I've been moving most of my projects off of GitHub and into Gitea, and will continue to do so.

I'm still burned out on "regular" CG in movies. I'd be much more excited about a (hypothetical) return to practical effects than a push even further into computer imagery.

Which is weird, given that "sex sells."

> This is what everyone does normally, except Github made forks a thing or whatever so you could clone someone elses repo and hack on it without having mainline permissions.

Yeah. I'm an open-source maintainer and the "everyone creates a branch on upstream" model is a complete non-starter for me, even if only due to the mess it would cause. This is a massive step backward from "fork and pull."

I'm in my 40s, but still only on my second car, which is an old Honda Civic. I plan to drive it until I can purchase a second- or third-gen EV Civic. (Surely Honda eventually plans to make an EV Civic?)

Also, I've found that GPT has become much less useful as it has gotten "safer." So often I'd ask "How do I do X?" only to be told "You shouldn't do X." That's a frustrating waste of time, so I cancelled by GPT-4 subscription and went fully self-hosted.

https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

This year I used GPT-4 to write a significant amount of Terraform that was necessary to migrate an application onto AWS.

Writing Terraform, in my opinion, is problem that's broad but shallow. GPT-4 needed to do little beyond summarize documentation, but it was able to do so competently, and that was hugely valuable to me.

Conversely: In my free time, I've attempted to use it for a game-development side-project, and very little of its output has been useful at all.

That said, there's certainly no harm in treating your device as compromised. I do the same. "Better safe than sorry."

Obviously it's not perfect, but it's no worse than asking human coworkers, which are also sometimes wrong. (I'd prefer not to interrupt my human coworkers with questions with searchable answers anyway.)

I understand the motivation to keep "noise" low, but I disagree that civility is noise.

I'm terrible at marketing myself. I suppose that is a hurdle that I must overcome. I'll check out your projects to see what I can learn.

Congrats on your success!

This can happen on Slack or whatever too, but with much less friction. I'm not ignoring teammates for days - I just want to be able to take 10 minutes or whatever to reach a reasonable place to context-switch versus being forced to do so right now.

> I can hop back into "the flow" pretty much immediately.

I envy you, but I very much cannot do this. If I'm working on something of sufficient complexity, I'm going to lose at least 15 minutes every time I'm forced to make a substantive context-switch. It's a huge drain for me.