Well they’re not a charity, so my bet is on enshittification of some sort under the guise of “improving the experience for makers and users”.
I’m a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.
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Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Technology@beehaw.org•Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous
3·2 days agoHa, If you’re alluding to my post being similar to generated output, you obviously haven’t experienced the pure blandness of LLMs trying to write engaging content.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Technology@beehaw.org•Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous
201·2 days agoIt’s statistical blandness writ large.
The stack of single-sentence paragraphs after the introduction paragraph trying so hard to have an impact.
The tendency to put “not X, not Y, just Z” everywhere.
The perfect conclusion written at the end of each piece , summarising three bland paragraphs with yet another bland paragraph.
Statistically regurgitated bullshit, all of it
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•UK government announces crackdown on AI chatbots and infinte scrollEnglish
2·2 days agoIf you can’t control yourself, you can always get the state to control everybody
“I can handle crack just fine! I don’t know why it’s outlawed!”
State control applies to a lot of addictive substances that cause material harm to society in general.
Stares hard at social media
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threatEnglish
664·3 days agobecause it is far from a secure number.
It is only the American obsession with using it as a unique identifier for everything in their lives that has caused this issue.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Programming@programming.dev•Are there any examples of 'perfect' software?
11·3 days agoIt was fault tolerant but I wouldn’t say it was perfect. There were plenty of “known issues”, and the fix in production was basically, “don’t do that”.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AIEnglish
121·4 days agoYou mean “shuffle” like when you shuffle a deck of cards and have exactly the same cards still but in a different order with no single card repeating because you started out with a deck of cards and why would there suddenly be an extra card or 5 of the same face value in the deck because that’s just crazy talk? That kind of shuffle?
Yeah sorry, Spotify doesn’t do that.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mudEnglish
121·4 days agoYou get oxygen free copper because you install it permanently and don’t want it to rust and fail and have to rip out your ceiling and walls
Copper wiring is protected from the elements (that is: oxygen) by its insulation. The gauge of the copper wiring is a far greater factor in audio quality than the voodoo science behind OFC.
You don’t have to worry about corrosion in your speaker wiring unless your speaker installation is literally in the ocean.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mudEnglish
4·4 days agoAll I want to know is just how many veils has that soundstage got‽ Here I am, just having a soundstage like a sucker, and they’ve got veils they can lift!
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mudEnglish
16·4 days agoBut what’s the point of having your newly-purchased $3000 wooden volume knob and polyatomic copper ring bus lift yet another veil from the soundstage if you’re blindfolded?
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Android@lemdro.id•[MrMobile] Can You Turn A Phone Into A Computer?English
4·5 days agoI don’t think most phones are useful at multitasking at all tbh. Only bare minimum
Neither are people. Human “multitasking” is basically fast task switching.
Desktops provide a convenient method of task switching using a flat area and windows, phones have a slightly different method of task switching using full screen panels. Both allow you to focus on the task at hand and switch to another task.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
homeassistant@lemmy.world•Home Assistant 2026.2: Home, sweet overviewEnglish
1·13 days agoIt has a smart controller with a wifi module from SpaNet. The app is quite “open” in that it allows you to set your own auxiliary MQTT server and send home assistant compatible data to it while still being able to use the existing app.
Added edit:
So everything is controllable by HA - blower pumps, temperature, the sanitiser routine, the lights, whether to put it into sleep/low power mode, etc
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open SourceEnglish
1·14 days agoLove me a good <MARQUEE>!
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
homeassistant@lemmy.world•Home Assistant 2026.2: Home, sweet overviewEnglish
5·14 days agoLots of things can be hooked up through it. One of the biggest things I find I like about it is the way you can merge ecosystems with it.
At home with HA I have an LG TV, Philips Hue lights, a Tapo vacuum cleaner, my EV charger, my own home made solar hot water system controller, a presence sensor that also does CO2 and temperature, a hot tub, and a few other bits and pieces. All of which can be viewed and controlled in the one interface, not the 6 or 7 apps that every individual device wants me to install.
But automations and notifications are the big thing. The presence sensor in the living room turns off the tv if nobody is in front of it for more than an hour. The EV charger tells me when the car is charged. An hour before sunset the light in my living room slowly dims on, and dims off after 9pm when the presence sensor says there’s nobody around. When my solar hot water system is a bit slow to heat up on a cloudy day, I get an email telling me to turn the electric booster on (and off when the water’s hot). Every Tuesday and Thursday evening the vacuum cleaner is set to clean the living areas, but it doesn’t if someone is watching tv, as detected by the presence sensor and the television.
I also don’t have to get off the couch to turn on a light, but the idea is that you set up automations that do all the button-pressing for you.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•How Vibe Coding Is Killing Open SourceEnglish
10·16 days agoIs the ✨sparkly emoji✨ the <BLINK> of the 21st century? Discuss.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
AssholeDesign@lemmy.world•This app to meet new people relentlessly sends you a "redeem your free ticket" notification, sometimes 10 in an hour . With no way to disable this type of notification in-appEnglish
2·16 days agoI think it’s becoming a play store requirement for apps to use various “notification channels” or whatever it’s called, so hopefully the all or nothing behaviour will disappear in time.
Orrrr as you say apps get totally silenced / uninstalled, I don’t have the patience for that kind of stuff anymore.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Technology@lemmy.world•Can workers compete with machines and stay relevant in the AI era?English
2·17 days agoBut it’s definitely not perfect and tends to add unnecessary changes, I constantly have to review and add new rules.
This is the bit that bugs me. I spend a bit of time to create a relatively simple application in C# with it, and it’s constantly tacking on new features and four extra command line arguments and it’s frothing at the mouth to add Cool Feature X, “just say the word and I’ll do it”.
Just do what I asked. No more. That’s enough. There’s enough mangled code and logic errors lurking in there already, I don’t need any more “features” clouding the water.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
AssholeDesign@lemmy.world•This app to meet new people relentlessly sends you a "redeem your free ticket" notification, sometimes 10 in an hour . With no way to disable this type of notification in-appEnglish
11·17 days agoAnd newer versions of Android have notification categories for each app.
So if the developer does their homework I can turn off particular notification types and let others through, and that way you can -gasp!- actually have a messaging app that only notifies you of actual messages, instead of constantly begging for your attention for a bunch of superfluous crap.

And if I go to the notification settings for that app and it doesn’t have a category I can easily drop, it either gets completely silenced, or it gets uninstalled.
Dave.@aussie.zoneto
Android@lemdro.id•Motorola promises zero Android OS upgrades for its latest budget phones, ships with Android 15English
128·18 days agoOh lawdy, a budget phone shipping with an OS SEVEN WHOLE MONTHS out of date at time of publication. Will the horrors ever end!?
Quick, someone bring me my fainting chair!



Oh come on now, that’s a defeatist attitude!
There’s always scope to further extract value for shareholders!