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  It is both cool that people maintain this list and dispiriting how the majority of projects you've heard of are now slopware. Suppose that to reduce your exposure to microplastics, you want to only eat food that has never touched plastic. Think about how difficult that would be. Nearly impossible. It's rapidly becoming equally daunting to use software untouched by LLMs. https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116366562566580766 We recently moved BikeHopper (https://github.com/bikehopper) from Kubernetes with config in git, to Coolify. I was nervous about the click-ops nature of Coolify—lacking a history of changes and so forth—but it’s worked pretty well.

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  Niche complaint: why does the vorbiscomment tool not work with Ogg Opus files?! You went to all that trouble to separate the file format (Ogg) from the codec (Opus/Vorbis) and then coupled your metadata to a specific codec?

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@amydiehl/116631877252603677 This is so typical. When I was an interviewer at a supposedly progressive/enlightened tech company, I would hear others on interview loops with me rationalize away mediocre white male candidates' signs of weak performance, when they would have been quick to ding a female or Black/Latine candidate for the same things.

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  I love Vim, but it's not challenging anymore. They should add a hard mode where if you press any of the arrow keys, it exits without saving. j/k and h/l only.

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  When I joined #mastodon, I just wanted an open-source #twitter clone. I got more than that. Subtle design differences made for healthier conversations in ways I wasn't expecting. Here's a blog post to try to capture those differences and why they matter. https://scott.mn/2022/10/29/twitter_features_mastodon_is_better_without/

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  Failing company announces it now has bridge to sell you, sending shares soaring