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Sure, buildings were demolished, is that unusual in a war zone?

I also did not know it was a term..

I have been trying to promote open source sw for as long as I can remember but peoplel like my wife who is a social worker says it is too clunky and gets in the way, recently I have been vide coding with apps on Raspberry Pi's and just maybe that gap is slowly starting to close.

I for one am watching this space with a lot of interest.

This is amazing I am so grateful to hear about it.

I gave been going in few similar things on my own with localbox

I use both (also Headscale)

Yet so many developers do not know about it.

I have been using CF tunnels for quite some time, very useful if you want to ingest mail on a local server without a public IP and hosting anything locally.

They are providing this for free up to a point, I wonder if all developers are aware of this amazing offering?

apps running on vpn mesh can be really useful

It is very hard work and with multilayer boards and surface mount components it is not really a hobby for me anymore, maybe with AI it can be again?

True and funny.

Bugs days are numbered with AI!

AI-powered email agent that syncs your emails via IMAP and provides intelligent analysis Interesting to analyse 20+ years of my gmail account. Fork the repo and make it better, this is created with AI

good luck, nice idea, agents are fun and a bit scary sometimes!

Gambling feeds on human misery, it should never be normalized, they made the right decision.

I am using the older version of raspberry pi 3 B+ to host mail and web services locally behind firewalls. There is a use case here for developing for remote areas that have unreliable internet and power. Still a way to go but there is something in place. This site is a beta running from my lounge at home. https://localboxmail.co.za/software.html

My son wants to throw it away, I want to at least try and reuse it.

Any suggestions for an ancient Chromebook?

Have one that is managed by a school from 10 years ago and they failed to release the device.

I am a fan of alpine Linux which i think may work well on an old Chromebook.

Any suggestions/links welcome

I have mixed feelings about this, I hate the loss of slow "discovery" and the warm fuzzy feeling when you understand something that used to be Greek to you (unless of course you are Greek) The piles of programming books, sadly many unread but admired on the shelf from afar. Now I create programs in languages I only vaguely understand and run remote servers without even logging in, it feels slightly shameful but then we are all complicit

Absolutely, I give my agents access to MCP/API and they can check logs and setup checks for potential problems and whatever else

It is a really interesting debate, it seems to be a type of abstraction at least, with an interface as a natural language instead of a typed schema.

Neither really solved the problem, reality is too nuanced, AI fills the gap.

wow this is murky water, I love the abstraction of AI, I feel like the director of an orchestra creating beautiful music in code.

I always resented having to write the same code over and over, now automated by AI

but also support free and open software, as all knowledge should be

I got a bill for about R900 for just having a look at some of their services?

I will never use them again, they are huge so probably dont really care about small users

I have actually replaced most of what they do with Raspberry Pi's using cloudflare tunnels

Yes even I have used C#

My anti MS is a reflex from many years of torment!

I love Go but am not a fan of .NET

Have to ask what is the point of .NET is it even needed being the navel gazing MS fraternity?

It is a great analogy.

Also quite like Linus Torvalds likening of AI to a compiler.

He argues that calling AI the "author" of code is the equivalent of saying a compiler wrote your code.

He views AI as an incredibly powerful productivity layer, much like the historic progression from machine code to assemblers, and then to higher-level compilers!

I have made boards but never actually used them (the delay between need and supply is too long for me)

I wish I could 3d print a board with all its components - instant gratification (which incidentally was one of my half baked projects)

Fair enough.

The real test of a programming language is its readabilty.

I looked at lisp many times and it just doesn't do it for me.

Could this apply to workers that ingest email?