I think “feature bounty” is a misnomer as it’s not limited to features.
Since it’s opensource, I don’t think it incentivises writing bugs as anybody else could theoretically fork the project and fix your bugs to get the people sick of your bugs onto their fork. And if your project is known for having bugs, it would reduce the number of users willing to use it.
That actually does describe the class of licences fairly accurately. Companies specifically love cuck licenses because of their unfree propagation properties.
They opened the ticket with thanks and appreciation, and made respectful factual arguments. Far from “whining incessantly”.
The initial user yes, but read the rest of the comments. There are a few friendly ones voicing real concerns, but the majority I’d definitely not place in the “nice” or “constructive” category.
Good on the developer. The users complaining are really a bunch of spoiled children. Someone provides you with a free product, a donation button is introduced and you start whining incessantly.
We should let these twits enjoy their shit on twitter. The AI hype is just like the crypto hype, it’ll fade.
The name vibe coding sounds like a drunk evening with friends getting an MVP off the ground, but nothing more.
I have to stop clicking on the phoronix comment section. It’s like a mini Twitter.
Still, Ubuntu should also ditch snap instead of hanging onto it just because they wrote it. It’s the reason I don’t recommend Ubuntu to friends anymore.
Sshfs should work with a local IDE like CLion from Jetbrains (although that’s pay to use, it’s the best C++ IDE I know of).
Out of curiosity, what’s wrong with qtcreator in VNC viewer? Qtcreator should provide code completion, going to definitions, expanding macros, and so on.
Matrix doesn’t require self-hosting. There’s a very good host out there etke.cc. They take care of everything, are European, and you just have to connect. It’s 20€/month for hosting a medium sized server that can handle room with up to 3000 users (if I understand it correctly). They can bridge your server to other client services likes Google and Slack, and they can even bridge to WhatsApp and Signal meaning that people in your company could be added to rooms from WhatsApp or Signal. They even have an email bridge with which you can allow email users to chat in matrix rooms!
There is of course no limit to how long meetings can be, matrix has a wide range of clients (of which element is the most popular).
I would’ve recommended Element.io, but they have a “minimum number of users” 🤷
A few questions:
I ask these questions because my preliminary solutions without knowing all the details would be
qtcreator has code completion btw, so you can use it for your development tasks.
Those just don’t get installed. I refuse to install stuff that way. It’s to reminiscent of installing stuff on windows. “Pssst, hey bud, want to run this totally safe executable on your PC? It won’t do anything bad. Pinky promise”. Ain’t happening.
The only exception I make is for nix on non-nixos machines because thwt bootstraps everything and I’ve read that script a few times.
There’s a chance google has to divest from Chrome, but we won’t know until September at the earliest. The process the DOJ brought against it is in progress. Binding YouTube to chrome now might jot be a smart move if google loses the process.
There is a good chance in my mind that google will win against the Department Of Justice simply because of the current administration in the US.
I’m curious about what @ryanleesipes@mastodon.social said about funding (can’t remember where in the video). There was some mention of Google’s money being a smaller percentage of the total funding and it’s not clear what that means. If it’s just “Google is giving us 400 million instead of 500 million”, that’s not really an issue, honestly. Companies I worked at had way less revenue than that and been able to do a lot with that (by underpaying people too, of course).
What I can say with absolute certainty is that if Mozilla were single focus “We make a web browser and that’s it!”, money donated to Mozilla went to everything related to browsers e.g experiments for new browsers, writing a new browser engine in rust, making the engine embeddable in just about anything, providing an API to the browser for testing, experimenting with new languages in the browser, making the browser run on every platform and arch, expanding web standards for the new challenges ahead, and all that, I’d donate. But right now, Mozilla invests in ads, in collecting data, in AI, in paying CEOs millions, and a bunch of other shit tangentially, and quite often not at all, related to browsers. It’s like donating to the Breast Cancer foundation, expecting the majority of your money to go to research and finding out 80% of it goes to marketing, 18% to “awareness”, and 2% to research. No fucking way is my donation going there.
RIP Mozilla: 1998-2025 🪦
jk, Google will pay Trump to somehow undo this.
I couldn’t gather from the article, but when exactly is Google supposed to “fully divest itself of Chrome”? It’s it’s by 2030 or “at Google’s discretion”, it’ll just never happen.
Edit:
A final ruling in the search monopoly trial is expected in August 2025.
Report: DOJ wants to force Google Chrome sale, Android de-bundling
Lol, never happening. Trump won’t let it.
Yep! You got it 👍 It probably won’t, but it costs me all of a few milliseconds to a few seconds. I’m a cynic, but not a defeatist.
I should probably write a blog post about it. Basically it’s there to possibly get commercial LLMs in trouble for scraping licensed stuff. LLMs have been tricked into revealing their training data and gotten in trouble for that. There are also ongoing lawsuits due to those revelations. Maybe the most notable is the one against
Github’sMicrosoft’s CoPilot for spitting out licensed (GPL and also copyrighted from private repos) code.Whether the lawsuits will be successful or not is yet to be determined (Japan already considers nearly everything fair game for training AIs and machine learning). Whether they will have an impact if they are successful is also unknown. It just costs me a key-stroke (and the occasional response to a friendly question like yours), so I do it 🤷 Once all my hope is lost, I might stop.
From another answer. I highlighted the important part, which explains why the explicit link to the license text instead of it being implicit.
Hmm, did you read the links I posted?
Sure, what meta did is fucked up, but they are being sued. Just because someone ignores the law, does that mean that we should just stop doing something?
Falsehoods US programmers believe about languages
The US-centric, anglo-saxon centric worldview strikes again 😮💨 For those us that speak multiple languages, many of these are revelations…
Also, if they are, it’s best to add examples, otherwise these are just random claims without any sources to back them up.
Do you think “pay or low prio” could help with that? Or do the dicks shut up when you tell em like it is?
Anti Commercial-AI license