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tech companies be like "here are tools to monitor your child's private conversations, social media posts, bank accounts, diaries, browsing history, class attendance, GPS location, and deepest inner thoughts" with parents going "why child not trust me???? ?????"

@kim The package format (or well, one of them) is called .pet :D

@kim Also IMO this project deserves a lot more attention than it's getting

@Johann150 Ah yeah, that does sound like a tricky one :( Maybe joining a fork would be an idea?

This is cursed, but frankly also a genuinely impressive technical achievement

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I just realized that I haven't graced the fediverse yet with knowledge of the amazingly cursed software that is pMusic: a music player from the Puppy Linux project that is built entirely in Bash(!), yet has a GUI with fully-featured playlist management and advanced features like discography management and automatic YouTube searching and streaming!

@Johann150 (The underlying assumption here is that other devs might be frustrated with the state of things, but do not have enough energy/experience to organize a fork themselves, and so are letting it slide)

@Johann150 Of course, if the rest of the dev team is pretty much okay with the current situation, it becomes much harder.

@Johann150 I think it'd mostly depend on how the rest of the dev team and also the wider contributor community feel about things - if there's some degree of shared disgruntlement over slow review, then "here's a fork that will merge your changes faster, and I'd like the existing dev team to get involved in its governance" can be a very attractive option. And you can 'seed' that by picking out some of the good lingering PRs yourself and merging them already.

@thufie Or alternatively, for maximum "jank that somehow mostly works", there's always Puppy Linux

@thufie If a puzzle box for every system change is an acceptable substitute, I have a NixOS to offer

@Johann150 Particularly that last point has frequently led to successful forks of projects in the past (see eg. Gitea)

- syuilo making a PR that adds (non-configurable, permanent) logging of IP addresses to misskey
- syuilo made a PR about AI image classification as NSFW that can be used as upload filter
- the google integration was a big point of contention in the past
- syuilo claims in the contribution guide that he is the best person that has an overview of the code base and is therefore the only person allowed to merge things. yet merging takes forever. even for very simple changes that have been reviewed by multiple other people on the misskey-dev team

i really wonder how much more it will take so i will actually fork misskey. but if i'm alone i'll not end up much better either.

Violate one license and you’re a criminal. Violate every license and you’re an AI.

#microsoft #copilot

RT @ChrisGr93091552@twitter.com

Explored github copilot,a paid service, to see if it encodes code from repositories w/ restrictive licenses.

I checked if it had code I had written at my previous employer that has a license allowing its use only for free games and requiring attaching the license.
yeah it does

twitter.com/ChrisGr93091552/st

Nsfw 

Unions are good actually

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