Well, I’ve listened to audiobooks on Spotify (and Tidal) for a while, but that’s not piracy. You could try “hoerbuch” followed by the top-level domain of the United States. And the local library here has several shelves filled with audiobooks. I might have ripped a few to listen to them on modern devices…

I follow a similar strategy. I back up my important stuff. And I’m gonna have to re-rip my DVD collection and redownload the Linux ISOs in the unlikely case the RAID falls apart. That massively cuts down on the amount of storage needed.

That’s correct. I went with OP’s original question, what happens after it happened… Not sure what OP meant, they’re nowhere in the comments… Maybe they’re a bot as well, and we’re subject to the very same thing we’re talking about, right now…

But sure. All the fabricated pull requests, issue reports etc are massively problematic. We got quite some bot activity. Then we also need to protect our servers and platforms from their crawlers who just DDOS everyone… Documentation went down the drain, StackOverflow, Reddit… The industry is trying to get rid of entry level programmer positions, so you’ll have a bad time entering the job market as any programmer… We’re just drowned in all that stuff. Supply chains also get affected by AI, people need to choose between using existing libraries, licensing, money… Or replacing it with something the AI generated, and we get structural challenges in all kinds of projects…

Nothing? I mean an if/else works the same way, no matter if it’s written by a human or an AI or a cat or whatever…

The Linux kernel developers are opinionated, though. Everything gets quite an amount of scrutiny. There will be several people having their eyes on submissions. They’re looking for security vulnerabilities. They’re adamant on maintainability. Have a standard on how to phrase things, indent lines… Send in the patches… They generally have high standards. I mean if someone submits some AI slop, there’s a high chance it just gets declined and they’re getting scolded for doing it.

There’s of course always the chance someone tries to sneak something in. Or it creeps in on its own. But it’s the same for bugs or security attacks. And maybe some of the devs work for companies who push AI and they’ll do silly things. But the Linux community is pretty strong. They’ll find a way to handle it. And maybe in the far future, AI will get as good as human programmers and there won’t be an issue accepting AI code, because it has the same quality as human code. But that’s science fiction as of now.

Ah, thx. Makes sense, now I get it.

Hehe. Sure. I mean it’s both a blessing and problematic at the same time… I think most people appreciate a TV set is a few hundred bucks these days. Or the availability of smartphones and home computers. That’s only possible because of modern pick and place machines. I think our world would look a bit more like the victorian age if we didn’t have those modern perks. Each computer would be hand-soldered by a workforce of hundreds of people. Fill several rooms and be slow and unaffordable for anyone except the government. It wouldn’t have a screen… We couldn’t sustain billions of humans on the planet without all the machines and science in agriculture…

But automation is problematic as well. I mean we’re arguing about it since the Industrial Revolution. I think they painted a dark picture of the future in the early 20th century. Like the movie Metropolis. I think these days, we’ve solved some of the issues that come with industrialization. But we’re doing stupid things as well. And it’s an everlasting struggle not to end up in some machine dystopia. Not sure if machines are the root cause of everything, though. I mean scientists use them, they’re on every assembly line and in logistics centers. And not even the handyman with a more down-to-earth job renounces their modern battery-powered power tools… I mean sure we could use a handsaw and the hand drill from my grandpa… But I don’t think that’s the point?

But I value the human aspect as well. I mean I don’t need soylent green out of a dispenser. I’d rather have a cook and waiter.

Weird article. Is this some domain specific breakthrough? Because I’m fairly sure laboratories and researchers use some ultra precise experimental setups and sampling machines for like half a century now? For example an elaborate machine that loads 200 blood samples at a time and it’ll return the lab results to the hospital within a few hours. For what used to be a time consuming, labor intensive job with a higher error rate before… But we have these machines for quite some time now… They didn’t include any AI in the advertising, though. Same with material sciences, I believe. Either they’re doing something very specific and it’s a lot of manual labor. Or they have to test a lot of samples, or handle things very precisely, and someone is going to build a jig with robots or actuators. But that’s kind of what people always did? I mean they did palletizing robots in the 60s, and the KUKA robot arm was patented in 1973. And this article reads a bit (to me) like the job description of such a KUKA robotic arm… But what’s newsworthy about this in 2026?

Yeah, they often get quite warm. Some day I’ll be in the same situation as OP. And I can’t wait to throw out that supid modem. No clue, though what kind of SFP the fiber provider requires. I mean there’s quite a selection available…

Maybe correct? Though my cable modem gobbles down some 15W… Without even doing the Wifi… So, I bet this isn’t a universal truth, as a Mini-PC will comsume less and provide all kinds of extra services, networking, NAS…

You should have all kinds of options on Lemmy… You can edit a post and change it to whatever you like. Or delete it and optionally post a new one…

Just delete the post if it’s a mess-up.

Livekit can be used to build voice assistants. But it’s more a framework to build an agent yourself, not a ready-made solution.

And there’s another custom component, integrating all servers with an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint: https://github.com/jekalmin/extended_openai_conversation

Well my reason was, it’s too close to botspam. And just re-posts (sometimes of re-posts). I rather have genuine conversation on an internet platform.
Most of it will be low engagement. I’ll see a question, and take 10mins out of my day to anwer it, just to find out I wasted that time, because OP never had that question. And the real OP never sees my answer. Cm0002 improved, though. They cut down on forwarding questions, and they’re transparent it’s just forwarded content, these days. But ultimately, it’s the same thing with other content. I’ll see a post about RISC-V and interact. But it’s just a waste, because it’s fabricated and I’ll never see any responses.

I think it’s particularly bad in niche topics. The few people actually wanting to discuss RISC-V (just an example) are drowned in noise news-posts by someone who isn’t even interested in discussing topic, they just push a political agenda there. So it kinda displaces the little genuine conversation we have.

And after wasting some time here and there by commenting into the void, I decided to suppress those posts and use my time to interact with actual people who have notifications turned on, read my stuff, teach me something or who have a genuine question in need of some advice.

I guess this is somehow related to the question whether we (just) want many posts here. Or have good conversation in the comments. To me it seems the former doesn’t really lead to the latter. Some techniques are even detrimental to that cause. And I think this is one of those cases… At least it kills my engagement. I agree on the broad idea, though. I’ve long moved away from lemmy.ml communities. I just wish we had a bit more original content here, and not just 80% re-posts of what other people posted on Reddit, what they posted on lemmy.ml…

I mean to also be fair here, that’s not a unique feature of the Fediverse. We currently have some drama (in Germany) about people impersonating people on X. The commercial platforms even earn money doing the same thing. And it’s very clear in the prelude to a potential court case, they have no intention to stop this. They’re currently doing some really weird shenanigans so the lawyers can’t serve any papers or mail.

Not sure how it is on other platforms. It’s been a while since I helped people to get rid of unwanted content on social media. But it was never easy. And once you do it for privacy reasons or mild doxxing, you’re basically screwed. Because these days they’ll all make you pull down your pants to prove it’s legitimate. So you basically end up doxxing yourself to protect your private information. I mean what’s more likely to happen is, they don’t even listen. But I’m not really up to date with that any more. Maybe they changed and now they do? But I doubt it. It’s just how the internet operates.

Weird. I wouldn’t have expected that. But yes, according to their megathread in the sister comment, about 5 on my blocklist are unaccounted for.

10?? I’ve blocked at least 20 cm0002s?! And they keep coming.

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And don’t ever ask random people how to pronounce ‘router’.

There’s copyright infringement on one click hosters… And a loy of them offer slow, but free downloads. Some newcomers ask a friend to copy a movie from their harddisk or DVD collection… I mean piracy in general is a bit tricky for newcomers. There’s some good resources linked in the sidebar… But a lot of piracy isn’t exactly legal to do. And it’s not really ethical to advise someone to do something that might get them in trouble… And openly recommending things is illegal in some jurisdictions. But yes. Don’t do random torrents unless you know what you’re doing.

HA isn’t the only option. I think there’s two other open source smarthome solutions out there(?) And you could probably do with just an MQTT broker and a Python script, or something like that…

But HA isn’t a bad choice. They’re doing a phenomenal job. And related projects like ESPHome make it really easy to integrate microcontrollers. And if you want to do more smarthome stuff, it has a plethora of features, integrations, an app…

Extra hardware isn’t absolutely necessary. I have one server at home which does NAS, and I use 4GB of it’s RAM to run a virtual machine with Home Assistant. That’s enough for it, including a bunch of Addons.