It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

I don't want a city on Mars.
I don't want AI in every app.
I don't want data centres in space.

I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.

I've put together asciidoc-mode (https://github.com/bbatsov/asciidoc-mode) - a super lean major #Emacs mode for editing #AsciiDoc documents, powered by #TreeSitter

It's a lighter and simpler alternative to the more established adoc-mode (also maintained by yours truly), that has been sitting in the back of my mind for a while and became possible recently when a TS grammar for AsciiDoc was created.

I hope you'll find the new mode useful!

@sanityinc Can you help me get it in MELPA? (https://github.com/melpa/melpa/pull/9850)

To call a cat you can make little noises, meow, say their name or rub your fingers together.

It doesn't work, but sometimes you'll do this at the same time as the cat moves over to you of it's own accord.

 What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?

Not the installation process.
Not finding a distro.
Not getting programs to work.
Not troubleshooting.
Not hardware compatibility.

The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this:
For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.

They ask a simple question and:
People respond "Did you Google it?"
People complain that the question wasn't asked "correctly".
People respond "RTFM"
People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.

We can't expect normal people to know to, or even know how to deal with any of that stuff.

Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for most people (especially stuff like ArchWiki), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.

The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help the people who are trying to use it.  

#Linux

My general dislike of AI writing has had a positive impact on how I read and listen to texts and scripts.

If I'm listening to a nature video, for example, and a sentence is empty of meaning or just illogical I turn that video off and avoid whoever made it.

Some of the things I've rejected probably weren't made by AI, but I don't see that as a bad thing.

My main issue with AI texts is I just find them kind of patronizing? You want me to sit and nicely listen but you can't be bothered to write?