I’m planning on changing jobs this year, and every single job employer wants to talk about LLM usage. As much as I want to refuse, Id rather say i tried it and found it to be mostly useless than say i havent even tried it at all.

Watching the terrible devs on my team just get worse faster was all i needed to see to know that avoiding it would be good for my career. With the true cost of these AI companies finally revealing itself, this summer will be very interesting

When im in a pinch, ill take a warm rag and soap to wash my armpits, and i call it a “horse bath”. Way better than calling it a “whore’s bath”

Credit card “points” and travel miles. The only “points” that matter are the dollar. (or whatever currency)

This is actually an instance of etherpad, which you can self host. Still cool

Government is inevitable.

Apolitical people just want to avoid conflict.

I’m here because I believe in a world where high tech, human nature, and the climate can thrive in harmony.
Solarpunk is how I think that world would look like.

I think the one core belief we all share is a optimistic view about the relationship between technology and environment.

I’m not really interested in policing the term “solarpunk”.

As long as you’re thinking about how to harmonize technology, climate, and people, then you are solarpunk in my book.

perfectly happy.

before, my windows machine was a weird amalgamation of developer machine and gaming rig.

I was already developing in Linux with WSL because fuck microslop’s absolutely shitty developer environment.

now I’ve completely separated the two uses for my computer.

I use bazzite for gaming, since I don’t really want to change anything.

I use cachyos for development because it’s pretty easy to configure and is arch based.

I picked both of those distros because I didn’t feel like trying so hard to get my Nvidia GPU to play nice.

Just recently switched my Dad to bazzite so he can play games without windows eating up all of his RAM

speaking of submarines, this is the exact line of thinking that turned an idiot CEO into a paste at the bottom of the ocean

I feel like this was more recent, but it could be that I read it recently. Theres an official response from proton regarding this incident if you want to learn more about the situation.

One benefit of using proton is because your emails live in Switzerland and your data is subject to their laws around data privacy. From what I know, that doesn’t protect you from criminal investigation, but it does protect your data from non government agency requests and data brokers.

The climate activist I’m referring to was squatting in high rises as protest, which is against the law in france. France used interpol to communicate with the swiss government in order to get more information about their suspect. The official response from proton covers more about this incident, and I think it’s likely they had no idea what this climate activist was doing.

Privacy unfortunately does not mean youre free to commit crimes, or even that your personal info is safe from police inquiry. That is anonymity, not privacy.

Although I don’t agree with protons decision to remove wording around logging IPs in their terms of service, it’s disingenuous to think that proton is somehow complicit and is “tracking down activists”. From my perspective, they were following the law, as messed up as the law is.

the French government used interpol to request the swiss government to request proton to hand over the ip address of a French climate activist

AI art is the Tostino’s pizza of art.

it looks like pizza, but it doesn’t really taste like pizza, and not a single human touched it

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art major here

I don’t agree with this at all. syntax highlighting is more useful when looking at small chunks of code. I only need to know the difference between the two words next to each other, or if I properly closed a string definition.

I should memorize my theme colors? give me a break. the only one I need to know is which one is a string, the rest are “code”

I wouldn’t vehemently disagree with this so much if the article didn’t make so many assumptions, and was in a more conversational tone. “Getting it wrong” sounds pompous, but if you just talked about how YOU used syntax highlighting, I wouldn’t care so much

I can’t wait to get paralyzed by a cybertruck veering in to me at the highway

people have real life problems that they think can be solved with code

I write code that solves those problems, and create even more problems

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Right, I’m saying that the users too incompetent to save a word doc will be incompetent to find the new save location

well now you’ll have to instruct them on how to find anything they saved in onedrive

this just heightens my anxiety and will ensure I do none of this.

I just finished reading how to keep house while drowning and it changed my life