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trelbutate··on Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI"
People who simply enjoy coding (without treating it to be "therapeutic") are still unhappy because working with LLMs is just not the same, and not rewarding in the same way
trelbutate··on Decompiling a Nintendo 64 game in 84 days
to be fair much of the fun in decompiling/RE is the puzzle solving, it's like a giant crossword puzzle that you fill in bit by bit, slowly figuring out how things work. Having an LLM do large parts of that for you is probably kinda boring for many.
trelbutate··on OpenLogi
It's just a bit of text for a website that describes what a product does, what features it has, and maybe an FAQ. It shouldn't take you long. For something like this you can even start with LLM text and then rewrite it in your own words and it will sound much better .
trelbutate··on OpenLogi
Yeah, that's what I think every time I read some discussion online about AI coding assistants. Programming is such a wide field with presence in so many different industries, with all sorts of languages and environments, and many people seem to forget that not everything is webdev. You see one person saying they barely need to code by hand anymore and another who can't believe that because their experience has been the complete opposite, when they're probably both right.
trelbutate··on OpenLogi
Okay, but how about a shiny LLM website but with human-written text that's actually nice to read and not some unedited AI output? That doesn't take a week.
trelbutate··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
So? This is about ovious stuff where you notice the typical annoying AI style directly in the first paragraph. After all, 99% of "regular" people use the mainstream models, and anyone who uses a local model probably knows enough about AI that they don't dump raw output on you.
trelbutate··on How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)
That runs locally as far as I know. I have backup turned off and I can still search for simple things in the photos (like "dog"), but nothing more complex than that. Only when you enable the backup and it gets uploaded to the cloud do they run more advanced models on it.
trelbutate··on The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation
> To be fair excel would erase places white that it wanted to write up to 9 times before it drew any black pixels

I feel like I'm having a stroke trying to read this, what does it mean??

trelbutate··on Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'
Will never understand why some people prefer mailing lists to do development, it always feels like the most convoluted way to hold a discussion, especially if there are multiple topics at the same time.

It probably doesn't really change that much in this scenario but with a forum or any other topics-based platform you can at least just close and ignore these things without it affecting everyone else.

trelbutate··on The Boring Internet
To be honest I don't know of any, I just didn't want to be outright dismissive of it. If you just use it for a header to have some kind of small animation that grabs the reader's attention I guess it's fine. Just don't use it for the main text body.
trelbutate··on The Boring Internet
Yeah, scroll fade might be useful sometimes but most of the time it's just annoying.

https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/

trelbutate··on Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI
Who will then stop advertising on there real quickly once they find out what's going on
trelbutate··on The simple geometry behind any road
I was also confused about that because they did mention clothoids in their first post: https://sandboxspirit.com/blog/art-of-roads-in-games

Although re-reading that it seems they just don't want to deal with the math involved

trelbutate··on An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story
What do you want as proof? A link to the app?
trelbutate··on Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)
Nice solution for this might be:

Ctrl+Enter: Always submits

Shift+Enter: Always newline (if supported)

Enter: Reasonable default, depending on context

trelbutate··on Claude March 2026 usage promotion
Outside 4pm to 10pm
trelbutate··on RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard
RIP Yezidi Hyphenation Mark, replaced with the Human Em Dash
trelbutate··on Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)
If someone doesn't know what .gitkeep is they should be able to derive from the name that it's some special file intended for git. If they then google it they will immediately find out what it's for. Yes, git itself has no concept of it but it's common enough that there's plenty documentation on the internet.
trelbutate··on Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great user interface font
If I do that on the first screenshot it shows up even tinier than it was before for some reason
trelbutate··on Show HN: WhatsApp MCP Server
WhatsApp has end-to-end encryption
trelbutate··on Veloren – voxel action-adventure role-playing
You're afraid of the launcher spying on you, but not the actual game?
trelbutate··on Remote code execution via MIDI messages
So, the repo's README claims the repo contains the image dumps, but they're not actually there. Is this correct?