[–] 2 points 19 hours ago* (3 children)

I am not on it. My son started driving recently and I evaluated it, but rejected it due to their customer hostile approach to api access and privacy. i found Dawarich when searching for alternatives a few months ago. I've installed it, contributed a couple of PRs, and am excited for it.

The missing feature is for "anxious moms" wanting an up to date alert for announcing movement for their kids. e.g. "Bobby has left the library"

It's getting closer with every release, but the turn key approach without managing every poi for announcements is missing.

Now, all that said. I'm not mom and I have feelings over teen privacy and helicopter parenting, but I recognize the desire for that type of information sharing -- as long as it's my family's data only.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago

    Been using this one for quite a while now. Sometimes you need to share AI conversations for context. My rule of thumb is that I human summarize and contextualize like I would normally, then in a thread below it, fork off an ai;dr quoted reply. Makes it like optional reading.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 weeks ago

    The handiman who works for my family quite often is not super technical. He was troubleshooting a mini split for me and I walked out to see him vocally chatting with chat gpt going through error codes, handless.

    He found a use, and you'd be wrong to assume "trades" are safe from the chatbot. That doesn't mean his job is going away, but maybe he can do more solo jobs and doesn't need a helper all the time. Or maybe he does his jobs faster. Who knows!

    People don't need to know model names to find a use.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    Legally it isn't, actually. Morally, yes.

    Check out "AI has a labor issue, not a copyright issue" chapter of "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" by Cory Doctorow

    It's a hard chapter to read, but it's important to understand.

    EDIT: I love the downvotes for speaking the truth, seriously people, please understand. It's important.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago

    I've run this experiment on myself a great number of times.

    Your story is correct, sometimes. It's not correct all of the time. Sometimes AI is slower and the output is better (think: pair programming). Sometimes AI gets me the first draft and the cognitive understanding takes time (overall, for me, usually faster, but sometimes slower I will readily admit). I'm really good at reading code, I guess? And still other times it will one shot near perfection (in true slot machine fashion). It'll also produce absolute shit, as well, frequently.

    My firm point to you is it's not a blanket truth.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Listen, I'm a VERY healthy skeptic of AI on a number of fronts, but saying it can't speed things up is just not true.

    I feel like I understand where you're trying to come from with the argument about skill degradation, but the flat statement you say here is undeniably false.

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