Daniel Quinn @ danielquinn @lemmy.ca

Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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This all appears to be based on the user agent, so wouldn't that mean that bad-faith scrapers could just declare themselves to be typical search engine user agent?

I've been thinking about setting up Anubis to protect my blog from AI scrapers, but I'm not clear on whether this would also block search engines. It would, wouldn't it?

Was it "social media" or was it specific tech companies trading rage for clicks? I find it hard to believe that Mastodon & Lemmy would be comparable to X & Facebook in this area.

I use them quite heavily in combination with Cookie Autodelete. I then create a separate profile for each surveillance capitalist service I work with. So for example, here's my list of containers:

Every time I visit one of these sites, Firefox opens them in the respective container, and the cookies they create are isolated to that container. When I'm in the LinkedIn container, Cookie AutoDelete nukes every cookie that isn't from LinkedIn (including Google, GitHub, etc.). When I'm not in any container, all cookies are deleted everywhere.

Basically it's a nice way to leverage Cookie Autodelete without having to whitelist Big Tech for all my browsing.

Yes. It would.

I should hope that they're right. We should return what was stolen.

You do not need to pave green space to build homes. There's plenty of paved, ugly, low-density areas in desperate need of upgrades. The problem is the British public's obsession with that idea that everyone needs their own patch of grass and two cars.

As someone else said here, programmers are not a monolith. However, I've seen it multiple times on the job and in social media where programmers are using these tools to write code voluntarily. The code produced is often garbage, and I have to reject it at review time, but there are a lot of programmers using these things willingly.

Hell yeah.

I had a job interview a few weeks ago where the lead developer straight-up said that he doesn't have any tests in the codebase because "it's just writing your code twice". I thought he was joking. Unfortunately he was not.

I didn't end up getting the job, perhaps because I made it clear that I thought he was very wrong. I think I dodged a bullet.

Why would they do that? The current system ensures that at least one of them will always be in charge, and they effectively have the same politics.

They already do.

Please don't give this any credit. Nonsense like this is already being used to filter web form submissions for things like job applications.

Source: I applied for a role at a medium-sized company a couple weeks ago and was auto-rejected because my cover letter appeared to be AI-generated. I clicked "back", removed an em-dash, and the form was accepted.

How can anyone hate someone so much, when she never did anything to them?

Imagine that your life is terrible. You're poor, desperate, maybe ill too. You live with your parents who are also poor and desperate, and the lot of you self medicate with copious amounts of alcohol.

You're miserable, and not terribly bright. Then one day, your primary media sources and even the governing political party starts parroting the same lie that the reason your life if shit is because trans people and immigrants exist. No one with a similarly large platform is telling you the truth.

Now consider how many millions of purple have been abandoned by the state in this country. How many poor and desperate people we've made in the last 10 years and the incentive the owning class has in laying the blame for that at the feet of anyone but themselves.

Hate is learnt, and the teachers are holding all the money & power.

It's pretty standard.

I don't think there's an official "way", but here's mine (which I love):

On start-up I open all the apps I usually use, one per designated workspace:

1. Slack/Teams/Mattermost, whatever my work requires.
2. Thunderbird
3. Kitty
4. PyCharm/RustRover, whatever the job requires
5. Firefox

Workspaces 6-9 are left empty, ready for whatever app I need in the moment, but only ever one app per workspace.

With this setup, I've mapped Ctrl+Fx to each workspace, so Ctrl+F4 takes me to PyCharm where I write the code, and Ctrl+F5 followed by another F5 takes me to Firefox and reloads the page. Ctrl+F3 is always the terminal, etc., so you quickly start building these shortcuts to mean Fwhatever is $APP_NAME.

I almost never use the mouse, unless what I'm doing is necessarily mouse-driven: browsing or drawing charts etc. Everything else is keyboard-driven.

Honestly, I'd favour dropping any incentives for EVs, so long as Canada were to then redirect its efforts into transit and active transport. You just can't replace every combustion car on the road with an EV, but you can narrow roads, reduce lanes, and add trains, trams, and cycle paths.

Hooooly shit, that man is a sociopath. It's no wonder we're barrelling into 5°C with people like him driving the world's economy.

He's done the classic trader thing:

1. Classify everything based on its financial value
2. Ignore the real-world implications of things that don't fit his models
3. Take it as a given that markets will always behave the same way regardless of point 2.

I would very much like to do this for code.

Oh I've never used it to find games. I just go to the store pages directly. I didn't even know it had such a feature!