But we’ve been able to disable it from the GitHub setting for some weeks now. 
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 
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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. 
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. 
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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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I recommend two media players that will turn your old TV into a Smart device.
Xiaomi Mi TV Box S 3rd Gen, 2GB RAM
Google TV Streamer 4K, 4GB RAM
These devices have Google TV and Android TV clones. You can install apps from the Google Play Store on them.
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Of course, these TV Sticks are visible on your home network.
I got the similar Chromecast with Google TV when it first came out, in large part because it was the only cheap streaming box I could find without ads. A little while later, they added ads to the interface. Luckily it was possible to switch to a different open source interface without ads, but that also meant losing a bunch of features too. So if you don’t want to see ads and do want the fancy features, I wouldn’t recommend this.
I really wish there were some way to get the advantages of streaming boxes with open source software, but last I looked into it, it looked like the streaming services’ DRM requirements made that infeasible.
Disclaimer: I worked for Google at the time, but in a completely different part of the company.
Could you post a picture of those ads here?
This is how I use it. I ripped all my DVDs to MKV. I’ve had MP3s for a while now, but they’re less valuable. CD-Audio is CD-Audio. I put it on a flash drive, which I inserted into my Xiaomi. I installed Kodi on my Xiaomi, so I can sit in my chair and don’t have to get up and change discs. 
Not easily, since switching UIs is a bit of a pain. If I remember correctly, it looked like the screen below (from https://www.pickr.com.au/reviews/2024/google-tv-streamer-4k/), but it said “sponsored” or something similar over the Bluey Minisodes part of the UI. I think a few times it also had a sponsored app or streaming service instead of a movie/show in that area, but I’m not sure if I’m remembering that correctly.
I use a Debian computer with vlc and mpd for all my local media. Streaming services generally don’t support higher resolutions and surround sound in browsers though, so I use a streaming box for that. Though lately I’ve mostly been getting DVDs from the library instead of using streaming services.
Do you think this will happen again with this stick?
I don’t think so. Consumers are very sensitive to pop-ups these days. I don’t think Google will take the risk.
Although, no risk no fun.
What do you mean again? As far as I know, they never stopped showing ads once they started. Though I haven’t been following it.
They weren’t popups, just ads integrated into the same part of the UI that usually showed recommendations. Personally, it’s not worth the risk, I kinda hate ads. Especially when they’re subtle and easy to think they’re not ads if you don’t pay attention. And even more so when they’re on something I paid for. And yet more so when they’re for something I might genuinely like. So that’s really almost the worst type of ad in my opinion.
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