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Why in general? Because if you don't read the article, you run a strong risk of reacting to things that the article didn't actually say. See OP for a good example.

Why this OP specifically? Because he is strongly reacting to the article's claim that "Ai is not the default" ... which is not stated or implied by the article he's replying to.

The article is a useful bulletin that DDG has a "no AI" function, previously accessible via a URL and now through extensions as well. OP is acting like DDG is claiming to be an anti-AI company, based on nothing stated in the article.

Step 1: read the article. Step 2 (optional): comment on the article.

You're doing these in the wrong order.

It's polluting the world, gobbling up hardware, and making us dumber. And HN and LinkedIn just can't get enough.

People say AI is the new internet. I say AI is the new tobacco.

Having read the article, I can tell you that you chose well.

My first instinct was to just not open the article based on the headline. But I thought, "what if there's a good point that I, as a Linux user, should be aware of?"

It was worse than I imagined it would be. I now deeply regret giving this article a click.

Basically, it's all about how AI can use Mac OS features.

Instead of a tiresome rebuttal of all your hyperbolic, insincere points, I'll just encourage you to go ahead and sell your Deck. Get it into the hands of someone who will appreciate it.

I think "the pacifist route is more difficult than the default route" and "The pacifist route is the hardest way to play the game" are two different statements. The article said the first, but you're reacting as if it said the second.

I agree with your overall opinion, but not sure why you had to bring LLMs into a topic that has nothing to do with them.

"It’s not realistic for a corporation, even a multinational titan with a large staff, to track down and compensate even the living authors"

Then they shouldn't use those materials to train their LLMs.

LLM corporations should be paying authors to read their books and benefit from them. Instead, Anna wants the corporations to send money to Anna?

It's hard not to read this as giant offense to the authors. I didn't think anything would be worse than DRM, but corporations paying pirates to steal books is right up there.

How about you buy some books from actual authors who actually wrote them?

"This" being the post on Anna's Archive.

It basically says, "Don't pay the authors for their work. Please pay US for their work."

Vivaldi has been doing exactly this for years now

"If you only use Apple devices, it’s really solid."

It's not a good idea to become dependent on a single corporation's products.

That's not a good reason to avoid using ad blockers.

Unlike a lot of communities, yours at least started on the correct side. Better to ban outright, than to slowly realize that you should have banned it.

He's stating a fact. Turn on showed in your options and scroll to the bottom of the comments on any popular story. There are so many agentic users here.

It was on a work computer, and my next job was a lot less permissive about letting us run our own OS.

My personal computer is too gaming-focused to be a good candidate for Qubes.

Stories can't be downvoted.

This makes me miss running Qubes a few years ago, and keeping BitWarden in a separate VM from everything else. I've never felt as secure as when I had that setup.

Browser-based password management serves the purpose of locking users into a specific browser; I'd much rather have the freedom to switch browsers at will without the cognitive tax of securely moving all my creds every time I want to switch my main browser.

Bitwarden has taken investor money, sadly. It's still in good shape for the moment. But the time will come when they place profits above other needs; it's a matter of when, not if.

Please use a dedicated password manager, instead of a browser-based one. KeePass is likely the best going forward.

"I thought about using fossil many times but it seems codex and claude have deeper integration with git."

Don't let "agentic" "coding" be the reason to avoid fossil.

Fossil and other VCS are much easier for humans to use than Git is; there's no reason to have an LLM burning up tokens and the environment to do tasks you'd do yourself quickly and correctly.

Yes, things that are not LLMs continue to be useful and interesting even though LLMs exist.

I hate what AI hype is doing to peoples' brains here.

I was a loyal magit user for a decade. Now I use jujutsu from the command line. It's actually really nice.

I have to use Windows for work. With WSL, it's actually perfectly fine! Which is really more of an endorsement of Linux than Windows.

Git is noticeably slow on Windows. Git is built to run on top of Unix commands, which work great on Linux and Mac. For Windows, the commands have to be installed separately, and there's a performance penalty for each call. Individual Git commands are usually fine, but anything that calls several steps in sequence will visibly drag.

(WSL gets around this entirely.)

I've had two Pocketbooks and never encountered these issues. Sounds like you had some bad luck.

Kobo works with Libby if you use Adobe Digital Editions as an intermediary.

From the Libby web page, you have an option to download the ASCM. Load that onto ADE, and you have the book. Then plug in your Kobo and transfer the book. It even respects the loan duration!

This isn't perfect, but it works, so I can't agree that Libby and Kobo are absolutely incompatible.