Glad they responded so dynamically to Blender users but I really think programmers and tech people need to take a giant step back and look at how they appear when they blindly endorse AI hype.

I think the nature of bubbles like this is “experts” become convinced of something that exists in their field that every day normal people can see is utter bullshit and how bad/destructively the resulting bubble pops depends on how humble and willing the “experts” are to coming around to what everybody else already concluded about the thing they were “experts” about. In this case given the smug hubris of techbros, the bubble is going to pop about as violently as possible…

I speculate that a big reason for this hubris is tech/computer minded people tend to focus on practical problems and solutions and will reflexively “lean in” to examine something confusing or unknown closer and closer until they get it, discarding vague grey areas until a binary, automatable reality emerges.

To people who think like this, thank you for existing and solving so many problems but you must recognize this type of thinking is systematically vulnerable to bullshitting since bullshit pulls its power from a periphery integrated in a fantastical way rather than a lie about the heart of something being different than it is.

In other words in my opinion “tech people” will tend to look for bullshit in the mechanisms, not the people, not the incentives, not the overall motion of the collective sum of individuals “innocently” optimizing their own corner of a wholistically nonsensical, hurtful enterprise. A programmer says “get rid of the fluff, what is it precisely, in a step by step fashion we are trying to do?”. Thank goodness programmers do ask and answers questions in such a fashion for us, but with that kind of thinking comes a blindspot to a massive economic bubble that is hurting and will hurt many more people before it pops and then vastly more people after it pops.

It is not ethical to be connected with scammers and architects of avoidable economic catastrophe and it is not ethical to lend your own credibility as Blender developers to them.

These people should be in jail for lying about what they are selling to a criminal degree. This isn’t even about the specifics of the AI part, rather it is like Blender making a corporate sponsorship with a Subprime Mortgage company right before the 2008 Financial Crash. Not only is the money fake, you don’t want to be associated with the fakeness of those “grand ideas” or they will swallow you whole. Turn around and run away as fast as you can, AI is bullshit and it certainly IS NOT profitable.

The idea Blender would let Anthropic’s name be associated with it is a serious insult to the Blender community.

Honestly I have really enjoyed using Kdenlive and it has a nice browser, clip editor and library building system of edited clips and stuff.

https://kdenlive.org/

https://docs.kdenlive.org/en/getting_started/quickstart.html#quickstart

no!

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Yeah, this was always the next obvious booster stage on the Slop Rocket.

Org Mode shall set you free

Ad Hominem attack, try harder :)

Maybe cite some evidence?

At some point you might want to print your notes, publish them on the web, or share them with people not using Org. Org can convert and export documents to a variety of other formats while retaining as much structure (see Document Structure) and markup (see Markup for Rich Contents) as possible.

The libraries responsible for translating Org files to other formats are called backends. Org ships with support for the following backends:

ascii (ASCII format)

beamer (LaTeX Beamer format)

html (HTML format)

icalendar (iCalendar format)

latex (LaTeX format)

md (Markdown format) odt (OpenDocument Text format) org (Org format) texinfo (Texinfo format) man (Man page format)

Users can install libraries for additional formats from the Emacs packaging system. For easy discovery, these packages have a common naming scheme: ox-NAME, where NAME is a format. For example, ox-koma-letter for koma-letter backend. More libraries can be found in the ‘org-contrib’ repository (see Installation).

Org only loads backends for the following formats by default: ASCII, HTML, iCalendar, LaTeX, and ODT. Additional backends can be loaded in either of two ways: by configuring the org-export-backends variable, or by requiring libraries in the Emacs init file. For example, to load the Markdown backend, add this to your Emacs config:

(require 'ox-md)

https://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting.html

There you go, maybe try reading a bit about the thing before commenting on it?

It objectively isn’t bothersome, it only takes a handful of keystrokes to export to markdown or to any other format you want.

I am sorry complaining about Org mode’s markdown format not being used elsewhere is absurd given how many extensibly options there are for Emacs built in even without adding in anything custom.

No, the org mode file format is the most extensible, open, powerful file format for primarily text based notes ever made. You are simply wrong here, I am sorry.

There are also apps that directly use the org mode file format such as Orgzly, Beorg and Orgro.

The downside is that copying anything with links or formatting out of Org requires converting its markup to Markdown or whatever.

The upside is by default org mode can export to markdown, and with Pandoc installed you can basically export to any file type known to humanity.

Syncthing and Org Mode.

Inkscape!

Jealous, I only pee once in a piss-moon.

Not technically Alpha, but the large corporation released him into the world before he was ready so more like “Should Still Be In Alpha”.

It isn’t really Open Source if it can become not Open Source.

Weird, does Emacs do that?

As a form of protest create README txt files everywhere that say things like “I wish I was using linux” and “friends don’t let friends use windows”.

but what happens if we change on it afterwards…

What You See Is What You Get we mumble to ourselves, a mantra we remember the words to but have forgotten the meaning of.

I would prefer to title it “Gravity’s Rainbow Of Vibe Coding” as this is hardly a cycle, more like a denial committed with force that will eventually give out and cause regression into a shattering of identity.