For sure. The cost of switching is high since you’re already embedded in its ecosystem with a team. I last wrote serious latex in college and then just maintained my resume in it out of habit.

Don’t be confident in the idea that VPNs will escape regulatory notice. The open web as we know it is rapidly being maimed.

I used to maintain my resume in latex. I switched to typist. I vastly prefer it. The syntax is much easier to deal with. It really, to me, feels like a worthy successor

I like your enthusiasm.

There is, of course, no reason you can’t start such a campaign locally, beginning with your friends and family. It’s tough to make people switch, but you can always try.

This looks more to me like leaving the lights on in every unoccupied room in the house

probably goes on a pace like: days 1-3: know your enemy (non-white people). days 4-9: how to hide your face so you cannot be prosecuted for your crimes. days 10-26: lectures on why oct 7 2023 was worse than the holocaust itself. days 27-37: using heavy ordinance at the firing range. days 38-42: how to steal property, particularly women’s undergarments. days 43-47: final racism seminar

Because Eric Adams was a terrible mayor who clearly used the mayoral office to pass lucrative contracts to his friends and enrich himself.

At least thats what his chumminess with Trump and his bribery scandal would suggest to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigations_into_the_Eric_Adams_administration

furiously reading through the handbook

…There’s no rule that says…

I ask copilot bullshit that I don’t even read sometimes just so it looks like I’m using ai more. Because my employer demands it and will start tracking AI usage for perf evals!

Great system we have going, here.

Great use of RAM and electricity.

…Not!

Importantly, using AI assistance didn’t guarantee a lower score. How someone used AI influenced how much information they retained. The participants who showed stronger mastery used AI assistance not just to produce code but to build comprehension while doing so—whether by asking follow-up questions, requesting explanations, or posing conceptual questions while coding independently.

importantly, in our own funded study, we found that those who used our product the most did the best

Sad reflection of this country that it didn’t do worse.

There’s noai.duckduckgo.com and lite.duckduckgo.com to help you use DDG without this ai stuff and without having to fiddle with settings. Especially helpful if you frequently open private tabs and then the settings get cleared on normal DDG.

Orc cop down

what is this ai gen slop photo?

If you cannot stop using windows for whatever reason, just find ways to stop paying for anything with Microsoft. For instance, I worked out a plan to get my dad off of office365 the moment they started jacking up the price to add copilot. That’s recurring revenue that Microsoft will NEVER see again.

I completely agree. The good parts of the web are on the margins, now. Everything is hyper-surveilled otherwise. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to avoid that, too. Even if you don’t own a smartphone or use a computer, what are the odds your face has been digested by a company like Meta to train their AI? Or that your car’s license plate has been picked up by a Flock surveillance camera?

When I was young I thought more technology would lead to better, liberated lives. I studied computer science because I’m genuinely interested in programming and computers.

Now I think we have passed an inflection point. More technology will worsen our lives. It’s harmful to the planet and climate.

Also, the people who get into programming now seem to lack curiosity and are only in it for a paycheck (for which I cannot blame them, because the avenues to a good, stable life are receding rapidly). And the places we are putting the most collective effort, as directed by our capitalist overlords, is either in furthering surveillance technology to be used against us or otherwise vulnerable populations like Palestinians, or toward unchecked society-rending technology like generative AI.

NFS like the other person said. Or Samba. I’ve been rocking samba sharing for years with almost no trouble. Mounts reliably and performs speedily without the pitfalls of sshfs potentially tweaking out or just causing unnecessary load on moving data around.

It’s not enough for them to have all the money and all the political support. They need you to love them, if not worship them, as well.

The crown jewel of shittiness in their suite has got to be Teams. Such a dogshit chat program.