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LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
Their European presence is regulated through Ireland now https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/arid-41435437.html It’s hard to see the platform lasting long in the EU if Musk keeps on his current path.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
I didn’t get to read the article yet - but loading it is crashing Firefox and Safari on my IPhone - haven’t seen that happen in a while!
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
It is easy to jump back and forward between this social media platform and the issue tracker. What do you think is incentivising the pitchforks you are complaining about - where do you think they want the angry mob to vent? The gamified issue tracker is where.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
Turning issue trackers into Emoji riddled social media platforms will do that alright.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
I don’t understand the proposed reality they (we) should live in.

They are trying to advocate for software that doesn’t hurt its users in a sea of enshittifaction.

They should stop because corporations produce powerful software?
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
Maybe I’m reading too much into it but the roadmap mentioning switching from GPT4 Turbo to 4-o and hoping for better math performance feels like they are betting on a significant near term reliability improvement in LLMs without any other real plans. That magic jump is starting to look more and more doubtful by the day.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
If ‘getting stuff done’ is your only measure of success then fair enough.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
This ‘everyone is using it so I need to also’ logic is funny to me, given the idea of the F in FOSS is to use network effects to spread the idea of software freedom. Using and thus endorsing a proprietary platform with ever increasing integration into the software lifecycle seems to do the exact opposite of that.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
It’s still baffling to me how many FOSS projects still use that platform, they’ve done very well keeping the ‘Microsoft’ prefix out of people’s sight.

Codeberg does seem to be gaining some momentum with FOSS projects now though, at long last.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
GPL software needn’t have anything to do with GNU - having alternative projects is healthy for many reasons.

I just think that trying to make a permissive drop-in replacement for software that emphasises the very freedoms that have allowed the creation of the replacement in the first place is unfortunate and short-sighted. It’s a good thing that the authors have every right to do it all the same though.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
It’s a shame to see all this effort going toward replacing core GPL licensed utilities with permissive ones. It seems like a particularly common thing in the Rust community.

It feels disrespectful of the intentions of the work that went into the tools that are being cloned.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
I wouldn’t sweat it - that phrase is used all the time in Ireland, which the author would know if they’d bothered asking some Irish people.

There is even a well know Paddy Wagon bus tour company with a giant Leprechaun on the side - no one bats an eyelid.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
I don’t see how the particular license has anything to do with it. The gist is the content is being used under a claim of ‘fair use’. It doesn’t matter what the license terms are in that case. It seems like the argument is toward small creatives somehow banding together and ‘close sourcing’ their work.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
When working in a research lab we used to have people boast that their analysis was so big it ‘brought down the cluster’ - which outed them pretty quickly to the people who knew what they were doing.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
It was really cool watching the ~daily updates on this on Mastodon - seeing how someone so skilled gradually pieces together a complex piece of software.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
Hey if H from Steps can pull it off…
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
Did you miss the bit where they are being marketed as ‘intelligence’ - non-techies gobble this stuff up.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
Not intentionally if so - I must be missing something more subtle in your comment.
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
You are trying to suggest that Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t have a detailed knowledge and control over core Meta features, nor knowledge of the societal damage they can do?
LightFog
·2 years ago·discuss
Generally for HN the request for politeness is positive I think, but in the technology area and especially journalism I think there is an unhealthy aversion to calling people out for anti-social behaviour, leading to a chilling effect on discussing it.