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Full stack web-developer (#Linux, #Ruby, #RubyOnRails, #HTML, #CSS, #JS). #PrawnPDF maintainer. #Rust amateur.

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2024-09-21 19:17:02

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2024-08-30 14:53:27

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- Are you a bus driver?
- Oh, I wish I were.
- What do you do then?
- I’m a guard. Well, Information Security but it’s just a fancy title.

2024-08-12 20:57:11

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I don’t have internet at home so I give my friend a list of toots and then come with my hard drive and copy them off of his computer. We do this like every other week. More time to hang out, too. About once every 3 month we gather with all our friends and share the best toots.

2024-06-10 06:26:36

New #Doom’s coming next year. It seem to be mostly set in the Hell. I’ll be somewhat disappointed if there’s no level named #TormentNexus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tk8lkmYGWQ

2024-05-31 11:17:48

#Chromium (and #Chrome) begins phasing-out Manifest v2.
https://blog.chromium.org/2024/05/manifest-v2-phase-out-begins.html
This means, among other things, that uBlock Origin is about to be disabled in Chrome. Google will choose a different extension to recommend but it can not be as effective as #uBlock Origin.
Following #Google's example, may I instead recommend you switch to #Firefox.
Firefox will continue to support Manifest v2, and consequently uBlock Origin and other extensions that can not be implemented with Manifest v3.
Happy browsing.

2024-05-22 12:20:01

My heart goes out to #iTerm maintainers.
They just released 3.5.0—all around great release—with a whole lot of improvements and new features but everyone's mad about AI feature.
The AI feature is highlighted (among other things) in the release notes and in a popup on the first start after upgrade. The feature lives in a separate window and is not active unless an OpenAI API key is provided.
However, at least two issues were created with comment upon comment demanding (literally) removal of the feature. I'm very disappointed with everyone of those people.
It doesn't take long to discover that it's an opt-in feature. You don't have to use it. It's not "shoved in your face", it lives in a separate window (if configured), there's a menu item to show the window, and a text-only button in the Composer.
There's a complaint that presence of AI integration at all—even disabled—puts people into preach of some government regulations/company policies. I'm very skeptical of the claim. They probably use Chrome, they're in the breach. They have access to the web, they're in the breach. They definitely use macOS with no way to uninstall Siri, they're in the breach. I'm fairly confident this is a made up argument, or if not a very ill-conceived rule that is impossible to follow.
Another weird complaint is that iTerm doesn't validate OpenAI API keys, putting anything other than an empty string into the key field would make Codecierge send requests to OpenAI. I guess, not everyone realises that an API key can only be validated by sending a request. There's no other way. Oh well. In any case, the maintainer promised a separate explicit Enable checkbox for the feature.
One thing specifically that upsets me is that there are clearly a lot of people fired up about AI. Yet no one went and forked iTerm. It's #OpenSource. Go fix the issue for yourself. Leave the maintainers be. Consumer mindset is front and centre in those comments: "Fix this for me", "I'll leave if not removed", “I created a GitLab account to let you know how mad I am”.
I'm almost certain there's no one, literally 0 people, out there using all and every feature of iTerm, other than maintainers testing those features. This is yet another feature you don't have to use and absolutely nothing would've changed for you if you didn't know about it.