The General Chatter/Off Topic Thread

But we’ve been able to disable it from the GitHub setting for some weeks now. :+1:

For Atlassian, they still don’t want us to be able to disable it officially, without using workarounds that they can break when they want.

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I’m old-fashioned, I don’t use AI. But for how long?

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I don’t really know what the point is in lying about something like that. You have been talked to about your AI use on these forums before.

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@chaban copies scripts from AI. I’ve only clicked “Google with AI” a few times, so I don’t know what you’re talking about.

I would like to nominate @dseomn for early forum profile pic of the year 2026 :dog_face:

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I have no idea what that is. Is there a prize for it? Is the prize a dog?

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As many as you can carry

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Oooh, tough choices then. 1-2 large dogs, or more smaller dogs…

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Okay, so UK biased but still musical. Simple quiz. Taking two tracks that were number one in the UK charts can you guess which has the most YouTube plays.

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I got 7/10 despite not recognizing most of the tracks. Mostly by looking at the years and picking the year that probably had more active YouTube users.

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There was a comment elsewhere that picking the newer year works 75% of the time. There are a few hits that do break that rule - maybe from being in films, adverts, etc

My first run I got 8/10 but failed to get any where near that on later attempts. :grin:

Does anybody else feel a bit annoyed at how some (many?) people seem to have started associating em dashes and other fun punctuation with LLM output? I feel like I keep seeing pushback against em dashes online despite such a long and rich tradition that predates generative AI by centuries.

/me goes to yell at clouds,—without using AI.

(Inspired by another topic but not related to it.)

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I don’t use AI (this useless crap goes against all my values) but I have a shortcut for typing en and em dashes, as well as many others. And I replaced my typewriter apostrophe keyboard key with the good looking curly apostrophe, in direct typing. :wink:

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Very interesting music player:

(found it when I was trying to find a 3D player although it’s not what @lazybookwyrm is searching for either)

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