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Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

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> I am fairly confused by the amount of work people are willing to devote to runner-up work You're not entirely wrong, even if off-topic. See also: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211229

Interesting read.

Please note that this quote partial as it stands is misrepresenting what I meant, but it's for all to see and also not that important :)

Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

#52

I am finding myself questioning the choice of a name that also means “toilet” or “outhouse”, but hey, you do you.

I was thinking more in terms of something like secret or private :)

Yes, well, you've basically missed the entirety of the British empire who most of have at some point in not too recent history called a toilet a privy. It's an older term, but still very well recognised.

Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

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You need to step back, cool down and get some perspective. No rational person on the planet could interpret his critique as having any racism or even racist undertones. srikanth235 made the right move by acknowledging the contributor list from the previous project that was lost due to this repo not being a fork of the original.

I second this call to step back and get some perspective, and mainly because no comment by the claimant here was racist, and none of the comment in this chain contained any racist undertones. Rather it seems that our green text friend here has jumped to a conclusion and inferred something that wasn't present.

Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

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Tabby does completion while continue is more chat from memory? There is also refact

Yes, Tabby focuses on auto-completion. We're more similar to continue.dev at this point of time. Will add comparison table soon.

Really wish both completion and chat could be run against the same LLM end point. Most of these seem to be doing their own incompatible docker thing which is annoying

Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

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So, you essentially took my project ( https://github.com/rubberduck-ai/rubberduck-vscode ), and instead of contributing to it or forking it, you recommitted all the code under your own name, with a few small tweaks. To be fair, I saw that you give credit, but it's kind of disappointing still given that prob 98% of the project is the work of the Rubberduck contributors. I know Rubberduck is not that active any more, b…

Credit aside, if this is mostly your code there may be a copyright/license issue.

The original license: https://github.com/rubberduck-ai/rubberduck-vscode/blob/f11a...

The new project: https://github.com/srikanth235/privy/blob/9b4f8ce7e176ab45d5... no mention of the original copyright

Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

#57

Nice! Sorry if I ask this here, but is there any web-based version of VSCode other than VSCode.dev or any open source alternative? I'm looking for a web-based IDE, something advanced like Project IDX Is there any?

https://github.com/coder/code-server is like vscode.dev but self hosted

Re: Show HN: Privy - Open-source, privacy oriented alternative to GitHub Copilot

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You can run it on a different machine. I've set up my desktop to host ollama, and use it from my laptop just fine.

Do you use continue.dev or privy with that setup?

I just use Tailscale to make it available on other machines. I use the interface through Emacs.
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