Don’t get complacent. The EU countries are toying with the idea of collapsing with us. AfD doesn’t seem to be shrinking, and there will be a lot of money and propaganda dumped that way soon.
I hope you’re better at resisting it than we were, but seeing as how we’re all still on vulnerable social media…
The latest Libreoffice update has ribbon menus (optionally).
It works well when you use it for small (or repetitive) and explicit tasks. That you can easily check.
Which is probably a good thing. I appreciate projects like Thunderbird as well.
You can not push the button that says AI.
You can also hit the kill switch that completely removes that button.
That’s opt-in enough.
If it starts reading pages or doing things without you pushing a button, that’s an issue.
Because AI in this case is the opposite of help, in case Illecors wasn’t clear enough.
It’s almost like it needs a dedicated person to hold its hand as it does your job. I wonder who would be well suited for that task.
It likely doesn’t help that the kids use “AI” as slang for “bullshit”.
I mean, optionally they could set up a tiny dev shop with that amount and submit the PRs they want to submit. And at worst, they could maintain their own fork.
It’d be a public service in more ways than one.
5 million a year would go a long way towards making their open source solutions meet their needs.
Remember r/reddit ?
Reddit removed every comment he had ever made, including wonderful and well cited rebuttals of the right-wing bigotry of the day.
Probably more of the motivation than the listed offense.
That old autocomplete is great. It’s specifically the AI autocomplete that’s less useful.
Wow, well it’s absolutely terrible at A. B is worth a shot, but it’s 50/50 to bullshit you in my experience.
Eh, I’ve enjoyed writing a SQL query and having AI translate it to Linq. I’ve had at least one work directly, very clear on what it’s doing, just with Linq’s odd syntax. The other query was more complicated and wasn’t something that translated well to Linq. I may have had to split that into two Linq queries.
Then again, I wouldn’t count translating psuedocode (or SQL) as really vibe coding. To me “vibe coding” means you’re not really looking at the code it produces.
Yeah, I just wrote a blog post comment about how I enjoy using Copilot. But that’s when I explicitly ask it a question or give it a task. The auto complete is wrong more often than it’s right.
Probably doesn’t help that if it was tedious, boilerplate code I would have already explicitly asked it.
Which is just as risky as instantly updating unless you’re really closely keeping an eye on which updates are security related.
Thank you!
That’s not what the phrase “dark pattern” means.
You can just have things be out of scope. It’s really okay!
Thanks for the work you’ve put into this.