limonkufu

I am feeling a lot of FOMO recently as I've found myself spending almost all my free time to read, learn and try on all these AI changes and watch 3-4 youtube videos to get quick updates.

It's not just the AI models anymore as well as. On top of that, there's a lot of AI agentic/agentless tools (VSCode extensions, VSCode forks, new IDEs), CLI tools, web pages (looking at you notebookLM) that all seems to be provide very similar but a bit different things that is supposedly to be best in their field.

This is not touching on the actual products people integrate AIs nicely into at all yet!

As a min/max oriented person, I feel terrible eventhough I have learned more and built prototypes more than I have done ever.

How are you all coping with this? What are some advices or workflows people are doing?

I am setting up a new machine and I wanted to change my welcome screen so I wondered how do other peoples look like and how they achieved it.

To start I was outputting a Darth Vader ASCII Art saying "What is thy bidding, my master?"

I have found these to be nice as well:

- https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fortune that outputs random quotes such as

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." -- Ford Prefect, _Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"_

Also this one https://github.com/stark/Color-Scripts that has some nice coloured ascii arts

Also this one:

# is the internet on fire status reports

host -t txt istheinternetonfire.com | cut -f 2 -d '"' | cowsay -f moose

_________________________________________ / Only if you use Ivanti... Multiple CVEs \ | in Ivanti Connect (In)Secure and Ivanti | | Policy (In)Secure Gateways: | | CVE-2023-46805, CVE-2024-21887, | | CVE-2024-21888, CVE-2024-21893, | \ CVE-2024-22024. https://is.gd/cFejgE / ----------------------------------------- \ \ \_\_ _/_/ \ \__/ (oo)\_______ (__)\ )\/\ ||----w | || ||

I see people are using LLms for summarising long text( I think edge bing also suggests this) and was wondering what's the current state of art for more traditional NLP applications? Are they still valid or LLMs won in those areas as well

The time has come. What will you do that just love the inbox ui when it is gone? I know gmail has most of the inbox features now but the main focus of UI is very different and I can't stand it. What will (or have done already) you do after April 2nd.

Inspired from reading similarly titled ASK HN post(about favorite managers). I wondered what bad behaviour/attitude your managers had/have.

How can one check whether a closed source commercial software using an open source code while infringing the code's license?

What steps do you take to secure your privacy while you are browsing internet? What do you allow for websites to use after gdpr since they're mostly asking permissions now?

Are you going full mode with tor browser, with extensions etc. to give little as possible or are you trusting some sites and share your info/cookie with only them?

I thought of this question because I was always allowing everything and seeing very targeted ads and was okay with this, after reading a few posts about GDPR here, I switched to ublock, umatrix, autoclean cookies (since I don't exactly know which information they collect so I am trying to give none) etc. but I am still sceptical so I wondered how is everyone else doing?