swaits's comments

On: Flipper One – we need your help

[swaits]

Here is an alternative that I think has real potential:

https://m5stack.com/cardputerzero

[anonzzzies → swaits]

Nice but zero blobs/everything open? As that's the main interesting part here; full, no binary blobs, open docs/code ...

[moralestapia → anonzzzies]

The main interesting part for me is that the cardputer is real, but I do understand people getting excited by landing pages.

On: What is a Demand Coop

[swaits]

That’s not what this is. Nor do we need more of them.

[bonsai_spool → swaits]

Arguably, we do - at least the 8k people being fired at Meta and the 7k being told to drop everything and work on AI likely did need one.

On: An Introduction to Meshtastic

[swaits]

You might like a project I’ve been having on. I’m having fun with it. https://donglora.com/

On: BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

[swaits]

DECT is definitely neat. But it’s significantly different than LoRa. At the lowest/slowest modulation you might get single digit kilometers out of it.

Doesn’t change my excitement about it a bit though. Eager to get this onto my workbench!

On: Let's Buy Spirit Air

[swaits]

Let’s throw good money after bad!!!

Brilliant.

On: BYOMesh – New LoRa mesh radio offers 100x the bandwidth

[swaits]

Not much. While this is technically LoRa on 2.4GHz (which is not new), most people will associate LoRa with significantly longer range and LoRa 2.4 can do.

On: A desktop made for one

[swaits]

Who cares? It’s their content. If they hired an editor to help them, cool. If the content doesn’t suit you, move on.

But the incessant “AI was used here, thus is it garbage” is long past time to enter the grave.

[nananana9 → swaits]

Many people care, with good reason. We learned to notice LLM-isms is because they are, in fact, a very strong predictor that a piece of text is in fact garbage that's not worth your time reading.

I usually stop reading at the first LLM-ism, but I found the premise of this post interesting enough to keep going - and guess what, the entire article was literally just "I prompt CC to make software tailored for me" blown out to 8 sections.

[wiseowise → swaits]

> Who cares?

The parent comment does. Why do you care that they care?

[lionkor → swaits]

> Who cares?

I care, because it landed on the front-page of a website that I thought was about engineering and hacking, not prompting a no-code tool and spending 400 bucks on it, to get something nobody else wants.

[boomlinde → swaits]

That no one cared enough to write it is usually a good indication that I should not care to read it either.

[geir_isene → swaits]

^^ some anti-luddism right there

[wiseowise → geir_isene]

Luddism is when you don't bother reading what someone didn't bother to write.

[geir_isene → wiseowise]

Dictionaries on the second row down that aisle.

[gbgarbeb → geir_isene]

Not a good look to be here fighting in the comments when you could have been writing something that reads like anything other than Claudeslop.

[wiseowise → geir_isene]

Is that supposed to mean something?

[lpcvoid → swaits]

>But the incessant “AI was used here, thus is it garbage” is long past time to enter the grave.

Nah, that rule is more relevant and true now than it was a year ago.

[jgilias → swaits]

I agree, yeah

On: Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores

[swaits]

This is the answer.

On: Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows

[swaits]

You do you. There’s nothing wrong with AI. It’s here to stay. It’s really good now, and yet it is presently the worst it will ever be, by far.

Just tell your model to speak more casually, more conversationally, and more like it’s human written. Tell it to avoid any “AI tells,” most of which are BS anyway.

If people accuse you of using AI, ignore them.

[copper-float → swaits]

This is a bad idea. AI is junk.

On: State of Kdenlive

[swaits]

Comrade, thank you for correcting the record. The word "competitor" has been retired from the lexicon effective immediately. All FOSS developers are friends. All FOSS developers have always been friends. Anyone who remembers otherwise will be assisted by the Ministry of Love in recovering the correct memory.