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Creator behind it, Peter Ullrich, is a heavy vibe coder and Claude Opus user. He has publicly stated how he loves to use AI to contribute to open source projects and finding CVEs with AI[1].

Honestly, I frankly do not understand why this project is so heavily Anti AI by a creator so heavily reliant on AI. An oxymoron, really. Also hiding the fact that this entire project is likely completely vibeslopped, given it re-implements most of Forgejo in a matter of months as a single contributor, is just evil, given its stated mission.

1: https://youtu.be/FulShj7jc0o?t=209

You can make a fully open source router using free range routing (FRR) on Linux together with a switch chip mounted to a pcie card. There are also a lot of recent development around exactly this, with Vector Packet Processing, DPDK and SR-IOV to allow wire rate processing even at 100g+.

However, that Mikrotik is being mentioned as under US control stands out like a sore thumb. Given that its a Latvian company, working entirely inside the EU, having no US offices. What is much more plasable is that an attack is deploying zero-days in the routers and switches to crash or otherwise take over the equipment. That the US would be able to hide magic satellite receivers, for decades without researchers finding anything, inside of a non-US manufacturer's equipment that can get a clean signal inside of a datacenter to remotely shut them off, is so far fetched I don't even know what to say.

Feeling very much the same. Attempting to use it through Claude Code as a model it just completely lost all context on what it was doing after a few months and kept short circuiting even with the most helpful prompts I could give, outside of just writing out the answer myself. I really do not get the praise for this model.

Being "better than Opus 4.6" is not really something a benchmark will tell you. It's much more a consensus of users liking the flavor of an answer, rather than fueling x% correct on a benchmark.

Not to be confused with Kairos, a kubernetes linux distribution. https://kairos.io/

I hear this comment warnings, and can easily see this myself being true. But, how could one actually make a reasonably safe http server in C from scratch?

That would honestly sound like an amazing book, just walking through all the ways it's horrible chapter by chapter, and how to structure the code instead, slowly. Like an accelerated history to create such a matured http library.

In short, a hostile takeover forced by Shopify through Ruby Central.

It was sparked after Ruby Central chose to platform an extremist figure prominently for their last RailsConf against the wishes of the sponsors, losing them a lot of sponsorship money, as well as community support.

https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/

My favorite is that even Microsoft themselves maintain MIT licensed debloat scripts of their own software.

https://github.com/microsoft/windows-dev-box-setup-scripts/b...

What baffles me is how they have $41k in expenses monthly for so few users. I'd love to see a breakdown of what in their infrastructure is eating up so much money.

What language is this? It looks like some sort of Java/JVM.

I tried another server and Hachyderm still has it available. Idk why it disappeared off Mastodon Social.

This seems to just 404 for me?

Edit: https://hachyderm.io/@ben@m.benui.ca/112396508798014598 has it cached for me.

Dragonfly isn't open source nor free software. Rather a pointless switch if you ask me.

Another very interesting point here is, nobody seems to have read the actual post, and gone on about cheap shots against "women" as if were some general object you can collect together.

Like the post explores fictosexualism, the escapism of an AI girlfriend/boyfriend, the general agreed upon sense that its a coping strategy, taking a strange turn into true crime and AI characters, summarizing with that this "AI gf/bf craze" is going to continue to be a minority of people, but that instead this will develop (author's claim) into a sort of erotica, similar to romance novels, and that "romance scams" on places like Instagram may become common.

Like there are like 7 or 8 different subjects one could have a great discussion about from this post alone. Yet we talk about how you can meet a man in VR, how men are bad (?), and that women are in hetro relationships when men are not. It's a strange deviation from the rather intellectual nature of Hacker News.

I think the key point here is actually from the first paragraph.

> HashiCorp’s CEO predicted there would be “no more open source companies in Silicon Valley” unless the community rethinks how it protects innovation.

Open source is literally a license to give the power to the people, the community, such that we allow anyone to contribute and give back. It is not a tool to "protect (your) innovation". It is a very self oriented move built on the greed inherent in capitalism. Basically the opposite of open source and tangentially copyleft.

I think a lot of people forget, especially the newer generations, that open source is not some "good boy points" or graceful gesture you do to others. It's not about you doing a "kind gesture" to the community, open source is a political move to use copyright law against itself to give the ownership right to anyone. Many seem to look past that, and try to seek out a middle ground between "my innovation" and getting the usage/praise from having the code be labelled as open-source. You can even see the Hashicorp CEO misuse the open-source label pretty regularly.

Doing some math on the example courses (300 points for a 45 min course) and the requirement of gaining 50 000 points, that's a whopping 333 hours of just courses.

Jesus Christ.

Also locking the entire issue from further reactions and comments since "a workaround exists" is a really bad way to handle the PR for this.

I think we can see to Hacktoberfest as a comparison to this "let external junior devs to deal with backlog" idea. And this project gives the same fear and worries of that "chase for the cheapest PR to get my reward"-logic as that which Hacktoberfest encourages.

While GitStart pays their developers, that alone could encourage better habits, I fear it could also enable this chasing reward mentality harder, setting the juniors up for failure, as well as frustrating the customer with having to deny and review multiple low-quailty PRs.

How is this avoided? This seems heavily at risk to cause more headache than help.

As a blog post with the title "Don't be clever" ending up with the author's answer being an even clever-er solution, than talking about the hidden fight against complexity in software, was an odd ending note.

Uh. "cropping up like ants" is definitely a take. Not a good one, as most the browsers here had their first release date of 199*. I will list them out.

Mullvad, is the Tor Browser with the Mullvad VPN included, and released 2023. However, the Tor Browser, which it effectively is, is from 2002.

Brave, the one in this article, is from 2019.

Opera is from 1994.

Vivaldi is from 2015, and is developed by Opera's previous dev-team after a bad sale to a Chinese company.

Microsoft's first browser, Internet Explorer, is from 1995.

I can not comment about Zoho's browser, as i know little about it.

> I wish we could fight for more rights. We are too spread out for protests to work.

One word, Unions.

Its why Europe is doing so well with workers rights in STEM today compared to America.

When will VC companies stop conflating source available with open source? It's even worse than just being closed source as it's trying to pander to a group for money, and without any respect to the actual values of what they are saying.

And its been merged now haha. You can see the change too on https://astro.build/

It's awesome just how quickly this got addressed.

Well Reddit is hardly better. They have already started applying a login wall and app wall on mobile.

> I am glad there's alternatives to Google and Bing.

Kagi is just Bing under the hood with an OpenAI summarizer and a lot of tuning. It is fully reliant on the quality of search results it can fetch from Bing's databases.

I know there exists Qwant (a french company) which claim to have an independent engine, but they keep turning their Bing backend on for a lot of searches. Only truly independent engine from Google/Bing with relevant results that i know of is Brave Search. Not a great company, but they do know how to make a good search engine, and are practically alone in the space fighting against the Bing-based alternative search engine business model.

It seems that Reddit has stopped responding to data requests. If this is because their servers are overloaded, or if this is intentional, I'm not sure.

> Consistency is key.

This 100%, but a warning, this consistency also applies to the people meeting. And that is much more difficult to encourage than anything else. Funding, organizing and advertising meetups ends up being the easy part.

I have run a LUG now for half a year now, and it has been impossible to get people to meet up more than once. This is regardless of content, free food, event weeks, high quality talks by members, encouraging social interactions, holding discussions with experts on interested topics, etc.

Mind you, the members we have are still fiercely for the LUG to continue, they do not want to see it gone, but also continue not showing up. I have worked with frequent members individually to try and find alternatives like better time slots, as many complain about being "busy", but I have now learned its really not a time issue either.

Not really sure why its so hard getting people to show, it just is, even if you give people exactly what they want plus unique spins on topics that are cheered on in the public channel when announced, but follows to nobody showing up.

And the moderation that makes Reddit hold valuable content is done by its users on a per subreddit status. Only stuff that could break laws like extremist content and hate speech is handled by Reddit themselves.

It's really odd to call it "their" data, and this is not exclusive to Reddit.

Agreed. Annoyingly the author does split up a very core idea to the next paragraph:

> and we should be transitioning to even more secure passphrases. [newline] Or does it? Let's go into what LUKS is doing in the first place.

That sentence really should have been put into the introductory paragraph, instead of being the start of the 2nd.

Well GNU Guix is publicly against the current structure of the FSF and especially RMS.[1] So Guix as an example is not really a great defense of FSF and the GNU Project's operating structure.

1: https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-pr...

It specifically needed to be its own record as the record requires DNSSEC to verify that the returned SSH key is trusted. Using TXT would be ridiculously insecure as it cannot force the DNSSEC verification step that SSHFP as a unique record gives.

Definitely annoying, but does ensure that the returned SSH key is always correct and not from a forged record.