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vim might be tainted:

• https://hachyderm.io/@AndrewRadev/116175986749599825
• https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Avim%2Fvim+claude&type=commits&s=committer-date&o=desc

Not sure about live HTML preview, but I ended up picking Gram as well, on my search for AI-free software. (By the way, I found open-slopware a good resource for this.) Someone else already mentioned it in this thread, but I wanted to add some context. Gram is a fork of Zed, which is built for and with AI. It is therefore already tainted, if that’s something you care about. However, I found the Manifesto neat. (It also has official support for Zig which is what I was looking for specifically at the time.)

Oh and I was also recommended Kate. I haven’t gotten to try it, but it could be an alternative worth considering.

Okay, so I lack the sources, so I ask others to please back me up; but isn’t this anything but settled law? There was something in the US but it was more of a recommendation than a law, and will have to be tested in court. Also, Codeberg is hosted in Germany, so its laws would apply there.

What if I do have the chops to quality check and actually do treat Claude like a junior coder?

When you have an actual junior coder, they learn over time, including from their mistakes, until they’re a senior coder that can do the same for others. When you’re “treating Claude like a junior coder”, you’re just cleaning up after a mostly unchanging system. See also this article by a Zig contributor.

And having AI do annoying tasks (which you then need to double-check if correct anyway) you’re missing out on the opportunity to get better at problem solving by skipping the part where you find a programmatic solution, even if it’s a one-time thing. (Though when you work on an open source project, it’s nice if others can verify how you got to your solution in the first place.)

I found it interesting how he gets even charged for cancelling the service!

The explanation I found before is that you can pay for yearly subscription that is of course cheaper but still pay monthly. The cancellation fee is for the remaining unpaid months. Or something like that.

What We Learned Building a Self-Hosted Speech Translation Platform

Okay, but… what did you actually learn? Your post doesn’t go into it, and the links just go to the repository. (That’s a long README, by the way.) And a question lingers on my mind since it’s important to me personally: You use AI for the translating tech, of course, but how much AI is involved in the other parts of the project? (Such as code, documentation, testing, marketing posts like this one, …)

People use this community, among other things, to stay informed about what’s happening with open source software. rsync, possibly among the top 0.1% of software used for system administration in Linux land, starting to use AI in its development is certainly noteworthy. Linking to an issue where people can voice their (anti-AI) opinion, contained within that one issue, is hardly worth getting upset over. Unless… you know… you’d rather people stand by and let it happen.

I think it’s better to try and convince the developers to pivot away from AI. Only if that doesn’t work out, does it make sense to consider a fork. Forks do mean more work overall, still done for free, and the new maintainers will not have the same experience, as you said yourself.

Yeah, but it had a locked bootloader before that. So I was just adding that some phones have a procedure for that. (I had to get a unique unlock code from the Fairphone website, as far as I remember.) Not many, but they exist.

Well, to be fair, I did in the past unlock my Fairphone’s bootloader, and then re-lock it as per the iodéOS instructions. But, presumably, that only works with certain devices and certain OSes?

Xenia will forever be the true Linux mascot in my heart.

be the change you want to see in the world

I already left !programming@programming.dev because I was sick of seeing AI related posts. I would appreciate it if this didn’t also become a place where people talk about AI constantly, whether it’s related to FOSS or not. My ask is: Move the AI related posts to an AI-adjacent community or create one. Perhaps I’m not the only one who shares this wish.

I can understand that way of thinking, but

• you’re at risk of becoming dependent, and not building the understanding you’ll need to make something that matters
• many things start out as hobby projects that end up mattering after all

Computers have become more complicated than when he learned to code and was “typing in programs from computer magazines.” Vibe coding, he said, is a great way for people to “get computers to do something that maybe they couldn’t do otherwise.”

But the equivalent would be to take tutorials, examples and small open source projects and tinkering with them, rather than asking a machine to do it for you, no? I guess we’ll have to see how this affects young / beginner programmers going forward. I’d rather be careful than just hoping it all works out fine.

Or worse, “nevermind, fixed it”.

Selhosting and a vpn are optional depending on your use case; the app works with niether to help users try it out and get started. Like all secure messaging apps, its better to selfhost given the option.

I’d say self-hosting is done for control over your data, not security. A typical end user will not know how to self-host, how to pick a privacy-respecting VPN, let alone secure their system. If your aim is to get to that same level of security, then I feel like the current direction is flawed, at least from what I took away from the readme.

Or, in other words, “self-hosting is more secure given the option” sounds kind of like “writing your own software is more secure”.

This project is aiming to create the most secure and private chat app. It will heavily depend on how you use it. Here are some reccomended security optimizations/advice to keep your data secure and private:

• Use a self-hosted instance of the app.
• Use a VPN to protect your data from being intercepted.
• Only connect to trusted peers.
• Validate public key hashes.
• You and your peer should use a secure device/os/browser with the latest updates.
• use general security practices like not sharing sensitive information, not clicking on suspicious links, etc.

These recommendations are bizarre.

• Is it really P2P if you need to a host your own instance?
• Use a VPN? So a company can now track you instead of the ISP?
• If it’s aiming to be safe, then why not share sensitive information?

If you want secure and private, then I would first look at Session.

Discord also works poorer in Linux

Certainly not Linux’ fault if developers write shitty Electron apps and then put a bunch of OS-specific stuff in it.

Also, try Vesktop? I like that I can customize my experience a little more with the plugins.

Snap

All my homies hate Snap.

Haven’t watched the video, but I think just the conversation this created ended up being interesting to me. A handful of extra views won’t do any harm.

most of the the Arch cult forget to mention that

The “Arch cult’s” holy book, the ArchWiki, states the following pretty clearly:

Warning: AUR packages are user-produced content. These PKGBUILDs are completely unofficial and have not been thoroughly vetted. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk.

Mention of one’s use of the AUR for their needs doesn’t need to come with a disclaimer.
People who don’t read or don’t use their brain are going to keep not doing so, regardless.

That probably counts as a privileged page, as in something uBlock Origin can’t access or modify.

Mozilla has probably been running another “experiment”, meaning not every user is affected. In the past they claimed it’s not advertisements because they are “continually looking for more ways to say thanks for using Firefox”. (Bullshit.) If you go to Settings > Home, you disable anything you don’t want to see, or just set your home page to a blank page, period.