89.90999999...% uptime 🐐

do people just not feel shame anymore?

I would love if there were a way to filter out pro-AI companies. Nothing would make me happier than to have an interviewer tell me "we don't allow slop here." Instead, I have to gauge how truthful I can be. Usually, the best I can get away with is "I haven't personally found it very useful, because I spend more time diagnosing its errors than I would have writing the code from scratch." (But the truth is I haven't ever used this sloppy shit. Letting a stochastic parrot speak for me is bonker balls.)

many have expectations to set up an ide day one and it start churning out patches

I just don't understand the thought process. They must realize that this level of automation wouldn't require anyone to hire them?

I think, if you can wait long enough, there is a chance employers will be champing at the bit to hire people who actually know what the fuck they are talking about and whose ability to think hasn't been short-circuited by a tool that pretends to think for them.

That's what I am counting on. Could just be (definitely is) copium.

The least-worst of the Chrome reskins is Vivaldi, which has no AI. It has its own adblocker, but it’s not as good a blocker as FIrefox with uBlock Origin. And Vivaldi’s not open source. But they’re relatively non-evil.

I used Firefox for largely political reasons (summarized as "Google needs a competitor"), but it was becoming harder and harder to justify. Eventually, I just switched to a Chromium-based browser. I will say that, as an almost-good-enough solution until I wake up from this nightmare to a functioning Servo (🙏🙏🙏) , DNS level ad blocking (using Mullvad's DNS servers) + uBlock Origin Lite (filtering mode set to "complete") has been sufficient for me. It even blocks Spotify ads. I think it blocks YouTube ads as well, although I barely watch YouTube on my browser.

Ungoogled Chromium supports MV2 extensions and seems like a good choice if Firefox becomes unusable or you get fed up. I use Trivalent, a security hardened Chromium-based browser, but it may be tough to install if you aren't on Secureblue. Also it only supports MV3 extensions.

this shit is so fucking frustrating, just leave our browsers alone. we want security updates, not an unethically sourced bullshit-and-vulnerability-generator stapled onto the biggest attack surface on our fucking machine

the chair of my cs department at a public university expressed this sentiment

"the cat's out of the bag, now we must teach students to use it responsibly"

BECAUSE THAT HAS WORKED SO WELL BEFORE

(sorry for shouting)

as someone who identifies greatly with diogenes, i say: do not trust anyone who compares themself to diogenes

Here is what I could find. It isn't problematic enough to get me to switch to self-hosting, but I am open to being wrong about this (read: I perused the shared links and then did a line of copium

here's hoping BW is internally saying "enough people want this, here is how we can provide it to these dipshits" and not "let's hop on the train y'all")

https://bitwarden.com/blog/bitwarden-mcp-server/

To help drive secure authentication forward, Bitwarden introduces its Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, which provides the infrastructure for secure AI agent integration with password management. The new Bitwarden MCP server allows AI assistants to access, generate, retrieve, and manage passwords through a local-first architecture where credentials remain on a user’s machine, maintaining zero-knowledge encryption.

IMPORTANT SECURITY NOTE

MCP servers are on the frontier of the AI wave, enabling new, to-be-imagined applications. At the same time, frontiers, when not explored carefully, can be risky. Users of the Bitwarden MCP server are encouraged to keep security and care in mind. Some examples that Bitwarden demonstrates may not be appropriate for all users and use cases. It is strongly recommended to leverage a local self-hosted LLM option when using the MCP server.

https://bitwarden.com/blog/use-bitwarden-to-keep-track-of-your-ai-agents-credentials/

https://bitwarden.com/data-security-in-age-of-ai/

Like a complete fucking idiot, I paid for two years of protonmail right before discovering they are fascists. I would like to move to another provider. I have until August. I have been considering Forward Email. Anyone have thoughts on this provider or recommendations?

I just saw this. I sent an email to Framework a few days ago asking if they would delete my account and letting them know this was the reason.