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Calling everything AI-generated is lazy

5 pointsby anotherevan16 giorni fa3 comments

Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization

44 pointsby anotherevan2 mesi fa28 comments

Melbourne psychiatrist refuses new patients who don't consent to AI note-taking

theguardian.com

10 pointsby anotherevan2 mesi fa0 comments

Root-based Android app backup tool powered by Restic

2 pointsby anotherevan2 mesi fa0 comments

Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love

59 pointsby anotherevan2 mesi fa42 comments

Impacts of working from home on mental health tracked in study of Australians

49 pointsby anotherevan7 mesi fa71 comments

Merriam-Webster: Our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25

3 pointsby anotherevan9 mesi fa0 comments

VPNs, 'old man' masks, and AI: The holes in the social media ban and their fixes

6 pointsby anotherevan9 mesi fa0 comments

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7 giorni fadiscuss

Yeah, I'll add the abbreviated day ("Thu 3 Jul 2026") where it makes sense to.

8 giorni fadiscuss

Although my (AU) locale is dd-mm-yyyy, I'll use yyyy-mm-dd anywhere I have to write a date in all numbers to avoid any ambiguity. It also has the advantage of sorting correctly in things like file names.

For something more likely to be read by a human and not parsed by a computer (and is not locale or i18n/l10n flexible) I'll use d mmm yyyy, e.g., 3 Jul 2026. To my thinking, for English speaking this is the friendliest unambiguous format (although I'm sure opinions will differ).

8 giorni fadiscuss

Australian's use mostly the same, except for the time format where AM/PM is still predominant. Also Celsius for temperature and 1,000.0 for number formatting.

15 giorni fadiscuss

Only reacting to the title and/or the first couple of paragraphs instead of reading the whole thing?

18 giorni fadiscuss

The ctrl-tab tab switching behaviour being round-robin instead of stack[1] is what is keeping me on Konsole. None of the newer consoles (for Linux) seem to have this.

[1] https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/discussions/2393

20 giorni fadiscuss

Truth social is unsuccessful?

28 giorni fadiscuss

Humour — it's so subjective.

28 giorni fadiscuss

Update: I am sorry. In case it's not obvious — I could not help it.

FTFY

28 giorni fadiscuss

This is why I find using speech-to-text tools quite difficult to use: because the parts of my brain that I use for writing and the parts of my brain I use for speaking are a little different — although with significant overlap.

With writing I find I'm drafting the flow for readability and clarity as I'm writing, so I go back and rework bits and pieces — sometimes even while I'm in the middle to typing a sentence. Maybe it's because I write code for a living.

Speech only moves forward and you have to state your retractions or clarifications on the go. You can't go back and edit what you've said.

I've been trying to use speech-to-text a bit to: a) give my hands a bit of a break when I'm writing prose, and b) see if it's faster than typing.

I find there are long pauses while I'm struggling to draft what I'm going to say to what I want written, so I'm not sure if it is faster (given that I'm a ten finger touch typist so can type pretty fast is short bursts, and the time spent going back and tidying up the output which is somewhat tedious). It might improve with more practice.

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28 giorni fadiscuss

It's possible you have a touch of prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness. It would make sense as you would recognise people you interact with more regularly by other things (e.g.: voice, or even body or posture as the grandparent comment mentioned), but unfamiliar people tend to me harder to identify.

28 giorni fadiscuss

Welcome to the crazy lolly shop that is Hacker News. Be warned though, as is written on many a candy wrapper: may contain nuts.

Also, it is positively charming that you think most of us took the time to properly read something before coming here to espouse an opinion. :-)

28 giorni fadiscuss

I still clearly remember in my early twenties being stunned to discover that the Astérix comics are originally written in French and then translated. Coming up with names like Getafix in English for the druid — incroyable.

28 giorni fadiscuss

You'd be full of shit.

Oh, sorry, I thought you said colon…

mese scorsodiscuss

First personal little thing was a little mobile friendly website for taking coffee and tea orders. Two pages, one for someone to enter orders, second for listing orders and marking them as done. Was a bit of a gimmick idea I'd had in the back of my head for family lunches to save me running around with a scrap of paper and a pen asking what everyone wanted. Thought it would make a good little exploration of "vibe coding".

Second is a utility that will take a text file export from Wallabag, and use text to speech to convert it to an MP3 file. I then integrated it into a utility that I already wrote for managing articles so if I tag an article with listen it automatically gets converted and gets shunted to the podcast listening app on my phone.

Last was to recreate a little directory listing utility that I've had a 32-bit binary of for ages, but no longer (if ever) have the source code for. I'd always promised myself I would write it once I learned Rust, but decided try using AI as I was getting impatient to have it now. The utility lists all files, including hidden, in a directory, grouped by type. Below is an example listing the directory for the project itself:

    Directories:
    .hg            src            target         tests

    Files:
    .hgignore      AGENTS.md      ARCHITECTURE.md               CONTRIBUTING.md
    Cargo.lock     Cargo.toml     GEMINI.md      README.md      gemini-log.html

Some command-line flags to just list a particular type, such as only directories, or only unsatisfied symbolic links.

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I've been saying this about Amazon with ebooks, and DRM'd goods in general for years.

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I think comparing American AI to OnlyFans is in extremely poor taste. If I were OnlyFans I would sue. /s

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Bear in mind that beacon is something of a hail Mary, though. No way to tell if it was successful or not or react if it wasn't.

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I'm not blaming it on misogyny. I thought I was very clear that "medical misogyny" is a commonly used term, and was very specific on the definition.

Also, in this sibling comment thread[1] to yours I discussed with haldujai why we both dislike the term, specifically because of the animus is implies, which is inaccurate.

It is however, a term you will hear in discussions like this, so it is good to know what it means, and the fact that the problem as defined exists, no matter what you call it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48392371

mese scorsodiscuss

Agreed. Disability, physical as well as intellectual. Age. Neuroatypicallity. The list goes on.

Honestly, I think when you're facing any sort of potentially serious health issue you need a wingman coming to the appointments with you. Someone who can hopefully be a little more emotionally removed. Who can ask the questions you didn't think of to make sure you've covered everything. Who you can debrief with afterwards to make sure you've taken in all the important information you were just scrambling to wrap your head around while you were in the room. And sometimes to argue on your behalf.

Done this with my kidult for most of their life, obviously. Did it with my dad's oncologist visits for prostate cancer. Had it myself with cancer and other times. You just need someone you trust in your corner when you're vulnerable.

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Yep. Humans are gonna do human things anywhere you find them.

> FYI I’m not American.

Whoops. Guess that was an assumption on my part. Here I am, doing human things…