Check out yunohost.org (and similar projects) If you’re in for a turnkey-solution.

But yes, a reverse proxy that does all the work and handles SSL is a nice solution. I also use that. It’s relatively easy to set up, doesn’t really slow down anything and makes a lot of stuff easier to manage.

I use NGinx, but Caddy or Traefik will do the same. And I don’t use Cloudflare, so I can’t comment on that.

And btw, Jitsi-Meet is going to require some more dedidated ports for the WebRTC, STUN, etc

I don’t know anything about ZFS, but in the future you might want to address them by /dev/disks/by-uuid/… or by-id and not by /dev/nvme…

Fair enough. Yes I figured you probably wouldn’t have a M40 lying around by accident 😅

Maybe you should do the maths on other options. You could get a refurbished PC for $350. Or buy the dock anyways. Or spend the money on cloud compute if you’re just occasionally using AI. Idk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_World_War_II

I did some quick googling. Are those thunderbolt docks really $350 ? That’s like half the price of a cheap computer?!

But that’s just not entirely true. I think you’re confusing this with some source-available licenses or these silly amendmends to licenses that make it defacto proprietary. But this isn’t the case here. This statement in the CLA doesn’t take away any rights. It gives additional ones (yet to them, not to you, that’s true). And it’s in addition to the AGPL. All of the AGPL applies in addition to the CLA. Every single freedom, just as if the CLA weren’t there. You can use it, modify it, copy it, etc… And no one can take this away any more.

The “around a decade” of course applies. And none of that has to do with the signing away copyright per CLA. You also don’t know if Linus Torvalds is around in 5 years and keeps maintaining the kernel to your liking. You also don’t know if any of the big open source projects of today get bought by some shady investors and the next updates won’t be free software anymore… These things happen. And it has little to do with a CLA (like this one). Happens to plain standard licenses without extras, too. And it does to ones with this kind of licensing. But this really isn’t the distinguishing factor.

I think what you mean is modified licenses. Or similar additions that render something not open source anymore. I agree, you should avoid those projects at all costs. But that’s a different story and not what this project is doing.

With this, it boils down to you don’t retain control over your contributions. You’re right with that. You’re giving them away and now your lines of code are their’s to do whatever they like. That’s not how open source contributions without a CLA work. But you still get something in return. You get a whole project licensed to you under a permissive license. They just demand to retain full control over the project as a whole, including contributions. And you can decide if that’s a cost you’re willing to pay when contributing code. The ‘rug-pulling’ is mainly unaffected. They could do this anyways. Just that it involves some trickery when it comes to third-party snippets within the code and selling it under a different license. But lots of companies already demonstrated you can perfectly rip off the open-source community legally, and it’s not substancially harder than with this CLA thing.

My point is a different one: While focusing on some small details of a hypothetical case that I think you got partly wrong… Have you checked for any big elephants in the room? Because I don’t see anyone talking about the database / search index and whether that’s available. The website is just a very small part and just the frontend to query the database. I’d say it’s almost pointless to discuss what we’re arguing about. I can code a search frontend website in a week, that’s not the point. And completely irrelevant if it’s open source… What about the data that powers the search engine? I think that’d be the correct question to ask. Not whether the frontend is 99% or 110% open source.

Let’s hope this means the resulting oversaturation/-production will then make laptops half the price for us Europeans.

That “either” means, it doesn’t matter which path you took, from now on the following text applies to both… So you don’t need to care.

I’m not sure if you people are paying attention to the right thing. It’s fairly common to do this. And it doesn’t mean they can take away anything. Everything will still be AGPL and still available. Someone is then going to fork it and maintain it as it happened with lots of other projects. This just means they’re also able to also sell it under different conditions, including your patches and contributions.

I think what you should pay attention to is, whether the search index is open or closed. That’s something with significant impact. Not if they’re able to monetize your small bugfix without paying you. I mean that’d be nice, too. But not a super big thing unless you contribute a substancial amount of code. I mean you get a whole open source search engine in return for signing away your copyright. And it doesn’t change anything for the people using the software. For them it’s still AGPL. And the maintainer could stop developing the software at any point, anyways. Could (and does) also happen to projects without a CLA.

Lutris, Bottles, …

And learning from the dataset is kinda the whole point of LLMs, right? I see some fundamental problems there. If you ask it where Alpacas are from, or which symptoms make some medical conditions, you want it to return what it memorized earlier. It kind of doesn’t help if it makes something else up to “preserve privacy”.

Do they address that? I see lots of flowery words like

Integrating privacy-preserving techniques often entails trade-offs, such as reduced accuracy or increased computational demands, […]

But I mean that’s just silly.

Btw: With the regular Linux software mdraid, you can also swap drives without powering down. That all works fine while running. Unless your motherbard SATA controller craps out. But the mdraid itself will handle it just fine.

I’m pretty sure these aren’t open source but just use GitHub for some cheap and anonymous hosting of their binaries/APK files.

What does “Until Morale Improves” mean? I read the rest of the article but can’t find what this is about.

Some of the German IT news sites I read seem to add a note if they change something of substance. I don’t think they do that for minor things or if they fix the spelling… I can’t find any example but I’m pretty sure I’ve read some articles on heise.de that ended in a paragraph ~we’ve corrected xyz which was stated incorrectly in an earlier version of the article~ They don’t do Git or anything like that, though.

Certain people in another large country are currently proposing tariffs.

We currently habe arbitrary numbers to choose from:
https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html

I’ve read exactly the opposite article a few days ago:

https://www.cio.com/article/3540579/devs-gaining-little-if-anything-from-ai-coding-assistants.html

All is well that ends well? cough