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by VariousPrograms 3mo ago
Dramatic pause. "Then AI arrived." The silver lining is that it's currently easy to recognize LLM blog posts and the "authors" never realize how bad they sound. This "author" probably removed em dashes and
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by VariousPrograms 3mo ago
As someone who’s only used Emacs for around 5 years, Emacs is awesome even if you haven’t been using it since 1987. I used to get intimidated by the fact that every single Emacs user has been using it for decades. System Crafters was fantas
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by VariousPrograms 3mo ago
Fellow LLM doomer here. Don’t forget how many people uncritically accept LLM responses as true, unknowingly read LLM-generated articles, or listen a Youtubers reading LLM scripts as if it’s real thought/opinion. I saw an obviously LLM-
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by VariousPrograms 3mo ago
I'm done for once the authorities know I have an account on HACKER News.
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by VariousPrograms 3mo ago
If I was an end user of a working product (AI or not), I wouldn't care. At work generating and fixing loads of slop is less rewarding work than doing old coding, troubleshooting, article writing, whatever. The internet is full of fake
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by VariousPrograms 4mo ago
I asked an LLM (Gemini) about a calculated field in my taxes that was wrong but I couldn’t figure out why and every time it tried to tell me something like “It’s a common glitch for tax software to calculate like this.” When I did figure ou
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by VariousPrograms 4mo ago
Once every single thing connected to the internet (iPhone + 10 years?). Tech products, software, video games, etc. were new and exciting ways to solve problems. Now every single thing is a way to monetize, steal your data, or lock you into
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by VariousPrograms 5mo ago
To fill the gap left by all the sites being blocked, the company intends to offer access to a library of religious content, including AI-generated Bible videos. Truly a serious and spiritual company. Maybe you can chat with AI Jesus inste
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by VariousPrograms 5mo ago
Since last year Amazon doesn’t let you download your books as files from the web anymore. You have to sync purchases to a (presumably supported) Kindle device. I have a jailbroken Kindle and was shocked at the added hoops to read a legally
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by VariousPrograms 6mo ago
This could just be a skill or wrong use case thing, but do you only use spreadsheets for pure number-crunching? I've played terminal spreadsheets, mostly sc-im, but I often have some longform text field (like 'Notes') that be
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by VariousPrograms 7mo ago
I have AI automation metrics that are tracked. We have automation that automates the AI usage whether you want it or not so our metrics are 100% for everyone. Presumably this makes the stock go up somehow.
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by VariousPrograms 8mo ago
I know this is nothing new, but it's insane that we need policies like "When talking to us you have to use human words, not copy pasted LLM output" and "You must understand the code you're committing." When I w
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by VariousPrograms 8mo ago
Alternatively, join my meetings on time. You click End Call, then Join. It takes 3 seconds. You get Outlook reminders 15 minutes in advance. Webex/Teams notifications 5 minutes in advance. I’m sure you can make your watch vibrate or so
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by VariousPrograms 9mo ago
Last I used Visidata, it didn't play nice with fields like %sort (they'd disappear if you re-saved the file) and if you had two fields with the same name in one record they'd get combined into a single field like "Name[2
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by VariousPrograms 9mo ago
My misspelled My Chemical Romance lyrics @yahoo.com address will never die because of this.
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by VariousPrograms 10mo ago
That's a lovely art style, kind of Runescape Classic vibes.
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
You probably won't get hacked and have your domain taken down for distributing malware. But you also probably won't be randomly banned by Google/Proton. Neither feels like "full, unbannable control of my email"
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
As someone who doesn't keep up with bridge news, China seems to have a monopoly on incredible new mountain bridges. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_bridges
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
As someone willing to put up with all manner of nonsense (overpriced/underpowered hardware, clunky UI, endless troubleshooting), battery life on mobile Linux devices alone prevents me from using them in the real world. Is there a singl
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
People read the summary to see the actual action items instead of reading the whole case. Now the action plan has constant random bullet points like “John Smith will add Mohammad to the email thread. Target date: Tuesday, July 20 2025. This
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
Among many small examples at my job, an incident report summary used to be hand written with a current status and pending actions. Then it was heavily encouraged to start with LLM output and edit by hand. Now it’s automatically generated by
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
Unless this is used to block TikTok or ChatGPT users still won’t care and people will still laugh at us for caring, or think wanting privacy or control of your computers is suspicious or ungood.
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
The news during the industrial revolution must’ve been like “Working class NIMBYs threaten economic development with petty complaints about smog and sludge water from our great new factories.”
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
These are some feeds and aggregators I have bookmarked gemini://skyjake.fi/~Cosmos/view.gmi gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/ gemini://calcuode.com/gmisub-aggregate.gmi gemini://
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
One more reason not to use an ISP router, although in this case most of us are at minimum carrying around GPS homing beacons in our pocket so the carriers already know where we are.
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
Linking notes enables note-taking to become a full-time hobby. It’s effortless to waste hours in Notion, Obsidian, Vimwiki, etc. creating MOCs, unused links, nice little home pages, and creating and recreating structures and systems. I swit
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
No one is going to use Matrix that doesn't have privacy-focused contact forcing them to because the privacy benefit of the slight inconvenience is something almost nobody cares about. Things that are non-issues to someone who read the
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
Bringing up Nazis, terrorists, and “the children” is always relevant to privacy detractors who think it’s suspicious for regular people to not want to be spied on.
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
The intro video makes it sound multiple times like he wants creatives to use the music with absolutely no strings or restrictions, but the most basic uses like a Youtube video or indie film would require manually applying for a license wher
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by VariousPrograms 1y ago
The value of entertainment has gone down since the 90s. Inflation isn’t the only consideration. I don’t pay $15 for a movie ticket or CD anymore because 2 hours of video entertainment is basically free now and artists upload their tracks on

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