Um, the link gives me a “downloadfile.bin” on Fennec for Android 🤔 Not the main Wedistribute page, or other posts I checked, just that post.

Should you or I check something, Sean?

Isn’t tiling just the OS split screen? You’ll excuse the dumb question, I barely use multitasking features as it is.

FYI, “Pivot to AI” do aggregate “AI” news with critical commentary, but if you’d clicked through you would see they cite sources quite thoroughly.

Is it because the GOS lead dev keeps pissing in the pool? /s

Do a good job

Sorted.

I put out a similar question a few months ago. For me, it’s getting an old multiuser blog off Wordpress.

I had a lot of good feedback that I’m still trying to collate, so I recommend you pour over the responses and crossposts for the full picture. As others have said here, though — despite the steep learning curve, Hubzilla looks really interesting.

I was in a physical meeting where the other part cracked open their Windows laptop so we could go over documents together. Halfway in I noticed the microphone icon was on in the system bar.

Considering Microsoft and the state of Windows, I’m guessing the entire conversation is liable to be used as training data, and I would really have liked the option to nope the hell out in advance.

Nobody said “AI” was free. That was a rhetorical figure to lead into the rest of my argument which, apparently, you couldn’t argue against.

The way you’re steering the conversation off track with every post is frankly like talking to a chatbot.

Nope. We all know the phrase “if it’s free, you’re the product”. In one of his non-offensive moments, RMS said that social media users are really “the used”.

Under the current paradigm, the “AI” user is the real tool.

Always, several times a day 🙂

I never got near the actual printshop (usually done abroad to cut costs), but yeah. You pick up stuff all along the production chain.

Especially when the printer offers to do some small change in the print files for “a modest added fee”… No thanks, tell me what you need and I’ll fix it myself!

“All em dashes in this 200 page book have somehow been replaced with hyphens? 😨 Give me ten minutes!” 😂

Probably a regional phrase. I’m in Scandinavia, English terms get absorbed and reappropriated into the language(s). Never considered that wasn’t the original usage.

But yeah, I designed, laid out, and did prepress on a few periodical art magazines here. I was the whole graphics department 😉

Rom is such an undervalued player in that one. May Day will always be Rom Day for me:

I was just posting elsewhere that I could probably settle for street sweeping.

Thirty years creative work experience, eight years academic — fuck it. If people want “AI” generated bullshit, I’m not bothered putting anymore original work out there.

Well, there goes my academic career.

Yeah, I also put more faith in those 200 work hours than in the original, generated code which the guy completely rewrote before submission.

consulting an LLM like a book

Saw a news item the other day, reporting that a significant number of university students now use “AI” bots instead of course literature. One student replied, “Nah, I opened a book like once. Anyway, the literature can be just as flawed as AI because there’s new research being made all the time”…

There is a significant overestimation of the factuality of “AI” responses at play there. And a lack of understanding of the entire chain of fact checking, verification, and review that goes into making a book, particularly for education.

I know that is slightly OT, but I think the comparison is fair.

It’s on my mobile keyboard as an alt option for the hyphen. And yes, I use keyboard shortcuts on my computer. Worked as a layouter for print in years. You learn to appreciate a good em dash.

being competent at writing now makes me get accusations of using [“AI”]

Long time em dash user over here, feeling your pain 😞

Big caveat there that “AI” still makes stuff up out of the blue, despite being ostensibly trained on “all of human knowledge”. And this guy seems to have used its generated code accordingly to better apply his PHP skills to C++.

You can probably tell I disagree strongly with “AI” being called “just a tool” 😛

I understand the scepticism, it’s easy to be wary of assisted coding as a gut reaction these days. However, the programmer replied to his own merge request:

I put roughly 200 hours into this (largely due to not being familiar with the codebase and technologies involved beforehand)

…and I find it hard to believe a vibe coder would bother prompting his magic eightball for that long? Maybe that’s my personal prejudice against that particular set of (often wannabe) programmers showing.

There’s also an “AI” disclosure in the original merge request that says:

• None of the submitted code is AI generated. I wrote all of it myself (largely by copying existing code).

• I used OpenAI Codex in the following ways:

  • I used it to generate a quick prototype to give me an idea of where to start. The prototype was MUCH more limited and I rewrote it from scratch (i.e. none of the code submitted here is from there).
  • I used it to help me with debugging/understanding some of the stuff new to me (e.g. how does a value get to QML, wayland protocols, understanding crashes, …).
  • I used it to review the code before submitting it (in addition to manually reviewing it myself). It caught a few minor issues.
  • I used it to write a “touchpad simulator” patch that I used for testing touchpad gestures (not submitted).

YMMV on what side of vibe coding that usage falls.