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Re: Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

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Post by NuclearPM »

edoceo wrote: post #23
evanelias wrote: post #16

Some of the cited reasons for moving off MariaDB [1] seem misguided, in my opinion. Especially the part about "K1 are very enterprise-focused, so the database is likely to focus its work on features that are not relevant to us. There's increased risk they drop the free/open source version we use" K1 acquired the commercial entity behind MariaDB Enterprise, but that's separate from the non-profit MariaDB Foundation. A…

And even if it did go closed-souce, your existing install can run for ages because the vendor cannot force upgrade. One of my favorite features of FOSS.

How could it go closed source?

Re: Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

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Post by mort96 »

Aurornis wrote: post #25
tetris11 wrote: post #2

Oh wow. Off-topic but quite refreshing to see a site not absolutely plastered in AI posts

Lobste.rs is very anti-AI. They force any LLM topic to be tagged with “vibecoding” even when the majority of LLM posts are not about vibecoding. AI posts are usually the most commented on. Linus Torvalds’ comments saying that LLMs are actually useful is still on the front page, tagged as vibecoding, and has a lot of comments from people mostly disagreeing with him. Lobste.rs is more of a monoculture than Hacker News.…

Driving away silicon valley tech bros who spend most of their time boosting AI is actually a prerequisite for building a good community.

Re: Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

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Post by OutOfHere »

grebc wrote: post #8
tetris11 wrote: post #2

Oh wow. Off-topic but quite refreshing to see a site not absolutely plastered in AI posts

HN is increasingly bot central, I kind of assume 80% of the respondents are artificial. Lobsters still got a pulse, largely.

That's an unsubstantiated and false accusation wrt the 80%. If you believe it, why are you even here? Are you one of them?

Re: Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

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Post by OutOfHere »

rickcarlino wrote: post #36
grebc wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is increasingly bot central, I kind of assume 80% of the respondents are artificial. Lobsters still got a pulse, largely.

Invitation-only is the future of online communities. Lobsters still has a pulse because you need to know someone to get in and it’s a bad look if you invite annoying people.

That's nonsense wrt invitation-only being the future. I can equally say that free speech is the future. For comparison, Reddit does very well without being invitation only.

Re: Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

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Post by tverbeure »

rickcarlino wrote: post #36
grebc wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is increasingly bot central, I kind of assume 80% of the respondents are artificial. Lobsters still got a pulse, largely.

Invitation-only is the future of online communities. Lobsters still has a pulse because you need to know someone to get in and it’s a bad look if you invite annoying people.

I wish lobste.rs would be a tiny bit easier to get access to. Some of my blog posts have been discussed there and every time I try to get access, I can’t get past their IRC stuff.

As in: I just don’t understand how IRC works…

Re: Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

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Post by OutOfHere »

joemi wrote: post #44
Aurornis wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lobste.rs is very anti-AI. They force any LLM topic to be tagged with “vibecoding” even when the majority of LLM posts are not about vibecoding. AI posts are usually the most commented on. Linus Torvalds’ comments saying that LLMs are actually useful is still on the front page, tagged as vibecoding, and has a lot of comments from people mostly disagreeing with him. Lobste.rs is more of a monoculture than Hacker News.…

It's a lot smaller of a community than HN, so it will naturally have a smaller range of opinions merely due to the fact that it has a lot fewer users. That said, I don't believe it's as much of a hivemind as you've portrayed. I've seen dissenting opinions voiced there which weren't downvoted (or at least not noticeably), while the same opinion in a similar thread here on HN would be downvoted and flagged. So I don't…

With regard to its small size, that's not why. They have for a long while been actively and intentionally hostile to AI.

Re: Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

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Post by saila »

evanelias wrote: post #16

Some of the cited reasons for moving off MariaDB [1] seem misguided, in my opinion. Especially the part about "K1 are very enterprise-focused, so the database is likely to focus its work on features that are not relevant to us. There's increased risk they drop the free/open source version we use" K1 acquired the commercial entity behind MariaDB Enterprise, but that's separate from the non-profit MariaDB Foundation. A…

The GPLv2 doesn't prevent a company from distributing binaries and making the source available on request while development is done behind closed doors. This wouldn't really be "open source" as we typically understand it and might be cause to exclude it from some Linux distros, for example. I'm not saying that K1 would do this (I have no idea who they are or what they do), but I also think it's a reasonable risk to consider.

Re: Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

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Post by Xeronate »

tverbeure wrote: post #57
rickcarlino wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Invitation-only is the future of online communities. Lobsters still has a pulse because you need to know someone to get in and it’s a bad look if you invite annoying people.

I wish lobste.rs would be a tiny bit easier to get access to. Some of my blog posts have been discussed there and every time I try to get access, I can’t get past their IRC stuff. As in: I just don’t understand how IRC works…

im sorry but maybe connecting to irc is a bit of a filter on the users they expect. especially with ai it should be almost no effort.
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