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dilDDoS commented on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? lock.cmpxchg8b.com/anubis... · Posted by u/taviso

jimmaswell · 7 days ago

What exactly is so bad about AI crawlers compared to Google or Bing? Is there more volume or is it just "I don't like AI"?

dilDDoS · 7 days ago

As others have said, it's definitely volume, but also the lack of respecting robots.txt. Most AI crawlers that I've seen bombarding our sites just relentlessly scrape anything and everything, without even checking to see if anything has changed since the last time they crawled the site.

dilDDoS commented on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first github.com/zedless-editor... · Posted by u/homebrewer

pnathan · 7 days ago

I'm glad to see this. I'm happy to plan to pay for Zed - its not there yet but its well on its way - But I don't want essentially _any_ of the AI and telemetry features.

The fact of the matter is, I am not even using AI features much in my editor anymore. I've tried Copilot and friends over and over and it's just not _there_. It needs to be in a different location in the software development pipeline (Probably code reviews and RAG'ing up for documentation).

- I can kick out some money for a settings sync service. - I can kick out some money to essentially "subscribe" for maintenance.

I don't personally think that an editor is going to return the kinds of ROI VCs look for. So.... yeah. I might be back to Emacs in a year with IntelliJ for powerful IDE needs....

dilDDoS · 7 days ago

I'm happy to finally see this take. I've been feeling pretty left out with everyone singing the praises of AI-assisted editors while I struggle to understand the hype. I've tried a few and it's never felt like an improvement to my workflow. At least for my team, the actual writing of code has never been the problem or bottleneck. Getting code reviewed by someone else in a timely manner has been a problem though, so we're considering AI code reviews to at least take some burden out of the process.

dilDDoS commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac

dilDDoS · 12 days ago

I actually think pirating encourages a healthier approach to watching TV/movies. I've fully made the switch to pirating instead of subscribing to any streaming services, and it's led to me thinking more critically about what I want to spend time downloading and watching rather than just flipping mindlessly through endless amounts of readily available garbage on a streaming service.

I do still have Kanopy though, which is great for me but obviously depends on your library.

dilDDoS commented on Show HN: Tool-Assisted Speedrunning the Boring Parts of Animal Crossing (GCN) github.com/hunterirving/p... · Posted by u/hunterirving

dilDDoS · 2 months ago

This is so cool and impressive. I loved the original Animal Crossing but also feel like the clunky keyboard input hasn't aged well. Thanks for sharing!

dilDDoS commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry

KerrAvon · 3 months ago

but I also work on interesting and varied stuff, and not web front end/backend du jour garbage

dilDDoS · 3 months ago

Neither do I, maybe that's the real difference here and not age

dilDDoS commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry

asadm · 3 months ago

I think you missed the part that's not exciting. When you write your 50th webapp and start integrating auth flows once again that just work slightly differently in this new app than your older one. That's what boils the blood, not writing new business logic.

dilDDoS · 3 months ago

Right, I guess that's what I mean I've side-stepped so far. I don't generally work on anything web related and haven't had to repeatedly work on similar projects over and over again. I've maybe just misunderstood what most other developers actually work on in the industry.

dilDDoS commented on Ace: Realtime Computer Autopilot generalagents.com/ace/... · Posted by u/huerne

iamleppert · 5 months ago

The recruitment use-case was hilarious, thanks I needed that.

dilDDoS · 5 months ago

That example made me wonder if this was satire...I'm guessing not, but pretty funny nonetheless. I bet my boss would love me texting him the names of random people from LinkedIn.