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You certainly won't regret naming your fork cmxciv.

@jonikorpi Personally, I like hard wax oil for surfaces like that. I apply two coats, then let it harden for a couple days before considering the surface usable.

@jk Back in the day I used to use it as a controller.
I'd have the iPad on stage and the computer close to the mixer at the other end of the room. That moment passed though, so, yeah I agree it's useless to me now.

@pluralistic Can confirm

@sarahstreza right. i checked some of these out a while ago and indeed there are many ai pivots. i was wondering if someone already did something post-ai in that area, so to speak.

@x_cli (I assume email-OTP is also less support hassle on the operator side, removes all the cases where a client has lost both seed and recovery codes... Feels like lazy "yes, we have MFA" checkbox-ticking nevertheless, and it's certainly less convenient to use when you have a password manager.)

Correction they did not ban AI slop, they banned everything that could possibly be related to AI. Including Linux.

@morebento @nickzoic @benno Oh, no worries! It’s been fun to see the thread and the music festivals sound great! I just wanted to be sure you weren’t thinking you were talking to some other “Dan York” and then wondering why he wasn’t joining in! 🤣

I think there’s at least a couple of different things here.

On the societal effects of what’s happening now, I tend to agree with @Migueldeicaza’s pessimistic view 😭

But @mattiem you seem to also be concerned that humanity cannot adapt to not being the smartest person in the room?

I’m not sure. Most of us actually aren’t the smartest person in the room. This is something that the developer community is particularly predisposed to find unnerving… but it’s still true, and most people cope.

When working at a popular supermarket, I was in charge of the books. Putting out the latest releases and such. Whenever one of Nadine Dorries shitrags was released, I'd hoof the lot into the back of the store cupboard. Small, petty wins feel nice.

@mntmn There's a whole genre of tools called "low-code" or "no-code" the predate LLMs. Though they are still probably an order of magnitude more complicated for non-programmers than LLM coding. Examples: Budibase, Appsmith, Tooljet, Retool. (I would bet that many of these pivoted to being AI-driven.)

vim?

That's not how that works, kids. It's cmxciv.

#vi #vim #RomanNumerals

@Parufito també tinc curiositat @maquinari_cat

@jwildeboer and only one of them triggered an alert on @tagesschau. Want to guess which one?