Mikina

I discovered powertoys only recently, and it's a pretty cool set of tools. From color picker, tiling window manager to regex file renames or copy/paste tools, it has a lot of QoL features.

If you have to be on windows, i.e due ro work, I recommend not sleeping on it.

I only found out about ODD recently, and it explains so much. It should be talked about more.

Once they started pushing the AI shit, I immediately unsubscribed and am sticking to my perpetual/fallback (or whatever is it called) license. I don't see any reason to continue paying for new versions and features, when most of those new features are AI related, and I slowly started transitioning into nvim.

Also, I really hate the tone in which this blogpost is written. As if crying in a blog post changes anything about how extremely anti-consumer this move is. Fuck off, JetBrains.

I assume that's what he meant with the "five steps behind". As in, not worse, but heading the same direction.

I am an European, but I have to digress he kind of has a point (even though it was unnecesiarly condescending). It's definitely nowhere near as bad as in the US, and I think our political systems are a little bit more resistant to it than in the US, but alt-right rhetorics and parties are picking up way faster than I'd like.

I mean, Slovakia is a recent and pretty terryfiing example.

We have two semester per year, do I assume correctly that your cost per quarter is paid 2-3 times per year? If so, damn.

I know almost nothing about the situation, and I vaguely know it's a geopolitical mess, but do I get it right that it's basically a situation that can be (in a very simplified methaphor) compared to a Police, that solves a hostage and an active shooter situation in a Hospital by first sieging and starving everyone involved, then shelling and leveling the building along with a school next door, and then capturing and torturing all involved that managed to survive, including the hospital staff and patients?

This of course ignores the geopolitical aspect, but it's basically what's happening, no?

I'd say it's the other way around - you're paying extra for not consenting to tracking, so it's similar (and even worse) model that i.e Facebook has. There's no way the discount card discount is not factored in the normal price calculation, and I vager most shops are counting on the product not being sold for a bit until it's it's turn for a discount.

I've been using Kagi for several years, before eventually switching to Ecosia once I got a second update newsletter from Kagi that focused solely on AI.

Can I turn it off? Probably, but I refuse to give my money to a company that spends it on AI in any way, shape or form.

Ecosia is at least a non-profit with a pretty good mesage, and while they have a gimmick "AI chat" tab (btw, "come chat with out [openai] chatbot and ask about how the be more energy netural and support ecology" is the most insanely cursed and out of touch sentence ever, what the fuck), I don't think there's an AI summary at least.

The biggest step you can take is making sure that you are hosting the repo anonymously, and that it can not be linked to you (or anyone), so they can't go after you.

Github probably isn't a good place for that, but I don't know if anonymous alternatives exist.

You can just host your own decentralized instance, right?

Right?

I was toying around with an idea for a VCS that uses LLM as a compression method, where during pushes it just asks an LLM to describe what your diff contains (what changes it makes to what files), you push that summary to the origin, and when you pull it just plops that into another llm to reconstruct the files or make the file changes.

If it wasn't such a waste of energy, I'd find that a pretty funny random side project. Would love to see the results.

Wasn't it supposed to be decentralized?