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Unpopular opinion, but I'm coming to the realization that I don't really care if FOSS projects are experimenting with and leaning into AI. In most cases I am not donating and simply enjoying a product for free. I am no programmer I put trust in their code before, all I can do is continue to do the same. Now, paid software feels different. And I don't mean donations, I mean if Autodesk started pumping out slop (which I don't doubt is happening) then that feels far worse.

Plus, I've gotten an insane amount of utility out of Claude as a regular dude. If I knew what I was doing a little more, I imagine that would feel pretty cool.

Id be willing to bet the entire image is AI. Seems odd to only do those icons, when it's arguably the easiest part to source of the entire image. Makes me question the validity of the numbers, especially now that I realize there don't appear to be citations.

I work with a kid who I know listens to JRE often. He's kind and very smart. What I've found is that he lacks confidence and prefers not to speak even when he thinks he has the right answer, for fear of being wrong. He's depressed, and around this time last year checked himself into a hospital for a week. I know he recently started going to church, likely to try and find answers and support. He seems to mean well. All this to say, listeners of JRE may not be stupid or bad people. Some of them, a lot of them, I'd be willing the guess, are confused young men being brought to bad conclusions because they sound like answers and are wrapped with an "I'm just asking questions," bow.

Lol I've got mine sitting in the basement, still equipped with the pandora's battery and probably some wild theme if I ever get around to turning it back on.

Same. I also appreciate nzb360's way of handling paid features, it feels novel in a sea of subscriptions.

If it's okay to pirate for the sake of training AI, can I set up a model to train at a particular speed - say, 1 byte per hour 😈 asking for a friend obvi

I just spent a week trying to set up my own server and good lord it was such a battle I gave up. Matrix? Up in like half an hour. Shame because my friends are so much more interested in Revolt lmao. Just gonna give them some time to sort out their business before trying again.

I mainly use Cloudflare for buying domains and DNS settings. Are there better, more resilient alternatives? I am not savvy enough for a hyper custom setup. I think I've seen Porkbun mentioned. I've used name cheap before. I do pay for NextDNS - is that something that could fit into this? I don't think so but maybe I'm underutilizing it.

That website is delightful.

Just nailed down my Octopi setup today after abandoning Nova and so far enjoying it. A handful of things feel unintuitive, but some of it may be habits from a decade plus using Nova. The reachable drawer, where you can have it at first only open about halfway, is awesome. The worst part has been the lack of comprehensive search (apps, files, web, all in one). Installed Sesame to cover that and it's been fine.

Just had a baby. Had the privilege of using 5 days of PTO for my parental leave. Partner gets like 4 months, thankfully.

Damn he is so desperate to get people talking about anything but the Epstein files.