Came looking, if anyone reported this. Glad to see I’m not the only one.

Seen it “live” this summer

Writing implements in general: pencils (mechanical and not), pens, fountain pens and anything in between.

It’s ironic, since I’m a programmer and it’s way more usable to just take notes on the computer (easier editing, linking, organization and searching).

Well there you have it. Although I still feel weird that it’s somehow “the internet” that’s supposed to solve a problem that’s fully caused AI companies and their web crawlers.
If a crawler keeps spamming and breaking a site I see it as nothing short of a DOS attack.

Not to mention that robots.txt is completely voluntary and, as far as I know, mostly ignored by these companies. So then what makes you think that any them are acting in good faith?

To me that is the core issue and why your position feels so outlandish. It’s like having a bully at school that constantly takes your lunch and your solution being: “Just bring them a lunch as well, maybe they’ll stop.”

Dunno, I feel you’re giving way too much credit to these companies.
They have the resources. Why bother with a more proper solution when a single crawler solution works on all the sites they want?

Is there even standardization for providing site dumps? If not, every site could require a custom software solution to use the dump. And I can guarantee you no one will bother with implementing any dump checking logic.

If you have contrary examples I’d love to see some references or sources.

I mean it’s essentially no different than wearing police uniform, so makes sense

the duality of man

It does feel bleak, but I would not consider them lost just yet.

fightchatcontrol.eu does have a language picker and I do see Italian there. It’s in the top right on desktop and last inside the burger menu on mobile.

There are fightchatcontrol.eu resources. It seems to list both: original and revised proposals.

Being a woman is gay, so you must be fake.

Conclusion, women on the internet are fake and gay.

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Didn’t even notice. Honestly, wouldn’t have noticed if it wasn’t pointed out for me.

Yes, especially at work. Different tasks, different tab groups. Once the task is done, the group dies. Really useful when working on multiple tasks at “the same time”.

Pair that with multi account containers and temporary containers and it’s a godsend tool for web dev.

Now does that need AI in any capacity? Absolutely not! I’m more upset that they’re even considering such thing because ir sounds utterly useless. A browser should do the browser thing and get out of my way.

I second this, although I’m mostly alone with git extensions in my workplace.

I migrated to from sourcetree some years ago. At the time we had some big generated API client classes (imagine ~60k lines of code). They needed to be regenerated whenever we made changes and the diff on sourcetree was shitting the bed every time I needed to stage the damn files. It was just way too lagy, so I got fed up and moved.

On my personal machine I prefer lazygit or just plain CLI.

TIL: devdocs.io, thx!

Here I am just thinking I’m a better programmer without AI (LLMs).

For me it’s just glorified autocomplete. I haven’t tried it in any real capacity, but my colleagues did and I’ve seen some examples. It’s all basic shit I already know. In no way I felt compelled or even seen anything really useful. It can give you a head start, but I already have the knowledge to have a head start.

Some colleagues are using it for SQL, because they’re unfamiliar with it, and I’m like, it’s all good if it works for you, but you’re not gonna learn properly if you don’t try to write stuff yourself.

This touches on another point I don’t see too often — I code because I like solving problems. If I outsource that, then what’s the point? And it’s exactly this that makes me a competent, and dare I say, good programmer.
Another issue for me is this chat bot format. I don’t what a chat bot! If I have to go out of my way to try and coerce a fucking chat bot into being a useful tool then it already lost its usefulness. The only acceptable format for AI coding is better autocomplete, i. e. ability to autofill boilerplate more, better and, most importantly, as seamlessly as current solutions in modern IDEs.

In general I don’t feel threatened by AI and when the tools catch up I’ll gladly use them or even retire and code just for fun.

Now that you mention it, yes. The characters are quite 2 dimensional and unlikeable (not all, but definitely important to mention).

That being said I thoroughly enjoyed the books and didn’t stop too much on the characters. Under unlikeable, flat, awkward characters there was an interesting premise and good thinking to be had: living in a society that has no private thoughts; dark forest theory, life in a society after the end.
So what I did was take a big sip of suspension of disbelief and enjoyed the ride. The interest to see the conclusion of the story was enough to coast through all three of the books.

Also, I read those just before the hype. I first heard of the first book a few years before from an Adam Savage podcast and the premise stuck to me. So after reading the Witcher I wanted something sci-fi’ish and this hit the spot.

I just need to compose my will to get up. Then it’s coffee brewing ritual.

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