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  • As someone who learned to code before ChatGPT and is mentoring a student learning, I have a lot of thoughts here.

    First, use it appropriately. You will use it when you get a job. As far as coming up with citations? ChatGPT deep research is actually researching articles. It will include them. You need to learn how to use these tools, and it’s clear that you don’t and are misinformed about how they work.

    Second, it’s amazing that you’re coding without it. Especially for the fundamentals, it is crucial to learn those by hand. You may not get the highest grade, but on a paper test or when debugging ChatGPT’s broke output, you will have an edge.

    Lastly as a cautionary tale, we have an intern at $dayjob who can only code with ChatGPT. They will not be getting a return offer, not because they code with ChatGPT, but because they can’t complete the tasks due to not understanding the fundamentals. That said, it’s much better than if they never used ChatGPT at all. You need to find the balance


  • From what I understand, xorg has fundamental security flaws. How will they remedy this?

    They won’t. Don’t download random shit and if you’re worried, run it in Flatpak

    What happens when the Linux kernel drops support for xorg? Do they intend to fork an older version of the kernel in order to keep support?

    Not really possible, since X11 is only built on top of the kernel’s graphical interface (same as Wayland). Even if that wasn’t the case, the kernel doesn’t delete any code that anybody uses (that’s why 30 year old programs still run)