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It all started with that damn gorilla

So basically me when I’m invited to a meeting with business people to explain our machine learning stack

Wonder how easy it is to migrate issues, pipelines, wikis, etc. to a different remote repo provider. Because that’s what comes with what these users are calling for.

GitHub is a blessing and a curse. Open-source has over-centralized on a MSFT-owned platform that has no qualms with vacuuming up code for its AI.

But since most developers like myself are already there, it lowers the barrier to opening issues, starting discussions, and contributing code. I don’t want to have to check notifications on 4+ platforms. I don’t want to have to join some Discord or figure out how to search for messages on Element. (I realize I’m part of the problem.)

On an emotional level agree completely. But anyone who can admit they made a mistake, deserves a bridge back, even if the mistake was something they received ample warning about and even though their motivation for making the mistake stemmed from the worst of human nature… and even though their reason for regretting the mistake is because it’s now affecting them personally—

Okay, really need to force myself to believe these people deserve their bridge back

Haha, true. But I’m fine with that tbh, so long as – and this is important – it gets post-edited.

How AI-generated do you want your logo?

Yes

Bringing a swift and conclusive end to the dub vs sub debate

And to their credit, they usually see them through to the end – unlike Netflix

Wait… WHAT?!

Honestly, what an amazing person.

Thanks for teaching me something new!

So Chromium is based on Blink, which is LGPL – a less viral GPL. Hence, it can serve as a dependency in closed-source software.

As to the shared heritage of these well-established projects – I don’t know how else to interpret it other than a testament to the complexity of building a decent browser engine.

Btw, quick shout out to Orion, a rare WebKit browser by the makers of Kagi that’s apparently coming to Linux as well. I’m a monthly supporter. Even though I still mostly use Vivaldi, it’s been coming along really nicely. Proprietary software but idc. I appreciate their unspoken mission statement: pay or be the product. (No-one should be a product, obviously, but that’s capitalism.)

Yeah, if you want a true city builder, this will leave you feeling disappointed.

Have you ever tried Urbek City Builder? That’s one of my favs. Just a shame the steam version doesn’t have controller support like the console versions.

Don’t have time to factcheck so going to take your word for it. Interesting bit of knowledge! Honestly wouldn’t have thought that. How else are Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Vivaldi and co getting away with building proprietary layers on top of a copyleft dependency?

I’m no legal expert. All I know is that when I’m picking dependencies at work, if it’s copyleft, I leave it on the table. I love the spirit of GPL, but I don’t love the idea of failing an audit by potential investors because of avoidable liabilities.

I’m OOTL. Are these actual issues people have with the project?

C++ might not be as memory-safe as Rust, but let’s not pretend a Rust code base wouldn’t be riddled with raw pointers.

BSD tells me the team probably wants Ladybird to become not just a standalone browser but also a new competing base for others to build a browser on top of – a Chromium competitor. Even though BSD wouldn’t force downstream projects to contribute back upstream, they probably would, since that’s far less resource-intensive than maintaining a fork. (Source: me, who works on proprietary software, can’t use GPL stuff, but contributes back to my open-source dependencies.)

Bought this on release day and play in it short bursts in the evening. Got about 8 hours according to Steam. The developer seems like a great guy. You can tell how much effort he put into a near-perfect first release. From day one it supported multiple controllers, worked on steam deck, and I encountered only one small in-game bug. The game was originally designed for controller or keyboard, but soon after it released, an update added mouse support.

As for gameplay it’s incredibly chill. I love anything with building adjacency effects. It’s nowhere near as deep as Urbek, but there’s enough for some really enjoyable puzzels. And it’s the puzzles where this game shines, I think. On normal mode the story poses nearly no challenge. You’ll breeze through it and ask, Now what? Well, there’s a bunch of puzzles and other modes. Again, they’re not particularly difficult, until you try to get the highest score. That’s when you gain a new appreciation for the subtle interactions between the buildings and the way they upgrade.

Good game for a fair price by a really nice dev!

Having the moon 🌝 in there is a nice extra touch

The Mighty Boosh. Simply put, one of the best pieces of British television ever made

Hope the offering includes

• Every task being reframed in terms of the PhD’s specific niche
• Crippling imposter syndrome
• Bonus academic tier: replace Extended Thinking with Grant Proposal Writing

Spiritfarer vibes from this one. And with full controller support. Nice! Might try to install the demo on my Steam Deck, since I don’t own a Windows PC.

Word to the wise: stay away from productivity bro YouTube. You’ll learn a hundred systems for optimizing your obsidian-logseq-roam-notion hybrid gsd-kanban workflow with bidirectional zettl references and interstitial notes organized into a beautiful para system with more systems on systems and queryable data views and more fancy shit than you could ever dream of, and when everything is done and set up the way you think will work for you (which it won’t)…

… you’ll realize you haven’t actually accomplished what you were meant to.

(Source: myself, who’s fallen into the rabbit hole once or twice before)

You’re one of the many who can’t taste the difference. I’m happy for you. It’s a genetic thing. Artificial sweeteners bind to bitter receptors in some people, including me.

The good news is my own soda consumption is nearly down to zero because of it. On the rare occasion that I drink anything sugary, I do indeed prefer the full-sugar version.

Also, it’s not about health, the artificial sweeteners. Sugar has become increasingly expensive to the point where substituting it is just a way to bring down production costs. If you want zero sugar, by all means. Wish I could partake. But don’t mix aspartame into everything