i’m still mad at np++ for the version that supported the french media outlet that was an attack victim. not for that but for sneaking in an auto-typing text tab that looked SO MUCH like a virus especially since it was not in the original release notes.
Yeah the dev is notorious for sneaking in irrelevant political virtue signaling bullshit. I get that they want to do good to the world, but there are so many ways to do that without alienating your users. For example, partnering up with a charity. You know. Like VIM does.
Yup, fucking captured it!
People are allowed to want what they’re comfortable with to not be riddled with llms
On the subject of Foss and AI - one of the G summer of code projects is about integrating an AI voice platform into Neochat and I’m somewhere between bemused and amused by the lack of reaction from de KDE/Plasma community
Notepad++ is just, a top tier app
Modern computing is a steaming pile of other horse’s horseshit in my living room
Not if you use linux. I’m happier than ever about my computing.
I was going to suggest Zed but it has Ai as well now
They don’t shove it in your face though, they just offer a possibility of integrating AI through external services.
A button for AI in Notepad as seen in the image doesn’t seem like shoving in your face either
TBH, tech companies showing AI down our throats is still no good, open-source alternative existing or not.
DRM wasn’t good either, tech companies are just really creative at making their products worse.
What if the open source software is forcing people to see AI?
Comment it out
That’s the neat thing about open source: you can change it!
It’s like the difference between renting and owning. When you rent, you can’t really do much. If you own, if you don’t like the wall color, paint it! Or tear it down, or DON’T replace the carpets! Or take a hammer and put holes in the wall to see what’s inside.
And, because it’s digital, you can make a million copies or delete them! It’s like a holodeck! You do what you want. It serves you!
Fork!
Fork people who come up with it right in the hand.
Bold of you to assume it hasn’t been bought, sued or destroyed by MS, Amazon, Google or Meta by that time.
You can do VSCode, which is FOSS, contains integrated AI, and you can even complain about Micro$oft at the same time as a bonus!
VSCodium
Still got the AI, but at least no Microsoft telemetry.
Kate
Microsoft is attacking the forks
VSCode isn’t foss (like Chrome)
In fact to add to this, VSCode downloaded binary from microsoft is not at all FOSS. I use VSCodium which doesn’t push AI
Some of the plugins are not foss
I like Kate better. It is also a lot faster to open.
Some FOSS software has been adding gen-AI to itself recently, particularly where it requires you to get an API key from Gemini, OpenAI or Claude.
I don’t mind that they can do it so long as it serves those users who want that feature.
I would be happy if more and normal people were actually mad at ai.
Normal people are losing themselves in AI. I’ve seen multiple instances of people using LLM to fact check someone. Endless “uhh, but I asked ChatGPT and it said blablabla” making me lose faith in humanity.
Honestly its not much different from a google search and reading some nonsense written by someone who has no authority in the subject. As long as it reinforces their belief itll be true in their eyes
Yeah it’s become impossible to have philosophical discussions, although this truly does seem limited to the virtual world (i.e. via text, online, etc.). If I were to go have some drinks with a friend and they busted out some LLM to take part in our discussion I would chastise them endlessly for it.
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I would be happy with more nuanced takes on AI.
Instead of just “All AI is worse than the devil and is killing babies” or “All AI is the pinnacle of humanity and is the next step in our evolution”.
LLMs have a place, but it is not in every product imaginable.
Fingers crossed it’ll end up like crypto. Here to stay in the world of finance, no longer in every product that never needed it.
When someone can produce an LLM that doesn’t use more power than entire small nations to spew out bullshit, then we can start inviting nuance. Unfortunately, we have to be pragmatic here; and the consequences of lots of GenAI are way worse than returning to no GenAI.
Obviously, this doesn’t include pattern recognition or protein folding AI.
That also misses the point. If we want to pull the world out of poverty and into prosperity we’re going to need an astonishing amount of power. The only key is to make power that is sustainable so that things requiring a lot of power aren’t given a second thought. The thing you’re mad at are massive corporations putting the cart waaaaaay before the horse. And yes, please be mad at them for that.
Local LLMs are a thing, so why don’t you start with your nuance, hmm?
Is it because LLMs are worse than the devil and are killing babies?
That local LLM?
Still uses that power. Still used the power for training. Still exploited workers. Swing and a miss.
Wait who doesn’t already use Notepad++? It’s even part of the standard install image at my job, and we have MS365 accounts already
Me because I use Sublime Text
I use nvim, btw
I use vintage vim, fucks hard on my arch (which I use btw)
Ah, I see you’re a man of culture as well
Real talk. I’m beyond an amateur, mainly doing super simple scripts for low power sbc’s to output an I or 0, and even during my ~1hour learning process every video uses np++.
Son, I was using Emacs before Notepad++ even existed.
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Oh shit, I looked it up and it’s literally true. Notepad++ was first released in 2003 and I’m pretty sure I used Emacs for the first time in 2002.
It’s all fun and games until ai is mad at you
I’m chill with the amount of ai duckduckgo has, because its not in your face and it can be easily disabled.
Yeah but duckduckgo has loads of adds now, too
at least its not more than Google
last I checked you can disable that? or has that changed?
