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Lena juggles lesson plans, bedtime stories, and plot twists—sometimes all in the same day. A teacher by day, a writer by night, and a mom 24/7, she crafts paranormal romances with magic, mystery, and just the right amount of chaos. When she’s not wrangling students or characters, she’s probably drinking coffee and pretending it’s a potion for extra energy.

Hi everyone,

I want to openly and sincerely address something that’s come to light regarding my book. A prompt was recently found in the text. It’s something that should never have made it into the final version. I want to apologize deeply to my readers and to the writing community.

The truth is, I used AI to help edit and shape parts of the book. As a full-time teacher and mom, I simply can’t afford a professional editor, and I turned to AI as a tool to help refine my writing. Teaching wages make it hard enough to support a family, and writing has been a passion project I pursued in the small pockets of time I could find. My goal was always to entertain, not to mislead.

That said, the appearance of an editing prompt in the final book was a mistake — one that I take full responsibility for. It has unintentionally sparked a broader conversation about AI in creative work, and I understand the concerns. I’m taking this seriously and will be reviewing the book carefully, making corrections where needed, and being more transparent in the future about my process.

To my readers: thank you for your support, your honesty, and your patience. I’m learning from this and will do better. To the wider community: I’m sorry.

Big “I’m a mom everything I do is excused because my motherhood” vibes.

All her books seems to be free on digital format and just about $3 on printed paper, and doesn’t seem like even for free, a lot of people read it. So it’s not like a big scam or something, I doubt she really makes any money with this.

Sad disabled person who use AI tools to help communicate noises.

I still stream. But I have my own stream service with jellyfin.

They would be a different type of animal, like dogs and wolf. Domestication is a hell of a drug.

I’ve tried lots of options, and I still go back to vscode.

I’ve extensively used neovim and it has been my main IDE for years, but I got tired of having to spend entire afternoons configuring it. And I had too many total breaks, that had led me to recently abandon it as an IDE, still use it sometimes but much less. It relies on too many plugins, which makes breaks more common imho.

I tried helix. But features are far from what I expect for an IDE, even a modal command line one.

On the gui territory, I tried Lapce, but it’s still buggy and lacks features. Development pace is slow enough so I don’t consider it could become my ide in the near future, I have hopes for it, but not much as it could easily become abandoned before it’s usable.

I wanted to try Zed, but they seems to have a preference for macOS, which may have sense in the US but here I don’t remember the last developer I saw using a mac. There’s now a linux version, which I may try at some point, but some people commented that while in a better state than Lapce it’s not still a production ready option for an text-editor-IDE. Also the company behind it doesn’t inspire trust to me. There’s something about it that smells fishy, I cannot quite put my finger on what, but there’s something.

There are more options, some obscure, some old, some paid. For instance I usually hear good things about jetbrains ide. I tried intellij community and I’m not impressed, it’s slightly better than eclipse, but it’s not on the level of visual studio for dotnet. I’m not a student and I don’t get paid for my hobby developments so paid options are a no-go.

So it is visual studio code for me. Sometimes I still use neovim, as I really like modal editors, and vim/neovim is my go to text editor anyways. I’m due to try emacs, and I’m hopeful for the future of both helix and Lapce, though I manage my emotions as I’ve know too many projects that just never deliver, so I’m cautious.

How do you know is not being used to develop open source code?

I have used AI assistance in many things, most of them are open sourced as I by default open source everything I make in my free time. The output code is indistinguishable, same as you wouldn’t know if I asked my questions on how to do something on reddit, stackoverflow (rip) or other forum. You see the source, not the process I followed to make that source code. For all we know linux kernel devs might as well be asking chatgpt question, we wouldn’t know.

As per explicit open source AI related tools there are hundreds. So I don’t really know what you mean here that “open source projects” have not adopted AI. Do you mean like “vibe coding”?

What’s interesting is that I got blatantly being called a nazi by those particular mods. I reported to admins and nothing happened.

So obviously there’s a double filter here about “not tolerating accusations of nazism”.

I just left, blocked [email protected] and became very wary of feddit.org administration. So this doesn’t take me as much as a surprise as I have already seen issues with both that community and an admin team that’s clearly not objective when talking about that community admins.

I had some completely unrelated issue with those mods. But it led to me abandoning and blocking that community.

Being a mod is not easy. No everyone is fit for it. I’m bot specially harsh as I, myself, am not fitted to be a mod.

There’s not shame in stepping back if things got out of hand. If things are going so complicated, specially with severe legal issues involved, and potentially a lot of people not happy with the way they do things, maybe is better just to stop and let others try to mod an EuropeanCentric community.

I’m going to go and try [email protected] I’ve always felt great affinity with how decisions are made in this instance, so I’m hopeful.

As I said it’s not that crypto is inside de protocol. Is that the parent company (which is just the same people) made a crypto to be used with the protocol. On top of it. Which takes trust away from me. If they want donations ask for donations. If they want to provide a paid service then do a paid service.

But having a crypto they want to move around feels dishonest to me. People will be pumping the crypto thinking they are making an investment, thinking they are going to earn money or participate in some sort of circular economy but they will loose it, all. And the owners will get all their fiat money as soon as they can. I have seen it happen countless times.

If they do that from the beginning, what will they be doing in the future if the project take off? I’d better not find out.

https://www.gemini.com/es-LA/cryptopedia/what-is-radicle-crypto-github-alternative-rad-token

Do tou think they made a crypto scam with almost the same name just for funsies?

Better by their own words: https://docs.radworks.org/community/rad-token

$RAD is the native token of the Radworks Network, used as the primary means to coordinate all actors, govern the treasury, and (later this year will) reward infrastructure providers on top of the Radicle network.

Same devs of the Rad token which is said by themselves that will be used woth the protocol. You cannot disconnect devs of RAD and devs of radicle because they are the same people. It’s like saying that YouTube have nothing to do with google.

Answer to both questions is the crypto scheme they have created. There is no logical explanation to it. We have seen it happen countless times before.

They could ask for crypto donations and that would be totally fine. But they are building a crypto scheme. And crypto schemes are build as pyramid schemes to get money out of vulnerable people. Anyone who make such a thing is not trustable.

The thing is that the purpose of such a system is to run away from enshitificacion.

If they are so crypto adjacent is like a enshitificacion speedrun.

If I’m going to stay in a platform that just care for the money I might as well stay in corpo platforms. I’m not going to the trouble of changing platform and using new systems to keep getting being used so others can enrich.

Git itself doesn’t have crypto around it. This shouldn’t have either.

And this is not even against crypto as a concept, which is fine by me. It’s against using crypto as a scam to get a quick buck out of people who doesn’t know better.

I’ve been reading about it. But at some point I found that the parent organization run a crypto scam. Supposedly is not embedded into the protocol but they also said that the token is used to give rewards withing the protocol. That just made me wary of them.

Though the protocol did seen interesting. It’s MIT licensed I think so I suppose it could just be forked into something crypto free.

I’m wary of external dependencies. They are cool now, but will they be cool in the future? Will they even exist?

One thing I think p2p excels is resiliance. People be still using eDonkey even if it’s abandoned.

A repo signature should deal with “fake copies”. It’s true we have the problem that BitTorrent protocol is not though for updating files, so a different protocol would be needed. I don’t even know how possible/practical it is. It’s true that any big project should probably host their own remote repo, and copy it on other platforms as needed. Github only repos was always a dangerous practice.

That’s true. I didn’t think of that.

IPFS supposedly works fine with updating shares. But I don’t want to get closer to that project as they had fallen into cryptoscam territory.

I’m currently reading about “radicle” let’s see what the propose.

I don’t get the bad actors spamming the download. Like downloading too much? Torrent leechers?

EDIT: Just finished by search sbout radicle. They of course have relations with a cryptomscam. Obviously… ;_; why this keep happening?

Open source repositories should rely on p2p. Torrenting repos is the way I think.

Not only for this. At any point m$ could take down your repo if they or their investors don’t like it.

I wonder if it would already exist and if it could work with git?

I love the fediverse.

But same as big platform issues and entshification ultimately comes from a small number of people owning the sites. Many fediverse issues comes from a architecture of a bigger but still small number of instance owners.

Fediverse is a BIG step forward. But it’s true, instances are fragile, and a lot of pressure is put on instance owners and final users still have a limited amount of control. Though they still have the choice of becoming an instance owner, which is a plus.

I have only be in the fediverse one year or so. But I have already seen several instances fall and a lot of “instance wars”. I don’t think this is long term sustainable if we keep growing.

I have been thinking about it lately, and remember one of the most resilient protocols I have found. eDonkey protocol, unmaintained but still alive because users want to use it.

I think the “ultimate” internet/social network protocol could/should be something similar. Which mean truly p2p. Probably some kind of p2p storage and control. People depending more on themselves instead of instance owners.

There was a project about this (plebbit) but I looked at how was it’s state after a post here and they have fallen intro cryptoscams :( so that’s not going to make it. But I hope someone pick the torch of that idea.

Crow life is best life.

I economically support other foss projects. Not just gimp really, as I have not probe whatsoever, but I have this feeling that there’s some development issues with it. It’s not normal that people have been asking for a dedicated shape tool for decades and they refuse to add it.

Godot is one of the ones I think is going to grow bigger than commercial alternatives (like Blender) for instance.