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An absurd amount, like $300 plus VAT and weeks of wait. Not recommended unless you really love your iPod (I do)

Reading this as I sync music from iTunes/Apple Music to my iPod. Going on 20 years of service life (it's been rebuilt by a pro to have USB-C and Bluetooth, and a new battery) and still my library is intact and syncing works the same. Let's see how long it'll last :)

Hehe, I swear anytime Fennel is mentioned this discussion comes up, no matter what the original statement is. It’s like code golfers discussing Esolang Turing completeness. :)

FWIW I didn’t mean to imply anything here, just draw the parallel between the ergonomics of transpiled Lua. Spiritually I consider Lua to be a Lisp, and Fennel a tool for revealing this quality. I’ve actually recently combined Teal and Fennel to create a statically typed Fennel compiler, which really improves QoL for larger projects. I’m doomed to enjoy lispy or command invocation languages, both of which have fallen out of style.

Lots to learn from each.

This is a transpiler. Luau is a completely different language and runtime.

It’s part of the big three Lua syntax flavours: Teal (Typescript-y), Fennel (Lisp-y), Moonscript (Ruby-ish)

Getting a lot of errors from OpenRouter's endpoint "Failed to get response from the AI model; retried 5 times (total retry wait time: 60.71 seconds) Last error: 429 Provider return error"

It works when it works, but will probably be flaky AF for a few days.

Works well with Copilot:

    COPILOT_PROVIDER_API_KEY=<OR key> \
    COPILOT_PROVIDER_BASE_URL=https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 \
    COPILOT_MODEL=deepseek/deepseek-v4.1-flash-1017 \
    COPILOT_PROVIDER_MAX_PROMPT_TOKENS=1048576 \
    COPILOT_PROVIDER_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS=700000 \
    COPILOT_OFFLINE=true \
    copilot

700000 because there's no detail yet on the safe completion limit for most harnesses (OR lists 1M for both which makes no sense). COPILOT_OFFLINE enables all calls except to OR (no GH servers).

Good to know, I had let the team know. It’s handled by the appropriate folks so I won’t see further updates, but this should be in good hands now.

Personal(!) opinion: do get a standard template drafted for these cases by a legal professional. You don’t have to retain anyone or sue anyone, but having a consistent, and compliant filing always expedites decisions - this isn’t GitHub specific. Some platforms like YouTube try to abstract this process and end up with the opposite problem of lots of specious claims. Hence the transparency of publishing all notices we receive. Again no idea whether the filing is the issue in this specific case, nor saying you did anything wrong here, just general advice for fewer headaches.

Is there a ticket code or other contact you've been in touch with?

As for DMCA filings, we publish all of them here: https://github.com/github/dmca

I see two from Photopea, one from 2022 (https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/d97814f268e07e62aabe8b5c...) and one from 2024 (https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/d97814f268e07e62aabe8b5c...) - could you point to the recent filing?

I work at GH, but am not involved in DMCA filings, and can in no way answer or judge this case, but potentially follow up internally.

My comment explicitly did not focus in the use of LLMs and in fact much of the post doesn’t. Leading with the depressing “work alone” slide, it focused on similarity, not AI use. Between students, ruling even “inadvertent” exposure as the same punishable (and literally literally undeniable!) offence. There’s millions of ways to structure a class for learning, this myopic focus is not one of them. Ironically the setup ignores the very basics of human collaboration. AI merely amplifies extremes, it’s a factor but neither the cause nor culprit here.

The title includes “retrospective” but the learning and changes following such a process are absent.

If you remove the mention of AI from this post, the authors process and setup of the notice to students is absolutely mental. The intentions might be good, but damn if this isn’t a comically inept way to set up a kafkaesque nightmare rather than a place for actual learning. The defensive attitude doesn’t help either. Just the sheer energy that went into all the steps mentioned here, not invested in any even superficial attempt to perhaps adapt. That isn’t to “give into AI” or cheating, but if 50% of students break your rules, more rules and litigation about the rules are not the next step to take.

Cynically this is a great way for the unhinged admin to train and harden an AI censorship filter :)

If you’re in need of a writing prompt …

The key combo isn’t as arcane as you may think. CMD-UP to go up, CMD-DOWN to go down. Space always previews. C takes you to the boot drive root. H to the home directory. Dot enables hidden files. “Stationary pad” makes any file a template.

Compared to explorer Finder is utterly sensible. The default BS grouping windows forces onto you out of the box is infuriating.

“Opt in by default” would mean that it is not enabled by default. Do you mean opt out?

They also cancelled availability of the 512 M3 Ultra months ago in many regions, likely just redirecting memory

Keeping a simple log of "accepted/rejected" avenues is basically all that's needed, maybe with a root style guide in the project. I've got several multi-day sessions in 5.6 Sol running without going off the rails in terms of complexity. After a while in this loop it actually starts to remind/berate itself to keep things straight-forward.

Thank you for Herbie btw, it continues to be one of the most used tools in my personal projects (all 3D math and rendering)

I agree in general, but can think of at least one counterpoint: https://terathon.com/blog/decade-slug.html

Actually novel implementation is protected, paid the author's bills, and was dedicated to the public domain recently - no massive corp involved.

What? There’s literally a completely interactive book linked right from the home page.

"Test B is an alternative to test A."

could mean there's a Test B and a Test A, and they're interchangeable.

Or:

You can run Test B to confirm A works, that is "to test A".

Again the stated goal to clear documentation for non-native or limited-exposure speakers. This doesn't pass that test.

Gotta love how the very first example in Issue 9 of the standard is already self-defeating:

> "Test" is an approved noun, but not an approved verb.

> STE: Test B is an alternative to test A.

So much for clear - unless you know the STE specific rule, the sentence is unambiguously ambiguous.

Direct access btw since the official site gates downloads with a Google form: https://www.asd-ste100.org/assets/files/ASD-STE100_ISSUE9.pd...

To answer the question at the top, yes there are countless suites that are instantly resumable even after months away. I used to teach Blender (v3) and I think I could find my way around but the overhead isn’t worth it. I’m also though in a privileged position to be able to afford more, smaller commercial tools.

CAD: MoI (cool kids nowadays use Plasticity, but that is taking on similar feature creep - in any case I own and use both)

SubD modelling: nothing has ever beat Silo. And silo still gets updates, but the workflow is the same. Cheetah3D is also in the same boat.

Rendering (I do products, not character/CGI): Maverick. Fastest path tracer in the world, perpetual license, rivals Vray for product viz. if you’re currently using Keyshot - switch now.

Texturing: 3Dcoat or Marmoset Toolbag 5

What most of these have in common is either the workflow is super intuitive, or you have at least 15 years of training material readily accessible that still applies to the software today as it did back then.

Overall it’s a choice between a kitchen sink pipeline (Blender, Rhino) vs a specialised one. If I were to teach again, I would still use Blender in the classroom, and I fully support the project. My brain just works better with smaller, focussed tools.

The question is why don’t they integrate cycles? I mean I have a random app for home planning on macOS and even that comes with Cycles as the rendering engine. Can’t be that hard.

Key difference between the trademark systems here: in the EU system you don’t get a trademark by trading with a specific name and it then being recognized. It’s the other way around: the name must be unique, not confusing, and highly specific. It’s actually irrelevant whether a product exists or is traded at all.

Having gone through the process and gotten both approvals and rejections, the line is pretty clear.

Vs Voxtral would be a better comparison. No other model, open or closed, has been able to hit such a low AER (Acronym Error Rate ;)) for my meeting transcripts. Seems to understand/infer all the technobabble I use at work. Never have to edit anything. Whisper was catastrophically bad.

It has supported custom, local, any BYOM for quite a while.

I work at GitHub but even then I often use OpenRouter models in the CLI and Copilot App

Their DNS is also scriptable, it’s not just a name server

You can still download VS6 from Microsoft and clone a repo from there, and chances it’ll compile and run are higher than JS project that’s two weeks old