it's so comforting to live with Debian knowing that Debian is a journey, not destination. Slowly, step by step, you hone this system to be _exactly_ as you want it. it's computing on your terms.

I'm yet to wrap my head around the fact that what's on my screen is for my eyes only, and no one else anywhere in the world sees it, human or AI.

Heard some news/rumorus that we missed our quarterly goal slightly. It was first set to 450k then our accountant said it was not realistic at all and was lowered to 350k....

Our number was just around 100k. We only completed 28.6% of our quarterly goal :DDDDDD

I'm slowly but surely make my KDE Debian's UX better than what I was familiar with on macOS. It's already _way_ faster.
When I'll get UX done, I'll get to UI -- all kinds of beautification
pro tip: AI is VERY good at configuring linux for you

my phone bill is more expensive some reason. which is strange because that's illegal to do

they're like if you want to see bill details log in. ok I did. I see nothing mentioning it. check my last few bills emails. it's been 5$ more expensive since the new year.

actually I have a 1gb data plan and if I Google up good mobile plans this exact same provider is advertised as giving you 60gb data for 45$. I used to pay 47$ for 1 GB but now I'm paying 52$ for 1 GB it seems

yeah I think I'm going to go with a different company. I literally don't even use my phone unless the power goes out or something. I don't even want to be paying 50$ for something I'm not using. maybe you shouldn't have tried to illegally increase my pricing and then you could've kept me paying. dunno. byyyee

Dear KDE Plasma, I'm sorry. I treated you way too harshly, unfairly even. Yes, you was unpolished back in 2018. Assuming you still were did nothing but prove my own ignorance.
Your out-of-the-box polish and support for modern screens, UI scaling, trackpads, smooth scrolling, etc. is unparalleled.

installing asahi linux on my m1 macbook

Asahi Linux on my Mac

One thing that I've noticed after getting married, is the fact that I have to be careful when I'm switching sleep positions while my wife is asleep next to me. I can't just flail like that.

Because there is a high probability that my elbow can go into her jaw and knock her out.

why waste 6 hours reading the docs when you can 'one-shot' it

why are operating systems so beautiful 🤤

So there I was, maintaining our rock-solid Java 7 codebase, older than this Gen Z intern who still thinks floppy disks are 3D-printed save icons.

First day in, he’s like, “Bro, let’s rewrite this in Next.js! Microservices! Serverless! AI!”

Son, this code has been running longer than your TikTok attention span. It doesn’t need scaling, it needs to keep working.

But nooo, he wants TypeScript. He wants to Dockerize a Hello World. He saw a YouTube tutorial and now thinks Java is dead.

I asked, "Why do we need microservices?"

Silence. Blank stare. You could hear a single thread in our monolith peacefully executing a transaction.

Then he mumbled something about "scalability" and "modern architecture"—like we’re running a billion-dollar SaaS, not a POS that’s been happily running since the Nokia ringtone era.

Microservices? Buddy, our biggest spike is the Sunday brunch buffet reservations when the retirees remember they have grandkids. Sit down.

I accepted a nice offer by my current company.

Boss invited us to a nice dinner today for some planning and whatnot.

Was quite nice actually.

Definitely looking forward to the future atm...

I batched 150mb of textual data to extract data from as prompts to OpenAI to analyse the data and give me facts about it back to me in json format. To give you an idea about how much 150Mb in text is, the first Harry Potter book is 429Kb.

Ok people, how much do you guys think it costed? I used gpt4o-mini model. The result will shock you.

power outage, raaaghhh

The next time I hear someone go "it'll happen when you least expect it", I'll cave their skull in.

Oh and also, my Parser is done :)

Have you ever typed up an interesting rant, only to accidentally click outside of the rant editor and have the whole damn thing disappear?

Ok DevRant, you get my "your number one" today

🖕🏼

Kernel coming along slowly but surely. I can now fetch the memory map and use normal Rust printlns to the vga text mode!

Next up is physical memory allocation and page maps

If you want to know how bad the job market is in India, a colleague told me that he got offered a job from an employer, where the condition is he has to give 20% of his paycheck back to the employer in their other bank account.

I always felt a bit bad for scammers. That your life must suck so hard that you screw over people. But now i watched them working on YouTube and i don't feel bad for them at all anymore. First of all, trash people, the lowest of the lowest. Second - they show no mercy to their victims. And that shouting and stuff. Is that normal in India? If you do that to a Dutch, it won't engage a phone call with you at all. They start the phone calls in a fucked up way already.

Trash people.

btw economic intel

AI can only take off if the average gaming video card can do AI calculations

which means it can't not happen

it also means that AI won't be centralized but will be self-hosted and we will have personal ones (which I think is superior for other reasons but I digress). no totalitarian skynet state will happen. they can't make it

currently these GPU companies are making separate GPUs for gaming and AI. their AI profits are 90% of their revenue, gaming under 10% so they're ignoring their gaming customers. but the people buying these AI cards are not the ones innovating. the innovators are using home GPUs. the tech won't get there until home cards can host AIs. otherwise you only get innovation to the level home cards can churn it

the lizards need your ingenuity. they can't do a creative thing themselves. all their money be damned. you have to give people access to the tech, the data, or they won't build for you. and these lizards love to hide information. but that just won't do! you can't innovate for them unless you have the information... which I'm using as a metaphor for gpu cards that "know" how to do AI math and do it well. no moat. they need the ingenuity too much and can't trade. funny

Am I the only one not liking noise canceling at all? Don't like the whole concept.

@dfox @trogus please update the native android apk on playstore to android 15/16 . it isn't showing in playstore anymore and downloading from unsafe sources feels like a security risk

Sorry guys. Wtf indeed. Will take some time to restore.

The service will not be online today anymore. It needs a serious refactor on certain part. It became a bit messy.

I never thought I'd rant about this. But here I am.

I am making too much money. That's my issue.
(For any Indians here, I am making 48 LPA take-home salary freelancing this year)

But this is costing me my daily life now. I am literally glued to the screen from 9 AM to 12 midnight every day. I do mean everyday, 7 days a week.

It's already March. I never even felt Jan and Feb passing me by. But yeah, I had to air this out. My chest feels lighter now.

Several spam posts going trough. Great that some people call @ragnar when they see it.

To make it a bit more efficient - a second check for spam is added and made with AI. Was waiting for this to be needed for a long time. I tested it with ten good rants and ten bad rants and it seemed to be OK. It took some time to find out how to describe the harmful content.

We're getting very close to complete spam free!

Is it me or devrant is slow as fuck?

Pinecone is a scam service. Billing for assistants per hour... Making every assistant costing you more than a euro per day for not using on top of your monthly contract. They're as scammy as AWS. Cancelled directly. Paying a euro per green dot behind your assistant name. They're like unlimited x, unlimited y, don't think so, Bye.

Sad, i did like the service.

my crazy book led me to this: https://youtube.com/watch/...

one of the comments says it opens up new YouTube suggestions and they weren't kidding

MAGICAL UNIVERSE NERD TIME

think people should be talking about responsibility instead of "altruism" or trying to shame people for not being selfless enough or how some selfish motivation for being selfless means it's invalid... zzzz. seems so self destructive

Is it me or lately developers that call themselves senior doesn't even know how to use git properly, doesn't have proper troubleshooting techniques and have to be spoon fed several times?

It's crazy to me that they are still hired and working.