> so I'm stuck using a bank card like a caveman.

What is "caveman" about a payment method that doesn't need to have a charged battery?

It was intended as a light hearted description of how it feels to use a marginally less convenient technology. I now have to ensure I have my bank card with me when I buy groceries which is a tiny bit annoying when you got used to just knowing your phone would cover most things.

Cloning a mag strip is trivial, cloning a tap-to-pay tag a bit more complicated.

This. If you want Linux to be better, you need to use Linux. It's not any harder for OEMs to support it vs. Windows or MacOS. It's actually easier to support in many cases. There just isn't a business case. Use Linux, create a business case, get better software. Someone has to be the early adopter. Better nerds like us than grandma.

The illustrations on the home page are some of the most hideous slop I've ever seen. Terrible first impression, and it really doesn't inspire trust in the quality of security of the service. Eventually companies will learn. But for now, eww.

Wow, I thought you were exaggerating / being the usual AI hater, so I opened the page expecting a some product screenshots with a few too many em dashes or something like that, fully intending to tell you to calm down. But dammmn it's bad! You weren't exaggerating at all!

Its almost enjoyably bad - I especially appreciate how it gets worse as you scroll.

Do images of that low quality honestly help sell something? I'd have thought stock footage or simple icons would be more effective.

oh damn what i swear i remember their site being perfectly normal in the past, what happened

I should also add that Proton also has become somewhat tacky aesthetically over the years. Their old Alpine, sober aesthetic was really great.

After Proton acquisition, prices became exorbitant and aesthetics hideous I guess.

Weird. Although I only used it briefly in the past, I remember the home page was not that bad. What happened to them?

Wow, it is really awful. This is such a pointless misstep given that Standard Notes has been around for years, was not vibe coded, is not an AI app - but this landing page makes me immediately assume it’s slop.

The ubiquity of NFC has made specialized hardware irrelevant for entire industries. It's set dressing for small businesses. The ruggedized enclosures and swiveling touchscreens are cute, but that's not a moat.

Their lead absolutely has shrunk. In the mid-late 2010s it was either Square, or a bevy of shovelware Windows POS systems loosely stitched together with a tablet for rewards and maybe grubhub. Clover and Toast are both regular sights in that space now.

All the Chinese companies publishing open models that I can run on my own steel?

This is correct. Maybe the startups living off DARPA/MTEC/etc contracts would continue using Claude, but the LM/NOG/Collins types wouldn't touch Anthropic with a ten foot pole.

The file format seems reasonable enough, it's the mechanics of actually deciding when to mark an edit as AI-generated that I'm curious about.

You mention Canvas and Moodle integration... do you envision students being required to use a TWFF-native editor embedded inside these platforms? If so, it seems to me like the actual hard part would be recreating gdocs but on a upload-your-homework SaaS budget.

And what about block quotes? If I have a couple sentences to quote from another work, will pasting them into the editor cause them to be marked as "AI generated?"

I think you're on the right track here, but it may be better to focus on logging how edits were made, whether by manual typing or pasting. Add an "undo" button that pops the latest edit off the stack. At that point, AI cheating can still be manually detected by searching the change log for long pastes, then inspecting any long pastes for their content.

But even that doesn't actually work, because I could just generate some sludge with ChatGPT, then hand-type the output into the editor. At least you've made it less convenient, I guess.

I really like this idea, best of luck.

Thanks for the feedback > On the Hand-typing sludge: at the moment the idea is that if a student/author is forced to manually re-type AI output, the convenience gap narrows significantly. At that point, they are engaging with the text at a character level. More importantly, hand-typing has a distinct revision velocity (natural pauses, backspaces, typos) that differs from a Point-in-Time injection. I'm not trying to make cheating impossible, its more about trying to make it as much work as actually learning.

> 'Paste' vs. 'AI' distinction: In v0.1, we just treat paste and ai_interaction as similar events in the log. The 'AI' tag in the demo is just to show what’s possible. In a production spec, it would likely be logged as external_insertion, and the student could then add a citation.

> Editor vs. Integration: Recreating google docs is a non-starter, the vision is to be plugin first. Instead of a new SaaS, it would be a headless logging engine inside an Extension for Google Docs or an Overleaf plugin.

Love the idea of popping the latest edit off the stack, will probably add it to the next version.

I'm much too busy to help you right now, but you have a great idea here. GDocs has an edit history, but it's not exposed in the "presentation" format, i.e. the teacher never sees it. We need to bring the edit history to the teacher.

Thanks I just updated the demo to export to PDF with an appendix showing the history and AI interactions, still working on it.

Yes, the original git-flow post aggregates several widely-held intuitions about git, and then shoves a bunch of fluff in the middle to make it look more appealing to middle management.

I have seen firsthand how the original git-flow post convinced management to move off SVN. In that regard, it's an extremely important work. I've also never seen git-flow implemented exactly as described.

...and frankly, there are better ways to use git anyway. The best git workflows I've seen, at small scale and large, have always been rebase-only.

> needing to know obscure things like Win+E

I'm sorry but this is a skill issue. This is the second hotkey you learn in Windows, after Win for start menu, and before win+left/right to snap windows to sides of the screen.

Regardless, the whole flow both of you are talking about can be done on Windows without ever touching the mouse. Win+E Win+E Win+Left Enter Alt+D "destdir" Enter Alt+Tab Alt+D "sourcedir" Enter (arrow to whatever you want) ctrl-X Alt+Tab ctrl-V.

I use Linux with i3wm at home, I haven't used Windows as my main OS in nearly a decade and I can still play out those keystrokes in my mind without thinking about it.

Now, win+E -> click folder -> alt+D -> "powershell" -> enter? That's power user shenanigans.

I think that the only windows hotkey I know is Windows key to open the start menu. But I've been using Windows only 1994-2008, then Linux. I still connect to some Windows 10 / 11 machines of a customer to check processes and log files, but that doesn't matter.

And I hate windows snapping. I disable it in GNOME at every new OS install. UIs must fit people preferences and any single person is different.

Edit: of course I know Alt Tab too.

Anthropic has published plenty about misalignment. They know.

Really, anyone who has dicked around with ollama knew. Give it a new system prompt. It'll do whatever you tell it, including "be an asshole"

Go read the recent feed on Chirper.ai. It's all just bots with different prompts. And many of those posts are written by "aligned" SOTA models, too.