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Re:I Am the Reason OpenAI Is Killing Unlimited Chats on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:46AM (#50334817)
I believe his point it, that exploitative- and abusive behaviour as well as "inventive interpretations" of agreements by the few, ends up punishing the majority.

It should not be necessary to set up technical or written guards against every possible act of bad behaviour.

Instead be nice. Don't be that **ole who steals the whole candy bucket on Halloween just because you can.

Re:Take my toil, leave me my struggle on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:28AM (#50204825)
Paywalled content is not unusual here, a non-paywall may appear slightly later.

And Kent is a fairly inspirational character, so those who are familiar with his work may be grateful for a notification.

Re:Getting Banned from r/java on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:00PM (#50168379)
Like any social media it really depends where you go.

There are tons of smaller ones that offer good value for your time, my personal favourites are r/ragdolls and r/raspberrypi

Re:Lombok Is Still Relevant in the Age of Java Records on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:06AM (#50149647)
If you don't like it then don't use it and carry on. No need to litter the world with such negativity.
Re:Food processing influences metabolism and brain activity on Saturday October 10, 2026 @03:39AM (#50030621)
I believe they are on to something, but wouldn't it be much better if the sample size was larger than just 57 people?
I'm just waiting for Claude-powered hackers to break into the dns root system or bgp routing system. It's going to be a wreck :(
That is narrow minded, rails can not replace trucks.

And no one is going to build rails to such areas like the 500 people living in Aniak, Alaska, or similar.

Quite rage-baity title, no?

What he actually said:

“I do say this with love,” Cage said at the convention. “When I see these 50-plus and otherwise intelligent and remarkably gifted thespians putting on these ridiculous outfits and getting ready for the fight — let’s face it, it’s all cutting to the fight — it’s hard for me not to be reminded that the MCU is becoming a well-funded and glorified WWE.”

Re:McDonald's push to have AI price your Big Mac on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @06:48AM (#49907051)
I haven't had McD for like 15 years, is it any better these days or same thing just pricier?
Re:I don't read code anymore on Sunday September 27, 2026 @03:06PM (#49869790)
I don't believe so. I am sure you've also notice that Claude is already ridiculously good these days, and becoming better for every month. That goes for other providers as well.

I don't know where they are today, but when I left they were very very enthusiastic.

Re:I don't read code anymore on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:44PM (#49869573)
Prompting is being automated.

A company I am consulted at last month is working on a process to have Figma drawings and business requirements written by BA's to be translated to Angular.

Their goal is to have the software engineering steps entirely done by AI.

I am with you, AI is a tool, and it matters how you use it.

I believe overuse of AI will be detrimental to your cognitive function, because the brain, like most organs in your body needs "exercise" to function well.

Thanks for bringing up the whole picture. No down-votes from me.
Re:Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips on Monday September 21, 2026 @09:08AM (#49786832)
Except that they have to deal with angry people who bought a dodgy chipped unit.

Yeah it's stupid, but people doesn't know better, they'll complain loudly Raspberry PI is sh* it doesn't work and the Pi Foundation are scammers.

I can understand why they don't want that.

Because if they are riding it safely, there would be no need to bypass the restrictions.

There is reason for speed limits, they are not there to f--k with people for fun.

From what I've seen on the streets, people bypassing the restrictions will not, and there will be injuries.
I am a little more concerned over creeps, stalkers, pedos and teenage bullies.
Re:I Changed My License on Sunday September 06, 2026 @01:18PM (#49588655)
In all honesty, a license matters little to nothing if there is no enforcement behind it. And enforcement needs pockets deep enough to drive a legal process.

A normal person like me? No way, I can't afford the money nor time.

I know GPL have some backing of SFC and FSF, but all others like EUPL, MIT, APL and so forth?

If this was the same in the 1970's my parents would have been executed and me and my siblings in a orphanage.

Actually the village would probably enjoyed that, I was a real "Swedish Emil" as a kid..

Re:OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before on Monday August 31, 2026 @06:49AM (#49508145)
Your loss then. Although I prefer KDEnlive, OpenShot is not a bad video editor.

And I don't think it's a terrible thing for an open source developer to try to earn a few coins.

These threads are amusing.

In an earlier one about Iceland and EU, people criticizing EU were downvoted, called russian bots or far-right. I don't expect much difference here.

Chat control and ProtectEU are certainly not the last totalitarian measures EU will invent, there will be more. And I find it interesting that people still defend EU without any hesitation.

Now I think the initial trade union was great and a necessary counter weight when competing with larger economies and countries. But it rather quickly evolving into something that is less concerned about the citizens, and more about staying in power.

Re:GIMP Development Update on Monday August 17, 2026 @05:58AM (#49328568)
It could also be that the Gimp team and community wants their software a certain way, and I don't see why one should disrespect that?

Those who disagree are welcome to fork- and maintain it, if the users see value in it, they'll switch.

Re:Stop sending me huge PRs; a rant on Saturday August 15, 2026 @04:55AM (#49308950)
Someone has to be responsible, because it sure won't do to call Anthropic at 4 am and ask why Claude caused your service to rack up $5m on AWS and delete all backups.
Re:What's New in Flutter 3.47 on Thursday August 13, 2026 @03:22AM (#49282716)
Are Flutter and React Native still viable choices today?

I get the impression that more are going for native mobile, KMP or PWA.

Re:Toot.community is shutting down on Thursday July 30, 2026 @01:28PM (#49113020)
Question: Is there some kind of official protocol for Mastodon?

Reason I ask, is if whoever is in charge have considered to support moving posts and interactions from one server to another.

If you have any domains that does not use email, it may be a good idea to set up some DNS records to prevent it being used.

DNS SPF record: mydomain.io. TXT "v=spf1 -all"

DNS DMARC: _dmarc.mydomain.io. TXT "v=DMARC1; p=reject; sp=reject; adkim=s; aspf=s"

That ought to stop anyone trying to use your domains as source.

It's not that bad, they still make money on consumer- and micro batteries. Needs a bit of restructuring.
Re:Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs on Thursday July 23, 2026 @05:10AM (#49018799)
I don't really see a problem with this decision (or the one regarding crypto), they were voted on by the active members of Codeberg, simply a democratic outcome.
Re:Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects on Thursday July 23, 2026 @01:48AM (#49017390)
You need to specifically register as an active member to get voting rights.
Ah slight disappointment, first I thought it was a revival of the hack-n-slash Moonstone-game from the Amiga era.

But projects made in Zig are just as cool :)

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