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This is a great question I’ve been meaning to ask myself. Thanks for asking it. Having been vehemently against, I’m a recent convert. For me it was a matter of ethics vs convenience and efficiency. There’s a limit to how fast we can type that an llm isn’t bound by. I first tried running ollama locally, but it didn’t give me the power I wanted, so now I’ve been using Lumo and ollama cloud models for coding. I’ve been impressed with the results and it’s within my ethical standards. (As someone who isn’t a programmer professionally my concerns were primarily based on capitalism. Ollama is “better” but complicated)

I’ve found two different modalities for the way I work both with different results. It comes down to how granular I can make my queries. When I’m writing something I’m more familiar with, like bash, I typically ask for things I already know how to do, but it would be slower to type. Then there’s other cases like writing elisp for emacs. Completely different. Those cases I admittedly vibe code with about the results you’d expect. It’s really given me something to think about.

Libertarian is not the same thing as facist

ffmpeg

Inkscape for graphic design

Isn’t the whole point of regex to toil for 3 hours to write something very specific you will only ever use once?

Thank you for reminding me of the name of the fork

mpv, imv, zathura, ffmpeg, imagemagick, pandoc, yt-dlp, yazi/ranger, curl/wget

I realize many of this don’t strictly conform to the suckless philosophy. (which is meme imo). They more loosly follow the UNIX principle: Do one thing and do it well. I would have added emacs, but why emacs follows the unix principle is an argument for another time

Politics is what happens whenever more than 2 people make a decision

I want to congratulate everyone. I may have missed it, but I didn’t see a single person say Org Mode. Personally, I would suggest Org Mode Joplin

Is this a real picture? I want to believe this is a real picture

Doesn’t using tor or librewolf fingerprint you from the standpoint of using a rare browser?

That’s what really sells it. How low effort are we going to go?

Ex post facto much?

The Open “model” seem to have knocked them down. Whether deepseek, llama, mistral, or others

I’m not sure what kind of admission that is other than they aren’t on top anymore.

There are many llms you can use offline

I use invidious to search, copy the link, and use yt-dlp to download the video. You can get 1080p that way. If I wasn’t lazy, I would write a script

There were a lot better ways to tell the joke

RIP Aaron Swartz. You are truely missed…

…Is it just me or does the shooter have the same smile? I’ve heard he’s really smart.

I’m all in favor of tools that automate dotfiles and make system configuration simpler for folks just getting started, but what benefit is there over using bash scripts

(appologies for no rtfm. Conversation is more fun anyway 🙂)