• Jiral@lemmy.world
    3·
    37 minutes ago

    What is the accelerating rise of m-dashes from approximately 2014-2019 about? That trend apparently continued until very recently, even slowed down a bit, before exploding at some point in 2025 or 2026 for obvious reasons.

    Does anyone have a theory?

  • MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.socialEnglish
    7·
    1 hour ago

    Emdashes on this chart are the Jaws theme of vibeshittification.

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  • Artisian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    46 minutes ago

    (Ftr; you’d also see this sort of thing if a new cohort, say ESL speakers from a particular country, was suddenly able to contribute when they couldn’t before.)

  • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works
    253·
    3 hours ago

    Personally the only part I have seen is documentation is now vibe coded, where in the past, it was autism coded.

    • BenjiRenji@feddit.org
      2·
      40 minutes ago

      As long as it’s short, sweet and to the point and not prose.

      “This function doesn’t return an int*, it returns a char *.”

    • otto@feddit.org
      8·
      57 minutes ago

      git grep -I '—' master | wc -l

      just did a quick check, my graph looks similar.

  • Shanmugha@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 hours ago

    Important software that caught buggy code from Linus at review stage? Riight, we are all gonna die, sure

  • whelk@retrolemmy.com
    433·
    6 hours ago

    Man, I miss when Linux felt like a refuge. It’s always been flawed of course but now it feels like everyone in positions of influence are embracing the awful

    • nehal3m@lemmy.zip
      161·
      4 hours ago

      It’s getting harder to justify the inconvenience of going off the beaten path if that path is turning into the same slop as the commercial ones.

      • capital5@discuss.tchncs.de
        10·
        2 hours ago

        The Linux Foundation has unfortunately become a commercial shithole, run by a clusterfuck of Silicon Valley VCs. When I see the kinds of garbage AI projects that are being shoveled into it every day, I lose more and more respect for it.

        Look for yourselves: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/projects

        And it’s sad to see Linus falling into their lock and step. I respect him for a lot of things, but when it comes to AI, he’s sadly just wrong.

        • nehal3m@lemmy.zip
          3·
          3 hours ago

          True, and for most things you get a choice, in contrast to Windows/MacOS. But if the kernel itself slides down this path there’s not a lot you can do unless you’re willing to sacrifice enormous amounts of time and effort.

          I’m kind of done with this passion, I’ll be investing more of my time into yard maintenance and my boat.

  • grue@lemmy.world
    513·
    7 hours ago

    As an actual human who uses em dashes — or usually, two or three hyphens that turn into an em dash in Markdown — I feel personally attacked.

  • rklm@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    656·
    8 hours ago

    I’ve been using linux for 18 years, but since reviewing the Open Slopware list I’ve been making a lot of changes.

    FreeBSD ticks almost every box I need it to. It runs Plasma, it runs Steam/Proton (through a thin compatibility layer that enables a lot of other linux software), it can be set up immutably and has superior containerization natively via jails. It even supports XDG compliance.

    But there is no support for changing voltage or clock rate on any amd gpu (maybe any gpu at all) and no driver support for my newer amd gpu at all.

    It honestly feels like how linux used to feel back in the day 😅

    I don’t think I’m gonna jump ship just yet. The recent ai code fiasco that happened in the linux kernel (race condition, regression, vacation) was averted by the team of talented human developers who reviewed Linus’ code. I am choosing to have faith that it will be ok for a while… given there are few alternatives.

    That being said, I think I might finally be ready to hop on the fuck-sysyemd train. I was able to look past the megalomaniacal tendencies of the dev because the tools were so convenient, but the AI PRs and code review pushes me over the edge. I am gonna configure a daily driver in Artix soon.

    Edit: I should note, FreeBSD also has some AI code issues. But the linux-libre kernel might not. Something like Hyperbola (GNU/Linux-libre) might be more appropriate for someone who is trying to avoid ai code strictly.

  • marcos@lemmy.world
    12·
    8 hours ago

    We have to ride it for long enough so that a microkernel inevitably becomes the better option.

    Maybe L4? IDK, but it’s something that makes this kind of choice irrelevant.