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Good grief, the level of ignorence is astonishing but add that that was in a science journal...

I used to buy a Scientific American as a treat and even subscribed for some time but wow, how bad it has become.

Why oh why destroy something so precious to so many people.

Spewing politcal hate is not the best way to win friends it seems.

this is really great, just went through the categories and it is really useful to someone who work like me

Cloudflare do a great job, I noticed moving from another VM.

I never understood why we abandoned cgi apps rather than fixing them.

Not sure why but it probably had something to do with Microsoft and the browser wars.

Is it time to fix web development?

We really need to own our own data and allow it to be used for the common good, unfortunatly people just dont get the concept or the value. We are open source and need good open source laws to protect us.

yes and no

that is an issue, your anti challenge is a great idea.

It is an idea at the moment, more aligned to the internet in the early days when there was more trust.

As for your question there are ways to mitigate that type of problem, joining fee maybe?

Lisp is a terrible language, for me at least.

Sure, buildings were demolished, is that unusual in a war zone?

I also did not know it was a term..

I have been trying to promote open source sw for as long as I can remember but peoplel like my wife who is a social worker says it is too clunky and gets in the way, recently I have been vide coding with apps on Raspberry Pi's and just maybe that gap is slowly starting to close.

I for one am watching this space with a lot of interest.

This is amazing I am so grateful to hear about it.

I gave been going in few similar things on my own with localbox

I use both (also Headscale)

Yet so many developers do not know about it.

I have been using CF tunnels for quite some time, very useful if you want to ingest mail on a local server without a public IP and hosting anything locally.

They are providing this for free up to a point, I wonder if all developers are aware of this amazing offering?

apps running on vpn mesh can be really useful

It is very hard work and with multilayer boards and surface mount components it is not really a hobby for me anymore, maybe with AI it can be again?

True and funny.

Bugs days are numbered with AI!

AI-powered email agent that syncs your emails via IMAP and provides intelligent analysis Interesting to analyse 20+ years of my gmail account. Fork the repo and make it better, this is created with AI

good luck, nice idea, agents are fun and a bit scary sometimes!

Gambling feeds on human misery, it should never be normalized, they made the right decision.

I am using the older version of raspberry pi 3 B+ to host mail and web services locally behind firewalls. There is a use case here for developing for remote areas that have unreliable internet and power. Still a way to go but there is something in place. This site is a beta running from my lounge at home. https://localboxmail.co.za/software.html

My son wants to throw it away, I want to at least try and reuse it.

Any suggestions for an ancient Chromebook?

Have one that is managed by a school from 10 years ago and they failed to release the device.

I am a fan of alpine Linux which i think may work well on an old Chromebook.

Any suggestions/links welcome

I have mixed feelings about this, I hate the loss of slow "discovery" and the warm fuzzy feeling when you understand something that used to be Greek to you (unless of course you are Greek) The piles of programming books, sadly many unread but admired on the shelf from afar. Now I create programs in languages I only vaguely understand and run remote servers without even logging in, it feels slightly shameful but then we are all complicit

Absolutely, I give my agents access to MCP/API and they can check logs and setup checks for potential problems and whatever else

It is a really interesting debate, it seems to be a type of abstraction at least, with an interface as a natural language instead of a typed schema.