Interesting, never heard of it before but looks promising, I should try it. I don’t care much for AI features, but I’m not against it either, especially if I can use locally hosted models, and it seems Zed supports ollama natively, so that fits the bill.

Coming from vscode, one of the features I use a lot is devcontainers, does Zed support something similar?

Visual Studio Code, I think it’s just the best, works on all platforms and there’s extensions for literally everything. If it enshittifies too much with e.g. copilot, etc. there’s always vscodium instead.

If I’m on a linux terminal, I use the micro editor. I can survive using vim if nothing else is available, but yeah, I used to be in emacs team back in the day…

I have used Qt Creator in the past and, while it was pretty good back then, nowadays I’m not sure if it can compete with vscode, I haven’t kept up with its development.

From what I understand, there was no hack nor fork in the recent news about Signal, it was human error, somebody literally invited the wrong person to the chat 🙄

Signal is still secure.

As for WhatsApp, it’s true that being Meta they collect everything they can, mostly metadata, but don’t they still implement the same end-to-end encryption as Signal? So, at least the actual content is your messages and calls should be truly private, i.e. out of reach even of Meta (and let’s say, all of this using a phone with no google e.g. graphene or lineage or calyxos). Please correct me if I’m wrong.

Exactly

Despite being in the hands of the zuck, whatsapp is more private and secure than telegram, and not because of any collaboration with X/twitter, it’s been that way forever… so go ahead and use it (but if you can, signal is even better on that front).

Not sure what crypto we’re talking about here, but most crypto coins (e.g. bitcoin) are also easily traceable, as all transactions are public. It’s true that they’re not reversible and that certainly offer less protection than a bank account, but also offer other things e.g. more privacy and decentralized infrastructure, which can be useful even to non criminals.

Also once again, if one needs absolutely no traceablilty (ok fine, almost no traceability) then cash is still king and criminals use that as well, or sometimes gift cards and prepaid cards. Should we ban cash and gift cards? (hmm gift cards maybe…)

What I’m trying to say is, crypto is just a tool and it’s up to us to use it in a good or bad way. Unfortunately, most people seem to have chosen the second option.

True, a literally steep learning curve means you’d learn very quickly!

This could’ve easily happened over his bank account online password instead of crypto, don’t blame crypto here, blame human greed.

Artificial Insanity?

That’s a far cry from genocide though

A cutlery knife is not a butter knife, most are sharp and definitely capable of killing someone. Again doesn’t justify the cops acting in such disproportionate manner, but … definitely not the same as a straw.

Fully agree the cops went too far with how they treated him, definitely didn’t deserve to die.

Ok, I understand the officers likely used excessive force and this guy maybe had dementia or something but …

Burgess […] was seen poking a care worker in the stomach with a cutlery knife

Sorry, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for this old man.

It’s an extension so it can be deactivated

Article says:

[…] then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.

So… maybe you won’t be able to deactivate it anymore. Not cool, microsoft (but totally expected).

One thing I don’t like though, the article says:

then carefully refactor the relevant components of the extension into VS Code core.

So … you won’t be able to deactivate it anymore? not cool, it I interpreted it correctly.

For example, that someone could fork it and make it use a local or self-hosted LLM instead. Yes I know, other alternatives exist (Continue extension) but aren’t that good.

it is a lot of effort and time invested on a feature no one requested

At my last job there were several people using copilot very successfully, some even had the paid subscription, and clearly it was very useful to them. I tried it and found it not that good, barely saves me any time and sometimes actively wastes time, but that’s me. I won’t judge if others want to use it, as long as the code gets reviewed by humans, like during a pull request (and it was, in our case).

It’s just a tool. Just because I don’t find it very useful, I shouldn’t tell others not to use it.

That’s one way to do it. The other is to leverage your network (if available to you) and ask people if they can refer you internally. I’ve had a lot more success with the second method.

How common is such a test in the US? I work in the US and so far, I’ve never been asked to perform a drug test, ever. Then again, maybe I’ve been lucky…