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You are not missing anything for not knowing but Pirate Software in this context is another youtuber/influencer.

Similar idea to the "turbo" button in some old pentiums?

not sun protection factor?!

Don't you find it funny that when you ask for song lyrics these models suddenly remember copyrighted material?

MATLAB was used extensively during my electronics eng degree 20+ years ago. You could do pretty much about anything with it: signal processing, neural networks t, simulations, anything... It was what made me take an interest into programming. Sad day. RIP Cleve.

Indeed. The joke is that the website itself is vibe coded.

That's really great news. For anyone looking for the astrophotography equipment, this is from one of his posts:

Telescope: William Optics UltraCat 76 Mount: Sky-Watcher Wave 150i Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro

Not commenting on the content itself (others have done it better) but anybody getting tired of seeing the same vibe coded websites over and over again?

Then came DVD±RW which used the magic pen technology. Each time you write, it changed both the color of the disc and the data. Surprisingly enough if you did it long enough it ended in color/data corruption...

The EU Commission had an open consultation about "Open Source and Digital Ecosystems" recently and is planing to (more) heavily invest in OSS in the future as a matter of sovereignty. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-ope...

https://nocodb.com/ is an open source alternative.

Same reason here. It didn't like Florisboard.

Cool work, thanks. A bit like https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy in python, if you weren't aware OP.

imgur makes me sad these days :( https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/41592665292443-Imgu...

Hetzner might get a lot of love here but it's another service that treats protonmail users as second class citizens since they ask for ID. I would avoid them just because of this.

A theory I've heard of why this happens is that Europeans are generally suspicious because there is a lot of international trauma considering Europe was the center of two World Wars, both relatively recently. The US on the other hand didn't have that imprinted in its collective memory.

I've read another theory: It's because of the sun damage to their eye from using a sextant for navigation. Haven't been able to confirm it though.

I see wildcard imports. I'll pass. Also if you want to use R in python why not use the rpy2 library?

The Journal Of Open Source Software addresses this problem. Reviewers test the code, submit Reviews as GH issues and PRs are corrections. Code review and coding in the open is what the academic review process should be. - https://joss.theoj.org/

It's Azure but, Apache Atlas : MS Purview

This is exactly (same genetic disease) the subject of the book Slackjaw by Jim Knipfel. It's surprisingly a _fun_ read!

This should be part of the "How to Overengineer Anything and Everything" series.

Nail in the head. But can you imagine what it would have been if hakia would have been a thing instead of the SEO-spam, ad-infested Web that Google and Co. gave us?

Maybe it's the new old way of making known to the reader that an LLM was not used, like back in the day when printed maps had minor intentional mistakes (for entirely different reasons though) !

The future looks like debugging hell.

They mine your data as long as it can be converted into a marketable product for them. The most recent example was this: https://9to5mac.com/2022/11/21/ios-privacy-concerns-deepen/

Maybe images/photos isn't something they want to expand at this moment in time but let's not get ahead of ourselves.

The way Journal of Open Source (JOSS) - https://joss.theoj.org - does the reviewing process is good. Everything is out in the open, reviewers and authors names, reviews, responses, discussions etc. The whole process is out there for everyone to see.

That's a very roundabout way to solve an actual problem. In many cases you don't pin your package version to _latest_ (whatever that date is) and you need a more fine-grained solution to keeping package versions. I don't think that solves this and I don't know if you can do it with checkpoint.

Totally agree. I find it frustrating trying to reproduce other people's work in R. How has this situation has been allowed to continue for so long? It's unacceptable, especially when used for science. It's impossible to replicate anything unless you are lucky enough you manage to find which package version introduces breaking changes and even then this is something you have to do repeatedly for every code break. Even with _renv_ it's a library you have to install within your R environment which is pointless. Where is a dependency solver like conda for R? - Not that it's perfect, but I've been happy with its drop-in replacement - mamba recently.

Adtech and to a large extent Google are untrustworthy by definition. Read above about the Mastercard-Google deal, here is a non-paywall source https://www.warc.com/newsandopinion/news/google-and-masterca...

That's only the tip of the iceberg.