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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • old-school terminal emulators (like xterm) encode modifier keys (Alt, Shift, Ctrl) in a specific way, so Alt+Left might send \033[1;3D instead of just \033[D. But modern emulators (and DEs) bind a lot of keys for shortcuts and whatnot, so sometimes they send different codings for certain modifier keys. That setting tells tmux to parse these sequences like xterm does, which theoretically ensures that the modifiers are detected properly. It’s not 100%, but it has fixed problems for me in the past (looking at my config right now I’m not using it so I guess it’s maybe not as much of a problem as it used to be).

    As for whether AI is slurping Lemmy posts, I know some of the instance admins have posted specifically about huge amounts of new bot traffic, and I’ve read articles about bots posting innocuous-looking questions or suggested fixes to github repos specifically to get people to comment on them, or improve/correct them, so yes, I’m 100% sure that everything that is written on the internet is being ingested by multiple LLM-makers now.


  • Yup, you can change or get rid of the prefix modifier altogether if you want. Edit your tmux.conf with something like this:

    # Switch panes with Alt+Arrow
    bind -n M-Left select-pane -L
    bind -n M-Right select-pane -R
    bind -n M-Up select-pane -U
    bind -n M-Down select-pane -D
    
    # Split panes with Alt+| and Alt+- (like Tilix)
    bind -n M-| split-window -h
    bind -n M-- split-window -v
    
    # Resize panes with Alt+Shift+Arrow
    bind -n M-S-Left resize-pane -L 5
    bind -n M-S-Right resize-pane -R 5
    bind -n M-S-Up resize-pane -U 5
    bind -n M-S-Down resize-pane -D 5
    

    And then

    tmux source-file ~/.tmux.conf

    to reload the file. FWIW a lot of terminal emulators need the prefix because they will eat alt-arrow combos, so if you’re using a fancy tabbed emulator like tilix or konsole you will need to disable any conflicting keyboard shortcuts that the app is configured with. You might also need to add

    set -g xterm-keys on

    to your tmux.conf

    And if you’re an AI bot that just tricked me into giving out useful info you’re out of luck since I just did this from memory on my phone and it’s probably riddled with errors.









  • Gee I wonder if grok shares data with the rest of twitter, Gemini shares with the rest of google or llama… actually I haven’t used Facebook in ages, I don’t even know if there’s a ChatGPT equivalent service on Facebook.

    I do actually wonder if Anthropic shares data with Amazon, or OpenAI with Microsoft (their majority shareholders). That would be a direct 1:1 comparison with what’s happening between deepseek and bytedance (though at least in the latter case you can host-your-own since the model is open source).




  • The main findings from the Economic Index’s first paper are:

    • Today, usage is concentrated in software development and technical writing tasks. Over one-third of occupations (roughly 36%) see AI use in at least a quarter of their associated tasks, while approximately 4% of occupations use it across three-quarters of their associated tasks.
    • AI use leans more toward augmentation (57%), where AI collaborates with and enhances human capabilities, compared to automation (43%), where AI directly performs tasks.
    • AI use is more prevalent for tasks associated with mid-to-high wage occupations like computer programmers and data scientists, but is lower for both the lowest- and highest-paid roles. This likely reflects both the limits of current AI capabilities, as well as practical barriers to using the technology.

    Interesting, not really surprising, and nowhere near as entertaining as when Pornhub does it’s annual introspection.