Alles dreht sich, alles bewegt sich.
No alternative codecs wont do, the application we are building has a hard dependency on these specific dlls due to another dependency requiring them. It was also just one example of many excuse my hyperbole. Here is another one, try to get winget to work with a local package cache. You have to go to some third party developer for that. Want another one? How about debugging windows binaries in an offline environment. Reasonable requirement? Microsoft says no.
Why is this arbitrarily “a whole different story” and who said anything about UWP, it’s the media codecs we depend on. Windows 10 N offered an offline installer for that “optional feature” and now Microslop makes my life more difficult for no reason at all.
Ok, where can I download the Media Feature Pack for Windows 11 N as an offline installer?
At my job we are working with a few air gapped Windows machines which is already really annoying because Microslop doesn’t offer offline installers for anything related to Windows 11 anymore. I expect this to get even more difficult over time.
Also:
I never said that you can remove a license retroactively. A CLA is an assignment of copyright from the contributor to the company. The only reason for a company to add a CLA to a project is to put a rug under the project which they will pull as soon as they gained a critical mass of users. It fundamentally undermines the social contract of open source development. These companies want to enjoy all the benefits of open source, like the market appeal and the free labour, but none of the drawbacks. A CLA is just one thing, a promise that the project will go non-free in the future.
Let me introduce you to the magical concept of the CLA. It means they can do whatever they want with the project but you can not. You should never contribute to CLA projects.
Very very simple.
Really? I find it quite feature packed for a notes taking app.
Here are a few more:
Its an outliner, a colleague of mine basically lives in that thing.
It’s almost perfect for me but the browser based editing made it unusable because there is no way to unmap Ctrl + W in a browser and I can’t live without my Vim bindings.
This is the solution for normal people who don’t spend n+1 hours tweaking their editor configuration.
For people who do spend n+1 hours tweaking their emacs configuration.
Document the features and requirements, then rewrite it with proper architecture and without LLMs.
That’s a shame. Did they take the wasted developer time dealing with slop into account in that discussion?
Codeberg is cool but I would prefer not having all FOSS project centralised on another platform. In my opinion projects of the size of Godot should consider using their own infrastructure.
I think moving off of GitHub to their own forge would be a good first step to reduce this spam.
They plan waste $130 million on AI bullshit. Imagine a fraction of that invested into the actual browser. I can’t even eat as much as I want to vomit.
My guess would be that its because La Suite tries to replace all of Microsoft Office and having all the moving parts under your organisations control makes it easier to create a fully integrated office suite that offers the same UX throughout. Also Jitsi is owned by 8x8, a US company, which might have factored into the decision to create something new.
I think there are some differences that make the fediverse more resilient to this. For example, the absence of cumulative account karma keeps out the reddit style karma farming. The ability to ban whole instances also makes it easier to kick out bad actors. Instance admins could also implement their own rules like switching to an invite based system to reduce bot spam. Also it seems to me that reddit is actively encouraging this kind behaviour to inflate their user statistics and there is no incentive to tolerate this kind of spam for a fediverse server admin.
Separate your personal and your work computer. You don’t want to be in a situation where you have to explain a software issue caused by your decision of not running standard software. Put Windows and all work related software on a separate work laptop and use remote desktop from your Linux PC to do your job.
“We asked spicy autocomplete to come up with a story about an AI that is self-preserving and the story was really scary and we are very concerned.”
I am also very concerned; because this apparently qualifies as research and people seem to take this drivel seriously.
You can connect navidrome and many other music players to listenbrainz.org. Like Spotify it creates an end of the year report and it also does recommendations like the weekly spotify playlist.
Pretty cool as a learning exercise. As a follow up scenario maybe try moving this infrastructure to another cloud provider because AWS deleted your account without warning or try a multi-cloud deployment.
Kinda hilarious how outraged these AI bros get the second someone says no to their worthless slop. How dare they not wanting to be a dumping ground for your LLM extrusions. I always had a low opinion of HN (and Lobsters, which is HN but now in red) but their users really got insufferable in the last few years. Now its just a cesspool of bad takes, anti-intellectualism and unfortunately more and more far-right talking points.