Programmer Humor

Kate is $0 for life and you don't even have to pay it and they have zero ai slop :)

That's not quite true: Yes, your $99 license is a life-time license, but that license only includes 3 years worth of updates. After that you have to pay $80, if you want another 3 years worth of updates. Of course, the alternative is just putting up with the occasional nag, which is why I still haven't gotten around to renewing my license

I'm guessing not - Google probably wants the data for itself.

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Reminds me of this masterpiece

So my projects can be useful too

this made me laugh way too much

It's love to see what it does with a several thousand line function from my production code.

I've been building up my Helix setup, and its been fantastic. Got tired of constantly fighting corporate stuff

That's exactly what I did, switching from Rider. LazyVim helped with getting a usable setup (especially LSPs are pain to setup without it), https://www.vim-hero.com/ taught me the absolute basics of navigation, and then I simply installed IdeaVIM into Rider to force myself to use it, and switched my default editor to LazyVim.

It has already been a few months, and I'm pretty used to it. I still fumble here and there, I still have to stop and think then doing more involved operations, but for the basic editing I wouldn't go back.

The most important observation I have is that it does not make me more efficient at editting text, the fumbles and mistakes usually offset any gains I have from the many navigation/jump/repeat keys, and reaching for the mouse would be quicker, but -

It's super fun. Learning new motions is satisfying, you can see progress, and by slowly adding a new motion, then trying to get it to your muscle memory is simply fun. And there's always something to learn, a new motion to add or make more efficient. It's basically gamified text editting, and if you like mastering things in the muscle memory sense, it's awesome. I'd absolutely recommend everyone to make the switch, but not for "being a faster/more efficent at text editting" reason, because if you want that, learning every single IDE keybind will make you faster faster.

Also, it's surprisingly comfortable not having to reach for a mouse. It has only been a few months, and I'm getting slightly annoyed whenever a program doesn't have a hotkey for proper navigation and I have to touch my mouse, hah.

Neovim + tmux

Try zed with vim mode.

It's a non-mutual friendship, though.

The last time I got a virus on Windows I was only made aware because the built-in firewall warned me a Powershell script was trying to phone home.
Since then I run SimpleWall and I highly recommend everyone else do the same. It's annoying at the beginning but annoyance turns into peace of mind when you know nothing, not even built-in Windows processes can phone home without you knowing.

I did not know about this before, bookmarking the OpenSnitch github so I can try it out on my PC later

Lulu is a good FOSS alternative for Macs. LittleSnitch is good too but proprietary (that’s where OpenSnitch got its name)

TIL. Don't assume people know about this like that, for many we have never even heard of it, but I'll be using it constantly now

I don't think it's misleading, or at leas the point was not to imply that they are forcing the data collection (which they are, for free users, but it is opt-out). The point is that they are actually downright emotionally manipulating in the blogpost. The blogpost in which they announce it, at least in my opinion, is written in exactly the same tone as the picture. They are basically crying that they can't make a good AI without stealing your private data, pleading you to turn it on.

I've seen a few similar posts of products announcing AI data collection, and this one was the most unsettling, hence the meme.

You do add important detail, but I'd make the counterpoint that if the corporation is bullying their least privileged users today, stealing their ~~lunch money~~ privacy, they're not going to stop with only them. This is testing the waters for them.

Plus - it's also messed up that they can fundamentally change the nature of the 501(c)(3) donated version and will likely try to claim a tax benefit as though it's equivalent to a paid copy.

JetBrains is a company that, creates one of the most popular IDE for many programming languages. Although some of them are free, there is a paid option for 200€ for their full pack for a year (you can pay monthly, and you can choose a smaller pack or individual IDE). Also every year you pay the next one is cheaper.

They also have an AI agent Junie and an AI chat assostant, both currently running on Claude Sonnet 3.5 and 4 (can choose).

They also offer a free AI, which is running locally and can do very simple autocomplete and doesn't support any chatting ability.

However, as you might know, AI usually needs some code to work with. This autocomplete AI can be enabled to run online as well, thus sensing your code to either JB or Claude.

Of course, both chat and agent require internet access (but all this online functionality can be disabled and everything can be connected to custom AI model running locally or elsewhere, except I think agent).

OP is implying that they want money for their IDEs, their AI, and gobble up code fragments.