with the skyrocketing cost of AI, my employer has been urging us to do as much as possible by hand lately

Meanwhile, my company has forgotten how to write bash scripts… More and more things that could just be bash scripts are being added as stupid Claude.md scripts.

Hahahaha. Let’s go! grabs popcorn

I’m using Radicale + DAVx5 + Fossify Calendar.

Curious what other calendar apps on Android folks use.

Uh, is this closed source?

Yeah! I have a Sony Xperia 10 III, but the SailfishOS support is kinda… not officially supported in the US?

Android fliphone

Not interested. Want SailfishOS.

Next time I get assigned a bug ticket, I’m gonna comment “largely solved” or “85% solved” and then close the ticket. I guess that’s the standard now.

I’m in favor of heavy AI users adding an [AI] tag to their posts. I don’t think we have to worry too much about AI users trying to pass their work as organic. Almost all AI users I know proudly and annoying shout about how great the AI is. So I think only a minority of AI users would try to hide their AI usage.

I think we should encourage users to add [AI], but also make it voluntary. We need people to complain in the post when someone doesn’t add the [AI] tag, but they should have. I’m guessing here, but I think the more people complain about the missing [AI] tag, the more likely the project used more AI. I’m guessing if the AI usage is low, like 1 or 2 commits out of 1000, then not as many people would complain.

My kid nephew says he wants to be a solider when he grows up, my brother encourages it… this comic hits hard… 😭

people like myself who love to work on projects, but often shy away from the commitment, discipline, and responsibility of seeing them through

Username checks out.

You don’t like the one you posted to the Jellyfin comm

I don’t know enough about it to form an opinion about it.

If not then why share it?

Because I thought it was interesting.

If you want GNOME: Bluefin or Bazzite.

Why Bluefin or Bazzite over just regular Silverblue? I’m running Silverblue on a Thinkpad and all the hardware works fine.

I installed Fedora Silverblue on my parent’s laptop almost a year ago and I haven’t had any complaints or issues.

They’re really not tech literate or heavy users so Silverblue is the perfect fit. I installed and configured Librewolf and Bitwarden for them and everything has been running fine. Everything else is vanilla Silverblue.

They don’t know or don’t care about updating software. But Silverblue does flatpak updates automatically in the background. OS and firmware updates are integrated and handled via the Gnome Software Center, so I’ll click the install button every so often when I visit. No terminal required! There is a password prompt, but at least it’s a GNOME shell password prompt, not a terminal password prompt.

Additionally, I was able to get LUKS encryption working without my parents noticing: https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/encryption-advice-for-silverblue/162810/7

It’s not the most secure LUKS implementation, but I’m also not worried about state actors hacking my parent’s laptop. Originally, I skipped the disk encryption entirely because the extra password prompt made it harder to use the computer.

Update: Actually, maybe there aren’t any password prompts to update the system. Last night when I shutdown my laptop, I saw there was a “critical update” in GNOME Software Center. I left it alone and didn’t click anything. But when I went to shutdown the laptop, the GNOME shutdown dialog had a marked checkbox that said something like “also apply OS updates on shutdown”. I clicked shutdown and (again no password prompt) the computer shutdown. When I rebooted the computer today, I see there are no more pending software updates!

Streaming server: Navidrome

Desktop client: Navidrome web

Android client: Symfonium

Google’s CEO says 75% of the company’s code is AI-generated.

Everyone should take this with a huge grain of salt. Like all other internal company stat reports, it’s bullshit and manufactured.

Example: my company has recently introduced a gate on CI. All commits must have “Co-Authored-By: X”. Technically, you can set X=None, but most people aren’t doing that because we’re not stupid and we know the commit history can easily be data mined and used to generate stats on who is or isn’t using AI. And we don’t want to get fired.

Result: 99% of all new commits use “Co-Authored-By: Claude”. Every commit I make now has “Co-Authored-By: Claude”. Am I using AI? FUCK NO. But, now I have to add that stupid line to any work I turn in.

Ah, yep. :/

From the readme:

Disclaimer: This repository contains portions of code, documentation, or text generated with the assistance of AI/LLM tools. All outputs have been reviewed and adapted by the author to the best of their ability before inclusion.