I’m chill with the amount of ai duckduckgo has, because its not in your face and it can be easily disabled.
Next version of npp should reference this comic.
I would be happy if more and normal people were actually mad at ai.
What if the open source software is forcing people to see AI?
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!
Bold of you to assume it hasn’t been bought, sued or destroyed by MS, Amazon, Google or Meta by that time.
Comment it out
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.
Sometimes you’re in the feelings phase, not the solutions phase.
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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
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.
Me because I use Sublime Text
I use nvim, btw
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++.
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.
My dude, you can be mad at AI and use a FOSS alternative - best of both worlds
Unpopular opinion, but it’s also fine to hate having AI being added to a tried and true industry standard. FOSS is great, and I use many FOSS programs, but it’s often a decade behind in features, compatibility, & stability.
Yea, not everything is a binary choice.
Have you met end users before?
I wanted to disagree with you. But I also wanted a sandwich.
What people really want is to not have to change anything - neither about their lives, nor about themselves.
They want to live in a perpetual 2005 where Windows is forever usable and still just an operating system. Where they feel happy and comfortable in their environment and their skills and abilities.
And I get that, because I feel it too.
But sometimes you have to change yourself, in order to change your world.
I mean if you’re dead set on it you can get a lot of modern things running on windows xp, chromium browsers, dx10/11 games, discord, etc. it’s a nightmare and you’ll have a ton of headaches (especially with the dx10/11 stuff, apparently, I’ve never tried any of this) but it’s possible
Anything to avoid using linux, eh?
There are also hacked/modified XP builds floating around based off the source code leaks that backport some of the modern Windows OS features.
Still not an “easy” experience though.
At that point just use Mint. Isn’t it designed to feel like Windows 7?
When it comes to computing, technically everything is a binary choice.
except for encryption
u might even say its a nonbinary choice laugh track
Please use different formatting for emphasis and non-speech. I recommend escaping the asterisks with backslashes for the latter.
whata wrong with asterisks? they made the text italic as i wanted it to be
The way you wrote it, there is no formatting distinction between emphasis (nonbinary) and stage directions (laugh track). I suggest you use something else for one of these, preferably the latter:
u might even say its a nonbinary choice *laugh track*
u might even say its a nonbinary choice [laugh track]
Except for… context? I’m constantly annoyed by grammar/spelling online and even I say you’re going too far.
Or you can use AI and FOSS - optimization of both worlds!
I don’t want hallucinations and lies in my open source
AI is for lying to investors that your company is going to turn a profit in a few years. FOSS projects don’t need that.
Try to separate the AI hype from AI.
AI has been around for years and we all utilize the results of that research.
Remember that at one time a compiler was seen as AI.
It’s the curse of AI: once a problem is solved, it’s no longer AI. It just becomes a tool, and we adjust what “intelligence” means to exclude the new abilities of computers and code.
Even LLMs have value, just not how they’re being used. If you carefully curate the training materials, you could have a useful tool.
I’d love to see an LLM trained exclusively on medical records of patients who were successfully diagnosed and treated. I wouldn’t want to give it a medical license, but it could be a useful tool in the hands of a competent physician. It might turn out to be useless, but we need to try it.
Stop referring to LLMs as AI for starters
LLMs are AI as much as the enemies in a game are AI. It’s not General AI though, which companies really seem to want people to believe it is.
Why? On what basis?
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.
Why are the robots making art? Why are the humans packing the boxes?…
Because development of mechanical devices does not hype investors nearly as much
Put googly eyes on the robot and name it Steve. Tell investors it’s intelligent. Tell them you can have sex with it. You’ll have so much money.
Tell them you can have sex with it
CLANK CLANK CLANK
Crunch
YYYYEEEEEOOOOOCCCHHHH
MO: Make high cost human low cost human
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!
VSCode isn’t foss (like Chrome)
VSCodium
Still got the AI, but at least no Microsoft telemetry.
Kate
Microsoft is attacking the forks
You could replace the reactor core of a small nuclear plant with Lemmy users hearing the letters “AI”.
I like ai, but only when its doing something actually helpful, not making ‘art’
It’s one thing to think AI is poor quality in some tasks, but some users act like AI is personally assaulting them every morning as they wake up for work and pissing in their coffee.
Generative AI in different forms is more than just a poor quality tool. Image generators are being used to create fair pornography of real people. People are replacing actual mental health techniques with ChatGPT reaffirming every single one of their internal biases and making their problems worse. Employers are using metric shit tons of natural resources to generate “no you can’t take the day off” emails, and people are generating AI summaries of AI generated presentations and saying they’ve learned something.
And if the human impact doesn’t appeal to you, all the financial capital being poured into NVidia and OpenAI and all of this other rubbish could be solving real problems.
Can you name a single technology or human endeavour that doesn’t have negative side effects or potential for abuse?
The rise of anti-AI sentiment isn’t based on objective measurements of societal harms, it’s a meme because it’s new and popular and, like all memes, some people feed on the outrage-based reinforcement generated by social media interactions.
I’m not saying that there are no problems with AI. I’m saying that people are treating it as if it were a massive problem because their perception is warped by social media.
hearing the letters “AI”.
I’m fuming!!
What are good Notepad++ alternatives that run natively on Linux?
There are better text editors. Swearing by that one is kind of a joke.
I’d say Kate
Kate is great. I even use it on Windows instead of n++
A must-be joke: vim
And seriously, Sublime
You won’t find a 100% replacement because npp has a bunch of very specific plugins, but often those plugins would be unnecessary on Linux because you already have other utilities that perform those jobs. You don’t need a plugin to ssh into a server to edit files when you’ve got sshfs for example.
Anyway you can use Geany on Gnome or Kate on KDE.
Kate is grate
While regular Notepad is badd.
Depends on what you want to do. I’m a dirty vim user and use nvim in the terminal. There are a lot of text editors though.
If its the ui you are looking for there is notepadqq
I use Zed Editor on a daily basis even though they push AI in it (it’s purely opt-in, thankfully)
For alternative software, I usually ask AlternativeTo : https://alternativeto.net/software/notepad-plus-plus/?platform=linux&license=opensource
Edit: Some people seem to disagree and I’d like to know if it’s related to Zed, AI in Zed or AlternativeTo, thanks in advance!
Geany
VSCodium
Or just run the exe under wine. It’s foss so i’m not sure why it’s never been ported.
Notepad++'s performance is one of the main reasons I run it under Wine despite the filesystem annoyances. VSCodium is not not nearly as responsive.
A more credible response would be
But FOSS is Malware! Everyone can see what I do tif I use it.
The FOSS understander has entered the chat
If you would actually turn on your last 2 Braincells, you would understand that this joke came from my own experience recommending foss software to people.
It doesn’t read like a joke; that’s why you’re getting downvoted. You should probably edit it to say that’s a better comment for the fourth panel. The way you worded it, it sounds like that’s your opinion of FOSS software
We are on lemmy. If I would have something against Foss, I wouldnt be here in the first place
