i realize it's a fucked situation, but please try to be a little aware of the data ownership setup you're running into before you paste huge chunks of your writing into a text field offered by a tech co that aggressively collects as much text data as it legally (& illegally) can!
The EU’s “chat control” legislation is the most alarming proposal I’ve ever read. Taken in context, it is essentially a design for the most powerful text and image-based mass surveillance system the free world has ever seen.
If you take comfort from the fact that these systems are aimed at “awful crimes” or “will be fully transparent”, please don’t. The nature of these proposals is that they will be easy to reprogram, either by law or by technical accident.
Getting marginally depressed thinking about all those brilliant Joel on Software essays, the level of craftsmanship in the software, those gorgeous offices, the whole of Stack Overflow’s contributions to humanity and for what? To end up as training data for ChatGPT.
/1 If you use JSON files, you'll probably like this tool 👇
Nested JSON files are hard to read.
𝐉𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐂𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐤 generates graph diagrams from JSON files and makes them easy to read.
Additionally, the generated diagrams can be downloaded as images.
See the link below.
The governor has declared a state of emergency and asked all Californians to not run `npm install` between 4 PM and 9 PM today in an effort to save energy.