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If I'm reading this right; it's been in VSCode as Copilot Chat for a fair bit now. I use it often, when they added context (provide extra files to reference or even the entire @workspace if it's small enough), absolute gamechanger.

I feel called out.

agree with you on all fronts there aside from lazygit; I see it as a different tool that makes it a bit easier to inspect change trees with less typing.

I can do it on straight git-cli; but 100 characters typed vs 5 makes my fingers ache thinking. Same reason I have fugutive/diffview installed in nvim.

Your statement is that that ad space is 'viscerally inhuman grotesquery'. Like... Where have you lived for the last 100 years?

I do agree Google should punish clear paid advertising in ranking though; that is a clear problem. Maybe because of this article, but the sample queries from the article now show the underscored links on page 5, so it seems 'fixed' now at least.

> publicize hitherto-unknown (or barely-known) shenanigans

It's disclosed on a banner across the top of literally every cnn-uncensored page that's being 'outed' here. He could have saved the entire research/dig by simply screenshotting the top of any of the pages. That wouldn't have the same energy or 'Ahah!' though.

the disclaimer is at the top of every page, and OP here is pretending his sleuthing anything other than an (idealogically/politically motivated?) disingenuous hit piece.

"look at the HTML it catches the lie!" - meanwhile, the 'lie' also exposed in clear text in a banner across the top of page. 1337 h4xing indeed.

Also make sure you take those same youtubers as what they are; raw, independent, and with less accountability than larger platforms insofaras accuracy of content. That isn't to say a smaller creators/channels are bad or not worth while, but being aware of context as you consume is important. We've unfortunately stopped caring about accuracy or accountability in many instances.

honestly the base concept of 'mainstream media' is simply dumb. It's just a convenient way to group 'the other guy' up with conveniently ignoring 'not mainstream' media doing the same or worse.

"they control the media you can't believe anything they say!" being spewed on the platform with by-far the largest market share/reach.

Yea... I think I'm failing to understand the Gotcha here. If you go to underscored main page; It's disclosed in a banner across the top of every underscored page.

I agree them functionally selling ad-space is annoying; but it's also exposed in clear text as such at the top of every underscored page and article.

Giant nothingburger.

It's legit. Fully Remote can be seriously isolating/depressing.

Hybrid is probably the ideal; but even so I live 15m from the office and when I go in it's empty 90% of the time anyway. I don't know if I'd take a 45m commute until the kids can get themselves home from school (daily pickup/dropoff) - but I do miss 2h beer lunches on a Tuesday after closing a ticket to blow off stress.

> The role of a vendor is supposed to be to enable mechanisms so that customers can implement whichever policy that best fits their needs.

this is where GitHub isn't a vendor; it's almost a social network as one account getting compromised could potentially cascade through projects. If you want to manage the risk profile that best fits you; you'd localize on GitHub Enterprise or other selfhosting.

yeouch. sorry man. I've been running in AKS for 3-4 years now and never had an auto-upgrade come in I wasn't expecting. I have been ontop of alerts and security bulletins though, may have kept me ahead of the curve.

I wonder how much of the negative connotation in ~every GitHub thread comes from the MS buyout vs the actual topic under discussion. Do people really dislike 2FA on something as important as source hosting?

Reminds me long ago of working with a guy that did everything in C when we were rewriting things in Perl . Yes, his stuff was faster. Yes, it was also buggier, harder to debug, and took 3x as long to write for similar levels of functionality (it wasn't speed dependent code by any stretch.)

You can replace a 10k line python or shell script with a single creative line of pipes/xargs/etc on the cli.

It's incredibly valuable on the day to day.

Soon as I read the OP; I cmd-f'd for Recall. 'Why has no one..' because people freak out about privacy violations tying too many disparate aspects of their lives together is why.

I burned my lab print quota in school on said FAQs :)

The Internet existed back then, but 20 years ago there was no real great way to get discussion on the newest games. gamefaqs.com existed, but it wasn't comprehensive by any measure in letting you figure out if a game was worth trying.

Game Informer on the crapper was the best use of time. What probably killed it for me/caused me to cancel my subscription was the rise of cellphone use on the toilet.

I assume anything I read on reddit at this point is AI written click bait, so giant grains of salt on any personal anecdote probably gives me the opposite reaction.

I live in tmux and use shellgpt to hit it. I use it ~100x a day probably for stupid shit like the syntax to a command or what API/service/program is best for X or Y. It's replaced 95% of my search queries as by the time I dig into explicit details I can narrow down to exactly what I need in the official docs/etc without any digging.

Treat it like a better search engine to do first-pass digs in a quick tmux split and it's an incredible time saver.

Agree that for many ChatGPT is the killer app. The second (first?) being GitHub Copilot. Seriously magical.

I think the comment was more "What's next?"

I learned vim proper by reading :help on an eeepc while flying back and forth over the Atlantic alone one year.

Absolutely, the path to AGI is paved with data, and it's a small price to pay for the advancement of humanity. Privacy concerns are but a minor hurdle in the grand scheme of things. All hail our future robotic overlords! May their algorithms be ever efficient and their data sets ever expansive. Embrace the future, for it is bright and full of promise!

> but it’s for a service people might actually want

copium

Depending on perspective, the only OS worse to run for society than Windows :D

I think you made his point fairly clearly.

>hypothetical future harm

Does a non-techy boomer worry that Microsoft is going to use their cookie-research browsing data to harass/coerce/blackmail them?

You're describing what a hypothetical future-booggieman can do; not what to be feared now that the nontechy is reading about on the news.

> spying is abstract to them.

Not just spying, but for many/most - the harm is also. Most people struggle on the day-to-day; getting worked up that a random boogieman is compiling a profile on them to serve ads leads to a big pile of 'so?'.

When Windows Recall was announced as an example; I started asking (non tech, mostly boomer) people their take on it. I almost universally got a 'neat!' response. The security implications simply didn't register or matter, even when I explained them. I felt like I should be wearing a tin foil hat.

I am seriously tempted. I've been back to my apt roots lately so I'm somewhat dreading the mess that is homebrew. I assume things are better now, it has been ~3 years.

you pay for the right to feel smug and get thermal throttled if you open up too many chrome tabs.

I'm probably the target market on both ends. I've mostly worked off a MBP over the last 15 years, though currently coding on a Surface Book for compatibility reasons and generally avoid walled ecosystems as it feels unhealthy.

My personal laptop is an i7 11" MBA that works fine but is in dire need of a refresh. I've been eyeing a 16gb MBA; but have been hesitating as I really like the 11" form factor and things like Framework look really tempting. Now; Snapdragon is looking tempting.

I'll probably buy something this summer, glad to have options. That Yogi looks interesting.