If I have issues with VLC, my go-to alternative is ffplay

Depends™ I have seen plenty of videos that had problems on mpv but ran perfectly fine on VLC and vice versa.

“If you submit a PR, no hard feelings, we’re just going to go and represent it for you as issues and discussions.

They're saying, "We're not feeling negatively, but we're closing your PR to turn it into an issue and discussion". I wonder if the one on the receiving end will have hard feelings.

How much do these kinds of setups cost? Only viable for well-funded projects?

oh, there's plenty of better alternatives, but VLC's been certifiably "good enough" for 25+ years.

This is a meaningless metric: lots of people probably got it from sources they have no way of tracking (e.g. distro repos), others may be crawlers, etc. etc.

At least 200 of the reported downloads are just me 😅

Beautiful. All these people, using it to watch their totally legal downloaded videos. Arrrg!

Simple agents won't understand git. They can make web requests. If they want to check for reference code/source code, I assume they would request the rendered html.

I assume the frequency comes from many people asking various things, and the agents in the background pulling this data.

I'm not sure whether the scale-to-load ratio is plausible, because I lack the numbers, but it doesn't seem implausible to me that various agents for various prompts and tasks from various providers for many people repeatedly make these requests to a degree that significantly impacts the hoster.

SEveral hundred of those are mine.

VLC good, but mpv peak.

After all these years, I still smile when I see the annual Santa hat logo change. 😅

yeah it's bad that the omarchy community has taken the DHH kool-aid. I watched a video lastnight of a guy from India who was praising Omarchy and said all the hate was because purely of DHH and not understanding why. It was like "My guy, he made comments directed towards YOU and YOUR People specifically about living in London. He doesn't want YOU to using his distro".

I always knew he was a bit polarizing but I wasnt aware its that bad. Thx for sharing

Yup. Mint remains the gold standard for Linux newcomers (although Bazzite is a potential contender)

sourcehut is almost everything I want from a git forge! the ability for people to contribute or file bug reports without an account is great, and it's not tied to a horrible corporation. it's right up my alley, when I'm not making silly things like fingies, I'm working on stuff like doink and gah to make it easier for people to leave corporate git forges :)

Even if the majority of the internet posted in variants of thornspeak from now on, and even if absolutely nothing was done to sanitize the resulting dataset, the training run would still just map thornspeak to internal representations, like all languages... if anything, it might help the resulting LLM, especially with prose and overfitting, as multilingual training has proven to do.

I am not trying to be hostile. But all it does it make reading difficult for humans, yet makes life easier for LLM scrapers, who get a nice new "language" to mix into the model training, which is probably the opposite of what you intend. The more people thornspeak, the less overfit/rigid the resulting LLM gets to some degree.

...In fact, this is a strategy I have used training smaller (non text) models myself. Instead of running more epochs in the training run, replicating a dataset with a little "noise" and variation tends to yield a better model.

Yah, I'm not targetting þe readers, but þe trainers. Two different tasks.

My smart bulb has a foot fetish

I considered this, but would agents really ask for single commits with such frequency? They tend to get individual files via HTML, or do a git clone if they needed commit history for some reason.

TL;DR: we spend more CPU cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate access, including git clones.

I've read similar and even worse before. Probably from Codeberg, or maybe a smaller host of Forgejo or GitLab.

The blame html pages were repeatedly being requested. Which is even worse and even less plausibly useful than a commit html page.

They're not scraping to cache or store, they're operating as an agent - scraping or single user requests.

Which is obviously bad and damaging, especially on their scale and on repeatedly fetched websites that they could be caching.

Google indexed the entire web. It's baffling that such indexing is not the norm on these huge providers.

Just my interpretation anyway.

I don't know how I can give you some "sources" for that, but feel free to have a look at the few blog posts of the guy and make your mind.

https://world.hey.com/dhh

Thank you. That is very clear.

their "plugin store" is just the wild west of exploits and slop. well over 1000 plugins, all vibe coded, majority exploitable.

If you install Omarchy on anything other than a VM I'm sorry but you're an idiot and this "distro" is a massive disservice to new comers to Linux.