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  • Yeah, not a bad stance to have. When I switched to Linux (in the middle of a compsci minor), I thought I was the king of the world and that I knew everything about computers.

    Then Linux showed me that I know fuckall, not because it was particularly hard, but rather because it’s an open library.
    You can look at a random config file on your PC and it will explain you highly technical concepts for free.
    You can look at the source code of anything you’re interested in. Well, or probably rather read an explainer from someone who read/wrote the source code.
    And you can easily look at the logs of your applications to debug them.

    Every so often, I run into folks that genuinely seem to know a lot about Windows, and I always wonder how. It doesn’t explain anything to you. 😅




  • I switched teams at $DAYJOB a few months ago, into a project which is developed open-source mainly by our company and with heavy use of LLMs.

    And at some point, one of our devs told me that they explicitly don’t have an AGENTS.md file in the repo (which would contain instructions to make the LLMs generate better results), because they don’t want LLM-generated contributions.

    Why? Because we would need to review that slop.

    I feel like this isn’t talked about enough in these discussions. It’s faster to generate a contribution, but the end result is often considerably worse and needs a much more thorough review.
    The workload for maintainers increases. And maintainers were the bottleneck even before LLMs.

    So, I just don’t think you generally want to allow generated contributions, not without LLMs making a massive leap still.
    At best, I would allow it for select people, like the maintainers themselves or past contributors where you know they will ensure a base level of quality and have an understanding of the architecture and the project goals.



  • Ah yeah, it’s just a translucent overlay slapped on top of everything. It’s the fallback option when nothing else works.

    Lots of apps that advertise lowering screen brightness below 0% just do that, so I thought that’s what you mean.

    There is also a way to properly filter the colors, which doesn’t discolor things as badly, but I believe you need root for that, or for it to be built into the OS, like the “Extra Dim” option that various ROMs have.

    I guess, there might also be ROMs where the manufacturer decided to limit how low you can set the brightness via the UI, even though the hardware would accept lower values. In that case, yeah, try what @hexagonwin@lemmy.today posted with writing to that file via ADB.
    Maybe you can also do that via Termux somehow, if you’ve got root on your device.