First of all, fuck them.

Secondly, thank you for working on this app. I know Roku is a bit of a liability, and I’ll eventually have to move to something open source, but it’s been my main media player for a couple of years and I’ve been very happy with it. o7

You can audit the code but something like:

The rate of commits and new features seems rather high for a single person working by themselves

Is a huge problem in itself IMO. It implies there’s no real human oversight of the project.

That’s the scary thing. It can easily create more code than it can understand, and do it faster than human understanding can keep up with.

Yes, and you can do the same thing to your child’s non-root account. The point of the California law is to allow admins (parents) to do that.

Furthermore, a peer review process is planned, through which the consortium members will mutually check and certify their operating systems and smartphone or tablet models. “This is intended to create transparency and replace trust with traceability.”

Still doesn’t sound very open.

I should be able to tell my bank to only trust devices running an OS signed by the grapheneos key, and more importantly I should be able to tell them to trust an OS signed by my key.

Edit: I don’t mean to shit on this too hard. It might be the best next step.

That’s true, but as a maintainer you could encourage those helpful maintainers to triage issues from regular users.

I think the real benefit would come from taking a user’s reputation into account across projects.

At the end of the day you can’t have low effort pull requests, and expect maintainers to look at everything. It’s the same spam problem as in any other domain.

Surely we can come up with networks of trust for this sort of thing, so that you don’t have to deal with PRs from people with no references.

Every app does not need to check your birth date. An app will be able to query if the user is within one of a few broad ranges of age (e.g. under 18), but an app only has to do that if it needs to comply with some other legislation.

The California law essentially allows a parent to create a child account on a device and gives a way for apps to query it.

I’m not sure what PH is asking for, but it doesn’t sound like the same thing.

Why is everyone okay with boilerplate? Did we forget what programming languages are supposed to do?

You still have to maintain that code.

It obviously won’t work for everyone, but for remote access I’ve been very impressed with waypipe. I use it to pull windows from headless machines onto my main workstation, like X forwarding.

I’d like something for persistence, like wprs, but it’s not quite there yet.

The genie produces code at a pace no human reviewer can match. Coding isn’t the bottleneck anymore. I can explore three different implementations before lunch. I can refactor aggressively because the cost of trying something is so low.

Gross

If coding was the bottleneck, there was something badly wrong and AI is not the solution.

That’s not to say it’s the fault of the devs who are using AI, but we obviously haven’t given them the languages and libraries they need to express themselves concisely.

You’re still using their hardware for the coordinator, artifact storage, etc. aren’t you?

The last thing I want to be doing is defending microsoft, but this is inevitable in any free service. In fact this seems like one of the least-bad ways of enshittifying.

We should all be moving to self-hosting or shared hosting through a non-profit, but neither of those are going to be free.

I try to use firejail on nixos when I can’t do something in the build sandbox.

It’s painful, and I’m always on the lookout for something better. I’d at least like a portal-ish system where I can easily add things to a sandbox while it’s running.

Edit: if anyone has any issues or discussions about this I’d like to contribute.

(1) boilerplate code that is so predictable a machine can do it

The thing I hate most about it is that we should be putting effort into removing the need for boilerplate. Generating it with a non-deterministic 3rd party black box is insane.

It’s like another attempt at programming with natural language, except using a non-deterministic black box.

They should call it Wish-BASIC ™

I thought I saw it as far back as simcopter

Strange, I’ve never seen that. Have you rebooted the system to make sure it has nothing to do with open files?

I did find one thread that seems related:

https://www.reddit.com/r/btrfs/comments/lip3dk/unreachable_data_on_btrfs_according_to_btdu/

btdu is an excellent tool for finding out what’s taking up space in btrfs

Sorry for the duplicate replies. Lemmy server drama…

That’s a tricky one if you’re getting no info from the kernel. I think the reply above about system instability under load sounds promising. Throttling things down to test seems like a good idea.