{"id":2340,"date":"2024-05-03T07:48:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T14:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/?p=2340"},"modified":"2024-05-03T07:48:22","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T14:48:22","slug":"five-for-friday-may-3-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/angryweasel.com\/blog\/five-for-friday-may-3-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for Friday &#8211; May 3, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Another week has flown by. This week, I have a mix of fun things I&#8217;ve found, plus just some random stuff I felt like telling you about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I&#8217;m a long time <a href=\"https:\/\/app.todoist.com\/\">ToDoist<\/a> user. It&#8217;s the way I make sure my dumb brain doesn&#8217;t forget to do important things. I&#8217;ve tried a lot of the alternatives, but none work as well for me. On Tuesday, ToDoist showed me this message:<br \/><em>5 years, 5 months, 3 weeks, 5 days after you first started your Todoist journey on Nov 3 2018, you\u2019ve joined just 0.05% of all Todoist users to ever reach Todoist Karma Enlightenment.<\/em> <br \/>So now we can say that I&#8217;m Enlightened!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I bought <em>another<\/em> computer this week. I picked up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lenovo.com\/in\/en\/p\/laptops\/thinkpad\/thinkpadx\/thinkpad-x270\/22tp2tx2700\">Lenovo X270<\/a> this week on ebay for about $200, and it&#8217;s remarkably beefy (i7, 16 gb ram, 512 SSD) for the price. I wanted a computer that I would feel comfortable bringing to the floor at DefCon, but fast enough to have fun and do some damage at CTF events, and it should be perfect. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>As a long time linux (mostly Ubuntu) user, I wanted to try something different, so I loaded Fedora onto the X270, and it runs absolutely perfectly. Every device works, and it&#8217;s fast. While installing software, I came across <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder\">GPU Screen Recorder<\/a> &#8211; which may be the best screen recorder I&#8217;ve ever used.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I&#8217;m kind of not surprised with the stories in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2024\/05\/03\/ai-engineers-face-burnout-as-rat-race-to-stay-competitive-hits-tech.html\">this article<\/a> on how the rush to &#8220;do AI&#8221; is burning people out. I&#8217;ve seen it happen with a lot of the <em>new things<\/em> throughout my career. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On a much more sensible note, Ethan Mollick has an entire book of <em>sensible<\/em> advice on using AI (disclaimer &#8211; perhaps I see it as sensible because it aligns with the stories I&#8217;ve been telling about use and mis-use of AI). Definitely worth checking out &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/741805\/co-intelligence-by-ethan-mollick\/\">Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And there we have it &#8211; another list of five things i thought were worth sharing this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another week has flown by. This week, I have a mix of fun things I&#8217;ve found, plus just some random stuff I felt like telling you about. 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