it immediately and tried Chrome instead. What difference is there at this point?

    It's just insulting at this point. I understand that they trying to find new revenue sources, and things are still better today than they were with Mitchell Baker as CEO, but it's still horrific how poorly Mozilla is being run. I'm so grateful we still have usable forks from the amazing people running projects like Librewolf. Without them, the web would just be flat out unusable.

  • UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones

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  • I bet he takes a bath in a swimsuit

  • UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones

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  • This has been very obvious to a lot of people since mobile devices were originally invented. The notion that you are sold a product that you "own" but is still 100% controlled by the vendor - anyone who thought about it for more than a second knew that it would eventually come to this. Of course, nobody gave even that tiny amount of thought about it. Or they were too naïve to think that a corporation could ever be evil.

    I miss the times when spyware was considered uncoool. Mobile devices are the undoubtedly the worst invention of the information age. (And social media is probably the second worst.)

  • Do we have No Man's Sky fans here?

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  • I enjoy it. It's a relaxing, peaceful game. I just wish there were more objectives. The idea of just exploring and finding things doesn't appeal to me all that much. The game has a lot of potential for combat, both in the spaceship and as a FPS, but both of these areas feel like they could be expanded a bit. Overall, I just wish that there were more combat-focused missions after completing the main storyline.

    But it's still pretty good and I enjoy it when I want to relax.