There was a Ted Talk a while back (I can’t remember who) where they said “I have always wanted to give a Ted Talk… but when I got selected to do this I realized that what I really wanted was to say I had given a Ted Talk”. Meaning they want to be known as someone who had given a Ted Talk, not actually go through the process of writing and delivering the Talk.

People who write open source code do it because they like the process of writing, just like an author enjoys writing books. LLMs are for people who just want to be able to say they have written a book. People who slop-code aren’t actually interested in learning how to code. Which is a fine toy for them to play with, but not sustainable (or reliable for others to use).

“Space vampires” is such a turn-off of an idea for me that I’m glad I didn’t know about it going in but WOW was it a great concept!

My secret shame is that I lowkey love the Rama sequels, though I fully acknowledge that they are political soap operas in space and tonally absolutely nothing like the original.

Because nobody has suggested it yet, Blindsight and Echopraxia are excellent.

I really liked The Gripping Hand though I agree it’s difficult to reach the level of excellence that is The Mote in God’s Eye.

The fact that you are clearly capable of posting content about everything except trans kids in Gaza is telling on yourself. /s

This is so true, I always think it’s funny when they say AI will fix climate change, what’s it going to do? Tell us to stop burning fossil fuels?

I’ve seen that but it’s a weird vibe coded app and doesn’t actually work

ShelfMark is the go-to option now. It’s also far better than Readarr was and works seamlessly with both Prowlarr and Anna’s Archive.

I think CWA is the most robust option out there. BookLore was vibecoded and behaved in the typical weird/unexpectedly way vibecoded apps tend to. I haven’t tried the Fork of it, but CWA checks nearly all the boxes and is actively developed.

I wish ABS synced progress between formats with KOReader!

Why are you protecting clickbait spam?

Just because google sucks it doesn’t mean you should upvote clickbait and spam

We should care about clickbait and spam

Report this comment too. We can’t let Lemmy get overrun with clickbait spam or it will get worse here than reddit.

IIRC those updates were a series of bugfixes after a major update, which seems to be how they prefer to work.

“Google has added Hand gesture verification functionality to reCAPTCHA”

This title is clickbait, if we want Lemmy to be a competitor to Reddit we need to be better moderated than they are, not worse. Please report this post and OP to your instance admins.

That’s totally reasonable I only brought up Google Glass because it was famously ridiculed (“Glassholes”) and yet still more fashionable even today than these things.

First of all, all of these eye computers are dumb, but at least Meta’s Ray Bans look more or less like normal glasses. Even Google Glass was sleeker looking than these, and that was 13 years ago. I don’t know what Snap is thinking.

Same, and I personally know two people who I would describe as college educated white-collar folks, but definitely not into “tech”, who recently told me they switched to Firefox.