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Cake day: September 3rd, 2023

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  • While I still see a lot of people scrolling through traditional social media while I’m out and about, it does feel like more people are starting to disconnect (which I think is a good thing) even among my younger friends and family.

    I still browse Reddit every now and then, especially for the more niche subreddits, but I don’t have an account nor do I plan on making one. I’ve definitely noticed a lot of low-effort comments that makes Reddit look more active, but the substance really isn’t there. So while a similar (if not the same) post here on Lemmy would have less or no comments, it substantially feels the same to me.

    Despite the fact that I’m usually a lurker and don’t have much to add to most of the posts here, I’ve recently been making more of an effort to be more active here on Lemmy to combat this. But honestly, as someone who hasn’t had a proper social media account for over a decade now, I actually prefer a more empty internet vs one filled with nonsense.


  • Yeah, what Vittelius mentioned is correct, it’s more that I don’t like how most Electron apps on Linux look due to the lack of CSD, causing that flat shadowless look in the screenshot with VS Code next to Dolphin. So, if anything here’s to hoping more devs will test their Electron apps on Linux Desktop Environments/windowing systems to make their apps look more native in these environments. But I do appreciate the clarification on SSD, it’s nice for me to finally learn the terminology used to describe why I find most Electron apps on Linux to look janky.


  • Ah I think I might be misunderstanding then.

    For this:

    Many popular apps, including Visual Studio Code, Obsidian, and Discord, use frameless windows with custom title bars. Prior to Electron 41, frameless windows did not support CSD at all, so they looked like featureless rectangles on Wayland.

    Am I misinterpreting that Electron on Wayland now supporting CSD for frameless windows would make it possible for developers currently using them to better mimic the look of Qt or Gtk apps (with shadows and rounded corners, etc.)?

    I’m using KDE Plasma and Electron apps sometimes have that sharp-cornered, shadowless window vs the way Qt or Gtk apps are rendered. The most noticeable difference for me is the lack of outline, rounded corners, or shadow.

    But do correct me if I’m wrong since I don’t know much about Electron development.




  • I feel like I’m going crazy, because I distinctly remember checking out this project a couple of years ago (before they were called Linkwarden, and then when they renamed it) and noticing all the ai-looking commits (especially after the rename) in the repo so I wrote off the project. Also notice how OP doesn’t deny that they’re using it, just says he started the project before ChatGPT. I went through his profile and the AI profile picture and https://github.com/daniel31x13/gstack fork are pretty telling.

    Let’s be honest, a lot of FOSS projects have been inundated with ai pull requests, and I looked at some that were merged. At least the dev looks like they’re being responsible about them. Look at the contributors for the last 6 months, claude is right there: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/commit/8bd3bd376316332693c5074a59dc3ab03559f1dc. Look at that contributor’s profile and website. For another one: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/pull/1553. Look at that user’s GitHub profile, look at the activity, look at his website. I’m not saying he’s not a good programmer or anything like that, but be for real, he’s absolutely using AI for his code, if not an ai agent of some sort.

    I also find it hard to believe an app that features ai tagging wouldn’t also use ai. So it seems disingenuous to tag their Reddit post with “No AI” in r/selfhosted.

    At the end of the day, I’m not personally invested, and they’re free to use ai in their project (it is a tool after all and can be used responsibly). But I’m really developing trust issues with how dodgy some projects are about disclosing their AI usage. Like just say you use it to debug, qa, brainstorm, or write your docs, and or that the outputs are actually reviewed by a person.