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I’ve come across some pretty levelheaded people from that instance too

This was me (for some definition of level :D)

I joined .ml before I really understood the differences. Even once I realised the connotation, I didn’t switch until I realised that !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works was blocked on that instance. That made me think about what instance I wanted to join (based on what communities I was most active in) and then I switched over here.

So, there are definitely a mix of people on each instance. It makes me sad when I see people jump to conclusions based on instance, although I also understand it if 90% of their experience is of a particular type of person.

Thank you for the recommendation! After deliberating back and forth over whether to go with this or a DIY solution, I ended up buying this one.

I saw a tildes comment talking about this adapter. I’m thinking that, once we finish the first couple of refills, we can decide whether we want to get a bigger donor cylinder to refill them through this.

And then, if this ever does break, we can switch to a full DIY solution at that point, since we’ll then have more hands-on experience with the larger cylinders. So, we can gradually ease into a more DIY approach once we’ve shown we’ll stick with it, and have a bit more confidence.

I use Munin for monitoring and XMPP for alerts via go-sendxmpp. That way I just configure munin like this:

contact.admin.command go-sendxmpp -u [bot_username] --password [bot_password] [contact]

And that sends me messages to my main XMPP account whenever my servers breach a limit.

He’s a former Labour MP, but it was under Blair, so same difference :)

I think it’s bad because these children are just entering the education system, and I think that framing education from the outset as “the purpose of this is to get a job / help the economy” is wrong. I’d like for children to have some time that is focused on education for its own sake. I think getting exposure to different jobs is fine, just that 4 years old is too early.

This is in the context of a report which the UK government asked Milburn to carry out, looking at how to increase employment among young people (18-25 year olds). So the framing is “how can we use the education system to get more people into a job”, which I think turns schools even more into an employee factory.

Indeed :) the conservatives called it a death tax when labour tried to do it, then labour called it a dementia tax when the conservatives tried to do it

Here we go! Getting rid of one of the three locks, and at least starting to sort out social care. It seems quite politically smart to me to trade these two things; if done correctly, they can say “ok, pensioners may get a little less, but they also won’t have to sell their house if they need care”.

I look forward to seeing what the opposition manage to brand this. We’ve seen death tax and dementia tax, maybe this one will be the revival of the granny tax?

Although there will be lots of opposition, I’m happy that there there seems to be some willingness for big action, albeit all for the next parliament.

This makes me really quite depressed. They’re just openly creating more venues for corruption and are really not ashamed about it.

“They were saying you have to be really careful not to make it seem as if they’re paying money for access,” the former staff member said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

Ahead of Sunday’s conference opening, TBI’s senior director of policy Ryan Wain celebrated having “more serving cabinet ministers than we’ve ever hosted,” and described the institute’s venue as a place where “people with power, meet people with ideas.”

• The president of AI cloud computing firm ServiceNow, which has won several defence contracts, is billed to introduce a conversation with defence secretary Wes Streeting.
• At a TBI- hosted panel called “Driving the Future,” Uber’s UK policy director will discuss self-driving cars with panellists including roads minister Justin Madders.
• An executive from investment firm General Catalyst, an investor in the prediction market app Polymarket, will join the chief secretary to the treasury Emma Reynolds at a TBI discussion on “unleashing the animal spirits in Britain’s economy”.

The breach happened in June but Open AI only became aware of it in August. It notified the government via an email, external to a general inbox on 10 September

This is just atrocious on every level. First of all, they’re hacking everyone with impunity. Then, they’re taking 2 months to find out about it, and a further month to report it. So not only can they not control their AI, as a company they clearly have no systems in place to report it either.

Ahhh, sorry to hear it :(

I should have play with dollies as a kid instead of computers

Probably we’d all be happier :)

So, that probably means I will try Jami again one more time and then just switch to Snikket.

Good luck! I hope it goes well

I can highly recommend feed2exec. It’s super flexible and lets you easily do anything off the back of an RSS feed item. This way you can abstract away the matrix side and write a minimal matrix plugin to send to matrix rooms, or you can generate static html pages to self-host, or anything else you want within the same framework.

I use it to:

• Save RSS feed entries as plain-text files, so I can read them in less
• Download podcasts, running a pass of ffmpeg over each to reduce file size
• Watch releases of open source projects and add a task in taskwarrior for me to review and/or update them

I never tried deploying Jami, as I settled on XMPP for this use-case. But, let us know how it goes if you do try it! I haven’t seen many review it before so I’d be interested to hear your experience.

neither are encrypted, so don’t use them for anything sensitive

I run XMPP - just wanted to say that all major XMPP clients (the ones I’m thinking of are Conversations, Monal, Dino and Gajim, among others) encrypt-by-default, you have to actively go out of your way to disable it per contact.

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I quite strongly disagree with this post.

Here’s the point: If you can’t handle contributions to your open-source project, then maybe just make it closed source. Leave the developer community alone rather than poison it.

No. They have given us a gift. Even if they just give a single tarball and nothing more, they have increased the total value in the world, not poisoned it. If you don’t like it, then walk away yourself. No-one is forcing you to interact with this project, no-one is forcing you to use it. Go associate with other projects that share your values, but don’t push away people who are sharing something freely and improving the total value in the world.

What you are doing is saying to someone, who is already giving you a gift, “that’s not enough, I want more. And if you’re not going to give me more, you should stop giving gifts to anyone at all”.

The inherent disrespect is extremely corrosive—there seems to be no sense of the time that goes into providing issue reports and PRs. That includes the bad ones—and the AI ones.

So maintainers should have to dedicate their free time and energy (often more time and energy than it took for the other person to raise the issue report) to something they don’t want to do and will make them more burned out? The author acknowledges they’re volunteers, but doesn’t seem to have really internalised what that means. And so they are saying “they should spend their free time doing what I want them to do”.

Yet if you want to be part of the open-source community, then start with manners. Treat your contributors with respect and gratitude. Go out of your way to handle issues.

If you want to be part of the open-source community, accept that some people have different priorities than you, and that no-one in this space owes each other anything. As I say, they have already given you a gift. Is that not enough?

Ok. Now I’ve calmed down a bit, I can meet the author halfway. I think that a lot of projects could do a better job of communicating what their boundaries and expectations are. If projects were more upfront and extremely clear about what level of support they were willing to provide (like SQLite), that could only be a good thing. That way, no-one would waste time contributing to a project in ways that the maintainers have made clear they don’t want to accept, and it would prevent misunderstandings like this.

I get that it feels bad to spend time on a contribution and then see nothing come of it. It feels like you are left hanging and I empathise. But even if your contribution is not accepted into the original project, you’ve still offered something by making it public. Other people can pick that up in their forks if they want to. And if you discover that it’s important to you to be in a community who quickly reviews your contributions, then you now know to choose a different project to contribute to, or to start your own.

Then it wouldn’t be free as in FOSS

I had the same perception as you before I read the article, so I presume we both made the same wrong assumption. Apologies if I misunderstood your comment.

It’s not suggesting anyone changes the licenses to enforce this. Instead, it suggests that the package repositories should charge companies for access. Companies that want to use a free mirror will, but many will pay for convenience of using the official repository. A cut of that money is then automatically shared to maintainers.

What made me think along those lines is that someone I know vibe-coded their own personal/private XMPP client recently. I’m sure it has lots of problems, but it does what they need and has a nice UI that looks how they wanted. In their case, it doesn’t need to be bug-free - just bug-free on their machine, for the tasks that they do with it.

But for some software, I definitely agree about the reliability and edge-cases / environments. Knowing 1000s of people have tested my backup software and ironed out the bugs is a big plus. I can’t imagine many people would want to use a vibe-coded one.

Thinking about Blender, IIRC, their filetype is effectively a memory dump of the process. So, if I worked in an animation studio and wanted a custom feature, I’d definitely write a plugin instead of making a bespoke tool. But then again, if I could export to .ofx or another common format, and have everything import perfectly, I’d be more tempted to go for a bespoke tool again. It’s interesting to think through the scenarios.