I understand that most people want to move to other more modern tools, it's up to you. However, what baffled me is why the author's choice not to move is a problem? Did we pay them to move and they did not move as promised? Was there some crowd funding to move that was not fulfilled?

I just didn't think Sourceforge was still running. There was a mass exodus from it about 20 years ago when it became a massive ad farm that started injecting ads into people's tarballs.

It was never as good as freshmeat.net even in its heyday.

> what baffled me is why the author's choice not to move is a problem?

Because Sourceforge is horrible to use and was at one point actively pushing malware? It's pretty obvious tbh.

I use DuckDuckGo Email and it generates unique addresses that I can both receive emails (obviously) and reply to from that email. There's also an option to shutdown that address and never receive spam again.

If only cancer patients can be this positive.

I'm surprised he isn't focused on curing cancer yet. There are promising approaches with mRNA that could work out if enough funding is pushed there.

Phone sellers should enforce a mandatory 30 days no use after purchasing to ensure that people are not harmed by phone usage.

Newspapers should only report news at a minimum 7 days after the fact to ensure accurate reporting.

Toasters should lock everything in until it's completely room temperature to avoid accidental burns.

These are serious problems.

Straw man arguers should draft a comment and not send it for 24 hours to make sure they're not strawmanning.

I don't have an account with them. Would it make sense to sign up and create a script to use up the monthly free quota with random characters?

LLMs have randomness baked into every single token it generates. You can try running LLMs locally and set the temperature to low and it immediately feels boring to always have the same reply every time. It's the randomness that makes them feel "smart". Put it another way, randomness is required for the illusion of intelligence.

Im fully aware of that. However, this illusion is a dangerous mirage. It doesnt equate to reality. In some cases thats OK. But in most cases its not, especially so in the context of business operations.

If you already have Home Assistant running, I think it should be simple. Most of the time you can buy devices with pins already soldered and it's just the matter of connecting them together. AIs are pretty good with ESPHome configs. You can even take a picture so that they can help you identify the correct pins. Some coding may be required for drawing things on the display though.

Totally. Frameworks also make it a lot easier for new team members to contribute. React, for example, makes it a lot easier to hire. Any project with moderate size will require some kind of convention to keep things consistent and choosing a framework makes this easier.

Now look at the cross team collaboration and it gets even harder without frameworks. When every team has their own conventions, how would they communicate and work together? Imagine a website with React, Vue, Angular all over the place, all fighting for the same DOM.

Someone please hint ICE that they can get a lot more data from AI companies. Asking what your rights are? Straight to jail.

Although this is quite a dark time, I hope ICE may finally (accidentally) do some good by making it super obvious to people how much online platforms track them.