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by imiric 1y ago
> Instead what we're getting is straight up vodoo nonsense. It always has been. Starting with the term "AI" itself. Articles like these read the same way to me as any OpenAI announcement from the past 5 years. A bunch of t
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by imiric 1y ago
> the only people who seem to be truly bothered by any of this are people who don't use datastar. Yeah, those silly people who were previously interested in Datastar, and are criticizing the hostility of how this was handled. Who ca
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by imiric 1y ago
> People who were using the version of Datastar that had all those features are still free to keep using that version. Why are you ignoring my previous comment that contradicts this opinion? > No one is taking it away. No rug was pull
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by imiric 1y ago
> despite your good intentions, you don't seem to have even the slightest understanding of open source Please. Resorting to ad hominem when you don't have good arguments against someone's opinion is intellectually lazy. &g
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by imiric 1y ago
Thanks for sharing. Seeing related issues and PRs seems like a useful feature. Though it would be better if the extension could somehow determine and show the related issues and PRs to the current issue/PR, instead of listing all ope
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by imiric 1y ago
> a lot of what you said rests upon the notion that people were relying on these features. They were, though. The blog post linked above, and several people in the Reddit thread linked in the blog post mentioned depending on these featur
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by imiric 1y ago
Hah, I downvoted you, without realizing you're the guy. Thanks for your work, and keep fighting the good fight!
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by imiric 1y ago
The thing is there's not much practical difference for users. They might not be aware that it's only a few hundred lines of code, and it really doesn't matter. The point is that they were depending on a software feature one d
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by imiric 1y ago
Yikes. I'm not opposed to open source projects placing features that realistically only large/enterprise users would use behind a paywall, i.e. the open core model. When done fairly, I think this is the most sustainable way to bui
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by imiric 1y ago
That's admirable. They just gained another sponsor. :) I do think that they should be paid for this work, and be able to sustain themselves from it. So I wouldn't be against it being a business, or the project having a subscriptio
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by imiric 1y ago
> it's a testament to how refined this is that he's been working hard for over 2 years to produce such a small amount of code. In the words of some famous people: > Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to a
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by imiric 1y ago
Like I said, it's crucial for the developer to be fair about it. Running a sustainable business built on open source is entrepreneurship on hard mode. Some companies do a better job at this than others, and, unfortunately, open source
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by imiric 1y ago
Datastar is one of the few projects in the web ecosystem in years that feels like a paradigm shift for the better. The author (Delaney Gillilan) has put a lot of thought into how modern web development should be done from first principles,
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by imiric 1y ago
I do think this is the most sustainable approach for monetizing open source projects, as long as the developer is fair about it. That is, truly make features that only large and/or enterprise users would have a use for, and only char
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by imiric 1y ago
The ability for LLMs to search the web made a big splash. Yet little emphasis was made on the fact that the web is a poisoned well. Without a filtering step, which is the difficult problem we haven't solved yet, their output is as unre
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by imiric 1y ago
LLMs are not a silver bullet. They're just as likely to point out non-issues, as they are to hallucinate fixes for them. Their output is only as valuable as the human using them. If they're not a security expert to begin with, the
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by imiric 1y ago
> No, I never said they deserve it. That's the gist of your argument. They're not a "serious business", therefore it's their fault. Let's not mince words. > It happens, I've helped recover from it, a
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by imiric 1y ago
Code readability has nothing to do with it. I suppose it could be quantified by the amount of financial damage to businesses. We can start with high-profile incidents like the CrowdStrike one that we actually know about. But I'm merely
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by imiric 1y ago
The database incident was a single example. Do you really think that most businesses are prepared to handle issues caused by their own bugs, let alone those caused by the software they depend on? That's nothing but fantasy. And your at
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by imiric 1y ago
The article is spot-on. This should be a direct concern for anyone in the software industry, and given that software is eating the world, to society and governments at large. The key phrase is this: "choose carefully". Software de
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by imiric 1y ago
You can't be serious. How do you categorize "commercial software engineering"? Does a company with $100M+ ARR count? Surely you can understand the impact that deleting a production database can have on a business. And your an
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by imiric 1y ago
If you haven't noticed a dramatic decline in average software quality, you're not paying attention or willfully ignoring it. The article is right. This is partly related to the explosion of new developers entering the industry, co
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by imiric 1y ago
Right. The more accurate phrase would be "tool" or "machine-assisted development". We don't need new terminology to describe something that has always existed because the tools we use have (arguably) improved. &quot
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by imiric 1y ago
If you don't want to sacrifice security, usability, or reliability, yes. If you object to having any business with Google or using their hardware, then no.
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by imiric 1y ago
I like that as well, but it's exhausting having to explain every time that, no, I don't in fact work at randoburgerspot...
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by imiric 1y ago
GrapheneOS has been rock solid for me for several years now. Just pick any Pixel device. As for software, there are alternatives to everything you can find on the Play Store, assuming you're not reliant on a specific Google product. GO
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by imiric 1y ago
Ah, yes, audio volume. The biggest problem of advertising.
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by imiric 1y ago
The aspects you mentioned are part of a theme . The light and dark settings control the visual scheme , which is entirely different. It is ludicrous to expect every web page to give the user control over individual theme elements. If you
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by imiric 1y ago
I don't know, I'm torn about it. I use mise and mostly like it. It has simplified my workflow for managing environments. But I don't need a task runner. `Make` and `just` already fulfill that purpose for me. I haven't us
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by imiric 1y ago
> It’s not unrelated because the NIST demonization of China as a nation contributes to hostilities which have real impacts on the people of the US and China, not simply the governments. I don't doubt that it has impacts, but you&#x2

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