I have tried it multiple times for embedded coding and it has never once produced valid code. It is like tutorials giving pseudo-code (but saying it is real code). So vibe-coding seems to not work with it.

It can produce an idea that you can follow, so it is useful for exploring different methods for solving a problem, but that is its limit for me.

That said, embedded code generally has quite specific libraries, but even directing it right to the library, right to the file, I was unable to coax it into using functions or APIs that exist.

This is the best comment of the thread.

So many people are nitpicking his post or criticizing the platform that he shares it on (let’s me honest, linkedIN has a much wider impact than the fediverse if something “goes corporate viral”). People deserve to be compensated for their work.

We shouldn’t be mad at the devs trying to make a living, even those who have different views about what open source is. We should be banding together against the companies who’s entire business model is based on theft and abuse. New anti-AI licenses specifically, techniques to poison AI data baked into every repo, class action lawsuits against companies, etc…

Once Universal Basic Income gets implemented and you don’t need to be paid directly for your work to survive, then we bicker incessantly about the finer points of the real definition of open source.

He is pretty much openly admitting he has right wing views and it is influencing his social media and project policy.

“Punch Nazis” is literally the only use of the phrase “punch [group]” in modern culture. Redacting specifically Nazi from the statement to make it seem like it is a general statement used, which suggests that is is note broad violent rhetoric, is a very often used dogwhistle by Nazis (and is being used daily by the extreme right wing, at this point satisfying nearly every academic hallmark of fascism, american government).

It is also relevant to note that during the project startup, someone simply suggested a 10 minute search and replace change to use more neutral language and he responded “your personal politics have no place here” even though that is not necessarily political.

Again, the only people that get that offended and snappy with something as benign as using a single different pronoun are the people who support taking basic rights away from human beings. I have never met another type person who cares at all.

The real question is, if a terrible person creates something (potentially) good and let’s their own politics create arguments and stir up drama, but just use the guise of “oh it’s because I want to be apolitical”, is it worth giving money and support to that person. How can you trust someone to always make a “free as in freedom browser” when they literally support (hypothetically) authoritarianism, mass surveillance, and taking rights away in real life? That is the antithesis of the project’s mission.

Also, life is inherently political. There is a group of people literally wanting to kidnap, torture, enslave, kill, and/or remove any rights from another large group of people. Ignoring those problems and welcoming those people with open arms gives them the chance to spread those hateful and violent views, as evidenced by their rapid growth by creating safe spaces for them on the internet.

It is a sad reality, but throughout much of human history, there has been a large groups of people don’t have the luxury to “avoid talking about politics” and “making things political” because they were literally getting enslaved and/or killed by it. And that is happening today still, visibly and publically.

https://simplex.chat/vouchers/

I guess in this case it might be an OK block chain usecase, but still, NFTs and crypto is always to be looked at suspiciously at first, with its long long history of rampant scams

We need to have a pinned post about nothing on this community.

Nothing is a Chinese company with American investors, using the UK marketing office as a tax haven, there is nothing European about it.

All of the electronics are designed and produced in China, all of the firmware is designed and written in China, most or all of the software is written in China. All of the electronics & technical job postings from then since inception have been for their Chinese office. (Disclaimer, the past year they had 1-2 software engineering jobs posted at their london office, so maybe sometime in the future, they will start writing a bit of the software in europe)

All of their smart watches and their whole CMF line is ODM’ed (white labeled) by fully Chinese companies, that is why they are all completely generic dime-a-dozen base designs.

Their CEO has had a history of misleading and/or lying with his other Chinese company he started, and has worked in the Chinese smartphone industry for 15 years in China. Sure he grew up in Sweden, but that is literally the only EU-related affiliation the company has, and he didn’t put the headquarters marketing office in Sweden because he is dodging taxation.

Didn’t simplex start with a nrf/crypto scam now?

Also the problematic right wing political affiliations of the founder.

The software with encryption disabled by default, no security audits, and rampant spam is better?

On the bright side, this change has been around for 9 months at least because they had already changed it when I was doing IT stuff at my last job and it was impossible to find where to actually download the office suite.

But in actual reality, a good quality USB dongle (like apple’s for example) there is little to no hearable or measurable difference. Hell, over on reddit, someone just did a casual blind test again with a few audiophile friends and they all failed.

Every blind test done in the past decade has proven this over and over and over again.

Audio is extremely easy with modern ICs. You can get DAC ICs for 2-3€ that sounds the same as DACs products for 200€. We are reaching terahertz DACs now. Gigahertz DACs are established. <100kHz can be perfectly recreated now cheaply and in a tiny footprint.

Volume, sure, they won’t necessarily drive 600Ohm headphones loud enough, but that is an AMP problem, not a DAC problem.

(Though this is even more reason that an on-board phone DAC is ridiculously easy and there is no need for removing the headphone jack)

Yep, also. That is the more “business/financial” term I think.

That was the book by Howard Pyle back in 1883

Yes. It is a Chinese company with american investors with non-technical jobs in the UK to be able to claim “UK company” for marketing.

Their electronics are designed only in China, the devices are programmed only in China, their software is developed in China their technical job postings are all in China for years, their CEO ran a previous Chinese owned brand (lying/misleading about the company back then too) and has worked in the Chinese phone industry for 15 years.

Their CMF line and wearables lines are all ODM’ed through various Chinese companies (for those not aware, OEM is where something is designed by a company and manufactured by another where ODM is where everything is designed by another company and the branded company just gives requirements and some input, I worked previously for an ODM kind of company) and are generic widely-available hardware marked up for brand name recognition.

Their marketing is in the UK, that’s about it.

Lol a UK company with 0% of their product made in the UK, it is literally just a marketing office.

They don’t even prosecute foreign war criminals, much less their own. US Nuremberg trails had a <0.2% conviction rate for identified war criminals lol. Less than 1% of “major war criminals”.

Criminal cops are paid instead of convicted.

There is 0 hope for any justice at all for these people unless the entire US government gets overthrown or something just as drastic.

Or Hikvision for very similar cameras at an actually affordable price (but you HAVE to block then from the internet and/or put them on an isolated VLAN because they send everything back home).

Reolink also makes gold budget cameras, especially their doorbell camera.

Just an entire coincidence that SD card support unilaterally got removed when streaming became popular and the phone makers started selling cloud subscriptions.

That is a different type of AI/machine learning.

They aren’t using Large Language Models for that.

Drug research, mRNA research acceleration, etc… Are using specialized neural nets trained in highly controlled environments with highly controlled data.

All types of neural networks are pattern recognition. Medicine and biology has a somewhat** unique in being heavily pattern dependent and finding unique patterns in a known dataset large part of discovery. This contracts with other scientific areas where it will use inspirations from datasets, but the invention is much more abstract. That makes neural nets perfect for assisting those types of research.

LLMs are trained on language pattern recognition. The simplistic view is “with the past X words entered, the probability of Y being the next sentence is the highest”. Where it actually has no idea what it is talking about. That is why the first LLMs were so horrible and bullshit (but at least in the early days they still were allowed to say “I don’t know”). Things have evolved rapidly and they are trained slightly differently and given MUCH more context around the sentences, but the core models of LLMs are the same and there are many many tests out there that show that the models can’t actually reason and don’t understand what they are saying outside of the very narrow context they are given which is why there are more useful as simple transcribing tools, or search (though they just lie if they can’t find the answer anyway). That is also why they are very good at copying peoples’ voice patterns in order to scam people.

They are also literally starving entire populations of water just so people can draw a bad sketch of a car and tell chatGPT “make this into a 3D drawing with a cat on top”

In heroic, you can add the game and while adding it, click “run installer first” and then install the EXE and copy whatever cracks needed. I needed to do that with a few games that are literally not available anymore on stores.

Lutris had been so janky for me the past 10 years and many of the installer scripts literally don’t install any dependencies anyways that I switched to heroic last year and I no longer have games that work completely fine and then next launch they don’t work.

Yes, but for driving (by a gigantic margin used way more than hiking, biking, and walking) organic maps/comaps is quite shit. In Belgium, I absolutely cannot trust it to get me to a destination I am unfamiliar with because of the policy of openstreetmaps of updating extremely infrequently and encouraging contributors not to report any road closures that last less than 6 months or whatever.

Not to mention that it doesn’t take reported road condition into account when routing so it will send you on tiny cobblestone roads where you have to drive 30 instead of 50 to save 10 seconds theoretically by going to a main road and continually route you via u-turns back to that tiny shitty road instead of choosing a better route when you pass it.

Even without any traffic data (so you never know approximately when you will arrive), it very often just not get you where you need to go. It is like using a GPS from 2005.

For some things.

For many things it isn’t. It is usable (I use it) but with a bunch of workarounds for anything embedded development-related since it needs specific vendor software with device access. I have had to use a variety of distrobox + app image solutions that are often a bit worse than a system that installs them as native apps.