Where did SJL say she intended to maintain a hard fork?? She just said she went through to see how many LoC she could remove that were only there to power AI features. That reads a lot like someone doing this out of curiosity on a free afternoon. Am I missing some context for the mastodon thread?
Some of these clients have extra features (eg obfuscation to get around VPN bans) but yeah, I wouldn’t use any VPN provider that didn’t at least provide wireguard configs I can use without their own custom client.
Greed or shitty people in management doesn’t make something a corporation. There’s plenty of anti-union efforts from the non-profit sector.
Tbh was quite painless for me! Had a few hiccups but it was educational to troubleshoot them, and once it’s up and running, I haven’t had to touch it for the most part. Had to update my Dovecot configs when they changed the config syntax but that’s all I can think of. And will probably see about switching from spamassassin to rspamd because I swear spamassassin has so many false positives no matter how many false positives I feed to it to train it. But it’s really not so bad, and I would recommend it as a decent learning opportunity for folks who like tinkering with computers.
Email’s probably the most satisfying. I learnt a lot in setting up my own email server, and it’s nice being in complete control (well, of my end of things at least, ofc not of the other person’s end) of such an essential service.
Have you tried disabling the AI in Zed? There’s a toggle in the settings to disable all AI features. I’ve disabled the AI and it’s actually a really nice, responsive, clean editor. Just one toggle, and it doesn’t re-enable itself. The whole “AI-native” marketing really put me off trying it, but it’s now become my go-to IDE for when I’m working on a project where I want a more fully-featured IDE than Vim (my go-to for just editing text files eg standalone scripts, small projects).
If you don’t want to do that, or if you try it and still don’t like Zed, maybe Kate?
I didn’t say it did, but also “vibe coding” is a fairly new term that does not have a strict consistent definition anyway.
If you view the first commit, you can see the CLAUDE.md, so at least in part vibe-coded.
Tbh all the vibe-coded apps look the same, and the UI has that vibe-coded style, so I’m not surprised.
Just manually read the diffs for your yay -Syu. They were adding lines to the PKGBUILDs to pull malware. Verify what each line does and you’ll be fine.
Open source benefits big tech too. Eg see all the huge corpos who donate to the Linux Foundation, because Linux is necessary to their work. Google gets good PR from summer of code, and students will be recommending summer of code to each other. It gives Google a good amount of cultural capital among engineers. It’s not like Google has no cash to spare for a couple projects to make them look good and secure their role as one of the most dominant tech companies across the field.
Linux distribution doesn’t have a huge bearing on UI, except that most distros come with a particular DE (desktop environment) pre-installed. However, you can install any DE of your choice after installing the OS, and switch between DEs at ease without reinstalling the OS.
GNOME’s defaults are quite visually similar to macOS in terms of layout. I’m sure KDE Plasma (the other big Linux DE) can be modded to look like macOS too, but by default it more resembles the Windows desktop. I’d say go for Linux Mint and then install GNOME (look up stuff like “linux mint how to install gnome”). Both Linux Mint and GNOME are widely used and “beginner-friendly”, so if you run into any problems, it shouldn’t be hard to find answers either by searching things up or posting on forums if you can’t find any solutions already online.
Conservatives are the right wing of liberalism.
Pretty sure it’s satire especially with the hashtags.
Matrix works well for me.
It’s not out yet, but I’d keep an eye on Flatline. It’s by the people who make Molly (Signal client fork—it’s pretty good, been using it for years). Flatline is a Molly-compatible server implementation, i.e. so that you can host your own Signal server. Because generally if someone asked for a “reliable messenger for family use” I’d recommend Signal as a polished and reliable option, though not self-hostable unfortunately.
I mean, you can create a GPL fork of the Rust coreutils if you so please. Or you could do a rewrite in any programming language of your choice and license permissively.
In any case, I profoundly cannot bring myself to care about the fact that you can legally create a proprietary fork of permissively licensed FOSS. I don’t think it’s right to impose any restrictions on what people can do with software/code, which of course conflicts with the fact that other people can take your code and restrict what other people can do with it. So choosing between copyleft and permissive licensing is a balancing act of that contradiction. I don’t think it’s wrong to end up on the side of permissive licensing.
Do you seriously think that’s how IP law works? If you weren’t able to write GPL Rust code, Rust would not be free software. That would require the Rust project to issue software licences to programmers that stipulate that you must not create GPL-licensed software using Rust.
Rust is free and open-source, like most programming languages. That means you are allowed to make whatever software you want with it, including GPL software. There’s nothing stipulating that you can’t…
But consider, Rust being named what it is led to the project name ffmpreg
it’s always available
Until the AI companies run out of money.
The majority of end users run Windows. Does that make Windows the reference desktop OS?
The most charitable interpretation of your assertion I can think of is that you just mean that Chromium-based browsers have the majority of the market share. That’s not the same thing as a reference implementation at all.