I have worked with somewhat large codebases before using LLMs. You can ask the LLM to point a specific problem and give it the context. I honestly don’t see myself as capable without a LLM. And it is a good teacher. I learn much from using LLMs. No free advertisement for any of the suppliers here, but they are just useful.

You get access to information you can’t find on any place of the Web. There is a large structural bad reaction to it, but it is useful.

(Edit) Also, I would like to add that people who said that questions won’t be asked anymore seemingly never tried getting answers online in a discussion forum - people are viciously ill-tempered when answering.

With a LLM, you can just bother it endlessly and learn more about the world while you do it.

Dailymotion does not allow for commenting anymore. That’s why I stopped using it.

Anyway, more access to the open source packages can’t be bad.

I think it said it’s deprecated or something? I’m not sure, I just know I had problems downloading packages before.

I don’t think it was setup.py . I think I tried to download it directly through pip install xx==0.4.0 or something (the version was required by the program) and it said the package doesn’t exist.

But do Appimages make the dependencies code available? They pack everything into one working program, but what about the packages?

I couldn’t download it even if I wanted to. That’s what I mean. It returns a message saying it isn’t supported.

If prior versions were not support by pip anymore, so yes, if it were removed. There are cases of packages not being supported by the platforms, aren’t there? I’ve run into cases where the package was fully deprecated and not useable or downloadable anymore.

What do you mean?

I just find that if pip did not support that version anymore, the software would be lost. As that is covered by making executables, as I mentioned them. But what if I wanted to have access to the libraries that were used in the program? That wouldn’t be possible. Because all we get in the source code is the dependency fetching, not the dependencies themselves.

It would be good to have an alternative where you get all that you need to compile the code again, not depending on fetching them from websites that might not even have them anymore.

This mentality of ephemeral code just adheres to the way big tech would like to do things, with programmed obsolescence.

An alternative to that way of doing things would be nice and would make sure we get access to the same working open source program in 30 or 40 years.

If Health won’t make piracy legal, it’s hard to believe anything else will.

This is incredible. But how to make this legal?

When I first learned about it, it kind of seems like school bullying or something criminal. “Give me 50000 if you want to keep operating”. It’s kind of funny, but it is also kind of sad. Anyway, the decision has it geopolitical importance.

ElasticSearch is the most studied academically database search. This is enough to be happy with this reality. If we are to open new FOSS alternatives, it goes through ElasticSearch, if we are to depend on academic science.

And some people think Brazil is being extreme on putting fines for X (Twitter) to pay for not blocking some accounts.

This guy is accused of being accomplice to crime just for creating and maintaining the platform where criminals do their dealings.

The road is downhill, my friends.

That’s a marketing problem, not a functionality problem. The terminal isn’t really hard to use.

People used BASIC easily back in the 80’s. My mom did it back then, and she isn’t tech savvy.

If you want to push material that completely contradicts morals (respect for privacy and free speech, for example), maybe you need this kind of people. They’ll just say they don’t give a f*** right to your face. Not that Bill Gates or Larry Page are any different, the times just changed. Do you really believe Bill Gates is that intelligent God among men? Because I don’t.

gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/

I’ve found active small XMPP communities before, so I know they are there, but the client can’t seem to find these niche communities. The communities with most members almost don’t chat about current topics or interesting things. They have a lot of people but no conversation, just like some Discord communities.

If you want blogs, I recommend you use gemini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

Download Lagrange and begin browsing. It’s basically a small-web of personal blogs.

I thought Gigablast was a one-man company? Yet it had good search results and it was expansive.

It gets easier, but I think a mix of the two is more proper. For example, fantasy books may use the words hauberk or tabard a lot, but not necessarily you will know exactly what it is, as it would entail that you had encyclopedic knowledge about it. Besides dictionaries, you would have to refer to Wikipedia or other encyclopedias, which is fine and can be interesting if you are curious.

You have to balance your curiosity with the need to read along the text in a rhythm that you like. I also find those estimates used in many internet articles (indicated by x min read) to be much longer than what I usually take.

It gets better and you do not have to be perfect at it, as nobody is.