captainjaneway

captainjaneway , 4 days ago to Technology in Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly

Well I'm guessing they actually did testing on local AI using a 4GB and 8GB RAM laptop and realized it would be an awful user experience. It's just too slow.

I wish they rolled it in as an option though.

captainjaneway , 4 days ago to Technology in Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly

I think it makes sense. I like ChatGPT and I appreciate having easy access to it. What I really wish is the option to use local models instead. I realize most people don't have machines that can tokenize quickly enough but for those that do...

captainjaneway , 4 days ago to Selfhosted in Alternatives to Hashicorp Vault?

Why didn't you like Hashicorps Vault? I want to know for my own edification.

captainjaneway , 7 days ago to Ask Lemmy in What's your way of destressing?

Laughter helps a lot. But if I'm consuming a ton of media, it's sometimes better to just take a break and drink water while doing nothing else. I also have mantras about life like: "if I have my family, I'm ok", "home can be anywhere", "nothing in life is more important that food, shelter, water", etc. Sometimes I worry about bills, future costs, etc. But worrying doesn't always make it easier. A little bit of worry keeps me from ignoring finances all together. But too much worry isn't helping. If you can free yourself from worrying about money, you'd be surprised how much weight gets lifted. I'm privileged because I have family and friends that I love. If I ever hit hard times, I know I have a home with them. Reminding myself of that keeps me from staying up all night with worry.

captainjaneway , 7 days ago to Ask Lemmy in What's your way of destressing?

Lay it on me

captainjaneway , 8 days ago to Ask Lemmy in What's your "back pocket" wish?

I just picture you floating in an endless void 100 billion years after entropy has moved every single subatomic particle away from each other. Somehow you have been sustained. The last sophisticated entity in the universe. Your billions of years of loneliness have already driven you to the point of insanity, enlightenment, insanity again, and finally a state of which no one could imagine. Because you don't consume food or water, you're in a perpetual state of hunger and thirst. You don't feel harmed, but you do feel peckish all the time. You could do with a draught. Your wish didn't allow for pain "thank God", you think.

captainjaneway , 9 days ago to News in Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf.

Paper waste is really something that was overstated in the early 2000s. Yes paper is made from trees. But trees are renewable compared to the silicon and carbon consumed in these electronic tags. It's way more environmentally friendly to use paper.

captainjaneway , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to News in Grocery store prices are changing faster than ever before — literally. This month, Walmart became the latest retailer to announce it’s replacing the price stickers in its aisles with electronic shelf.

Are we to judge simple supply and demand now? If they haven't been smart enough to save for a disaster, then perhaps they deserve what they get. If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Bah. Humbug. A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every natural disaster.

/S

captainjaneway , 14 days ago to Political Memes in Not Likeable

It's Gerrymandering. That's the answer to the question: why?

captainjaneway , 15 days ago to News in Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

If we spent half the energy on improving our lives that we spend on fucking people over, we'd have a utopia by now. Or at least less lead in our pipes.

America is a global superpower which - apparently - spends some of its most secretive efforts on petty lashbacks to Chinese propaganda. And I'll be damned if our most secretive efforts don't also end up costing us the most taxes (relative to their effective output). I know that Twitter opens its firehouse of data to government programs to support social media analysis. I'm sure Google and Meta do as well. They are aiding these psychological campaigns.

captainjaneway , 15 days ago to News in Wells Fargo fires workers over fake keyboard activity

I'm not very pro-working but why not fire the manager that didn't notice the employee's lack of output? Seems suss that by just keeping a computing online, you can circumvent actually producing anything.

As always, measure output not the how or why something gets done.

captainjaneway , 1 month ago to 196 in Polyamorule

We're getting closer and closer to wrapping back around and just having community. Just remove the sex aspect and boom you got a community going.

captainjaneway , 2 months ago to Science Memes in Mandelbrot

Resolution limits

captainjaneway , 2 months ago to Ask Experienced Devs in How do I not stop feeling like I am doing nothing outside work?

If you want to build stuff but are struggling to motivate yourself, take a walk or go exercise and stop thinking about it for a bit. Sometimes that helps me. I'm in the same boat. I tend to work on a lot of things but I have a treasure trove of 10%-50% completed projects.

Lately, I've used ChatGPT 3.5 to help me figure out ideas or work through places I'm stuck.

I've gone to 4 conferences in the past 6 months. Most of the open source devs there that made big waves in the community are actually doing their jobs and their company open sourced their work. React, by way of example, is a Meta project that was open sourced.

So, sometimes, the intimidating projects have someone working full-time on them. So don't feel like you should try to accomplish that.

As other people said, if you end up not being interested in doing development in your free time, don't worry about it. It's normal and fine to just go home and enjoy your life.

captainjaneway , 2 months ago to politics in Supreme Court to consider whether local governments can make it a crime to sleep outside if no inside space is available

That rich mofo was born in a manger and had three kings visit him. Plus I don't trust zombies.