When I spend time reading about culture in other countries, especially Japan and South Korea, but also China, it sometimes sounds intolerable to me. Not because I think it can be said to be overall worse than the one I’m in, it’s just bad in ways that I am not acclimated to and would struggle to tolerate. I grew up in the United States, and I have developed spiritual/psychological callouses that let me operate here. Maybe another analogy would be microbiome and immune response.

Anyway, I’m sure the reality is different. These are just the way I make sense of what I hear. After all, people do travel and manage to thrive in many places.

Sometimes a decent FOSS app is created with no income flow, true, but I don’t think anything on the scale of a web browser/rendering engine has ever.* All of the sizable FOSS projects I can think of have the support of one or more sponsors who have an an interest in seeing the project succeed. I’m thinking of Linux, Chromium, AOSP, Debian, KDE, Blender, and the like. About 85% of commits to the Linux kernel are from full-time employed corporate contributors.

Lemmy gets some sponsorships I think, but from non-profits. Besides that, it is supported by donations, and seemingly not enough. I was a regular donator, but I’ve since fallen on hard times and cannot help right now. They deserve better, honestly. My point is, we take nice FOSS projects for granted, and I don’t think we really have any right to complain if they go away or wind up driven primarily by corporate interests. The work is not free.

*Come to think of it, I think KHTML, the rendering engine on which Blink and Webkit are ultimately based was started as a volunteer project. After it became a viable starting point for Apple and Google though, it was forked and primarily developed by employees of Google and Apple. I guess that’s a similar story as Linux, but without the fork.

Graham Plattner?

If you don’t mind paying for podcasts you have options. If you don’t want to do that I’m not sure what else you can expect.

I have some sympathy for these people, but some don’t seem to realize that Microsoft is not going to be upset over them leaving. They are not valuable to Microsoft as users. If they are unable or unwilling to pay now, Microsoft wants them gone. They are being shown the door. Making a post about deleting your copilot+ subscription or whatever is like bragging about being kicked out of a nightclub.

Oh, well you see with Vaultwarden what you do is just don’t update it until you’re forced to because the clients stop being able to talk to it. ;)

I got it up and running in about 10 minutes just yesterday, but that’s probably because I had already spent a couple of days learning how to use quadlets and getting my remote access scheme figured out.

Nah, I like the style in the new remake too. Not enough to afford a Switch 2, though, so I’m not really helping I guess.

I love the 3DS 3D effect. I had that shit on 100% of the time, and have missed it dearly.

I love retro gaming so much, and there are way more than enough games out there from decades past to last a lifetime. (This, of course, depends on continued availability of this library via unofficial channels.)

There also are a vast quantity of newer indie games which don’t require high end hardware. I’d love to see a renewed interest in smaller scale projects.

It’s more than enough some types, but I agree, probably not the average lemmy user. I’m happy enough with their search results to pay for a higher tier.

I get that. I wouldn’t publish the code anywhere until an alpha is more or less ready and pretty well tested, and yes, I understand the importance of making sure it behaves in an expected, performant and pro-social manner with the existing compatible fediverse apps.

I’m not too worried about it, but thanks for your genuine concern about my reputation. ;) Since I’m the one writing the code, I’m more worried about the quality of that, if anything.

For what it’s worth, I’ve been working on (yet another) ActivityPub based micro blogging application and LLMs have been enormously helpful and so far as I can tell, correct. Often it cites the AP specs and its extensions, as well as specific implementations from existing major AP apps. It can show me expected outputs, what responses from my app should look like in response to different requests from other servers, and quickly give context for features like Mastodon’s shared inbox. I’m not having it simply generate code, but I think I’m still moving way faster than I otherwise could. I don’t recall it ever giving me incorrect information.

It’s the first time I’ve used an LLM as a tool this way, and I’m pretty impressed with it. I’m using the assistant made available through Kagi.

This is kind-of a non-sequitur to begin with, but we should not be burning oil to make energy— it’s stupid. We should stop doing that as fast as is possible, and the culture war element mentioned by the person you’re replying to is a obstacle that needs to be dealt with. As you’re keen to point out, it’s useful for manufacturing many vitally important things, so no longer setting it on fire is the only sane move. (Among many other reasons.)

Right, I almost, and probably should have, mentioned that. They use a different, parallel system that is also not available to the kind of alternative devices people on this site are interested in.

This is misunderstanding the problem, I think. This is not a weakness in GrapheneOS due to being an AOSP derivative, it’s a weakness imposed by Google on all alternative OSes whether they are AOSP derived or not. They present a scannable code that will only be cleared if you scan it with Google’s Android.

Unless there’s something else going on here. Either way, anger should be directed at Google, not GOS or its users. (annoying though they might sometimes be ;)

I mean, natch, lol. But thank you for letting me know! Point 3 looks interesting.

We feel the same. It could be so much better than it is. It’s never clear why the order of files is why it is.

I had a palm centro and it was the coolest phone in my highschool. I had a non-phone palm device before that too, as a hand-me-down. It had the writing system for text input which was really cool. I loved those Palm devices.

I have an Echo Mini, and I have come to really enjoy using it, both as a DAP and a usb DAC. I will say, the software isn’t great. For example, whenever I add new files to the SD card, “favorites” are just wiped out, rendering the feature basically useless. Sorting is weirdly inconsistent. These are things that could be fixed with firmware updates,

I don’t get why the firmware is closed source. Don’t they have much more to gain by opening it and allowing enthusiasts to help improve it? What is the benefit of keeping the source secret?