Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.

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Joined 10 months ago
Cake day: January 4th, 2024
  • Rimu@piefed.socialtoTechnology@lemmy.world•What are your AI use cases?English
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    6 days ago

    I’ve been learning docker over the last few weeks and it’s been very helpful for writing and debugging docker-compose configs. My server how has 9 different services running on it.

    I use it for python development sometimes, maybe once per day. I’ll paste in a chunk of code and describe how I want it altered or fixed and that usually goes pretty well. Or if I need a generic function that I know will have been coded a million times before I’ll just ask ChatGPT for it.

    It’s far from “useless” and has made me somewhat more productive. I can’t see it replacing anyone’s job though, more of a supplemental tool that increases output.

  • Rimu@piefed.socialtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1)English
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    1 month ago

    I appreciate the author taking a swing at this topic. She suggests these values:

    fostering genuine connection
    protecting privacy and enforcing consent
    championing accessibility

    I think she’s obviously right about the first value but the others are less clear. There’s certainly groups on Mastodon who are keen on privacy, consent and accessibility but if you look at the features of the apps and how they’re constructed I don’t feel like those are really core values. ActivityPub is a privacy nightmare and most apps have between ghastly to ok accessibility.

    It’s hard to pick out values that we all share because of the inherently chaotic nature of it. Perhaps that’s a value tho - diversity.

    There’s a pretty strong anti-capitalist theme that comes up a lot. At it’s best, this is a “people before economy” value, a pro-democracy, a pro-life (in the literal sense), pro-freedom value. No billionaire can buy the fediverse and shape it in their singular vision.

    The federated nature of things means people can find their own instance to call home, one that suits them and their kin without losing access to all the goodies of the wider network. Is this a value? What is the word for it? Self-actualization?