Hey if it means we get another shot at fixing what they broke with the GPL, I'm in.

FLOSS existed far before LLMs, and now companies are using them to pull the teeth from hard copyleft licenses.

We didn't need artcraft, we already had Gimp, Darktable, KDEnlive, and Blender. The main complaint from users is UI. The fix isn't AI, the fix is users putting in a week to two to retrain muscle memory.

I'm kinda surprised apt even allows http without a flag or config change.

Oh no I'm not saying I like the situation, I'm just saying its currently the only good option if you want something that works this instant.

I love the idea of desktop Linux in my pocket, I daily drove an OG Pine Phone for a year. After a year for daily driving a Cosmo communicator.

The support just isn't there and I really really wish it was. I honestly think the federal government needs to step in and fund FLOSS development, but lmao good luck, they don't even pay for cancer treatments.

Grapheme runs tests on googles firmware regularly.

If it was actively doing something it shouldnt, they'd notice.

You could argue there could be something hidden in the firmware for use by the state when they REALLY REALLY REALLY want to get into something, and are willing to blow a good backdoor on it. But that's also something you deal with on any modern PC, unless you wanna party like its 2011 and run an old FX-Series AMD chip, or a librebooted machine with ME Cleaner. (See Intel ME/AMD PSP)

I just bought a pixel 10a open box for like $350.

Like I get some people are stuck on Walmart specials, but how cheap does it need to be before its not considered a purchase for the privileged by you?

I don't trust VC fuckers, but the underlying protocol is good work.

I would love to see a noncommercial reimplementation and network, especially one which doesn't have crypto integration.

Or at the very least for signal to stop requiring a phone number and allow you to register from a desktop.

Remember when one of your professors or mentors told you "Learn Fortran, all the old guys are dying and leaving desperate employers behind."

What do you think happens in five years when no one is willing to pay to train models, the existing ones are no longer keeping up, and most of the industry has spent their time with a tool that actively declines their skills?

I'd like to think that's at the end of this tunnel is a light that means the culling of bootcamp skids and should-be-MBA techbros from the jobs that should be for developers who are in it for the love of the game.

In the meantime? Yeah, its gonna be rough, sis.

SimpleX has been a lot easier.

Got my boio, roomie, and a coupla frens there.

Its almost like governments can step in and limit the amount a single entity or company is allowed to buy, or make things cheaper/more expensive for certain customers via subsidy.

The US government has totally never done things like this to help turn a profit for oil execs.

No the opposite of interacting with meta products would be like living in the woods or some shit. I think of this place more as a methadone clinic.

The fediverse has 0 safety rails against oligarch takeover.

The guardrail is about keeping meta sludge from people who want to interact with it, not fixing the rubes that like the duping.

If you choose to directly interact with a meta product that's your own damn fault. You can't fix stupid, but you can contain it away from the people who don't want to interact with it.