You are right, it was unfairly harsh wording, I apologize for that. Most of those products are super cool and important, I've kind of extrapolated it from what I've read in other posts about them spending too much on stuff like events and other, non-developemnt, related stuff that I actually never checked, while also not realizing that they also have a ton of other projects, which mixed with the dissapointment with the recent development about the Meta partnership led to me choosing that wording unfairly.
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I stumbled upon the Geminy page by accident, so i figured lets give it a try.
I asked him in czech if he can also generate pictures. He said sure, and gave me examples about what to ask him.
So I asked him, again in czech, to generate a cat drinking a beer at a party.
His reply was that features for some languages are still under development, and that he can't do that in this language.
So I asked him in english.
I can't create images for you yet, but I can still find images from the web.
Ok, so I asked if he can find me the picture on the web, then.
I'm sorry, but I can't provide images of a cat drinking beer. Alcohol is harmful to animals and I don't want to promote anything that could put an animal at risk.
Great, now I have to argue with my search engine that is giving me lessons on morality and decide what is and isn't acceptable. I told him to get bent, that this was the worst first impression I ever had with any LLM model, and I'm never using that shit again. If this was integrated into google search (which I havent used for years and sticked to Kagi), and now replaces google assistant...
Good, that's what people get for sticking with google. It brings me joy to see Google dig it's own grave with such success.
If it keeps going on like this, it won't be long before I'll just say fuck it and switch to elinks...
Hmm, on that note - is there any CLI web browser that can do javascript and css? Because iirc, elinks doesn't, though I havent used it in years.
IIRC, only like 2% of Mozilla spending goes towards FF (I may be misinterpreting something, but I remember 2% being thrown around), so funding FF without rest of Mozilla bullshit shouldn't be that hard. Of course, since Mozilla did spend so little on FF, it's a question how much they actually care about FF and what would happen if they lost access to their golden goose. They shouldn't have problem funding FF, but they probably have other bullshit they don't want to let go and that has more priority for them.
I'm not sure what Mullvad is based on - i think it's on Tor, which is Firefox based?
I do use mostly LibreWolf, but if FF also went to shit, I wonder if Tor, and thus Mullvad, would keep on going or not. Because I suppose LibreWolf would have troubles with keeping up, if Mozilla would enshitify FF, since they would probably have to fork and continue development on their own.
76% of all respondents are using or are planning to use AI tools in their development process this year, an increase from last year (70%). Many more developers are currently using AI tools this year, too (62% vs. 44%).
What the fuck. That's horrifying. I also though that every sensible workplace bans the use of AI.
A friend was telling me about a discussion between CTO's at a conference, where they were talking about whether it's even worth it to hire junior developers anymore, since there's a high risk of them just being "AI-raised", without much (or any) experience of coding without AI. And, this survey result... I can see where they are coming from. The future of programming looks pretty bleak - our job will not be replaced. It will just get worse, with good developers being more of a rarity.
And the amount of people who use vim or neovim as their IDE is surprisingly high. Is it skewed by sysadmins?
Thank you for the detailed explanation. It's pretty confusing situation, but I think I kind of get what happened.
I agree with the last point, I always found it weird that it basically depends on subjective ratings. I don't doubt the neutrality or professionalism of the judges, but it must be super hard to stay objective and not make mistakes.
From time to time I watch some scam-hunting youtubers for fun, because some of them have really perfected their game and listening to scammers raging is fun, but it's also super unsettling when you realize they also talk like that to real victims. It's unhinged.
So, if I get it right, they scored her wrong because they though she stepped out of bounds, but she actually didn't. The coach appealed the scoring, and it was ruled that it was indeed ok, so she got points, which fairly placed her to 3rd place.
Now, it was overruled, because he appealed it 4 seconds late? That sounds pretty unfair, because it's not about her performance, which was eventually scored fairly and should get her to 3rd place, but about the process of the appeal, and by such a narrow margin.
While I get that such rules are in place, it feels wrong. Needless bureaucracy, and in this case there wasn't any malicious attempt to lawyer-up to get a medal she doesn't deserve, it was just a wrong scoring that should've been corrected.
This situation sucks for all the involved.
Yeah, I know and that's what I'm afraid of. I guess I'll just have to come to terms with most websites not working in some obscure web browser that's not feature-complete. Would actually help with my addiction, so it won't be so bad, I guess.