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New comment by WolfeReader in "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI"

WolfeReader — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:34:18 +0000

Actually it is. I haven't seen any Google AI summaries since I started using non-Google search engines.

New comment by WolfeReader in "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI"

WolfeReader — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:06:03 +0000

Use a different search engine such as Ecosia or noai.duckduckgo.com

New comment by WolfeReader in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

WolfeReader — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:16:43 +0000

Offer low pay and start using lines of code as a metric. Not only will you not hire such people, you'll also filter out any who might already be on your team!

(Assuming "these people" is a euphemism for "skilled engineers")

New comment by WolfeReader in "Get ready to flee, Americans in ten countries warned"

WolfeReader — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:31:11 +0000

"Thanks Obama" is sometimes used sarcastically by people who actually don't mind Obama, as a parody of how conservatives would blame literally anything on him.

Too bad the above post didn't give enough context to say which sense they're using it.

New comment by WolfeReader in "KOReader"

WolfeReader — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:38:37 +0000

Thanks for letting me know about mupdf! One of my favorite things about KOReader is its ability to handle humongous PDFs on extremely modest hardware; it's good to know what this ability is based on.

New comment by WolfeReader in "KOReader"

WolfeReader — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 21:36:56 +0000

Windows would be a whole different build target, and Koreader works great through WSL anyway.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Recursion is lying to you"

WolfeReader — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:32:55 +0000

The thread title should be updated to clarify that it's a JavaScript-specific article.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Teaching Kids Forth"

WolfeReader — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:55:38 +0000

claps

New comment by WolfeReader in "Codeberg Divides"

WolfeReader — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:36:16 +0000

It sure is! But I guess it would be less fun to say "1 out of 5 developers will not be using Codeberg going forward". Especially since that may well be an intended effect of Codeberg's decision here.

As long as AI is a source of environmental damage, cognitive harm, and a cause of rising hardware costs, there will always be a sizeable set of developers who want nothing to do with it. The headline should be "AI Divides".

New comment by WolfeReader in "Codeberg Divides"

WolfeReader — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:50:28 +0000

The current adoption of LLMs by developers seems to be a bit more than 20%.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/06/about-1-i...

This is just for professional jobs (and is 9 months old) of course.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Book prizes don't work how you think"

WolfeReader — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:28:13 +0000

It's a completely different statement, so yes.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Codeberg Divides"

WolfeReader — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:03:43 +0000

"Write" is not the correct verb for how you produce software if you get it from GenAI.

May I suggest a few replacements? "Plagiarize" or "excrete" are both more fitting in different ways.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Codeberg Divides"

WolfeReader — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:00:57 +0000

If the outcome is that most vibe-coders leave Codeberg alone, that seems like a win for Codeberg.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Book prizes don't work how you think"

WolfeReader — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:21:50 +0000

If you say "publishers require DRM" and then say that publishers sometimes sell books without DRM, you might need to review the definition of the word "require".

Some publishers require DRM. Which is entirely different than the false claim made earlier that "selling ebooks necessarily requires DRM".

New comment by WolfeReader in "Book prizes don't work how you think"

WolfeReader — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:10:58 +0000

Selling books doesn't require DRM at all. I buy DRM-free books all the time.

As an example: Kobo will tell you, at the bottom of each book's page, if it has DRM or not. And it will happily sell you a book without DRM and let you download it.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

WolfeReader — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:17:47 +0000

I'm anti-AI as heck, but this is a really good point.

New comment by WolfeReader in "Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?"

WolfeReader — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:06:51 +0000

Bicycles don't consume the energy of a small nation.

New comment by WolfeReader in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

WolfeReader — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:09:15 +0000

Yes. They're using AI to write Git commits. They're using AI to delete directories. They're using AI to summarize articles written by AI. And the planet just gets hotter and hotter.

New comment by WolfeReader in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

WolfeReader — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:07:49 +0000

Now this is the sort of stock phrase AI should use more

New comment by WolfeReader in "How to read more books"

WolfeReader — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:53:04 +0000

I already gave a specific example. And since your second paragraph shows that you don't understand what generative AI even is or how it works, you have got some learning due before you continue to discuss AI.