Maybe Gram (a Zed fork). And VSCodium as a popular choice but ultimately that’s Microsoft. But there’s a bazillion code editors in any Linux repository, some more general, some very good at a specific programming language.

Thanks for the link! As a short aside for the other people here: Try not to spam developers. That usually achieves the opposite and makes them miserable, when we want them to not burn out, and write good software for us. A thumbs-up emoji is the correct reaction for the average person. Or for the pros - a code-review highlighting specific issues within the code.

Uh. I’d really prefer if people experimented with new technology a bit more cautiously and not directly jump to “the biggest release […] ever done”.

If you’re standing on a spaceship bridge with artificial gravity, you take your spaceship as a reference. Down is to everyone’s feet, forward is to the front of the spaceship and left/right will be to the left and to the right.
Without gravity, the concept of “down” just doesn’t make a lot of sense, does it?

Yeah, I think the entire friend or foe mentality, or things like the enemy of your enemy is your friend, won’t get you anywhere with this one. It’s more a decriptive study. What kind of bias the models picked up in the various stages of training and tuning. It’s not truth, or how things should be. We all know attributing value to human life in itself, is a highly problematic concept. And that’s where things go wrong.

I feel Anti-DDOS and Cloudflare as a web application firewall has traditionally been a lot of snake-oil as well. Sure there’s applications for it. Especially for the paid plans with all the enterprise functions. And all the way at the other end of the spectrum, where it serves as a means to circumvent NAT and replace DynDNS. But there’s a lot in-between where I (personally) don’t think it’s needed in any way. Especially before AI.

From my own experience, personal blogs, websites of your local club, church, random smaller projects, small businesses… rarely need professional DDoS protection. I’ve been fine hotsing it myself for decades now. And I’m not sure if people know what they’re paying with. I mean everytime we get a Cloudflare hiccup (or AWS…) we can see how the internet has become very centralised. Half of it just goes down for an hour or so, because we all rely on the same few, big tech services. And if you’re terminating SSL there, or use it to look inside of the packets to prevent attacks, you’re giving away all information about you and your audience/customers. They don’t just get all metadata, but also read all the transferred content/data.

It all changed a bit with the AI crawlers. We definitely need countermeasures these days. I’m still fine without Anubis or Cloudflare. I block their IP ranges and that seems to do most of the job. I think we need to pay a bit more attention to what’s really happening. Which tools we have, instead of always going with the market leader with the biggest marketing budget. Which problems we’re faced with in the first place and what tools are effective. I don’t think there’s a one size fits all solution. And you can’t just roll out random things without analyzing the situation properly. Maybe the correct answer is Cloudflare, but there’s also other way less intrusive and very effective means available. And maybe you’re not even the target of script kiddies or annoyed users. And maybe your your convoluted Wordpress setup isn’t even safe with the standard web application firewall in front.

Anubis is an entirely different story. It’s okay concerning privacy and centralisation. It doesn’t come without downsides, though. I personally hate if that thing pops up instead of the page I requested. I don’t like how JavaScript is mandatory now to do anything on the web. And certain kinds of crawler protection contribute to the situation how we can’t google anything anymore. With all the people locking down everything and constructing walled gardens, the internet becomes way less useful and almost impossible to navigate. That’s all direct consequences of how we decide to do things.

I think the browser extension “LocalCDN” helps a bit with all the tracking done by webfonts and javascript libraries. It’s supposed to cache them and avoid unnecessary requests.

Yes. I just followed their argument to the logical conclusion, if it were true. Which it probably isn’t.

Yeah. Relicensing it to MIT is really weird. Should either be Public Domain, or LGPL 😁

I’m sure we didn’t. We just needed a lot of people to work underground in the coal mines and in the heavy industry, steel etc. And those were labor intensive jobs, so they needed to attract a lot of workforce. In a coordinated effort, sure. But out of economic motivation. These people ended up working hard jobs alongside each other. And they built and shaped the region. Made it rich. And I got born into that kind if place. With some history to it and a bit less ethnic uniform population. But there’s no evidence they read some old scripture from nomadic people and thought yes, that what we need to enforce… Instead people found out there’s a lot of coal underneath their feet. And they found out the more they dig up and sell to other people, the more wealth they get. The workers wanted to have a roof over their heads and something to eat for themselves and their families. I think that’s very straightforward, and my ancestors were clever enough to figure out how trade works, on their own. I’m not aware of any evidence of a different origin story for my region. Sure. Maybe we didn’t invent the word for it. But the motivation and decisions of the feudal lords, company owners and employers, and the government is well documented.

And concerning America: Isn’t that a melting pot because all the Europeans went there? In order to seek opportunity, or not to die of famine? And some Africans got there as well and we all know how much say they had in that process? I mean obviously North America is a melting pot. Otherwise we’d find Native Americans there and Aboriginal Canadians, not a load of people with European decent. But that doesn’t have anything to do with 1965?

Hmmh. I think I largely agree… There’s definitely a red line. Things like disrespecting people is unacceptable. That’s what misgendering and questioning pronouns is largely about. And people trying to walk the line and other kinds of behaviour are highly problematic. And done to hurt people. On the other hand I sometimes wish there was a way to communicate. With a bit less strict (hierarchical) rule based systems to enforce some kind of fairness (to the letter), and instead a bit more good faith conversation. I think in that kind of context mistakes, or dissent, or even wrong or offensive stuff would be way more approachable.

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I watched too much Star Trek when I was young. I think 195 have to go. All humans should unite and reach for the stars, instead of some stupid in-fighting, killing each other, and burning down of wealth because of bigotry.

(Edit: I live in a big melting pot. I have enough people from Syria, Iran… and “white” people around me. And I can tell you, we all have the same goals in life, we enjoy similar things, are family fathers who all want to see their kids prosper, fight the same struggles in our lives… There’s zero reason to focus on destruction and small-mindedness. We should do better. And invest the same energy into useful things. That goes for the average people. Not the ruling class. Those -of course- are motivated to disunite and stay in business.)

Sure. I’d consider them politics as well. Those are all topics with a very high chance someone comes along with some (weird) opinion and makes the discussion derail. And then everyone stops discussing the scifi computer game or Linux, and homes in on the controversial topic with a lot of feelings involved.

I think the big cultural achievement is: Forum members have all agreed to live a certain culture. They do it together and there’s some group cohesion and a pre-made agreement to all pull in the same direction. So what I’ve seen a lot of work isn’t done by the mods, but people all identify with the rules and the next random person will step in and state “it’s getting political again”, and then everybody else is cautious not to add to the drama.

I think we lost that with social media. And there’s also less group cohesion here. So we end up handling it out of band, mods have to delete posts. Plus we regularly have to peck out the rules again and again… I mean it’s not as bad as my words make it out to be. And this isn’t entirely down to design and hierarchy. But also group dynamics changed, there’s more regular people online than some 15 years ago instead of nerds amongst themselves. And I think politics became way more polarized.

Ultimately, it’s all part of our lives. There’s obviously demand to discuss politics, pronouns, the crazy setup US Americans call a political system… And I think they’re all valid topics. We just have to figure out a way to make it work. Which isn’t easy. But I think the Fediverse is up to something. Our basic idea allows us to customize the experience, steer clear of some things or dive down… I think we just have to strike some balance and put in some more work because politics is such an all-consuming topic. And we’re a bit of a diverse crowd here. Which is a good thing. But also makes certain things more difficult.

Old-school internet forums usually did that. Not sure about all the nuance and specifics to meme groups… Just saying it’s not a generally impossible thing, or a new idea.

I strongly doubt this war is about who’s on the board of some state owned financial institute. I mean even if that conspiracy were true, where’s the bombing of like 120 other countries out of the roughly 195 we have on the planet?

Hmmh. I’ve heard the argument before, that they’re better off almost having nuclear weapons. But it that really the case? I mean North Korea is kind of an outliar. Lots of other countries have nuclear weapons as well, France, China… and none of them is a pariah. So I’m not sure if that’s even true. Usually more weapons is more better. Or so they say.

Edit: But we’re arguing logic here. And oftentimes politics isn’t as straightforward. I mean I don’t think we know the truth anyway. It’s completely unclear to me as an average citizen if they were close to nukes, if that’s even the biggest issue and reason for this. For all I know everyone could be lying or framing things, including following more than one motive.

I 100% agree with the mod comment. Seems to me this has to be considered top tier shit as well.

No shit show in the community with “shit” in the name!!1!

[…] because […] disagreed with the political slant

no shit.

But that’s kinda the thing with discussing politics online… Usually ends with some flame war.

This is the permissive vs copyleft debate. And it’s old as time. I suppose there’s a lot of nuance with licensing. If you’re a company at the receiving end, you probably love permissive licenses. They’re easy, offer the maximum amount of flexibility and freedom. It’s so short you probably don’t even need a team of lawyers… If you write software, it’s a bit more complicated. Do you want to cater to those people, make it as easy as possible to adopt your software? Then maybe consider BSD/Apache/MIT. Do you want to build a community, stop your competitors from just taking code? Want to try to ensure it stays open? Then maybe consider a copyleft license.

I sometimes don’t care. Write some stuff for me (as a hobby) but that’s my entire motivation. I don’t care what people do with the results of my weekend of effort. Never plan to hire a lawyer or bother with it in case something happrns with it. Or it’s just a pile of snippets. I’ll dump it for other people to use and release that either WTFPL or some other permissive license. People can do whatever they like with it. With the stuff I’m a bit more proud of, or I plan to return to, I’ll choose AGPL.

I suppose with operating systems, it’s a bit similar? I mean there is a community for both ideas. Seems there are people who like either of them. They’ll have slightly different ideology, tasks to accomplish and different goals.

Is the .gl domain down as well? Or is my DNS messing with me? I can open the newer ones, though.