Wasn’t the vim maintainer similar dismissive of the community for like a decade before neovim forked and rewrite the entire plugin layer and async layer?

Even with problems things could have improved.

The one thing Apple has done an amazing job of over the years is providing a solid, clean, common application framework for all of their systems.

They’ve fucked it up recently, but basically, 90% of the time you’d get the same consistent interface design across all apps, with common design language and iconography and accessibility features. They aggressively deprecate so you have to keep that $100 dev fee rolling, but the experience has been good for the the better part of 20 years (post carbon & X11, pre-liquid ass, the cocoa years).

If everything on Windows is a vibe-coded web app then everything is going to look like different, feel like shit to use, and perform like shit.

There’s just no end game here.

They’re right, it’s an open ended war, and the only thing that can stop it is the US deciding to stop it.

And even then, there’s the question of does Iran retaliate with a US retreat (probably no, but after this oil states will be strategically building away from the strait).

Even if they send war ships, what do they accomplish? Next step is the US will tell them to have courage and buy tons of American missile interceptors and patrol the waters, making European soldiers targets instead of American soldiers.

Why would the French or Germans want their own soldiers to die for nothing, to shield a country threatening them, and with no ability to influence the end to this (and likely drag it out longer).

That’s fair.

I went gnome -> kde -> cosmic -> kde -> cosmic.

And I’m thinking of trying hyperland or something built on river so I can more customization.

You can get the feet surcharge in there too.

If they win and don’t loudly and publicly start undoing shit then voter turnout will be abysmal in 2028 and they’ll lose everything again.

Does this violate the rules in D&D?

If not I have a new character

Edit:

A willing creature that is at least one size larger than you and that has an appropriate anatomy can serve as a mount, using the following rules.

Centaurs are medium, horses are large. RAW a centaur should be able to mount a horse, with only some squabbling over appropriate anatomy.

Gordon Freeman?

Cosmic can feel pretty immature still.

I’ve had to write some of my own widgets and I mostly deal with settings through terminal controls unfortunately (e.g. Bluetooth pairing hangs if a device needs a password).

While I had no issues with my network, if it’s “unique” in some way it might have bugs still, and the terminal tools would be better.

I’m new to Linux and I haven’t really had to deal with this, so I can’t say what the right way is.

Probably not a lot.

My system idles at 3gb.

But then I do AI stuff and it needs 15-80gb. And I do data analyses that can use a lot.

Their only strategy is to escalate and try to look stronger.

Now, the US military is not something to scoff at, but they’ll eventually end up escalating to nukes and threats of nukes, because there’s no way to win.

Oh yeah, I put them on tons of stuff.

Probably my favourite is I took magnets from some fancy boxes and put eyes on them. Now I have googly eye fridge magnets that get moved around my fridge.

I bought a pound of googly eyes.

It filled a shoebox, I’ve gotten down to one freezer bag.

Good code has always been about simplicity, taste, and understanding.

If a human provides understanding and taste, they can elevate AI code to be good.

Likewise if an AI isn’t well guided it won’t understand, has no taste, and will generate overly complex code. AKA Slop.

I thought the super advanced American military had completely destroyed the formerly modern Iranian military?

It feels like there’s a meta-discussion to be had about AI disclosure and AI use in a lot of these projects and it’s starting to boil over.

I would suggest that maintainers should:

• Add an AI disclosure in their readme, which is what I do on my projects. If you don’t like AI then it’s on the tin and you can avoid it – explicit is always better than implicit.
• Provide guidelines on AI contributions to their project. Every project needs an AI contribution policy now because we live in a world where most devs do use AI code gen. If you accept a patch from a community user it’s probably been touched by AI.
• Detail their AI workflow, but specifically how they review this code. I can only really work and review at a file-at-a-time pace so that 100% of AI code is reviewed by me, in detail, and it’s up to my standards.

When it comes to existing projects that start adding AI contributions it’s always going to be difficult. It’s not something projects started with even the option of, there’s no way to get consent from your users (nor consensus on whether you should you get their consent), and there have been varying levels of AI code gen for years now from simple completions to now agentic vibe coding.

I’ll be honest, most of my own projects use AI generated code, and I use it for work. It’s never code I couldn’t have written myself – because if it were how could I review it? But the fact is, in the year 2026 AI code generation is both fast, usable, and it’s near ubiquitous. There are tasks I could work on for weeks that I can build plus review in a couple of hours with AI. It’s very hard to argue with that, and I’m a very picky coder+reviewer with a full time job.

And lastly, for the community we all need to be mindful of open source maintainers.

They work hard, for free, and get treated like shit by users, the law, and big corporations. There’s a new generation of people who sign up for code hosting services just to request features or complain in your git issues, they’re opening up slop PRs and emailing you. Plus, internet users love to pile on and harass people.

Please remember there’s (usually) a human made of meat at the end of the intertubes, and when 100s of people write mean/abrasive things it adds up. Nobody is perfect, open source devs are just trying to share and help.

PS for mods: I saw there was another thread on another app using AI that was locked as off topic, I am trying to be constructive in this comment, but if it’s off topic/too divisive I understand.

This situation is beyond sad.

I feel for the people of Iran, who like any of just want to live. I was hoping they would get regime change for a long time, and was hoping the protests would have worked, but they didn’t and then the US just put the final nail in the coffin.

The US really fucked this up beyond all feasible resolutions. And once again the people are the ones who suffer.

For a while I thought maybe the best protest against AI would be to try and get it to escape containment.

Only in the existential risk scenario would our society bother to lift a finger.

But I no longer believe we would do anything, as long as the AI contributed to capital markets we’d let it destroy us.

I feel very depressed and empty today.

These should not exist.

The data privacy and ethical issues alone should be a non starter.

Don’t let perfect stop you from achieving good.

It’s not radioactive waste, it’s code. You can read it, write it, change it. Just like any legacy codebase it’s full of shit, and maintaining means addressing the specific issues.