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Codeberg's paying members can off course vote on policies of their own non-profit. More power to them. You have the freedom to not use their service. There are ample alternatives.

What a clever trick to throw more money (governmental subsidies) into a sinking ship (xAI and "AI" in general). Perplexingly this maneuver will probably boost stock prices thus cre…

I detest AI on the grounds that it causes an overuse of our planet's resources as well as stealing IP and exploiting underpaid data workers. However, if Mozilla can launch somethin…

Ok so Google ignores W3C on WEI. But could someone else create a W3C proposal that could counteract WEI? It wouldn't have to implementation-specific but rather one or more principl…

AI progress won't be dead in the water if it respects copyright laws. Yes, being free to just freely grab any data is infinitely easier. But having to rely on properly licensed dat…

So happy to learn of this and I wish them best of luck in their efforts. And I'm surprised to find so many people klinging to Copilot. We shouldn't shed any tears for a megacorpora…

I love that they included an ortholinear keyboard and open schematics. Definitely keeping my eyes on this.

I’m not happy about people losing money. However, I’m happy if this means money will be invested in innovation towards saving the planet, rather than finding new ways to burn resou…

Wow. Thanks for the headsup! I’ll have to look into this.

Yeah that makes sense. And “nobody got fired for picking technology X from large company Y”, there’s also that type of thinking.

Very much agree. Though there’s a line between implementing cryptographic algorithms yourself vs. implementing cookie based authentication. Cryptography is something I’d leave to s…

I don't think my article shuts the door on domain specific languages even though it doesn't offer it as an answer. It could be an answer. By relying a bit less on frameworks and wr…

That's true we might not have been able to mobilize so much productivity so quickly for business without throwing frameworks at the problem. However, I think also a lot of effort m…

Yes! It's like we've taught people to fish with the new latest in fishing equipment, but we failed to teach them some tried and true fishing principles. Haha, maybe this analogy br…

Your mention of composing dataflows reminded of this project https://nodered.org/ which I haven't tried myself but sounds a bit like what Yahoo Pipes was back in the day. I'm also …

I think one such counter-incentive could be, "whatever tech you choose you'll have to live with the consequences by owning maintenance and future development." However, in our fast…

Hi everyone! The author here. Happy to discuss the thoughts expressed in the article.

Some weeks ago I wrote a couple of bookmarklets, one of which was this: javascript:(function(){ location.href = ` https://nitter.net${location.pathname} ` })(); You can take this J…

I’m actively working to change this as a CTO in a small digital agency. Can’t say that I’ve completely solved it but I’ve started challenging my peers when they use the words hope,…

Thanks for the question. Well. I put my AGPLv3-licensed code on GitHub to help other developers. I didn’t do this to help GitHub / Microsoft build a closed-source tool to monopoliz…

I used to admire GitHub for being a fully bootstrapped company and free to pursue a path in the world they believed in as a company. Since the Microsoft acquisition it’s becoming p…

From a distance I think Deno has a lot of promising features going for it. Expressing modules as URLs seems like a small difference but I believe it has big ramifications. With cle…

Good concerns though the Hippocratic license relies on the declaration of human rights, which are well defined and broadly accepted. To the second issue, I’d argue that intellectua…

My heart breaks for this engineer. We can’t just file this under “it happens at all large companies” and call it a day. Large companies like Apple should be held to a higher standa…

As a European citizen I’m hopeful for this regulation. The tech giants would rather police themselves, but they should be subject to oversight to ensure that they don’t abuse their…