Comment by lpcvoid
1 month ago
# curl -s https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Sun.png | file -
/dev/stdin: PNG image data, 256 x 256, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
That's it, two utilities almost everybody has installed.
1 month ago
# curl -s https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Sun.png | file -
/dev/stdin: PNG image data, 256 x 256, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced
That's it, two utilities almost everybody has installed.
ChatGPT has 800 million monthly users. The fraction of those who are comfortable opening a terminal and running those commands is pretty tiny.
If 800m people think delegating thinking to a slop generator is fine, that's not my loss. It's bad for humanity, but who even cares anymore in 2026, right?
"Delegating thinking" and "figuring out how to determine an image format from the first few bytes of a file" are not the same thing.
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Yes but now do the same for every bit of programming tooling, sysadmin configuration / debugging problem and concept out there. With just a few seconds to answer each reply.
It's called learning, and it used to be the hacker mindset to continuously improve. But I guess that died with slop generators.