LightFog (u/LightFog)

LightFog commented on X ordered to pay €550k to Irish exec fired after failing to respond to Musk mail belfasttelegraph.co.uk/bu... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

mrinfinitiesx · 2 years ago

What exactly happens if Musk just decides to 'ignore' the judgement and not pay anything? He'll get some angry e-mail from some irish government office and then that'll be that? Just appeal it and drag it out then ignore it? not sure there's many irish companies they'd lose business with if ireland cut X off

LightFog · 2 years ago

Their European presence is regulated through Ireland now https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/arid-41435437.html It’s hard to see the platform lasting long in the EU if Musk keeps on his current path.

LightFog commented on Efficient LaTeX Editing with Emacs michaelneuper.com/posts/e... · Posted by u/antonalekseev

LightFog · 2 years ago

I didn’t get to read the article yet - but loading it is crashing Firefox and Safari on my IPhone - haven’t seen that happen in a while!

LightFog commented on Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent old.reddit.com/r/programm... · Posted by u/gantengx

arp242 · 2 years ago

What does that have to do with anything...?

LightFog · 2 years ago

It is easy to jump back and forward between this social media platform and the issue tracker. What do you think is incentivising the pitchforks you are complaining about - where do you think they want the angry mob to vent? The gamified issue tracker is where.

LightFog commented on Zed Editor automatically downloads binaries and NPM packages without consent old.reddit.com/r/programm... · Posted by u/gantengx

arp242 · 2 years ago

I really wish these "torch and pitchfork" posts were declared off-topic. A discussion on what/when to auto-download and how would be useful, but comments on these kind of submissions are almost always just ranting/complaining about how bad $x is, what idiots people are, and things like this.

> And people wonder why foss devs burn out.

I have slowly become convinced that the open source community has been infiltrated by trolls from, eh, I don't know – something or someone that doesn't like open source. I have no direct evidence for this, but it does seem to align with observed facts.

A few days ago someone posted some hobby project they worked on, and of course one of the replies was some unhinged rant about how the chosen $language wasn't any good and how they would "rather kill myself" than use that language... Okay... I don't think any normal personal can get get that triggered by someone's hobby project, hence my conclusion: infiltration by trolls.

LightFog · 2 years ago

Turning issue trackers into Emoji riddled social media platforms will do that alright.

LightFog commented on Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2024... · Posted by u/signa11

pjmlp · 2 years ago

FOSS folks need a reality check, regarding of many of their beloved projects are now on the paychecks from Oracle, Microsoft, Oracle, Meta, IBM, Intel, Google, Apple, AMD, NVidia,....

From operating systems, programming languages, frameworks, compilers, editors, whatever.

While placing the code in Codeberg only to get warm feelings.

LightFog · 2 years ago

I don’t understand the proposed reality they (we) should live in.

They are trying to advocate for software that doesn’t hurt its users in a sea of enshittifaction.

They should stop because corporations produce powerful software?

LightFog commented on Making AI better at math tutoring blog.khanacademy.org/why-... · Posted by u/gnicholas

LightFog · 2 years ago

Maybe I’m reading too much into it but the roadmap mentioning switching from GPT4 Turbo to 4-o and hoping for better math performance feels like they are betting on a significant near term reliability improvement in LLMs without any other real plans. That magic jump is starting to look more and more doubtful by the day.

LightFog commented on Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2024... · Posted by u/signa11

frou_dh · 2 years ago

Look at all those people getting stuff done on their projects and making consistent releases. What fools! I pity them!

LightFog · 2 years ago

If ‘getting stuff done’ is your only measure of success then fair enough.

LightFog commented on Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2024... · Posted by u/signa11

rty32 · 2 years ago

Why do FOSS projects use github? Because it's a good product, simple. It has lots of features that people use every day that you don't necessarily find on other source code platforms. For example, their new code search is top class. You won't realize what's missing until you try to do the same thing elsewhere. GitHub also gets a lot of details right e.g. in pull requests and issue management.

Added to that, it has the largest community of developers, and those who would potentially participate in FOSS projects likely already have an account. It's where people already are and what they are familiar with.

(I have contributed to a few FOSS projects on github.)

LightFog · 2 years ago

This ‘everyone is using it so I need to also’ logic is funny to me, given the idea of the F in FOSS is to use network effects to spread the idea of software freedom. Using and thus endorsing a proprietary platform with ever increasing integration into the software lifecycle seems to do the exact opposite of that.

LightFog commented on Eplot: A new package for making charts in Emacs lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2024... · Posted by u/signa11

tetris11 · 2 years ago

> Microsoft Github

this is the first time I've seen these two words explicitly put together before, and it made my stomach turn, regardless of how many years it's been true

LightFog · 2 years ago

It’s still baffling to me how many FOSS projects still use that platform, they’ve done very well keeping the ‘Microsoft’ prefix out of people’s sight.

Codeberg does seem to be gaining some momentum with FOSS projects now though, at long last.

LightFog commented on Swapping GNU coreutils for uutils coreutils on Gentoo Linux joshmcguigan.com/blog/gen... · Posted by u/JoshMcguigan

lynx23 · 2 years ago

You could say the same thing about LLVM/Clang. Apple and Google only cooperated on that because they really really dont want a restrictive licence like the GPL.

But then again, after a while, Clang is a nice alternative... Which makes me think: Why exactly are you indirectly lobbying for a monopoly? Just because there is a GNU version of something can not mean there shouldnt be any other version. It just can not mean that...

IOW, nobody should tell anyone else they shouldn't exist.

LightFog · 2 years ago

GPL software needn’t have anything to do with GNU - having alternative projects is healthy for many reasons.

I just think that trying to make a permissive drop-in replacement for software that emphasises the very freedoms that have allowed the creation of the replacement in the first place is unfortunate and short-sighted. It’s a good thing that the authors have every right to do it all the same though.