It's good. And the introduction of the Passwords app this fall will make it better.
But it seems to me that Apple only supports adding TOTP codes if you have a password for the account. Which is annoying if you want to split your passwords and second factor into two different places. (For example if you wanted Bitwarden for passwords and TOTP/Passkeys in Apple.)
You can of course put a dummy password in Apple. But that is kind of annoying.
The president now has legal authority to do whatever he wants.
At the same time, the president's agencies no longer have the authority to do whatever they want.
So I guess the president can order the military to drone strike the FCC if he wants at this rate. I don't see what influence the Constitution is still going to have at this point.
Ah the push and pull. In the beginning, scroll bars were a feature. Then proportional scroll bars were a major development. Then scroll bars were dynamic, auto-hiding, optional, or removed altogether. So designers put progress bars across the top of individual pages--some sites have them, most don't, all different ad-hoc implementations. It's a new feature all over again, going through the cycle of learning what works and what doesn't. People hate it. People love it. All this has happened before. All this will happen again.
A ToC might be more distracting with a style that benefits less from a clear structure, like a personal essay. It can be important in a more technical-procedural style of writing, though.
R/AskReddit has prompt posts that seem to tap into people’s opinions about current events and how people feel about various things. My best guess is that it’s LLM trainers tapping into the oblivious masses.
If corporations can simply augment some generated text with the cheapest human labor available, without audiences noticing or caring so much that it affects their bottom line, they will do so. Corporations exist to optimize for cost/profit, nothing more.
> Corporations exist to optimize for cost/profit, nothing more
But LLMs are not only used in corporate settings. Cutting the bottom line in medical professions, case law, academic journals, etc. may seem enticing, but their audiences will definitely bear the brunt of the loss of specialist diagnoses, case work and peer/lit reviews.
Agreed, their audiences will definitely bear the brunt of those losses, but they will still absolutely try, and your average person has very little (if any) control over this.
(Which is very very scary - at the very least: Law, medicine ...
... how many (and to what extent) are today's students/trainees and future practicing pros already passing classes that they would have otherwise failed, undetected -for example- and undermining future professional services which we will all avail ourselves of?
"But all the cheap front-end talent is in thick client frameworks, telemetry indicates most revenue conversions are from users on 5G, our MVP works for 80% of our target user base, and all we need to do is make back our VC's investment plus enough to cash out on our IPO exit strategy, plus other reasons not to care" — self-identified serial entrepreneur, probably
> Even if you do your own thing and make something super cool, nobody's gonna stumble upon it randomly. You either have to spam it on social media or aim for high ranking in search results (while that's still somewhat of a possibility).
Seems like this might depend on the objective. Spamming social media and aiming for search rank might be necessary for ad revenue, self-promotion, or other conversions, whatever those might be. But it is not strictly necessary. Doing your own thing and making something cool can be 100% the end in itself.
The issue I have leans the other way. I'm hesitant to self-publish anymore primarily because I don't want my work to get sucked up into the commercial machinery of the Big Tech Web. I have no interest and gain no benefit from feeding AI, scrapers, aggregators, or other "creators" who do surf around for other people's work they can mill into their own hash for their own purposes.
I'd love it if I could somehow publish only for other end-user humans, but I don't see how I can do that without paradoxically engaging with some aspect of the commercial apparatus. It's like a Foucaultian nightmare. There's no way not to be part of the system. Rejecting it requires first embracing it.
To wit: here I am on HN complaining about giving away my work for free
I get it, a decade or so ago I happily blogged around on my own and plenty of other websites, my posts were released under CC BY-SA whenever I could get away with it. I was quite happy to do that! It brought me all-expenses-paid conferences, TV interviews, you name it! (Not a lot of tech bloggers at the time in this part of the world, I got cool opportunities simply for existing.)
I was "famous" enough that ChatGPT now definitely knows about me. If you ask it very nicely it'll without a doubt refer to me in particular, by my full name, but every single detail it'll tell you about me is wrong. Where I'm from, what do I do, everything. And it's all just slightly, but demonstrably incorrect. No, I'm not from Serbia, I'm from Bosnia, and no, I'm not an infosec guy, but a devops guy, those kinds of errors. And of course, there's absolutely nothing I can do about it. I already get to live that shitty future you fear, my work has been used already, but in the worst way imaginable.
Needless to say, I haven't actually posted anything in quite a while (excluding HN and Mastodon), and if I ever do so again, I'll do my best to block every single AI user agent I find. I'll also switch to CC BY-NC (only non-commercial purposes) and pretend like that actually means anything.
Definitely for the first paragraph. I've got a little blog and to be honest, I could careless if anyone ever reads it. I do it because I want to. If someone stumbles upon it and finds something useful, great! Otherwise its mostly for me. The only somewhat 'promotion' I do is, if I get a lot of the same technical questions over and over, I'll write a blog post. So next time someone asks, I just give them the link to the blog post. Im still active in my University's discord. Lots of people every semester get confused by pointers in C on their first encounter. So when those questions get asked, I paste the link in there and that clears up all the confusion. I can help others, but I don't need to constantly have the same conversation every 6 months.
Charge something like $.05 to get access. Will get rid of worries around feeding the AI, scrappers, and aggregators. Not sure how to limit the (human) plagiarism angle.
If things are working well, they are automated and I rarely see the real time output.
If I’m looking at real time output, it’s because I’m doing something manually because something isn’t working the way it’s supposed to, and I’m in no mood for anything that doesn’t help me understand and address the issue.
This work is impressive. I love it. For some reason I really like “printer.” I’d be all about it for games or toys. But too many tools for real work try to do cute Unicode things or fancy colors or animations. I don’t need it on anything I will ever have to develop or troubleshoot, personally. After the first lengthy wait for a broken container to come up, I’m well over the colorful attitude.
I deliberately mentioned stuff that people are likely to manually run on local and healthy systems. But yeah, I agree with you that the novelty of this stuff wares off quickly.
An example of this done well would be ‘pacman’ package manager where an Easter egg can be enabled to turn the progress bar into a little Pac-Man gobbling pills. It’s not there by default, but it can be enabled if you know how.
Personally, I’m in the same camp as yourself where I’d prefer our tools didn’t have all this cutesy stuff. But people like us seem to be a dying breed.
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