If I tell people that I don’t to use AI tools for coding or my site, I see incredulous looks and get remarks from which I conclude that people see me in the backwards camp. I use the following rule that has proven itself in science, when I evaluate new tools and techniques: the more outrageous the claim, the more convincing the arguments for supporting it must be. Some simple tests should prove the claim or at least make the tool or technique look very promising.

I’ve been running a heavily outdated version of Gitea. Rather than doing an update on it, I just reinstalled it.

For most Linux distributions, even in a pristine bare minimum installation, the home directory of a user is already littered with a bunch of .whatever files and directories, that contain program configurations, colloquially called dot-files. This gets worse over time, as more programs are installed and used.