yea, i was suspicious by the second paragraph but was sure once i got to "that’s not engineering, it’s cosplay"

It's also the wording. The weird phrases

"Glorified Google search with worse footnotes" what on earth does that mean?

AI has a distinct feel to it

And with enough motivated reasoning, you can find AI vibes in almost every comment you don’t agree with.

For better or worse, I think we might have to settle on “human-written until proven otherwise”, if we don’t want to throw “assume positive intent” out the window entirely on this site.

Dude is swearing up and down that they came up with the text on their own. I agree with you though, it reeks of LLMs. The only alternative explanation is that they use LLMs so much that they’ve copied the writing style.

I've had that exact phrase pop up from an LLM when I asked it for a more negative code review

which bit are you getting an AI smell from?

gradient background, card, button

Have you looked at a website in the last 10 years?

Perhaps, but nearly every tutorial in all the modern frameworks demonstrate this exact style.

my favourite part of having my own local library again is turning on shuffle and having it actually shuffle

syncthing might be worth looking into. ive been using that more and more the last few years for anything that i use daily, things like keepass, plain-text notes, calendars/contacts, rss feeds, then everything else that im "self hosting" are just things that i might only use a few times a week so its no big deal if i lose access.

its so much simpler when you have the files stored locally, then syncing between devices is just something that can happen whenever. anything that is running on a server needs user permissions, wifi, a router etc etc, its just a lot of complexity for very little gain.

although keep in mind im the only one using all of this stuff. if i needed to share things with other people then syncthing gets a bit trickier and a central server starts to make more sense

*vibe coding sounds* "3.6 roentgen. not great, not terrible"

it doesnt sound sustainable anyway, you would need somebody to go through each post to check for twitter screenshots. blocking a certain domain is automated, i would imagine

probably because you just install it, then you log in and youre done. tailscale takes care of the rest. going through any more effort just so you can write some slop code is probably not worth it

neovim is probably the only sane way you could code like this on a small screen. everything works pretty much the same way it does on a desktop terminal, the only thing you have to get used to is having so many lines wrapped, and not having quick access to some characters like $ or ^, but they can just be added to the toolbar in termux

i switched to using neovim a year ago and oddly enough its actually a lot easier to write code in termux compared to any of the other android IDE type apps. they all have drop down menus or sidebars that are quite awkward to use, especially when the keyboard is already taking up half the screen, but with neovim (or vim) youre using the keyboard to do most things anyway, so the keyboard can just stay open all of the time and you never need to move your hand up to the actual app part. selecting text is way easier than android's implementation as well

you can hide a fair bit with ublock origin, if you dont mind using old.reddit

  old.reddit.com##div[data-subreddit="politics"]
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  old.reddit.com##.link:has-text(/Trump|MAGA/i)
  old.reddit.com##.link:has(a[href*="foxnews.com"])

although i have hundreds of these filters and its still not great, but its better than nothing