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I'm on Android and honestly love how it looks, but you can blue-ify your links and change the line spacing if you want. Settings > Appearance > Custom CSS and you can do anything your heart desires.

You're treating Mastodon as the protocol here, and sure it's a combined frontend/backend, and it is the most used one, but its just one implementation of the AP protocol. You can plug your favourite AP app/frontend into any Mastodon instance.

Stop Ruining It 2 months ago

some people are shockingly incurious and approach academia and life through a depressingly hollow transactional lens from the beginning

I feel like that's a result of prior bad experience. Noone goes into university, or even primary school a blank slate.

It's very easy to fall into a trap where education is transactional if that's what was modelled to you or that's how previous teachers treated you

I think they're saying that frontier LLMs may be usable to spot citations that are correct by shape (a real citation) but incorrect by usage (unrelated to the text)

I kind of hate the idea, but you probably could do a lazy LLM check of every paper and every citation and have it flag possible wrong (second sense) citations for human review

But you'd need a LOT of tokens and a LOT of human-hours

those people don't have the kind of security hygiene instincts that make CC a sane choice for coders.

Coders don't all have those kind of security hygiene instincts either

1Password has really been bugging me recently, all the emails they send have giant link buttons they want you to click without verifying where you're actually going

I desperately wish Helix would support virtual text (code folder, markdown links just showing the text when not selected), but the default keybinds and the way that selecting and editing text work just works too well in my brain to go anywhere else

Nano not powerful, but it is friendly, it shows you its keybinds.

Vim is very powerful, but also very unfriendly.

The difference in effort required to pick up Nano vs Vim is HUGE

A LOT of open source software offers features tiers with per user pricing even when self-hosting.

They do need to fund development, but SSO is almost always in the top two level pricings :(

The lost art of XML 6 months ago

Base JSON not supporting comments is a sometimes annoying 'feature' because without it no-one can use the comments to try and add extra functionality into their JSON file using comment tags so you don't end up with a million JSON+ custom formats.