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radlad··on Reinventing the pull request
And thus, you don't have to build on every single unreviewed PR - but often it's quite sane to do so.
radlad··on GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash
How did they do this exactly?
radlad··on Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry
Imagine being Anthropic and opening yourself up to the deluge of CC-coded PRs by all of your users.
radlad··on 72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes
I've never heard the expression "to play one's Uno card." Is this a play on "to play one's Trump card"? I can understand why this phrasing could cause confusion, but want to make sure I'm not missing something.
radlad··on How to turn anything into a router
The primary reason I stick to iptables instead of nft is that I already learned iptables decades ago, and some software I interact with still defaults to iptables and/or does not have full support for nft.

Why do you doubt the sanity of people sticking to iptables? What makes nft compelling?

radlad··on ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
The problem is that it's not optional to end-users if sites enforce its use.
radlad··on Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people
This is definitely a matter of perspective. I have had a Github account since 2010, and git comes installed on Linux and macOS.

I don't always have a server available to host an HTTP+FTP server on. Or want to pay for one, or spend time setting one up. I can trust that Github Pages will have reasonable uptime, and I won't have to monitor it at all.

> And if you already knew how to write/make HTML you'd for sure already know all of that too.

This seems unnecessarily aggressive, and I don't really understand where it's coming from.

BTW, you can absolutely host plain HTML with Github Pages. No SSG required.

radlad··on Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
Right - but these were also not "hard cut" dates. They are a couple simple examples of the evolution of social media that continued (and continues) to occur.

The platforms continue to optimize for engagement (i.e. addiction.)

radlad··on Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people
Because it doesn't require you to run an HTTP server, FTP server, or install an FTP client.
radlad··on Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
> If social media adoption was driving the increase in suicides, we would have started to see a rise in suicides around the early 2000s, reaching it's peak around 2008.

I think there is a logical fallacy here. Social media has not remained stable since 2008. For one thing, 2008 social media used the chronological timeline. For another, it didn't show "recommended" (or sponsored) content in your feed. There was no TikTok. Facebook was relatively new and MySpace was not even really feed-based as I recall.

radlad··on Our commitment to Windows quality
I did mention IT at offices buying computers for their coworkers. :-)

I know more and more people who are editing photos and videos on their phone/tablet - not movie producers, sure. But lots of YouTubers, influencers, etc.

radlad··on Our commitment to Windows quality
Why would you have to modify fstab? Surely you are using UUID/PARTUUID these days.

I also wouldn't expect a kernel panic on Linux... Maybe no video though.

radlad··on Our commitment to Windows quality
Do non-tech people even buy computers anymore? I imagine you basically have tech enthusiasts, gamers, and IT at offices buying desktop computers at this point.
radlad··on Afroman found not liable in defamation case
Not sure he's "big MAGA" but I assume this is where the idea stems from - https://www.newsweek.com/afroman-explains-his-new-song-hunte...
radlad··on Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)
Hm, not sure. Data on its own (say, a string of numbers) might be meaningless - but structured data? Sure, there may be ambiguity but well-structured data generally ought to have a clear/obvious interpretation. This is the whole idea of nailing your data structures.
radlad··on Home Assistant waters my plants
Docker would be the primary other dependency for Apps support.

There's nothing wrong with running it on bare metal but this is easier with the VM image.

radlad··on Leanstral: Open-source agent for trustworthy coding and formal proof engineering
In my experience, this tends to be more related to instrumentation / architecture than a lack of ability to describe correct results. TDD is often suggested as a solution.
radlad··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
You're right - the reality of the world today is that open-sourced code is slurped up by AI companies, all questions of legality/ethics aside. But this was not the reality of the world that existed when the code was licensed and released. That is why it is easy to empathize with code authors who did not expect their code to be used in this manner.
radlad··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
The thing is, copyright is not done. The legal framework still exists and is enforced so I am not sure how to read your reply as anything other than a strongly worded opinion. Just ask Disney.

I use AI every day in my dev workflows, yet I am still easily able to empathize with those who did not intend for their code to be laundered through AI to remove their attribution (or whatever other caveats applied in their licensing.)

radlad··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
Presumably you are licensing your code as MIT or a similar license.

Not all code is licensed that way. Some open-source code had strings attached, but AI launders the code and makes them moot.

radlad··on John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists
> people who open source their code do not care about profit

Not only are there businesses built around open-source work, but it used to be widely-accepted that publishing open-source software was a good way to land a paying gig as a junior.

I think that whether you need to continue working to afford to live is very relevant to discussions about AI.

Profits don't need to be direct - and licenses are chosen based on a user's particular open-source goals. AI does not respect code's original licensing.

radlad··on Can I run AI locally?
I'd love to know how you fit smaller models into your workflow. I have an M4 Macbook Pro w/ 128GB RAM and while I have toyed with some models via ollama, I haven't really found a nice workflow for them yet.
radlad··on ATMs didn’t kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
Do you think that composers of the past did not also face real-world constraints?
radlad··on Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
> AI here is the final nail in the coffin

so far*

radlad··on My Homelab Setup
Yup doing this with Caddy and Nebula, works great!
radlad··on When AI writes the software, who verifies it?
It's gonna be like that HBO Silicon Valley bit again, where everyone and their doctor is telling you about their app.
radlad··on When AI writes the software, who verifies it?
I don't quite follow - are you describing an issue with the way your team has structured PRs? IMO, a PR should contain just enough code to clearly and completely solve "a thing" without solving too much at once. But what this means in practice depends on the team, product, velocity, etc. It sounds like your PRs might be broken up into too small of chunks if you can't understand why the code is being added.
radlad··on Microgpt
It's hard to know what this means, but... really? I mean most people can't keep more than 10 digits in their mind at a time.
radlad··on Obsidian Sync now has a headless client
I'm not sure how to make it work but like others in this thread I have an interest in sharing some - but not all - of my notes with some AI agents. Would love a solution that is built in to Obsidian / Obsidian Sync.
radlad··on The happiest I've ever been
This could also be read as a take on the nurture aspect of childrearing.
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