This looks cool! I’ll give it a try. Thanks.

A single person used AI to help write a port for macOS. It’s not exactly a community effort even though the developer bills it as such. It’s unofficial and unaffiliated with the project.

Oh god I’m old.

It’s, it’s basically a forum. A Bulletin Board System. Back from the days where you measured your bandwidth in baud.

Doesn’t ARM require an architectural license even if you aren’t borrowing IP cores? Apple paid big bucks for one.

I really hope you’re right. My employer is using it as a crutch. I don’t think they can stop using AI because they just don’t have enough skilled employees to deliver on their commitments. They would pay nearly any price, and I’m sure they’re not alone.

This is fallout of the broader problem of ultra-extreme centralization and shortsightedness in pursuit of line go up. We eagerly run into a climate catastrophe for the same underlying reason. It’s not a matter of understanding the problem, but a matter of willingness to solve it.

Collectively, we are not willing to solve problems that might require a measure of compromise today.

Tale as old as time. Corpos try to get you dependent and then give your business an atomic wedgie.

What does this mean?

Seems suspiciously AI-sloppy and not very trustworthy. Github shows very little activity outside of the main author, and the name feels somehow misleading because it should be clearer that this isn’t an official port but rather an independent project.

This Mac version is an independent community port

It’s, like, one guy though. The author page seems to also walk the line stopping just short of misrepresenting the actual author’s endorsement of the project. This seems dishonest and like the website has been barely reviewed by humans. Frankly, I hate it because it doesn’t respect my time. If you can’t be bothered to write actual human-generated words about your own project, what else has been neglected?

Use at your own risk as it’s not likely the code has been reviewed or tested by anyone else. For something so commonly a target of malware authors as Notepad++, it’s a hard pass. Too risky for me.

Honestly? I was part of another recruiting org that was trying to place me. They sent me to interview because I supposedly had the right technical skills. I did three interviews with different protective employers and I just kind of gave up on the skills org.

I interviewed with them once. I’m so glad I didn’t get the job.

Oh yes! This actually happened to me multiple times. Typically it was something about how unions result in lower pay or would not represent my interests.

Of course that’s all BS! You only have to use your brain a little. For example, even if they’re not perfect representatives, who else then is going to represent you? Yourself? You don’t stand a chance against a large business.

The costs of union fees was a sticking point, and it’s easy to waive that in front of somebody’s face when it’s harder to measure the impact of your union fighting for fair pay and blocking exploitation. The counter argument is that not all benefits are easily quantifiable. Negotiated raises are just part of the total compensation, and the stated pay numbers you’d get without unions in the world are made up because you can claim whatever you want about something that is not the case.

For me, it was that protesting was only ever discussed as peaceful, civil activity, as was a way of communicating demands outside of the voting cycle.

Unionization and workers rights were never discussed. I didn’t learn about unions as a concept until nearly graduation when my first job had so much required training about how dangerous they were, and of course I assumed they were full of it and did my own investigation.

Cargo can be hard to find in the shops these days. I love it for air travel.

It’s an accurate name. The company has explicitly told us that they are a slop-first cloud company.

And now for your local on the 8s.

This is what I call junk open source. They use the open source label, but it’s not really open source in spirit. The license is restrictive and I’d recommend against using any such software in favor of something that’s actually, properly open source. If you’re bothering to self host, I feel like this freedom is important to most users.

Also, I think this is an advertisement and should be removed.

If you’re lucky, you can get away with remembering just one for your password manager. That password hasn’t changed in over 10 years.

“We found that trees colonised by golden oyster have, on average, about half the fungal biodiversity as trees without the golden oyster. And so that was a huge indicator that they’re likely out competing the native fungi that were there,” says Veerabahu.

XDA was not always this sensationalist. With that said, I always welcome performance improvements.