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by imiric 7mo ago
Precisely. It's remarkable that people think releasing a project as OSS is a license to disrespect users. This isn't even related to OSS. Software authors should have basic decency and respect for the users of their software. This
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by imiric 7mo ago
> The PR descriptions are more thorough than what I’d write, because it reads the full diff and summarises the changes properly. I’d gotten so used to the drudgery that I’d stopped noticing it was drudgery. Who are you creating PR descri
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by imiric 7mo ago
You might want to think about my argument a bit more. > Is it less-ethical to have provided software as open source, and then later become a proprietary product? Why? Because usually these companies use OSS as a marketing gimmick, not be
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by imiric 7mo ago
How can people still not understand that OSS can be abused? It doesn't matter that the previous code is still available. Nobody can technically delete it from the internet, so that's hardly something they did "right". Th
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by imiric 7mo ago
This is hardly new, and it goes far beyond spam emails. Most of the content produced and consumed on the internet is now done by machines. A human may or may not benefit from directing a machine to do this, and the ways they do are often hi
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by imiric 7mo ago
> Let’s see if I get this wrong after 25 years of git You used it 5 years before Linus? Impressive!
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by imiric 7mo ago
> OpenClaw is just like any other tool, you need to learn it before its power is available to you. That's ridiculous. The utility of any tool is usually knowable before using it. That's how most tools work. I don't need to
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by imiric 7mo ago
OSS is not immune to enshittification, and, in fact, is prone to it. It's not entitled to have the opinion that a piece of software might be heading in the wrong direction. Paying for software doesn't somehow buy you this right. W
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by imiric 7mo ago
That's a poor argument that doesn't change the fact that any feature requires maintenance time and effort which for some users could be better invested in features they actually use, in improving overall stability, reliability, pe
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by imiric 7mo ago
Take a look at clink[1]. Or use PowerShell. [1]: https://chrisant996.github.io/clink/
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by imiric 7mo ago
It's a shame that 60% of it is reserved for gaudy plastic branding rather than for showing useful information. Casio keeps pumping out these G-SHOCK clones, but I wonder who's buying them? I haven't seen one in the wild since
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by imiric 7mo ago
This looks interesting. I don't need my terminal emulator to support tabs, windows, or session management. My WM manages tabs and windows, and I use tmux for sessions, which also gives me a scrollback buffer, selection, clipboard, sear
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by imiric 7mo ago
There is some good insight here, but I wouldn't say that he "nailed it". We still don't have computer programs that are able to "decide" what "they" "want" to do. We have programs that can
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by imiric 7mo ago
> Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's insane that this quote is coming from one of the leading figures in this field. And everyone's... OK that sof
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by imiric 7mo ago
Evidence? My friend, most of the practices in this field are promoted and adopted based on hand-waving, feelings, and anecdata from influencers. Maybe you should write and share your own article to counter this one.
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by imiric 7mo ago
Ah, another one of these. I'm eager to learn how a "social climber" talks to a chatbot. I'm sure it's full of novel insight, unlike thousands of other articles like this one.
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by imiric 7mo ago
> What we actually need is a standard for websites to expose a machine-readable interaction layer alongside the human one. We had this 20 years ago with the Semantic Web movement, XHTML, and microformats. Sadly, it didn't pan out fo
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by imiric 7mo ago
> not having to ever again touch Xorg.conf has improved my quality of life I haven't touched xorg.conf in decades. I suppose you might have to do it to configure some unique setup, but for me this hasn't been an issue in a long
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by imiric 7mo ago
I'm with you. I haven't had major issues with X11 for a good couple of decades. Ever since I didn't have to manually edit xorg.conf, I forget when that happened. Granted, my requirements were simple, a laptop and occasionally
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by imiric 7mo ago
X11 can't fix climate change.
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by imiric 7mo ago
I'm very excited about river. I switched to niri a few months ago, and while I like it for the most part, it feels too... busy for my taste. It defaults to a bunch of animations and decorations, all of which I've turned off. I&#x2
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by imiric 7mo ago
I also like: cheat() { curl "cht.sh/$1" }
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by imiric 7mo ago
This serves as a two-way filter for me. Any website I'm not allowed to access is not worth accessing. I'll take my attention and business to where I'm wanted instead.
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by imiric 7mo ago
> Part of the case for Emacs and Vim has always been that they make you faster at writing and editing code. That was a side-effect of using software that is deeply customizable, but not the main goal. It comes from being comfortable with
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by imiric 7mo ago
You forgot 5: SpaceX has a monopoly on deploying satellites to LEO, with practically unlimited room for growth, and far less red tape and obstacles than anywhere on Earth. Whatever R&D and operational costs this insane engineering feat
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by imiric 7mo ago
Thinking of open source as a gift is such a strange take. It implies that the relationship is merely a transaction where the giftee is the beneficiary and the gifter is a philanthropist. It has subtle financial undertones, and a sense that
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by imiric 7mo ago
Great article. I've observed this behavior at work. It doesn't present itself only as not sharing. People with recognition and political leverage can share wrong ideas confidently, and others will naturally follow them. If they&#x
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by imiric 7mo ago
OpenClaw has 308k stars. That metric is meaningless now that anyone can deploy bots by the thousands with a single command.
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by imiric 7mo ago
Because that's impossible. Any "robot" that can generate code must be trained on massive amounts of code, most of which is open source.
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by imiric 7mo ago
> why hasn't anyone done this for real? WDYM? LLMs are essentially this.

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