Agree with all points. Additionally, compilers are also incredibly well specified via ISO standards etc, and have multiple open source codebases available, eg GCC which is available in multiple builds and implementations for different versions of C and C++, and DQNEO/cc.go.

So there are many fully-functional and complete sources that Claude Cowork would have pulled routines and code from.

I’m sure I donated back in version 0.1 or 0.2, maybe a year ago, but looking now it doesn’t seem to show me as being a registered user, so perhaps I was wrong.

I’m pretty sure it still falls under the definition of ‘donationware’, though?

Donationware is a licensing model that supplies fully operational unrestricted software to the user and requests an optional donation be paid to the programmer or a third-party beneficiary (usually a non-profit).[1] The amount of the donation may also be stipulated by the author, or it may be left to the discretion of the user, based on individual perceptions of the software’s value. Since donationware comes fully operational (i.e. not crippleware/freemium) when payment is optional, it is a type of freeware.

I wasn’t t aware of the Curtis Yarvin link at all. I’ve just read that blog article and it’s not possible to remain cautiously optimistic or give them benefit of the doubt… the FUTO founder (Eron Wolf) seems very clearly ideologically-aligned with fascists.

Well, now I’m really hoping they change their license to true open source, so a group less ideologically disastrous can fork it and take the helm for interested contributors and supporters to join.

Probably for additional exposure to the public and to monetize via paid DLC as a ‘supporter tier’ style offering (with limited or no added features).

Grayjay is donationware - “FOSS”, but with a strong encouragement to donate if you use it regularly and have the means to support.

I put FOSS in quotes because Grayjay is not really OSS. It has a custom license that does not allow commercial reuse of its code.

This has caused significant discussion of concerns and ire from some.

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/grayjay-frontend/14616

https://github.com/futo-org/grayjay-android/issues/18

https://hiphish.github.io/blog/2023/10/18/grayjay-is-not-open-source/

P. S. Grayjay is great software, I use it a lot and have reported several bugs which the dev team have been super responsive to and resolved all. I have supported them with a donation purely on the aforementioned, but their license is a bummer. I’d like to see other projects be able to reuse their code widely as true OSS. I also personally have concerns with the example screenshots they show on site having a bunch of RW content creators / grifters, and their support of the Rumble service as an official plugin, but I understand they are free-speech aligned and trying to be apolitical in their approach. I personally think they could do that without giving RW figures free advertising in their screenshots, and allowing a third-party to create the Rumble plugin rather than dedicating dev work to support it officially, but it’s just a red flag to me more than a dealbreaker.

(Edit - see comments below, Futo is worse than I was aware).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You’ll_own_nothing_and_be_happy

That song is based on a real lady, and she didn’t just sell sea shells - they were fossils that were hundreds of millions of years old.

She and her family made a living off it, and she’s now known worldwide for the incredibly rare fossils she carefully extracted and sold to museums.

Not the worst idea, all told.

But first before you buy a new SSD don’t forget to go back to September of last year.

Get ready for mid-life joint pain and RSI if you spend that much time doing just one thing in one posture.

Wish it wasn’t how things go but it do be.

So the Fediverse options are better because they ask for and rely upon donations - whereas all the large social network platforms are “free”?

Its likely this is designed with a plan to push advertising or self-promotion.

Eg: step one is done - figure out how to both find threads early & get your content picked up as a good answer regularly and consistently. Step 2 - start inserting ‘first hand’ recommendations or even just mentions of products and services.

I’ve already seen webpages with the most esoteric or niche product/service recommendations (like some random Indian consultancy with 2 people listed in it, and no other significant web footprint) pop up in first page web results. Its another AI deathblow to the utility of search engines.

Is this post from LinkedIn?

I haven’t been on there for ages and I’m not sure what their site looks like anymore. But I’m pretty sure LI was Ken’s stalking ground for onion-eaters in the past.

Oh hey, sorry I just remembered I never replied to this.

If you have a song in mind that you can’t find anywhere - which definitely happens sometimes, no matter the artist - then you can always grab a copy to keep locally as long as they have it streaming somewhere eg Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, etc. The quality will only be whatever the streaming provider offers, but it’s usually good enough if it’s nowhere else.

So for instance YouTube has heaps of easy to use downloader apps such as Grayjay, yt-dl/yt-dlg on desktop pc. Or if on android there’s ‘yt-dl kivy’ on the IzzyOnDroid repo for F-Droid, or Grayjay, or Gyawun Music.

If you need advice for downloading from specific platforms there are plenty of Lemmy communities that have knowledgeable people like the piracy community on dbzer0. This is their wiki - https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/music/

P. S. its not a bad idea to download streaming files only from a VPN by the way, just in case you get your IP blocked by the service (very rare and usually temporary, but i thought I’d mention).

Nobody reads them except recruitment bots, so it’s probably fine.

The same Melius Finance that gave Tesla stock its highest rating of “must own” due to Elon lying again that Full Self Drive is being deployed imminently to Teslas via their in-house “AI chips” eta Dec 2025?

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/tesla-stock-must-own-melius-220721932.html

Tesla stock is currently at $416 after a high of $474 in November, around when this call was made.

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Or maybe this MicroAggressions Killer product is completely harmless to her in this fictional comic.

There’s the Linux Mint main distro build off Ubuntu and a separate Linux Mint Debian distro build directly from Deb.

Specificity is useful, especially in the context that you said “Mint is built on Debian so it’s stable as fuck” - well actually, not directly. It’s built on Ubuntu, which a lot of people complain has a more bloat and thus less stability than Debian.

Personally I’ve not had issues with any of the three, they’re all good, but there are differences. Mint includes a number of packages that Debian does not (PPAs, Snap, Wayland infegration), because it’s inherited them all from Ubuntu. Mint is 64-bit whereas Debian supports 32/64 and other architectures, because again… Mint (standard) is based on Ubuntu, which is 64-bit only.

Oh, they’re not but I guess you’d have to ask him for the answer. Those videos are both still up if you want to watch a long stream of misogyny and logical fallacies dressed up as an ‘owning’.

Only Linux Mint Debian Edition is built on Debian. Linux Mint (main) is built on Ubuntu.

The “Why ‘Feminism’ is poisoning atheism”, “Feminism Vs FACTS” chud?

I’m surprised he still has an audience tbh. Well, sadly not that surprised.

Tell them they’re using one of the oldest logical fallacies, and Ancient philosophers would be embarrassed by them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque