[–] 2 points 2 days ago

If you prefer a minimalist experience, Victoria launcher is the more customizable app with KISS bwing more minimal, while MetroWin launcher provides a super customizable Windows-Phone-like experience

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  • [–] 37 points 2 days ago

    Lawnchair seems to be a better experience over stock, as it has a lot more customisation options. Though my experience with it is that it has rather slow updates and icon packs don't work saperate from the app drawer and home screen. It should, but it didn't work for me

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  • [–] 5 points 2 days ago

    @fuzzy The Linuxiac headline is accurate. The "with approval by core" exception doesn't negate their policy. The example they gave as something they would be willing to consider is uncopyrightable changes, like changes to whitespace.There have been to date no exceptions made, and none are forseen.@halm @onlooker

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 child)

    I see. I'm not Anti AI, though. I just believe in this capitalist system it is used irresponsibly and against the proletariat. I believe it is a tool, and in a socialist system we can use it to benefit humanity without wrecklessly destroying people's ability to survive. I believe China's use of AI is an example that other countries should follow, treating the tech as infrastructure instead of some cash grab while threatening people and the planet and expanding surveillance against the working class.

    Wait, did you block me? If I said anything wrong, I'm willing to discuss in good faith.

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  • [+] -8 points 2 days ago (4 children)

    @halm thanks. The Linuxiac headline is titillating, but false. Maybe based on disinformation. It's fairly well-known that NetBSD has not banned AI-generated code. I gained a balanced answer from Anthropic Claude a few weeks ago, to help tackle misinformation in Reddit. 2026-10-17: claude.ai/share/a6b7b467-db4e-Cc @onlooker#NetBSD #AI #misinformation

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    @SocialistVibes01 lemmy.ml/instances shows beige.party as: ― linked― not blocked. For your Lemmy post, my beige.party view shows: 0 boosts · 0 quotes · 0 favourites– clearly out of tune with the Lemmy view of its popularity.My mastodon.social/@SocialistVibe view of your post is more in tune (screenshot below). I have a quiet idea about a possible explanation. I'll test something, then follow up, maybe later today. In the meantime: from the logged-out Lemmy view of your Lemmy post, I see that Imnebuddy probably did see my comment about CoffeeBSD. That's a good thing, although it might negate the possible explanation (above). Ah, the Mysteries of the Fediverse. #Fediverse #Lemmy #Mastodon

    My logged in view of https://mastodon.social/@SocialistVibes01@lemmy.ml/117598276783857430

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

    I wonder if I was specifically blocked. Not sure what I did. I'm not as active on this account, and sometimes I have posted some unpopular material because I am a communist, though my most unpopular post I shared a video that I later realized was created by an Anti-China ultra that I do not agree with, though the video itself still holds value and some truth after the election. I'm not great at being eloquent and charismatic when trying to make marxist-leninist arguments to help educate and raise class consciousness, but I'm trying to work on it. I try not to be disrespectful unless someone is treating me or someone poorly.

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 2 days ago (1 child)

    AI wasn't used for writing code. But its used for two things

    1. Generating a large number of malformed PDFs that break the compression
    2. As a second judge to compare the compression result, as going through 12k pdfs by myself was infeasible. However I did go through 2k of them by myself
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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago

    the rise of AI has taught me that simply not using computers is way more viable than i thought.

    I literally learned to crochet because i feel existential dread and need more practical skills so i'm not at risk of computers suddenly becoming unusable and my life being in tatters.. Being able to make things is actually so fucking comforting, it's a great way to pass time too.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 days ago

    yeah no sorry, you don't just get to conveniently ignore all the systematic problems with AI usage.

    AI datacentres are displacing people, deforesting huges swathes of land, placing massive loads on electrical grids which makes electricity more expensive and encourages more fossil fuel usage, using shitloads of water for cooling; and AI is replacing workers, sneakily influencing users, and people offloading cognitive effort onto it results in their skills atrophying and code becoming unmaintainable.

    Using AI to write code is like always buying fast food: it's bad for you, bad for the environment, fucking expensive, and means you never learn how to actually cook your own food.

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