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bugsmith, 2 months ago

the piracy community isn’t on this instance, so it’d be a surprise if there’s any legal basis to charge PD with anything related to it.

This is not so clear-cut. The nature of federation means that any posts you see through via this instance are hosted here too. How liable we are for that content is certainly an important question.

Thanks for your feedback.

bugsmith, 2 months ago

Yes, my personal stance would also be against blocking. The general preference is to avoid blocking wherever possible.

bugsmith, 2 months ago

Unfortunately, there are some cases of direct linking occurring. Fortunately, it’s mostly caught by moderators and admins and removed. Defederating is certainly an extreme case, and it’s absolutely not something we’re intending to do. It would be an absolutely extreme scenario for that to occur in this case.

Shouldn’t we defederate .world?

There is no appetite to defederate from lemmy.world. I know their some of their decisions have been unpopular with some users, but they are by far the largest Lemmy instance, and that puts a target on them. Like us, they are a bunch of volunteers trying their best to run a large community and that will sometimes mean making decisions they probably aren’t keen of themselves.

bugsmith, 2 months ago

We have not blocked anything proactively.

For us, it was a priority to get some open communication out on this issue, due to any uncertainty caused my Lemmy.world’s actions.

bugsmith, 2 months ago

I think that is really in the spirit of Lemmy and the Fediverse. Pick an instance that aligns with your interests / identity / geography / etc, and use that as an entry point to the rest. It doesn’t work so well if that entry point has overzealous gatekeeping.

bugsmith, 1 month ago

For Lemmy, it is the latter. Federated content is stored locally on each instance.

bugsmith, 2 months ago

Yes, I can see cases where this might be valid. For example, if you wanted to be some kind of SAP administrator / programmer (a paid-only enterprise management software), nobody would hire you for such a role without having some experience with that product. Same for something like Salesforce.

bugsmith, 2 months ago

I don’t code in C++ (although I’m somewhat familiar with the syntax). My understanding is the header files should only contain prototypes / signatures, not actual implementations. But that doesn’t seem to be the case here. Have I misunderstood, or is that part of the joke?

bugsmith, 2 months ago

Thanks. I didn’t know about these advanced libraries, and had not heard of C++ modules either. Appreciate the explanation.

bugsmith, 2 months ago

Love this. Always interesting to see novel ways of querying data in the terminal, and I agree that jq’s syntax is difficult to remember.

I actually prefer nu(shell) for this though. On the lobste.rs thread for this blog, a user shared this:

<span style="color:#323232;">| get license.key -i
</span><span style="color:#323232;">| uniq --count
</span><span style="color:#323232;">| rename license
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">This outputs the following:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">╭───┬──────────────┬───────╮
</span><span style="color:#323232;">│ # │    license   │ count │
</span><span style="color:#323232;">├───┼──────────────┼───────┤
</span><span style="color:#323232;">│ 0 │ bsd-3-clause │    23 │
</span><span style="color:#323232;">│ 1 │ apache-2.0   │     5 │
</span><span style="color:#323232;">│ 2 │              │     2 │
</span><span style="color:#323232;">╰───┴──────────────┴───────╯
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

bugsmith, 2 months ago

I really like Nushell. I would not run it as a daily driver currently, as it mostly doesn’t win me over from Fish, feature-wise, but I love having it available for anything CLI date pipeline work I need to do.

bugsmith, 2 months ago

A follow up post by the author, original shared and discussed here.

bugsmith, 2 months ago

I agree. The content is reasonably sound, but from a design and UX perspective, it’s awful.

bugsmith, 2 months ago

I like Konsole.

It comes with KDE, supports tabs, themes, and loads very fast.

I don’t really need more from a terminal than that. When I, rarely, need more advanced features like window splitting and session management I also use Zellij (previously I used tmux).

bugsmith, 2 months ago

Mistral-large is probably the best large model for practical purposes at this point.

What makes you say that? I have not performed my own comparison, but everything I have seen and read suggests that GPT4 is king, currently.

bugsmith, 2 months ago

Interesting. That’s not something I’ve heard about until now, but something I’ll surely look into.

bugsmith, 2 months ago

First I’ve heard of “Out of Darkness”. How was it?

bugsmith, 2 months ago

Are you self-hosting Mistral for this bot, and if so, do you have any insight on the cost of running that bot vs the ChatGPT one? (the latter of which I assume you have capped the max billing of, or I certainly hope so, at least)

bugsmith, 2 months ago

Okay, that makes sense. Cheers.