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  • The current thread is about AI slop, not DMS. You helped create the branch we’re on. You said “people on Lemmy can’t tell slop from useful info.” I said “this is AI slop because the sources don’t match,” assuming that I wouldn’t have to explain the hallucinations (fabrications is a bit better here) because that usually comes with slop. Since the current thread is about whether or not slop is meaningful, I have no idea what you added by saying “hey I attacked someone for not liking AI then attacked someone else for a refutation of the AI that I was white knighting.”



  • There isn’t a universal language to fill all these needs. DevOps covers a ton of areas so you want several tools in your toolbelt instead of just one (granted if you’re an incredibly talented greybeard bash can honestly do everything and do it fairly fast; I’ve never taken this analysis too seriously).

    • bash is something you need for every day tasks and quick tooling to improve everything else in this list
    • POSIX tooling is something you should know well to improve everything else on this list (eg awk is something you’ll use a lot in bash)
    • Python with or without types will handle more advanced scripting in a cleaner and more maintainable way for your team (explaining bashisms slows things down. Does your junior know what : is or why we currently prefer $() over backticks?)
    • Go is something you want to use for containerization and scaling servers
    • Rust is something you want to use for process work and embeddables

    Each of these languages meets some of the requirements on your list but not all. That’s because nothing is a silver bullet. Depending on what you’re doing, you might even want to introduce, say, Java or C# in your pipelines if that’s what you’re maintaining. DevOps should support not alienate and overall it needs to be flexible.


  • This isn’t recent. This has been an ongoing thing for at least 20 years (if not longer; that’s just the earliest I remember having this convo). Yes, it cleans the wound by killing things but it also fucks up the healthy tissue around the wound (see other comments for a more scientific explanation). Having some in a medical kit is useful for other activities such as diluting with water for an ear rinse, diluting with water for various mouth stuff (rinse not swallow), and some skin treatments (again, diluting first).





  • Let me pull that quote for you.

    The number of people living with dementia is still increasing due to our ageing population, but this study adds to the good news that more recent generations have a decreased risk compared to past generations

    Now let me help you understand percentages. See, when you have more people alive, the number goes up. What does the quote say? The number is going up because the population is ageing. Notice it doesn’t say frequency. That’s when the percentage increases. Percentage is the ratio of the number to the whole. See, in your conspiracy, you forgot to bring something that talks about percentage. In the article we’re talking about, “frequency” and “percent” are never mentioned.

    Had you actually read the article, you might have pulled this quote

    it should not be assumed that the trend would continue, given some of the biggest health changes to reduce dementia risk may already have been made

    Which, unsurprisingly, doesn’t match your conspiracy theory. More importantly, you might have pulled this one, which can directly be linked to your conspiracy.

    evidence suggested nearly half of dementia cases could be prevented or delayed by addressing 14 key risk factors – from smoking to air quality – although he noted not all were within individuals’ control

    But you don’t really have supporting facts, which is really annoying. There are great points to be made about meat and mental health. Maybe come with those next time! Good sources, too, covering meta studies perhaps?








  • This doesn’t answer the question at all. Don’t get me wrong; I have zero interest in supporting Adobe and I tell anyone they’re toxic. What I’m frustrated with is blaming users of their software. To use your real world examples, that’s like blaming millennials for the myth of plastic recycling. You can attack them writ large for something they have no control over or you can go for the source.

    A very similar argument can be made about cloud software. The cloud engineering pipeline is geared toward forcing you into Azure, GCP, or AWS. Attacking the DevOps engineer just trying to make a living for the AI abuse supported by Azure is the wrong idea.

    Your response is a much better way to change the picture. Education and connection, not blame.