The best thing to do is to stop using it entirely. It objectively makes you stupid, so not-using it helps keep the stupid away.

The second best would be to use it as you might use StackOverflow: ask it to help solve a toy problem that represents the crux of a larger problem you’re dealing with. It will provide a toy answer, but that would represent a starting point for you solving the problem yourself. In order to actually solve your problem, you’ll be forced to understand the toy solution and how its best applied to the larger problem.

But seriously, put the sparkly autocomplete down and read. There are likely ample docs to help you, as well as lots of forums with your answers. Learning how to research is part of learning too.

I’ve had a really hard time figuring out how to get cloud native pg working 'cause I couldn’t get longhorn working for disk space.

So instead I went with a separate Raspberry Pi that isn’t part of the cluster to host a single Postgres instance.

It’s inelegant, but has worked for years. Still, I’d rather host a separate pg instance for each project… I just have to figure the above out first.

I’d settle for not aiding the cause.

I see the Toties are continuing to focus on the critical problems of our time.

Ferengi rule of aquision #285: “No good deed ever goes unpunished”.

How many decades do we have to burn on this lie of a two-state solution before we admit that it’s always been a way for Israel to continue squeezing Palestinians off their lands?

There should be one secular state, free of apartheid.

As Trudeau once said: “I’ve been called worse things by better people”.

Neat project, but it appears to be using (L)GPL code in a bunch of places while being licensed under MIT. That’s a big no-no.

This reminds me of an excellent video I saw about “AI” the other day: “We are so deeply steeped in bullshit that we have forgotten that there used to be such a thing as ‘truth’”. It’s long, but maybe you’ll like it too.

There’s no grey in the science. We’re burning the world, and attempts to sound enlightened with platitudes doesn’t change that.

Social media is great for kids or adults when compared to the monolithic groupthink alternative. The problem isn’t social media, it’s the companies behind it, driving engagement through hate and outrage.

This is a big reason why nonprofit, fediverse options are healthier spaces for everyone: no one is profiting off of making you hate anyone else.

Yes, if you go looking, you’ll definitely find content that’s unhealthy or even dangerous, but (a) federated systems tend to protect against this with defederation, but critically (b) it’s not pushed into your eyeballs by a third party motivated to do so. In this way, nonprofit social media is a lot like real life: sure you can meet Terrible People, but that’s just existing in society.

We’re not grading on a curve, and simply having reserves doesn’t obligate us to burn them.

You can’t call yourself a “leader” on the climate when you’re routinely winning “Fossil of the Day” awards during international climate talks. That’s not a champion of the climate, it’s a villain.

Being the best of a list of villains (and we’re not even that) doesn’t make you the good guy. We’re burning the world. We’re the bad guys. The only area we’ve been leaders is in obstruction of progress, though we often have to fight for this title with the US.

It’s a lack of education combined with willful ignorance. No one wants to accept that the Canadian way of life: monster trucks connecting suburbs masquerading as cities, massive energy waste combined with fossil fuel underpinning the economy – is in direct contradiction to a habitable planet… so they pretend it’s not a problem.

Source: my whole family lives in the Okanagan. They all think like this, regardless of their political spectrum.

Canada was never a climate leader.

Sure, we had a tiny carbon tax, but any honest assessment of the facts would include the billions spent on fossil infrastructure at the same time.

Carney has merely done away with Trudeau’s pretence of climate responsibility. If we wanted action on climate, we wouldn’t elect Liberals.

#Solarpunk!

I got my MRI in a matter of days, not because my case was dire (it was just a routine screening) but because I paid for private health care through my employer.

We need to have a grown up conversation in this country about how fucked up it is that private companies have injected themselves into our “single payer” system to create two-tiered care.

You cannot share this space with private companies. The only mode capitalism has is stratification and enshittification.

Seems to me a better system would be a licensing/deposit system for such events. You can’t pitch a tent unless you’ve paid a deposit that’s refundable a week after the event should your tent not show up in the debris.

A partnership with Decathlon could be made to attach scannable serials to various parts to aid in identification of the debris.

Ah, so he’s just like his other friends in what’s left of Labour. Lacking principles, conviction, or courage in the face of obvious injustice.

Just what we need in a Prime Minister.

Who could possibly have seen this coming? It’s not like we re-cast childbirth as something that can be managed by barely-trained hippies pitching crystals and hypnobirthing… oh wait.

I’ve already responded to this once, but I watched a short YouTube series this week that has really helped me understand some of the social barriers to being the person I want to be in the world the way that it is, so I thought I’d share it:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_oyuWOgHUlqcAcDjo1774TxCjo9ZvJ-8

It’s a short series about activism: the different kinds, how they can all be helpful, how to engage and grow in your own role as antagonist to the status quo. It’s really quite excellent. I think you’ll appreciate it.