Acrobat. I hung onto a license for years until The Slop started a year or so ago. Now I use Bluebeam. I asked the IT boffins to remove Acrobat from my PC and was delighted to discover it gone a week ago. Buh bye!
E-Boks, the platform on which most people in Denmark read secure digital mails from authorities and businesses, has been given new features which could help foreign residents understand their post.
Seriously, this particular university's relentless promotion of LLMs really wears me down. They also seem to have a deal with Microsoft, where they require every professor to have a slide promoting Copilot while discourage using ChatGPT. Someone probably has a lot of money in their pocket in this process
I discovered this morning that even @iFixit has an "AI" chatbot thing. I'd love it if I could have just one day without having an overpriced text guesser shoved in my face
uhhhh VSCode ik it's made by M$ but I liked the simple interface and how easy it was to use it for teaching people ; copilot sucked the will for me to use it, i'm mostly back to vim now
A warning for Adobe #InDesign users. I recently updated my copy, and after preparing a document, the recipient of that document sent me the alt text that popped up on one of their figures. Apparently, by default, InDesign uses AI to generate (often hilariously wrong) alt text for images.
animal videos. ... like that was the last good thing i had on social media now i can't even watch bird reels are you fucking kidding me i hate this shit so much how tf did they even ruin birds???? its so evil
Shecky - Third Wheel
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in reply to Lesley Carhart • • •newrez.com/
I just need to pay my loan. I don't need a chatbot about paying my loan.
Newrez | Mortgages | Home Refinance
NewrezRDilling
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in reply to Lesley Carhart • • •Weird Socks
in reply to Lesley Carhart • • •Now I use Bluebeam. I asked the IT boffins to remove Acrobat from my PC and was delighted to discover it gone a week ago.
Buh bye!
Werner
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in reply to Lesley Carhart • • •Alien software, human hardware
in reply to Lesley Carhart • • •Hate it, no option to remove it as a user.
:(
Shantara
in reply to Lesley Carhart • • •e-Boks, Danish app for “secure digital mails from authorities and businesses”
thelocal.dk/20260120/denmarks-…
Denmark's e-Boks launches new feature to help you translate secure digital mail
Michael Barrett (The Local Denmark)Lesley Lai
in reply to Lesley Carhart • • •University.
Seriously, this particular university's relentless promotion of LLMs really wears me down. They also seem to have a deal with Microsoft, where they require every professor to have a slide promoting Copilot while discourage using ChatGPT. Someone probably has a lot of money in their pocket in this process
Lunar 🛸 ♾
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in reply to Lesley Carhart • • •Notepad++ on a Windows system.
I noticed a little AI icon in window. Clicked on it. One menu choice was
"Make more inspirational"
But the plaintext content I was viewing at the time, was just a CSV file with numbers.
ahimsa
in reply to Lesley Carhart • • •Not sure if this is what you're looking for but here's an example from Adobe InDesign
mapstodon.space/@pinakographos…
Daniel P. Huffman
2026-02-23 01:39:58
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in reply to Lesley Carhart • • •... like that was the last good thing i had on social media now i can't even watch bird reels are you fucking kidding me i hate this shit so much how tf did they even ruin birds???? its so evil
Jdb_env
in reply to Lesley Carhart • • •I use portableapps.com : no install needed, even with mt office laptop.
I don't escape the nastu ones under windok.
Personnally, I use an old portableapp archive under linux/wine.
The same toolset ar work for decades.
Dan W
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