Katherine 🪴

Me on Facebook in 2009

Pfft; rewrite it in DHTML and ActiveX.

Well Well Well.

Looks like the shoe is on a different foot.

Me happily using Guzzle.

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403: Uh uh uh you didn’t say the magic word

Wait , hold up. Has it been “Cutie Bittorrent” this whole time??

Denise

Jokes on them it’s just a former Initech engineer.

I’m more surprised that it’s a normal UA instead of something like AppleWebkit/Gecko/ChromeSafari 547.0

Oh I mean, I think you’re right. I don’t allow it to commit OR create PRs. I think that’s silly; in fact I specifically instruct it NOT to do those things because I want to verify everything.

I think when you know the possibility of hallucination, you become more vigilant; I think the key point is to not use it as a exclusive source but as an extension.

Well I basically tell it to not just do all the code and dump it out to me; I instruct it to explain the rationale, reasoning, and code and then provide external links for additional reading on the subject instead of just doing, I turn it into an instruct model so I can at least expand on my knowledge and then not have to rely on it as much the next time.

Basically, yes, like a Stackoverflow model from the early 2000s.

For instance, something like this: "
When talking about subjects involving programming and coding, the key goal should be instructional and informative to not only include code and samples but also how they work so in the future I can continue and expand on my knowledge. Also suggest places to expand and learn in the future on any programming or development topic. NEVER auto commit or create pull requests in my repositories without asking and waiting for a confirmation first. I prefer to review all code first for learning purposes and QA purposes."

The problem isn’t AI integration in code editors; the problem is people who let it think for you and blindly accept the results.

It’s great for automating repetitive tasks and setting up frameworks but you’re bananas if you let it commit for you.

It’s why if I have to use AI integration, I’ll specifically prompt it to give guidance and links to interesting articles on how do do things and have it teach me how to do things not just dump all the code out already completed.

2026 shouldn’t be the year of any one specific thing; 2026 should be the year of teaching the less inclined how to be conscious with their data and go over methods for taking back their data from whatever service they might use.

I basically moved to Linux Mint from Windows myself back in March so this is everything I’ve learned since then. Auto update and auto backup (using Timeshift and Update Manager) are pretty straight forward since they’re all options in the GUI. Clamtk comes from me using Clamav on Windows for the longest time and most of the packages were found right in the GUI for the Software Manager.

For most users whose main computing habits are browsing the internet, word processing (desktop or Google Docs), or email, you’ll rarely have to touch a terminal.

I set up my mom’s laptop with clamtk (set to auto update definitions), auto backup, and auto update and she generally uses it the same as Windows.

Parents will go to where their family are on social; either get the family to post elsewhere, or teach them to be conscious about being on the big tech platforms.

Teach them about privacy settings like post audience; post pruning; privacy options; privacy checkups.

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Hi, spez.