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Letting the provider decide for the harness is a terrible idea in my eyes. Outsourcing harnessing is giving up control over the AI and equivalent to abandoning your sovereignty. It is a regression to a pre-enlightenment era.
That would be ideal, but AI is less like a tool and more like a human in this regard and you don't have character sheets for each of your colleagues, as well.
Maybe it is just me, but by far most of the time, when I want to archive something from the internet, it is information and information is best served in an absolutely minimal text format like html or md.
You make it sound as if "coding" was a distinct thing with clear boundaries in the technical world. But this critically misses the fact that coding agents dramatically lowered the barrier to controlling everything with a microchip. The only thing that exists "outside [the reach] of coding agents" is purely the analog world and that boundary will get fuzzier than it is perceived to be.
It seems like many people have the same or similar ideas. I was thinking of using a tool similar to bookmark-managers as the foundation of a new web. Where you subscribe to RSS-feeds of specific (or clusters of) people to specific topics as the "follow" primitive and you publish your own feed(s), which bookmark-managers btw. already allow. The missing pieces are commenting on the feeds of friends and a layer of federated ML for ranking, which the user controls by simple sliders that set the mark for dimensions like retrieval-vs-discovery, hightrust-vs-highnovelty, recency-vs-trendingimpetus and so on.
That's like saying Spotify wouldn't be a good example, because it outsourced music production to musicians and just not a meaningful point.
I thought that early coding assistants came to be written in some Java/TypeScript, because AI companies just had web-devs playing around and then made it a product even though the languages being such a misfit for terminal. Why did you decide for TypeScript?
I like rants though. They help me understand, not only how people feel about stuff, but also why.
That's not a factual statement over reality, but more of a normative judgement to justify resignation. Yes, professionals that know how to actually do these things are not abundantly available, but available enough to achieve the transition. The talent exists and is absolutely passionate about software freedom and hence highly intrinsically motivated to work on it. The only thing that is lacking so far is the demand and the talent available will skyrocket, when the market starts demanding it.
That's a Microsoft problem, not a FOSS problem though.
I can't turn it off on my Samsung Galaxy S23 which I originally bought, because it was not marketed with AI. The patched it in later and ever since it just randomly starts as if it was listening all the time.
I was also baffled how the author completely fails to realize, that the US didn't just abandon Europe, but is actively exploiting and working on undermining it.
Not what I imagined under neo brutality.
Do you have specific things in mind to which you refer as more modern alternatives?
I find this topic of link aggregation, feeds and readlists highly interesting and believe that herein lies the solution for a new web similar to like reddit basically imagined it, before going full commercial.
Both presented ways in looking at an RSS feed make sense and come with their own set of pros and cons. But to me it looks like it is entirely possible and the best solution to treat it as both at the same time: the feed is a stream, but you treat it as an inbox not for the items that are streamed themselves (e.g. blog entries), but as the notification that they exist. So, I will try out in the future to keep three lanes: a readlis, where you store the things you want to read, a read-it where you store the things you actually read already and the RSS-feed aggregor "inbox" where you marked things as read if you decided to either put it on the readlist or not. So the read-marker of the RSS-feed aggregor becomes a "noted-it" button.
A fourth lane that forwards interesting reads or notifications could be the building brick of a new internet, where you aggregate things from people you like or trust and index them as your personalised search engine.
Taking control of your own data is shitloads of work, I and understand people do not have time it, and have other priorities.
That's not a physical law, but just the result of the current technological landscape.
wdym? We are in Edward Snowden times. The timeline where Edward Snowden gave up on an awesome life to inform us, the global public, of the greatest scandal of all times and nothing happened, to be precise.
I don't even understand the problem: ESC and the following key is generally just an alias for ALT+key.
Your refusal of 996 is relatable for senior or mid level workers. But that's something less experienced people can not afford and in this market even unlucky seniors are forced to accept things they wouldn't have to 2 or 3 years ago.
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Hardly matters. As long as von-der-Leyen remains head of commission the European Union stays devoted to the US no matter the consensus of commission, parliament, national governments or the people.
The way to understand it is when you catch yourself almost falling asleep at night while reading something. You lose the ability to understand anything, even though you are still reading and the words are still English.
That's btw a perfect analogy what ADHD is when consuming anything, anytime.
Anyways, we as informed consumers are hopefully all agreeing on striving for an open mobile OS and open hardware. For those of us, who consider themselves democratic, that is even an imperative.
How do you actually read man pages? Do you skim them, to actually read and focus on interesting parts? Do you try to memorize features?
To be fair, I presume learning a tool by manual is not very efficient. At least I personally find the manuals of most utilities lacking in detail and it hence difficult to understand what a certain thing is actually doing and how to use it just from reading the manual. Furthermore, reading about functionality feels like a waste of time, when you are not specifically needing it at the moment. I doubt anybody who is fluent in everything Vim has to offer learned that by reading through the manual once or twice.
They probably learned Russian in school in the former communist part of Germany.
What did you tell him about your use case?
I'm asking as I don't agree on the underlying assumption a use case was needed. I consider the value of transparency and public information for a democratic society as evident.
How exactly is Fedora, a FOSS under the GPL license, not sovereign?
Definitely the feeling I'm getting from progressive tech circles in Europe these days.
It doesn't matter where software was produced or where it's core contributors reside. As long as it is fully open sourced and distributed under the GPL license (as Fedora) it is by nature an independent technology that empowers the user to claim their own sovereignty.
The problem with ADHD is, that the symptoms are very common and it is mostly the degree to which an actual case of ADHD is different from the neurotypical person. So, a big portion of the overall population feels like they might have it and many of them are willing to put in whatever work it takes to find a doctor that confirms their diagnosis.