cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40369355
Every industry is full of technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?
Anything stored at a third party will be abused by said third party, but for some reason people think it’s okay to drop their entire life’s work on a platform that could their strongest competitor in their field, but get upset if I throw their life’s work on lemmy.
Vibe coding is a disaster and companies need to stop forcing it on their employees
It’s a wallpaper not a goddamned “screensaver”!
Are people calling desktop backgrounds screensavers now?
Have been for awhile. Phone backgrounds too.
The Cloud sucks.
Private Cloud is nice.
Aka. My own damn hardware.
We should have stuck with network file shares and FTP instead of outsourcing everything to Google. ‘Unlimited storage’ for select organizations was really good bait, but it was never sustainable.
Go slower to go faster.
In modern NLEs, you don’t need to use a broadcast safe filter before mastering unless it’s some really bizarre circumstance, for basically any normal broadcast master, the very process of encoding the file, essentially IS the broadcast safe filter and adding one on in the NLE just mucks up the grade.
Auto-generated captions take 10 minutes to make something that a human will take 12 hours to fix.
The samesuch human could have used the samesuch 12 hours to caption by hand, the only difference is you didn’t have to pay a license to an AI provider.
Any technology after coming down from the trees is bad and should be avoided. However, survival depends on increasing usage of tech stacks.
It was out of control 3 million years ago and is certainly disaster now. Exponentially growing worse.



