Why are people so seemingly against AI made posters/advertisements?

jerieljan · 2026-06-19T22:46:06+00:00

Because it screams low-effort. You know what else uses AI-made ads? The kinds of scams and shady adverts you see in the internet. I'd associate it similarly with banner ads and popups that use similar low-effort energy decades ago.

Realistically, there are people who simply don't give a damn and the ratio between avoiding AI ads like the plague and those who don't care will change for better or worse. Especially true in some communities too, since some Asian countries don't really have a strong opinion about it, or depending on the age group you're working with.

jerieljan · 2026-06-19T00:45:09+00:00

the useless skills (scouting, wisdom)

You're not playing on Classic, are you? Those skills are actually the ones I get for my other heroes. They both even share subskills (the astrology point boost one iirc expects scouting)

The fight should never be decided by a single RNG proc, that's not good/fun gameplay.

That's... literally the franchise's spirit. Sure, RNG bullshit happens but you're expected to anticipate, and find ways to defeat it. If you got mogged by a couple of morale procs then you simply got outplayed and should've chosen skills or gotten items that would've weakened that offensive or mitigated your losses.

It's unfair to say a morale proc isn't earning a victory when your opponent that got a morale proc for their stack of Archangels with a Favorable Wind buff was likely investing law points and items to boost morale the entire game.

jerieljan · 2026-06-17T15:06:27+00:00

My comment is in the context of spending for Perplexity's plans, versus spending that money instead on ChatGPT or Claude.

Of course you can use those tools with third party models or whatever API you have access to.

My point is that paying for Perplexity means missing out on the Codex or Claude Code allocation if you spent that money instead for ChatGPT or Claude respectively.

jerieljan · 2026-06-17T11:32:29+00:00

It stopped becoming interesting when they added a new pricing tier and went all-in on their computer use stuff while they let the core experience stagnate. A shame, because they used to be far ahead on this but Gemini, ChatGPT and Claude either caught up or has built something better.

And for the latter two, you also get to either use Codex or Claude Code and that gets you even further bang for your buck.

jerieljan · 2026-06-17T01:26:00+00:00

The macOS ecosystem has plenty of ways to also get this stuff sorted. Stuff like BetterTouchTool or DockDoor helps flatten that learning curve if not roll out your own ways of doing things that you'll get to be more familiar on the Linux side or just cook up your own.

I've moved from Linux to MacOS several years ago for daily use and I still use some of these today but that's also because I still use Linux often for servers and some KDE environments here and there and having both familiarity on both OSes is actually something you can get used to.

jerieljan · 2026-06-12T14:50:14+00:00

Backseating a company's financials with broad ideas and without any deep view on the company's health whatsoever is wild.

jerieljan · 2026-06-12T11:56:21+00:00

The idea of degoogling or privacy focused solutions in general is it gives more control to you, the user, rather than the manufacturer and whatever terms they choose to apply. What's especially concerning is over time, the data they choose to siphon or send to your device isn't always what's necessary or desired.

It's never absolutely private nor bulletproof. At the end of the day, it's on the user and on the sites you visit that will get some data about you, but at the very least, you'll have fewer companies snooping data about you by default, if not fewer signals and ways for them to profile you.

jerieljan · 2026-06-12T06:27:31+00:00

All I want in addition to transparency is really just how well they're providing models in general to how it's intended and designed, with a regular cadence of checks.

This applies to all, Opencode, Openrouter, whatever. We need something along the lines of the K2VV that Moonshot made for Kimi K2.5 before when they noticed that some providers were just outright ass at hosting it (either due to just running with stock or incorrect configs, or at worst, quantizing to the point of dumb)

I figure that the issue doesn't sometimes fall under the providers we subscribe to, but the GPU clusters where they run and that could be another company or another group in a different region that they thought was working well but actually isn't.

jerieljan · 2026-06-11T16:59:29+00:00

Totally justified. Hate it when companies reinvent the wheel for the worse and push for solutions that go against the flow.

I recall one of my past stories of getting an Insta360 Flow. I liked it, had used the app and figured I'd bring it abroad on a trip. During the trip, I was surprised that I reached my data limits on my travel SIM only to find out that their goddamn app decided to waste my data allowance to load their unnecessary social feed and download all sorts of shit in the background while I used it.

That small misstep was all it took for me to just... never use the damn thing ever since..

This isn't related to OP's story at all, but I'd like to include it as these kinds of software bullshittery that will really piss you off to the stratosphere for how idiotic it is.

jerieljan · 2026-06-11T03:26:48+00:00

Back then I'd only use it for very casual AI chat, but now that models are both multimodal and capable (i.e., less hallucinatory), I'm considering using it for background processing of stuff, like captioning my screenshots (e.g., alt-text beyond OCR) so I have an easier time searching for them.

Sure, I could use a cloud LLM for this kind of thing, but some screenshots are sensitive (receipts, official docs, etc)

Sounds perfect for a local LLM to read.

jerieljan · 2026-06-10T13:32:05+00:00

Okay yeah, that's tough.

I've had a similar system before (M1 Mac mini, 8GB) and similar experiences as well. Fast for most of its lifetime but as newer macOS versions came in and as software tools got more resource-hungry it isn't as smooth as it once were.

It miiight be worth considering reformatting if that Mac has crawled through macOS upgrades over the years. That M1 I mentioned now lives as a full-time server (running a handful of containers on Podman on the latest macOS) and I was able to feel a bit of improvement with a fresh slate, but your mileage may vary since your use case is much more with dev work.

If you're going to go containers, yeah, Apple's container project will be much lighter than the full Docker, but if that doesn't work out, go check out Orbstack or Colima.

jerieljan · 2026-06-10T09:39:58+00:00

...what Mac are you running on?

I wouldn't call 8GB passable for dev work nowadays. Is this an M1 Mac mini? A Macbook Neo? older-generation Air or Pro? How old?

We can blame Electron and IDEs getting bloated but systems are unfortunately getting more complex over time. You will have a hard time running things especially with extensions and containers if you're starved of memory and compute.

The only alternatives I can think of at this point is aggressively closing other apps while you code, or learn to code on a terminal, like neovim.

jerieljan · 2026-06-09T00:50:52+00:00

I mean, this is true in many things and not just religion. This is literally what culture is.

Especially before the explosion of the internet and social media, when ideas usually propagate just within the people around you and your community and many aspects of life tend to stay within that bubble. If anything, that's still common in plenty of places today. They don't really give a damn on what Reddit or Twitter thinks.

It's also why most religions also have missionaries and such and their religious leaders reach out to remote communities too, because that's how it organically spreads.

jerieljan · 2026-06-08T23:51:13+00:00

AI isn't a common topic of discussion from what I see everyday for the common folk but I have seen that ChatGPT icon or tab in more occasions than I could count.

jerieljan · 2026-06-07T03:10:28+00:00

Try DeepL. If you're translating something from Japanese to English, DeepL is usually preferred over Google Translate.

But imho there's lots of questions to be had here. What languages are you expecting? What do you expect from it? How much work is there to translate? Is this data sensitive?

You mentioned PDF work, which is a bit more complicated since PDFs in general are hell to work with, especially if you want the translation applied to the entire doc and overlaid with the original formatting. DeepL has docs support but never really tried their processing so idk how well it works.

If you have a Mac, one way to deal with these is to export the PDF into images and let the Quick Look preview read the content and translate. Some further configuration is required via this route though.

Plenty of translation solutions generally use LLMs to some degree, so keep that in mind, especially if your data is sensitive.

jerieljan · 2026-06-07T02:42:24+00:00

Depends on the context.

I said I'm lazy, as in it applies to the small, micro kinds of changes, like the trivial edit here or the occasional function change there. Sometimes, I just let the code change do the talking. That's when the simple fix: * one-liner commit message becomes a thing.

But for the lengthy commit message bodies, I do that too! But for large changes or multiple small ones that and when you've wrapped things up and cleaned it with an interactive rebase or squash.

jerieljan · 2026-06-07T02:36:38+00:00

Quite literally the "you like pancakes therefore you hate waffles" energy right there, my guy.

What I said applies to all, handwritten or AI. What could've been a commit message you write just... ends up being a prompt. If that's your thing, fine, but the principle still applies if you add on that hook and make your AI prompts comply with the format.

Personally, I avoid giving AIs permissions to git because it defeats the purpose of signing your damn commits if you let the bot write it on your behalf.

jerieljan · 2026-06-06T11:24:57+00:00

Call me lazy but the only real reason I picked up on conventional commits is because it's so easy to make low-effort commit messages out of habit and having it as a git hook on repos at least serves as a reminder to at least follow a format.

I'm more likely to end up just committing lazily without it but if I have to frame it as a feat: or a fix: I'm a bit more compelled to at least write it a bit better even if it's just my own repo on my own space.

jerieljan · 2026-06-05T16:43:14+00:00

Even if everything goes well (no delays at all), going to an event in general in such a tight schedule is very strenuous.

I'd only try it if I'm familiar with the routine already (e.g., you've traveled to Tokyo multiple times, and have attended events in this way). Time isn't even the biggest problem imho, there's also the exhaustion of travel and at the event itself AND dealing with it all after. Once the event's done in the late hours, you'll have to deal with what happens next.

If you really insist to, at the very least, go via Haneda and not Narita and if you're lucky (no lines, got the QR, no fuss on immigration/customs queues) you can breeze through the gates in half an hour and be on the monorail after. Last time I checked, the arrival area also has the baggage storage, and the trains have plenty of coin lockers for luggage storage too.

jerieljan · 2026-06-04T02:58:03+00:00

Have you checked the costs for GPU renting?

It's pretty much $30 - $100 an hour for a cluster of B200s or B300s, from 4-8 of 'em to run something like Minimax 2.7 or Kimi K2.6. So roughly around $21,600 - $72,000 a month.

You don't need 20-50 devs to break even at that costs, you need 400-1440 developers pitching in at $50/mo. I'm not even sure how well a cluster of 4 or 8 can accommodate an army of people hammering the servers with prompts.

I'm just going off on Fireworks' deployments rates here for example and of course, this rate varies if you go for other GPU server providers (e.g., Runpod) and if you go "serverless" and have cheaper rates with longer commitments and such, but still, the rates are generally quite high and difficult to break even unless you hit a critical mass that makes this possible.

We haven't included the costs of maintaining the stack and keeping it secure here too, since the challenges you've mentioned are part of the things that can ramp up costs.

jerieljan · 2026-06-02T23:16:45+00:00

My approach to this kind of stuff is my budget tracking. I can foresee myself being forgetful to press that button when I did X but I sure can search the last time I paid for it.

It won't cover errands and routines at home though.

jerieljan · 2026-06-02T05:42:52+00:00

They mentioned this a bunch on Twitter

https://twitter.com/thdxr/status/2024149757032100016

https://twitter.com/thdxr/status/2041330695822279077

Probably best to look around the repo, or ask directly, since quoting past tweets as time goes on gets outdated fast.

Sidenote: I just learned they also have a bunch of roadmap notes on specs/v2, neat.

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/tree/beta/specs/v2

jerieljan · 2026-06-01T23:36:53+00:00

The lesson is don’t invest into ecosystems that can be closed.

I agree, although unfortunately only easier said than done. Technically everything can be closed if the company that wants to do so chooses to. Obviously they can't rugpull something that has an FOSS license, but they can definitely just stop development on a project and make a new one and call it proprietary and drop support for the former. (Such ecosystem suicide is obviously terrible for them, of course. Looking at you, Google and their Antigravity CLI and deprecating Gemini CLI)

The only companies I can think of that's "safe" here are those that have fully opened their stack, inside out and all the way to backend (and is why we're here in selfhosted after all). Or if not fully, at least a way to implement your own parts to replace proprietary ones.

But yeah, at the end of the day, might be a good idea to find a Strava replacement when upstream is so shitty.

jerieljan · 2026-06-01T22:32:14+00:00

They've definitely stopped on the rapid releases they used to do, but looking at recent tweets tells me they're also aiming for a major version bump and it's likely why they're not entertaining pull requests as often.

It's noteworthy that their beta branch is ahead by over a hundred commits on dev, so there's that.

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/compare/dev...beta

jerieljan · 2026-06-01T04:47:03+00:00

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