It’s incredible when Artix is being more based than Debian.

However, what’s gonna happen should the attempts to age-gate the XDG portal screw over alt-init distros like Artix too?

Just join the Ageless Linux thing? My understanding is at most they will be providing a bogus interface, basically.

It’s systemd. A child pest of a Microsoftist pest. It was literally invented to contribute towards the MicrosoftizationMicroslopization of Linux.

Congrats guys! We did it!

Thanks for joining in!

Seriously, enough was going on with the project that the AI was just the final nail (or the deepest nail) in the coffin. What’s important is that we denounce AI where we see it, as this (and not “usage”) is the only non-violent way we have to try and lead a change in how AI is developed and deployed in the first place. The problem is not simply “someone can use AI in their spare time”, it’s what even has to happen as a prerequisite for that to even be a thing in the first place (code theft, mass license violation, environmental destruction, RAM shortages, erosion of civil and digital rights, exemptions for big corpo, you name it).

We should all feel ashamed that an open source project was shuttered because of how our community acted.

Open Source means the source is open, not that you can do whatever ass-unethical thing you want. That weird impression of the world is something that techbros, cryptobros and liberals are trying to push. Don’t be fooled. We defended ourselves, and we managed a tie.

This and ich_iel are why I like the Fediverse!

in as much as reaching into BS can be considered “Fediverse”

That’s precisely why they have to be resisted and/or we have to look for alternatives that Do One Thing Well. Among many other issues, the networking effect issue with EverythingApps is quite double-faceted in that, because they do everything, their “weight” not only acts as gilded cages to prevent people from leaving, but also to prevent developers, working on their spare time, from developing something that can be reasonably understood as an “alternative” (because the alternative has to also Do Everything).

It’s basically playing a loser game to lose, see eg.: Mozilla always at best playing catch-up to Google, or why we can’t seem to move from BloatedWebWithReact to something like Gopher (or even make a proper Gopher 2.0).

All that said, I feel like XMPP and Matterbridge are approaching this from the right perspective. Just implement a global communication protocol and leave to platform makers (or platform users) the task of bridging from and to whatever directions they want.

Hmmmm voice chat eh?

Well then it’s time to recommend Mumble!

I hear Snikket makes it really easy to host XMPP (aka Jabber).

Bringing back a meme from the very early '00s (if not earlier), I’d say something like “Cloning Discord is my passion”.

It really looks like every programmer wannabe is trying to bumrush a Discord codeslop for free internet fame points these days!

Yeah, but if I’m paid for my time that’s only my time, being miserable requires extra payment.

Eh, we don’t owe politeness to our oppressors.

If I’m being given the Tuxedo, I’m gonna make that look spiffy every day.

That said, Windows is in no way a Tuxedo.

I use it at my “catch other people’s emails” account, tho so far I haven’t been quick enough on the draw to do cool stuff like slurping account creation tokens, goodie delivieries or stuff like that.

Phew!

So someone took their time to write a piece of JS that said “If the user hasn’t focused both fields at least once, no login”. Literally why? Extra code that does nothing useful.

If anything, 30 seconds in Greasemonkey should fix that one (either blocking the function that is doing it, or manually firing click events on the fields).

Wasn’t passkeys basically “passwords, but Google has control of them”?

So I tested around and, in fact, 7zip can not immediately decompress rpms. Sorta the same with debs, it decompresses them into an intermediary format which seems to just be a tarfile but still 7zip can’t do it “recursively”.

Even if the “has an optional AI assistant” was not a thing, the repo includes an AGENTS.md file, which is also listed in the criteria, and more than qualifies it as slopware.

It might be, but for some people that might, understandably, be already bad enough, a line in the sand if you will.

I’m reminded of this statement about LLMs and the kind of people who use them in the first place. It’s an early indicator that quality (and sovereignty) of the software is going to go the incline down.

Geez… problems never end, do they.

I’m barely active in Codeberg. Unless someone beats me by, say, end-of-month, I might file an issue about it; that said, I’d like to be able to offer at least one (1) functional alternative rather than simply +1’ing to the complains that this or that is Never Good Enough.