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https://github.com/darrenburns/posting
Exists, its from on of the co-devs of textual the framework this uses anyway..and more mature I would wager to say.
Back in the old days (tm) you would post (maybe under a pseudonym) in the internet and dont care that much. Someone could theoretically stalk you through all the sites with moderate effort and depending on how far back we are on the timeline, but still, the Internet felt somewhat private (an illusion) sure, but for a vast amount of people, your post on furry-forum-24 was probably never seeing the light of day outside of that specific space and then it got shuttered 2007. LLMs make that so easy, filing everything away, the web is already thousand times crawled over, but now there are handy tools to search it more easily, with vague concepts, see patterns with a way much bigger working brain so to speak. I myself are quite reluncatant to write anything on the internet these days that is to personal, which is a censorship in itself. I am not sure how it is in actual oppressive censorship states like china or the usa (if you got a left-ish opinion) but the will to not write anything personal is a loss of connection to strangers that was definetly there before. Usually in tiny tidbits that were harmless in itself. But now one can trivially gather all those tiny specs of data so easy..makes it hard to say anything anymore. Same if you are averse of helping the slop machine of getting more art, texts or thoughts.
I see it similar to programming, before it was kind of a craft, many crafts are not paid very well, I know that woodworking can be very fulfilling but Ikea exists and noone pays you 1000€ for a simple table. But programming was a well paid craft because people are bad at thinking in general and not everyone can do the thinking good. Now we externalize the thinking and hope it will just work somehow... But the point is..that is a different job. Others already said it, suddenly you are a manager and not a craftsperson anymore. No more tinkering.
About the hobby stuff, I hate that the unannoited ones slop there way into _my_ hobby space, pollute everything with one shots that get abandoned in a few hours and drown everything with their half baked brain childs without polish that all look and feel so same-ish, the "map of something something" projects I have seen that were missing any kind of error validation or check of completness is astonishing.
Lets see if the new kid can perform here
I feel very much like a luddite..or some artisan of a bygone age. The guy above laments how he never enjoyed coding, this is an interesting sentiment, I know quite a few people who enjoy the craft itself, myself included. The ability to form words that have meaning, that create something from nothing. Sure, the words are just a tool, but its something _I_ can master, not some abstract wish machine that may change its functionality tommorow. Obviously one can argue that the computer itself is in this case the one that creates and not me, its not magic that just works with me, but the machine I got obeys me and me alone..another reason why personal computing is important.
Giant corpos hold every sliver of your so called freedom, you dont innovate, you repeat what others created before you. You use a tool that shackles your thoughts and creativity in a never before seen way, what you perceive is an illusion of liberty that is no present. Without others you are nothing and they can take it away any seconds, you are an addict, not an innovator.
> The AI hoax is the new COVID hoax.
Does the guy imply that he does not believe in a pandemic?
His words about wikipedia and enforced thinking strike me as very absolute, as far as I know, depending on language, the wikipedia editors and admins sometimes have peculiar style choices and stright-ish guidelines, buts its a far cry from idological enforcement.
On the other hand, his point about all the LLMs basically having taken a snapshot of 2023-ish Internet think and soldifying it seems somewhat valid. I remember some reports about a hiring AI-based help that prefered non-colored non-woman humans because that is where the history had its bias.
And as the author I feel kinda sad when I see an AGENT.md or CLAUDE.md in a repo..but reality is rarely that black&white.
So I went the way of lowest resistance, and to paraphrase, the LLM said, and it might be entirely wrong that Book is something between Light and Medium, a text weight that is supposed to be better readable for longer texts. So Something around 350/400 weight. Some fonts just use "Regular"
With my new "knowledge" I went about and googled and found this: https://gist.github.com/lukaszgrolik/5849599
So Strangers whos name is just a hex number, the LLM seems to be right. And that is your answer.
My question..how does it work? Is it robust? I remember that young me hid data in pixels of png with simple stegonagraphy and it was a fun little project..but brittle. How exactly does the fingerprinting survive jpeg compression? Is it repeate over and over the images or is it just one area? If that one is pure black by chance the jpeg algorhitmen would erase it all no?
Its also a bit funny how the author show cases a bunch of apps that only exist on a very specific setup, IOS Mac devices while TUI can exist everywhere a terminal can reach.
The right tool for the right job, noone would srsly use a TUI photoeditor but for many things the simplicity and constraints that a terminal introduces condenses design.
I got this article about UI density open since weeks and meant to read it https://mattstromawn.com/writing/ui-density/ But from what I could interfere so far..more UI frameworks, more white space, more wasted space.
Also..TUIs usually allow me a wide variety of colorschemes out of the box which is nice
About it being to cynical, what do you mean? I am willing to concede that that, as much as I hate it emotionally, those prompt coding things actually achieve results and even good results if wielded properly, about the state of the world I would want good arguments why not everything is lost, I would love them tbh.
