Always learning. Thanks!

You could paint it gold with premium genuine alpaca leather interiors, and I would still not use it.

It’s only function is to download a better browser.

Amen.

Stop providing distractions to the assholes around me, they are dangerous enough as it is.

These are some of the most pragmatic engineers out there. They don’t pick up any new tool just because it’s trendy. I’m old enough to have watched Torvalds create Git virtually overnight because the kernel devs hated Bitbucket.

If they can work with LLMs, they must have found some use case for it.

From my limited experience, it can be a good help to point out flaws in my code, not so much at generating what I want it to do.

Layer 8 issue.

Good article detailing what to expect when dealing with these automated blackholes.

Reminded me of some of the trouble I went through when I operated a live email server. Getting out of those lists is hell.

I hope they enjoy Farscape, because that’s what they’re getting of they eavesdrop me.

Forking projects to put a different coat of paint on them is just silly. It’s still the same project, it’s just got your sticker on it now. You still dependent on upstream decisions. If things change too much for your liking, you have a growing patch management issue on your hands, and that’s not fun. But hey, you’re free to do it, that’s the beauty of FOSS.

Reminds me of the Linux distros that just fork Debian, stick a new theme and logo, create a website and voilá. Nah, mate, it’s still Debian.

There’s nothing wrong with forking a project, IF you can and intend to maintain it – hell, that’s the whole basis of FOSS.

Forking it to make a point with no intention to maintaining it is just an easy way to gather clicks and stir drama.

IMHO the effort is better spent fighting the politicians that are shoving this down our throats, or should we fork all the tech that gets affected by bad political decisions?

1. Fork a project that you have a problem with;
2. Write a strong worded manifesto;
3. Revel in those sweet sweet internet clicks;
4. Try to gather a team of seasoned engineers to keep and evolve the project;
5. Most likely fail, look for the next controversy, repeat.

Just like the good old days of running Windows 3.1 on an Intel 386sx. We’ve come full circle.

Just like the bad old days, when entire sites were made in Flash and Linux users were shafted. Ridiculous.

My newish Xiaomi has an IR diode which is very useful to switch the AC on or off when I can’t be bothered to find the remote, and to mute TVs in restaurants.

It has a 3.5mm audio jack too.

Honest question: which euro alternatives do you recommend for mail, cloud?

As a future customer, please include high quality connectors to import legacy data from Jira and Confluence. We’re going to need them. Thank you in advance.

One man’s e-waste is another’s Linux homelab.

Well, Portuguese is a Latin language, so there’s a common root.

Congratulations, this announcement really does ticks all the boxes.

Enhance your calm, I agree with you.

It’s one of those things that sounds great in sci-fi, like flying cars, until you realise that the world is full of awful people that immediately repurpose any new tech for filthy lucre / inflicting suffering / power grabbing.

Or you can just use your common sense and save yourself the cost of this ugly piece of junk.

People tend to avoid you less if you don’t look like a sneaky perv, so that’s another bonus.

Plus, you’ll not be funding Meta and you’ll have one less piece of rubbish in a drawer somewhere that needs recycling after one month of use.