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by jm4 2mo ago
I can assure you that they are not hosting for free because the cost is zero and goodwill pays the bills. Read the TOS and privacy policy. If they’re not monetizing the data in their custody then it’s just more overhead that has to be cover
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by jm4 2mo ago
Why not do it then? Seems you would have plenty of customers judging by this thread and the others today asking about alternatives.
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by jm4 2mo ago
Same. Currently, I'm spending $10/mo on a VPS from OVH to host Forgejo. I have hourly backups to an rsync.net account I was already paying for. It's not the most efficient way to do things, but Forgejo is actually pretty nice
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by jm4 2mo ago
Maybe. You would either have to buy and colocate physical servers and pack the hell of them or develop something on AWS or GCP that aggressively scales down to zero. Anyway, how are you going to pay engineer salaries and 24/7 support s
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by jm4 2mo ago
This, in a nutshell, is why Github is the way it is and there's a lack of good alternatives. I'm not knocking you in particular because we're all pretty much in the same boat here. "I am willing to pay ~$5-10/mo fo
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by jm4 2mo ago
Fossil looks really cool. I like how it's all in one and includes the web interface. The only thing is it doesn't seem like anyone actually uses it outside of sqlite. I don't necessarily need to use the most popular thing out
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by jm4 2mo ago
Everyone is well aware of how crappy the launch was. From the article: "Speaking of No Man’s Sky’s updates, there have been 286 of them since launch. Hello Games has released 54 major updates as well as 232 smaller patch/updates a
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by jm4 2mo ago
Probably network effects, integration, just about everyone knows how to use it, high switching cost, the fact that it’s mostly good enough, etc. Even if you switch away from GitHub, you’re probably going to use it for something else anyway.
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by jm4 2mo ago
I self host Forgejo on a cheap VPS with hourly borg backups to rsync.net. It's a great system and seems comparable to github, although I'm not a heavy user of actions on either platform. I do use the container registry though. It
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by jm4 2mo ago
Interesting. My experience has been similar. Opus 4.8 was awesome. Opus 5 feels a little off, although I can't put my finger on exactly what it is.
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by jm4 2mo ago
I probably have the same strix halo box as you. It's slow, although mostly tolerable, but even 128 GB isn't enough to run good models. Where that leaves us is giving money to somebody to get access to frontier models. I don&#x27
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by jm4 2mo ago
There's a big difference between quiet donations to a PAC - not that that's good either - and what Elon did. He literally paid for votes, likely in violation of the law. He poured more money into U.S. elections than anyone has bef
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by jm4 2mo ago
I have. He was using it due to philosophical reasons the same way many people have philosophical reasons for avoiding it. I don't know how many people are like that, but it's not exactly where you want to position your product i
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by jm4 2mo ago
I remember having this on a Sidekick in like 2007.
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by jm4 2mo ago
100%. Personally, I hate Meta and I don't use their apps. There's so much bullshit and fake news on there it's not even funny. But my business uses FB and Insta because they deliver results. I can get my content in front of t
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by jm4 2mo ago
How many of them do you think are actually there to ensure ethical and benevolent AI? They are like the Human Resources department for AI models. They don’t give a shit. Their job is to provide cover for the company and to make some psychop
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by jm4 2mo ago
Purely anecdotal, but my experience has been that LLMs generate low quality python code. It's spaghetti code on par with what I've seen when companies I worked at tried offshoring development. It's basically what you get when
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by jm4 2mo ago
What makes you think it's small businesses? I would assume most businesses doing any reporting at all are using a payroll system. Mine handles the reporting automatically. The kinds of payroll systems used by small businesses can be se
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by jm4 2mo ago
I would argue that Microsoft had a solid run for some years in the middle where their software was pretty good quality. I think it started with Windows 2000 and certainly lasted through the XP era. Windows 7 was pretty decent too. Their ope
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by jm4 3mo ago
Are you crazy? Do you realize how much use they allow under a subscription already? I’m going through $200-400 in tokens per day on a $200/month subscription. Nobody has ever said anything, throttled me, encouraged me to go to API pr
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by jm4 3mo ago
My comment is partially in jest. Off the top of my head, I'm not aware of any particular policies that make brain worms more prevalent, although the person I was replying to mentioned prions and I believe that's a real concern.
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by jm4 3mo ago
A guy gets a worm in his brain, somehow becomes secretary of health, loosens all the rules so the rest of us have a higher chance of getting a brain worm. This is comic book villain kind of stuff. Can we start a serious discussion about whe
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by jm4 3mo ago
I don't know if this is serious or if it's a joke.
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by jm4 3mo ago
They're not a news publisher. Not exactly anyway. They are a huge conglomerate and Reuters is just one division - and a recent addition at that. TR is probably more known for legaltech, Westlaw and ancillary kind of stuff that ends up
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by jm4 3mo ago
Probably because it consumes the same APIs originally developed for a web app and the same front end engineers likely created Claude Code. People assume Anthropic set out to create Code as a product and went through a normal design phase. I
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by jm4 3mo ago
Am I the only one around here who’s sick and tired of the bitching and moaning on every post about how something was vibe coded or written by AI? Without fail, someone complains and it shoots up to the top of the comments. It’s gotten ridic
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by jm4 3mo ago
That assumes progress is linear, which it certainly is not. We’re also assuming Chinese companies are releasing their best stuff when our own government is dictating what American companies can and cannot release. I don’t know for sure that
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by jm4 3mo ago
70% is not unreasonable gross margin. What makes you think that’s a reason to ask that they lower prices? That 70% has to cover a lot of expenses.
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by jm4 3mo ago
The joke is that McDonald's spends hundreds of thousands of dollars to identify new locations - traffic studies, visibility, demographics, nearby traffic generators, site characteristics, drive-thru feasibility, etc. They have one of t
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by jm4 3mo ago
That's not fair at all. I am not saying anything about too big to fail. My whole point is that most of the people who get punished by a corporate death penalty don't deserve it. And if you want to go around imposing that penalty t

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