Yeah, I worry about that. Seems like everything a human can do to prove they’re human, imitation machine learning will be able to look at those inputs and outputs and fake it.

If you can’t have spaces filter out bots (already hard, probably impossible in the future), trust and validity completely go away. Spam will become unmanageable, and in many cases more subtle. Abuse will scale and could become unblockable.

I’m sure there sill be some kind of good ideas to push back, but I’d certainly say I’m pessimistic atm.

I’ve come around on it somewhat at work. Recent models really are getting pretty impressive. It’s at the point where I can tell it to read a Jira ticket and implement it, and for simple ones it basically just does it. I’m not sure it’s worth the massive environmental and infrastructures detriments (or rather, I’m pretty sure it’s not), but it’s definitely a productivity boost.

It’s also creating cognitive debt tho - every change it does for me automagically is one I don’t have to think about and ‘earn’ myself. You could argue the AI compensates for that by then explaining the code for you, but I think it will lead to some bad results in the mid-long term.

For any personal programming, I don’t/wouldn’t use it, beyond just replacing Google searches maybe. It defeats the fun of it, and cost money on top of that.

Fair enough! While I do have problems with Oracle as a company that would prevent me from considering their services, my comment above this is just in jest about the post being in this community.

Not meaning to be seriously dismissive or judgmental of the question. I totally understand using whatever resources are available.

Wrong comm.

… or is it? Using Oracle non-ironically?

Agree with this! It’s one of those things where if you want to learn to do it, just start doing. (Which it sounds like op is, so keep at that.) You find where the gaps are then focus on learning just enough to get past your roadblock.

Worth noting this is not a new vulnerability, it’s an analysis of a vulnerability disclosed in December:

Following the security disclosure published in the v8.8.9 announcement
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/v889-released/
the investigation has continued in collaboration with external experts and with the full involvement of my (now former) shared hosting provider.

According to the analysis provided by the security experts, the attack involved infrastructure-level compromise that allowed malicious actors to intercept and redirect update traffic destined for notepad-plus-plus.org. The exact technical mechanism remains under investigation, though the compromise occured at the hosting provider level rather than through vulnerabilities in Notepad++ code itself.

Really? That seems a little unusual. The handful of places I’ve worked have all asked me what kind of direction I want to move in, with management path being an option (which I didn’t pursue).

Actually getting those roles is another story. I’ve seen leaders go for many years without becoming managers, others switch over somewhat quick. But it seems like being open about what you want you work toward should, in a good work environment, get you some support toward it.

Doesn’t have to mean you’re trying to steal your boss’s job. Could be stepping into a support or backup role for them, being ready to fill the shoes if they get promoted or job hop or retire, or could just mean getting some leadership practice. You can frame it as professional development, to be ready for other internal lead roles if they open. Then when/if they don’t, use that experience to apply at other companies too.

Yes, important to know it’s gratis and not libre. For many people that’s fine. I think very few are cool enough to fix their own bugs, but still it’s often significant on principle.

Had this experience too. Played around with Shotcut and OpenShot, really wanted them to be better just because the name ‘Kdenlive’ is annoying. But alas, the latter seemed easier to work with.

Year of Linux on the desktop. Why not say it? It’s been true for decades now.

Nice touch making Months plural and Day singular.

I also like how Wednessecond isn’t going to be the end of the list, trailing comma is there.

Cursed.

Yeah! The smaller the platform, the bigger the contribution any one person makes by engaging with it.

Well, word of mouth is important, and I’m all for advocating for your favorite software. I just thought a couple bits sounded almost like press-release-speak, like this:

… Kevin has taken it upon himself, with the help of Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, to resurrect Digg. The announcement was made public on March 5, 2025 and a Circle group was created soon after to spearhead the new site’s initiatives and to run ideas past an initial group of alpha-testers, better known as “Groundbreakers”.

Digg’s mascot? Currently, the site is being tested by a slowly expanding group of die-hard users on iOS, Android, and more recently in your favorite browser. The reception has been overwhelmingly positive.

Plus some other parts that run down the features. I’m not ready to say it’s astroturfing or AI… just strikes me as a little over-positive if that makes sense. But early adopters are gonna be enthusiastic and that’s not a bad thing. /shrug

This reads like an advertisement.

I get being optimistic about a new platform though. Hopefully things work out for them, and maybe they can provide a good alternative.

OP mentions Lemmy as a non-viable alternative, but I don’t think that’s the case (obviously, given I’m here). It has design issues 100%. But I don’t think any of them are deal breakers. The technology is viable, it’s just that these Communities are too empty. I hope in the future, more communities migrate here. And in particular, it’d be nice to see more instances built around being a place for actual (existing) community groups, and not just around the concept of being a reddit clone.

I wonder if SteamDeck counts toward desktop share here? It kinda is a desktop OS, even though it’s mainly used on a handheld device. Either way, I think that contributes a lot to normalization and stability of the ecosystem, if not device count.

The big factor though is probably just a shrinking market. For people that aren’t computer nerds or businesses, it’s getting less likely they own a laptop or desktop, and more likely they think their phone is good enough.

I’ve subscribed to a few, though I often find myself getting lazy about listening to them. So take my suggestions with a grain of salt.

Some I used to listen to, some I’ve wanted to listen to, some of these coworkers recommended in recent weeks that I have little to no idea about. Hopefully this helps you find something you like!

• Base.cs
• Book Bytes
• Coding Blocks
• Command Line Heroes
• CoRecursive
• HanselMinutes
• LambdaCast
• No Silver Bullet
• Signals and Threads
• Toolsday

I haven’t used it in a while, but I remember the experience being pretty good (dependent on your subs) when browsing ‘old’ mode, with ublock on to clean it up. Hopefully the former is still supported and the latter is still not prevented.

Any backup method still contributes pretty heavily to linkrot. But maybe for any significant comments or submissions, make sure archive.org or archive.is has the page. That’s something anyway.

I can understand not wanting to leave them any scraps, but my preference for balance still falls toward leaving the old and deciding to focus on changing the future.

I suppose there’s truth to that, yeah - I get it, but just don’t think the tradeoff is worth it. I know Reddit probably loves the whole “add reddit add the end of your search query” thing people do, and they probably do get some onboarding from it. But my conjecture is that ongoing everyday traffic and content is more important for them, and if that were to dry up the value of the general purpose search results would follow. In my mind, deleting old content disproportionately affects users vs the company.

And just personally, I see value in the old stuff still being there. For many years people put worthwhile information there, and the website wasn’t so aggravatingly user hostile. In the present day, I think the energy is much better spent trying to make alternatives more appealing. Make an account on Lemmy or something, add a post to a community here, that kind of thing.

I’m very much not a fan of this approach. Preservation of conversation history on the web is valuable to real humans who may have bookmarked pages or be searching for obscure info.

And I’d have to imagine the whole corpus from past years has probably already been fed through AI. Besides that, editing/deleting comments probably only hides them from other users, Reddit may very well keep them saved (or at least have backups).

Best thing anyone can do, IMO, is avoid giving them new traffic and content. Attention is the currency they deal in, and most of it comes from people browsing new content.