JackbyDev

I have a few, I’m sure, but the one that comes to mind is my hatred of PDFs. Or, I suppose more accurately, the things people choose to use PDFs for. If something is not primarily meant to be printed, then a PDF is a suboar choice to something like HTML. Worse, virtually EVERY place you’re getting a PDF from is already a website so they already have the ability to give you HTML.

You can create a single HTML file, embedding all images, CSS, JavaScript, etc. directly into the file. Then you can open it in your browser. It works. It’s easier to read too, unless you want to print it. I would argue that in the vast majority of cases they actually aren’t being printed. And get this, you can actually print HTML files too, ya know. So PDF is really only better if you need to print something with a very specific and strict layout, like a brochure or something.

“But Jackby, I use PDFs and I love printing them”

Okay, that’s fine, I just think you’re the exception. I think most people open them in browser or some PDF viewer and never print them ever.

My favorite response to this opinion was someone telling me that having all the CSS and JS in one file makes it load slower. Like uh, off my computer? Because I’m talking about distributing the file itself, not hosting it on a website. I think we folks just latch onto best practices for the web.

This but unironically.

AI has gotten scary good over the past year.

You don’t learn things at your job? Damn, you must not be a good employee.

I took that as part of the joke.

Yes, it’s only slightly less gay. I cannot support heterosexual sorcery.

Oh, but are most people subscribing to Netflix for its original content?

I use Vim. I am not a power user by any stretch but it’s what I use. I know like three shortcuts, which is enough to make me marginally faster in vim than nano. I don’t really feel much desire to learn a terminal editor and be super good with it. There are other things I’m more interested in spending my time on if I feel motivated to learn.

Reminds me of that comic the other day

Kurzgesagt: Let’s keep our art human made.

Google: Kurzgesagt, your content looks like this low quality AI slop!

🤖: I’D LIKE TO THANK KURZGESAGT FOR BEING A BIG INSPIRATION TO ME.

It’s so crazy to me that a non profit is anti union. Like, I know we live in a capitalist dystopia but I guess I didn’t think it was that bad.

If NixOS uses systemd that’s the difference probably, my understanding is that guix is a non-systemd distro. (I am not who you replied to, just trying to help.)

Oh I hate that. Netflix animes are super bad about it. I wish they’d have the subbed English dub as well instead of a translated sub.

Oh if only. I’ve seen two tracks on occasion on streaming services but it’s extremely rare. I think it was on Netflix or Prime and it’s been years since I’ve seen it. As someone who is not hard of hearing but just has a little trouble understanding sometimes it’s very useful to have the option that’s exclusively dialogue.

I think it’s better than day month year but both are worse than year month day.

I think if I was running a server at home for anything more than just wanting to tinker, I’d probably use Debian. But even then, I think if I had a server at home it’d be just to have a server lol.

Imagine me opening Lemmy during my pre movie piss at the urinal only to see this. I hate how accurate this is, but it’s amazing. I get nervous pee sooooo bad. It’s like everything just freezes up lmao.

Oh, maybe. Even then, for things in the public domain this shouldn’t matter. I know that’s probably not the majority of what they’re scanning though.

What issues specifically? Not disagreeing, trying to understand what you mean.

Also, if every AI company does this, then it’s more books gone. If they cooperated they’d only need to do it once. Good scans of all books in the public domain would be so useful for us all as society.