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Doing work is hard. AI is the perfect executive out for digging in and paying for actual people to fix actual things.

Now instead of balancing teams and priorities, they can just demand “more AI” to “fix” any problem. Even when it fails, they told you to do the trendy thing that “works,” so their job is done. Continued failure is you problem, because they gave you the “resources you need. More AI.”

Youre just as likely to get a hacked version of Ciscos IOS as Apples IOS.

Switches and phones about to get funky.

Absolutle bullshit. Ideas cost nothing. Implementing something well and marjeting it and building a viable, substainable buisness around it is still insanely hard. Vibe coding just lets you get an MVP THAT YOU DONT UNDERSTAND to market. It doesnt do any of the actual work of the above.

Too, too long.

If you use kodi as your media software, either via a “kodi only” OS like libreelec or just opening it on any old linux install, you can use the kodi remote Yatze to cast video to Kodi. I use it all the time with youtube.

Just hit share on the video on your phone, select the Yatze option and it will show a list of your media centers to cast to.

Seed funding, then releasing a good foss tool, then extending it with extra “pay only” features, then selling to ossified old tech like IBM to cash out.

See Redhat/hashicorp/etc.

Only so they can use the projects in advertising without their consent:

So I asked Rich Felker, the maintainer of musl libc, about the FUTO grant, and he didn’t know anything about it. Rich and I spoke about this for a while and eventually Rich uncovered a transaction in his GitHub sponsors account from FUTO: a one-time donation of $1,000. This payment circumvents musl’s established process for donations from institutional sponsors. The donation page that FUTO used includes this explanation: “This offer is for individuals, and may be available to small organizations on request. Commercial entities wishing to be listed as sponsors should inquire by email.” It’s pretty clear that there are special instructions for institutional donors who wish to receive musl’s endorsement as thanks for their contribution.

The extent of the FUTO “grant program”, at least in the case of musl libc, involved ignoring musl’s established process for institutional sponsors, quietly sending a modest one-time donation to one maintainer, and then plastering the logo of a well-respected open source project on a list of “grant recipients” on their home page. Rich eventually posted on Mastodon to clarify that the use of the musl name and logo here was unauthorized.

I also asked someone I know on the ffmpeg project about the grant that they had received from FUTO and she didn’t know anything about it, either. Here’s what she said:

I’m sure we did not get a grant from them, since we tear each other to pieces over everything, and that would be enough to start a flame war. Unless some dev independently got money from them to do something, but I’m sure that we as a project got nothing. The only grant we’ve received is from the STF last year.

Neovim is another project FUTO lists as a grant recipient, and they also have a separate process for institutional sponsors. I didn’t reach out to anyone to confirm, but FUTO does not appear on the sponsor list so presumably the M.O. is the same. This is also the case for Wireshark, Conduit, and KiCad. GrapheneOS is listed prominently as well, but that doesn’t seem to have worked out very well for them. Presumably ffmpeg received a similar quiet donation from FUTO, rather than something more easily recognizable as a grant.

Imperative stonager works there too. You’ve just never seen him because he hasen’t accepted a meeting invite is 14 years.

You joke, but my first “lets make facebook, but…” comment was from an electrical engineer buddy that wanted to use matlab. That was the whole pitch. “Facebook, but matlab.”

It did not go far.

A true classic. My only regret is that I cant link it in the original shockwave.

Same dev makes a good kodi remote called Yatze too.

Feel free to draw whatever line or excuse whatever behavior however you like.

At this point I would prefer to support the Immich devs directly without Futos involvement, but thats likely not possible.

It has links in it. I’d recommend starting with them.

Here is grapheneOS talking about how Futo fucked them over, from the article as an example:

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/113443396794247106

Futo’s CEO being a alt right piece of shit is a better reason.

To my knowledge the Immich devs arent, but yeah.

Gentelman jack is a very smooth whiskey. If thats your taste, japanese whiskeys also tend towards smooth.

Suntory is a good brand. I prefer their $60-ish Hibiki whiskey when im looking for something extra smooth, but all of them are pretty easy drinking.

Have you tried “Get-ahilariosulylongnounandnoimnotkiddingsomearethislong?”

They are on it:

Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2 supports Zigbee 3.0 (and yes, we’re looking at Zigbee 4.0 support as well) and is keeping pace with Thread’s rapid development.

Crowdsec is absolutetly the way to go. Jhst be aware you need the engine and what the call a “bouncer” both running, but they have easy instructions about how to install both.

Yeah, Terraform or it’s FOSS fork would be ideal, but many of these infrastructures are setup by devs, using the “immediately in front of them” tools that each cloud presents. Decoupling everything back to neutral is the same nightmare as migrating any stack to any other stack.

Only if you engineered your stack using vendor neutral tools, which is not what each cloud provider encourages you to do.

Then the adminstrative overhead of multi-cloud gets phenomenally painful.