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That certainly makes me feel better for letting the Magic Smoke out.

I don’t think it became easier at all until it was forked off into Xorg and they started making dramatic improvements.

I think it was trial and error for hours at least.

It certainly was until I discovered the monitor I hadn’t fried had the modelines printed on a sticker on the back…

Yep. I’m not making a proclamation, just stating an opinion. I don’t have a problem with what they’re doing, and if other people do, that’s fine. Some people like their cucumbers pickled, let them have their pickle.

I actually wouldn’t be surprised to see it go open source in the future, Microsoft has been doing that a lot recently, like VScode and the whole of .NET and friends like PowerShell. Pretty much the only things worthwhile from Microsoft are already open source, except Copilot.

So I’m not the only one who fried a monitor trying to get X11 working…

and how hard it was to get x11 working

Oh good God. If you really want to test someone’s resolve, sit them down at an old computer with a CRT and no Internet and have them configure X11 from scratch. Seeing that default X11 crosshatch background for the first time was practically orgasmic after the bullshit I went through to make it work.

That’s one of those traumatizing experiences I’d completely blocked from my memory until I read your comment.

Traumatizing experience #2 that just came back to me was getting a winmodem working and connected to my ISP via minicom.

Copilot was trained on copylefted code while itself being closed. What was brought to attention by @[email protected] isn’t efficacy, but Microsoft’s lack of ethics and social responsibility when it comes to their bottom line.

I honestly don’t have a problem with that. Everything that it was trained on is publicly-available/open-source code, and I’m not aware of any license that requires you to distribute your modifications if you don’t make modified binaries publicly available, not even GPL. And even then, you’re only required to make available the code that was modified, not related code. And I don’t even think that situation would apply in this case, since nothing was modified, it was just ingested as training data. Copilot read a book, it didn’t steal a book from the library and sell it with its name pasted over the original author’s.

This isn’t really any different of a situation than a closed-source Android app using openssl or libcurl or whatever. Just because those open-source libraries were employed in the making of the app doesn’t mean that the developer must release the source for that app, and it doesn’t make them a bad person for trying to make money from selling that app. Even Stallman is on board with selling software.

And even if you take all that off the table, you’re free to do the exact same thing and make a competitor. Microsoft didn’t make their own language model, they’re using a commercially-available model developed by OpenAI. There’s literally nothing stopping anyone else from doing this as well and making a competing service called “Programming Pal” and making their code open-source. In fact, it’s already been done with FauxPilot and CodeGeex and the like.

So yeah, I really don’t have a problem with it. This ended up a lot longer than I had originally thought it would, sorry for the novel.

Because we have some contracts that stipulate any data related to the project, including secrets/credentials, must remain on-site, and in some cases, on an air-gapped network. Doesn’t make sense to spin up something else to manage those secrets when Bitwarden can do it all and satisfy the requirements of those contracts.

At work/for business, you can’t beat Veeam. It’s the gold standard and there is literally nothing better.

At home, Duplicity. Set it up once and then just let it go, and it supports a million different backup targets you can ship your backups off to, including the local filesystem. Has auto-aging/removal rules, easy restores, incrementals, etc. Encrypts by default too.

Github Copilot is worth the money. I’ve had it finish out functions for me after just a few lines. There’s usually an error or two, but the consistency with which it can predict what I’m doing or trying to do is pretty impressive.

I pay for it just because it’s cheap and to support them

I did this too when it first came out, and then the product became robust enough that I recommended we implement it at work because secrets management was non-existent. We have a bunch of licenses on the Enterprise plan now and it just keeps getting better each update.

My only complaint is that migrating the data to a new server is a pain in the ass and never works correctly, even when following the migration instructions to the letter. Always have to open a ticket with them for that. Not enough of a pain to move to another product, though.

I also still pay for my personal plan. It really is a fantastic product.

I think that this line of reasoning becomes less and less tenable when things like Swagger exist.

I just wished the Lemmy API docs were better lol.

Finnegans Wake makes more sense than Lemmy API docs. Even calling it “documentation” is a stretch.

I literally had to clone the Lemmy git repo and read the source code to find the implementation of an API endpoint and see how it worked for a script that I was writing.

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Fantastic list, thanks.

Is this really that useful though?

It’s very useful if you don’t use a password manager and/or reuse passwords.

The most useful part about it to me is the API. You can tie it in to Active Directory to blacklist all hashes that appear in any breach, plus expire/force a password change if any user on your domain uses a password that has been in a breach. It completely eliminates that vector from threat actors immediately.

So yeah, I would call this intensely useful.

I still use reddit for researching problems at work, but that’s it.

Man I loved Encarta. I would spend hours in that shit just going through random stuff.

Then there’s the hostility if a post does get play.

I used to dread seeing that new message notification icon.

And here you are with 53 comments in 6 days.

I’ve been using vscode since it was released and I never knew that was an option. Thank you!