And LLM translations have all the same political and ethical as coding

No, they don’t. As I said, machine translations make contributions more accessible to ESOL speakers (ie global majority populations) and can help reduce Eurocentrism. The reason why I said I think an exception should be made is specifically for ethical and political reasons.

If you want to skip to the changes.

I think this is a really solid LLM policy for a platform like SourceHut. Since they rely on a policy that’s deliberately open to interpretation to allow for reasonable discretion, and rely upon the honour system for enforcement/adherence, I don’t think we should necessarily be telling larger projects to adopt the same policy because this becomes untenable for big projects or platforms. But it’s still good to see policies in this spirit being adopted. The only change I’d like to see is explicitly allowing AI translation for non-code, like comments and emails. It reduces the barrier of entry for ESOL contributors. If there’s concern about the accuracy of translations, they can always include the original alongside the machine translation.

https://typst.app/

It’s FOSS has a tendency to write in that kind of cadence. In general the articles they put out don’t seem to be ones that are tedious or boring to write, so I don’t see why they’d AI-generate their articles. I also remember their old articles before the AI hype train being written in the same kind of cadence. It is grating but I think it’s an annoying human, not an annoying LLM.

I don’t know about Nazi specifically, but people often use Nazi to mean fascist in general. And he is definitely far-right. I would prefer that foss remain hostile to fascists.

Converting a GPL codebase to another language creates a derivative work which, by the terms of the GPL, must be GPL-licensed.

Julia Evans has a bunch of these really handy cheatsheets. I have several saved that I reference semi-regularly.

I use Zathura. Not really meant to be an epub reader (ie missing ways to change the font)—afaik it just converts it to a pdf then displays the epub using the pdf engine. But it works fine for my purposes and means I can use my preferred pdf reader for epubs too.

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I picked OpenBSD over other non-Linuxes because of its focus on security. Also I think the pufferfish is cute. It wasn’t that deep of a decision for that particular laptop. I do find it quite an enjoyable OS to use, and I have anecdotally had fewer problems with it than with Linuxes, I suspect because their whole security focus also means fewer bugs.

If you’re interested in it, just try it out in a VM.

I didn’t—I like to pick up old second-hand laptops that are selling for cheap and tinker with them (install different OSes, coreboot them, etc). One of the machines I regularly use is OpenBSD, but it’s not my sole OS. My gaming machine is Linux—afaik you’re gonna have a tough time trying to play AAA games on any other (FOSS) OS, but I’ve not tried, because the laptop I run OpenBSD on is an old underpowered Thinkpad anyway.

I picked OpenBSD over other non-Linuxes because of its focus on security. Also I think the pufferfish is cute. It wasn’t that deep of a decision for that particular laptop. I do find it quite an enjoyable OS to use, and I have anecdotally had fewer problems with it than with Linuxes, I suspect because their whole security focus also means fewer bugs.

As an OpenBSD user I find it funny how they list OpenBSD as 0%. Like, they could’ve just omitted it.

I know people with degrees in software engineering. CS is not the same thing as software engineering. CS includes more theoretical and mathematical stuff whereas software eng is about the practice.

It wouldn’t permanently lock you out if it failed because you can boot into a live ISO to change your password back if it fails to change it back to your original password.

Have you tried disabling the AI in Zed? There’s a toggle in the settings to disable all AI features. I’ve disabled the AI and it’s actually a really nice, responsive, clean editor. Just one toggle, and it doesn’t re-enable itself. The whole “AI-native” marketing really put me off trying it, but it’s now become my go-to IDE for when I’m working on a project where I want a more fully-featured IDE than Vim (my go-to for just editing text files eg standalone scripts, small projects).

If you don’t want to do that, or if you try it and still don’t like Zed, maybe Kate?

Semantics are defined by how a term is used, and people use the term to refer to AI generation of code in any capacity, as well as stricter definitions. The first commit is not just “evidence of AI”, it’s no code and just a markdown file instructing an LLM, which meets at least some definitions of vibe-coding.

Insisting “a word doesn’t mean X, it means Y” doesn’t make it so. Arguing about definitions can be on one of two premises: the word is in practice used to mean Y and not X, or it’s useful to define the word to mean Y and not X. You’ve argued neither, just made an assertion.

I didn’t say it did, but also “vibe coding” is a fairly new term that does not have a strict consistent definition anyway.

If you view the first commit, you can see the CLAUDE.md, so at least in part vibe-coded.

Tbh all the vibe-coded apps look the same, and the UI has that vibe-coded style, so I’m not surprised.

Open source benefits big tech too. Eg see all the huge corpos who donate to the Linux Foundation, because Linux is necessary to their work. Google gets good PR from summer of code, and students will be recommending summer of code to each other. It gives Google a good amount of cultural capital among engineers. It’s not like Google has no cash to spare for a couple projects to make them look good and secure their role as one of the most dominant tech companies across the field.

Yes it is.

I think if you’re at the point of poweruser where you’re deciding an init system, you probably should just try them out in VMs. It doesn’t have to take loads of time. Install an OS, try writing some basic services, try doing some basic config for your use-case.

For the vast majority of users, they’ll never have this problem, because they’ll just use whatever init system comes with their OS. I know some distros give init freedom, but most are locked in to one or another init. The fact that you have this problem suggests that either you’re using the wrong distro and should switch to one that chooses for you (or just pick based on one-line descriptions), or it’d be worth your time to spend a day or two poking around with the init systems under consideration in VMs.