Yeah, I worry about that. Seems like everything a human can do to prove they’re human, imitation machine learning will be able to look at those inputs and outputs and fake it.

If you can’t have spaces filter out bots (already hard, probably impossible in the future), trust and validity completely go away. Spam will become unmanageable, and in many cases more subtle. Abuse will scale and could become unblockable.

I’m sure there sill be some kind of good ideas to push back, but I’d certainly say I’m pessimistic atm.

I’ve come around on it somewhat at work. Recent models really are getting pretty impressive. It’s at the point where I can tell it to read a Jira ticket and implement it, and for simple ones it basically just does it. I’m not sure it’s worth the massive environmental and infrastructures detriments (or rather, I’m pretty sure it’s not), but it’s definitely a productivity boost.

It’s also creating cognitive debt tho - every change it does for me automagically is one I don’t have to think about and ‘earn’ myself. You could argue the AI compensates for that by then explaining the code for you, but I think it will lead to some bad results in the mid-long term.

For any personal programming, I don’t/wouldn’t use it, beyond just replacing Google searches maybe. It defeats the fun of it, and cost money on top of that.

I also sometimes consciously dislike things because of annoying ads.

But it doesn’t matter. The overall result is that now you’re aware of that brand, you have a place for it in memory. After time passes it will be The One I’ve Heard Of unless you’re dedicated to remembering to avoid it. There’s something called the Mere Exposure Effect - it mostly works and they know it. :(

Fair enough! While I do have problems with Oracle as a company that would prevent me from considering their services, my comment above this is just in jest about the post being in this community.

Not meaning to be seriously dismissive or judgmental of the question. I totally understand using whatever resources are available.

Wrong comm.

… or is it? Using Oracle non-ironically?

Agree with this! It’s one of those things where if you want to learn to do it, just start doing. (Which it sounds like op is, so keep at that.) You find where the gaps are then focus on learning just enough to get past your roadblock.

You’re right that it isn’t, and doesn’t need to be, the most complicated thing in the world.

But there’s a bit more to it than it sounds like. Deck management, customizing flashcards (html/CSS templates), spaced repetition algorithms (including many user-customizable settings), statistics and visualizations.

Most importantly probably are the things they host online. Right now you can freely sync your data between devices, and they have a community portal where people upload decks to share. I’m imagining these will be among the first targets for paywalls (but could always be replaced by the community).

Just read through.

AnikiHub’s page is a little concerning on its own, with ‘we offer AI features!’ blatantly front and center.

More worrying is that in their post they go out of their way to say “Anki’s core code will remain open source” (emphasis mine).

Otherwise, idk, sounds like at a base level they have the right ideals in mind.

Worth noting this is not a new vulnerability, it’s an analysis of a vulnerability disclosed in December:

Following the security disclosure published in the v8.8.9 announcement
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/
the investigation has continued in collaboration with external experts and with the full involvement of my (now former) shared hosting provider.

According to the analysis provided by the security experts, the attack involved infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org. The exact technical mechanism remains under investigation, though the compromise occured at the hosting provider level rather than through vulnerabilities in Notepad++ code itself.

That’s a good question, answer is generally that it depends. Do I want to spend more money on stuff? Of course not.

But if the price is the same or negligibly more, then I’m better off not incurring the bodily damage of consuming excess calories. The smaller the default size of the suggested meal (eg, a combo) the better, unless it hits the point where it makes me order a second meal or extra sides.

That preference reflects my own privilege, health perspective, and lack of self-control though. I know it’s a different call for everyone.

I’m actually pretty OK with this. Portion sizes were generally kinda oversized, especially for not-so-healthy fastfood.

What do you use for podcasts? The software should be handling it so you don’t have to think about it much.

I’m on AntennaPod (FOSS podcast client), and looking at the Add Podcast screen, I see it does include Apple Podcasts. You can add RSS feeds for other sources, but mostly I search the name of whatever podcast I want and it finds it.

It’s at least pretty cool that the statement is true enough most of the time to be in wide use. The walled gardens continue to expand, and the situation will get worse. But by and large podcasts are pretty open and accessible in a decentralized way.

I know Spotify is grossly proprietary, but is Apple’s new service too? For a long time it seems like being on iTunes or whatever meant they also had an open RSS feed for podcasts clients?

Replacing the digraph is pretty cool. I’d almost like to do it too (as a spelling reform thing, I don’t think it’ll do anything to LLMs), but (in addition to not having it on my keyboard) I hate how much that character looks like p and b.

Nice touch making Months plural and Day singular.

I also like how Wednessecond isn’t going to be the end of the list, trailing comma is there.

Cursed.

Now I don’t have to type that in again. Phew!

I wish my job would force MacOS instead of Windows. 😭

https://classic.popcat.click/

Enjoy clicking the cat!

I agree, this is annoying. It’s taking the place of what used to be an excerpt, giving me a hint about actual text on the page.

I haven’t seen that yet… hopefully it’s on the Duckduckgo side and a setting I can turn off. But it’s probably Reddit continuing to be frustrating.

I’m not against having the AI summary and I do see the utility, it should just be very clearly separated from the real content.

I’ve subscribed to a few, though I often find myself getting lazy about listening to them. So take my suggestions with a grain of salt.

Some I used to listen to, some I’ve wanted to listen to, some of these coworkers recommended in recent weeks that I have little to no idea about. Hopefully this helps you find something you like!

• Base.cs
• Book Bytes
• Coding Blocks
• Command Line Heroes
• CoRecursive
• HanselMinutes
• LambdaCast
• No Silver Bullet
• Signals and Threads
• Toolsday