Beej Jorgensen

Lol… I wanted “DRM”. But it’s been a long day.

No way rich people are using this shit on their own kids.

I often wonder about the stuff I write, what becomes of it. It’s a little disheartening since I love crafting it for best effect… But especially with computer books for beginners, people prefer to ask AI for the answers instead of studying.

I also just bought 6 sci-fi books from an author I’d never heard of for cheap. I love supporting indy authors, the price was right, and they sold their books directly from the website, no middlemen and no DRM. Perfect.

But was the author real? I actually did a bunch of research to find out their history and all that before pulling the trigger. I really don’t want to read AI stories. But I can see a future where the vast majority don’t care. Imagine an endless episode of Survivor or a soap opera, completely generated 24x7 forever. You know that shit would be massive.

And there might only be a fringe that seeks human-generated content for the humanity of it.

I didn’t play that one, but I did play the c64 game… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecHVCk_jKdM

Not quite as spectacular. 😅

Sucks for today’s juniors, but that gap will bring them back into the fold with higher salaries eventually.

But Carter had honor.

I’m not worried. The minute the ad blockers stop working I’ll finally be able to do something else with my time.

Vim because it’s ubiquitous, starts up instantly, works when ssh’d into a server, and doesn’t get in my way with lots of busy interface. Also modal editors are the only way to go, IMHO. 🙂

I used to pay Google for things back when they were pretty awesome. Haven’t paid them a dime for years now.

I’ve been messing around with vibe-painting, myself. Damn it feels good to be an artist.

I’m trying to think of something more fucked up, but I’m struggling, here.

This guy’s argument is that he’s a 10xer because he’s using AI effectively, i.e. just proofreading its output and deleting the comments. (Also, why hire juniors when you can get the same work for $20/mo?)

I think this is a losing strategy unless all senior devs never retire and are immortal. (Or unless GAI happens in which case the world economy will collapse and who cares about strategy.)

It looks like what’s happening is that way fewer companies are willing to invest in juniors now, leading to falling enrollment in university, leading to a shortage of seniors, leading to very high dev pay, leading to increased enrollment. Eventually.

Or a process to challenge them?

😂😂😂😔

“I see you have extensive database experience. Can you elaborate on the white genocide?”

On the simple side, Ghostwriter is a markdown editor with no frills.

I also write my books in Vim. I use Pandoc to convert markdown to other formats.

This won’t work for you because it’s not enough space, but other people might consider paying money to a place like SDF. I think it was $3 a month (IIRC) for 800 GB of space, and it’s for a good cause.

I use rsync and gocryptfs to back my stuff up there. I also have local hard drives for backups.

Maybe there’s another pubnix that you can pay to get more storage.

Back in the day, I had local hard drives that I would mirror and sneakernet to my friend’s house every couple weeks. We’d trade drives and then we’d have an off-site.

If I weren’t using SDF, I’d probably set up a home server someplace or talk to a friend who already had one and rsync to that.

I think you’re right that this leads to increased efficiency. But in the case of the United States, we’re relying on a bit of inefficiency here to maintain freedom. I would suggest that there’s no difference between a dictatorship and an all-seeing government. Restricting the government is important in a free country, and making data on citizens difficult access is one of those restrictions we’ve been using.

I think it’s mostly because they’re told to.

A grand says that layoff letter was written by AI.