@mewsleah this is nice!

@oxy @katzenberger it's the Halloween version of the pizza? 😆

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@feoh First of all, thank you for all the work you've put into this. Really. And you're not bothering me at all! :)

I've had a look at your patch, and there's a LOT of work in there. Much more than a few compatibility fixes. There are database migrations (which we'd prefer to avoid unless strictly necessary, at least at this stage), a lot of tests (we already have many in our development branch, so there would be overlaps and probably conflicts), and quite a few changes touching different parts of the software.

It's definitely not a trivial patch, and reviewing it properly would take time.

The Little Computer People have deliberately chosen not to publish their development repository yet. Not because we want to hide anything, but because there are still branches to merge, bugs to fix, and some things we need to sort out before opening up development.

littleFedi is something the Little Computer People are giving to the community, and for now we'd like to keep development fairly centralized. We're still at a very early stage, and the risk of things becoming fragmented is quite high.

There's also the question of code, as I haven't written most of it. I want to be careful about what we integrate, especially when it comes to code generated with LLMs. I'm absolutely not saying this is the case with your work! It's a general concern, and one of the reasons why reviewing and understanding every change matters to me.

Of course, you're absolutely free to publish your fork! That's what the MIT license is for, and I have no problem with that. Freedom works both ways. 😄

But I hope you understand that we can't realistically review and integrate a patch of this size in just a few days, especially with everything else we're currently working on.

Please don't take this as a rejection of your work. I really appreciate the time and effort you've dedicated to littleFedi, and I'm glad you found it interesting enough to work on it.

I just want to be clear about where we are, and why we're being particularly careful at this stage.

And again, thank you! 😄

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A presentation of Catodon in swedish! Tack så mycket!
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That is a flying car in the same sense that this is a hoverboard.

@stefano I am also starting to be worried.

I am wondering what impression the current situation is leaving on young hackers starting out today, compared to the early 2000s. Back at university, many of my peers were interested in Linux and free software / open source because it was a promising alternative to the corporate software the previous generation was using. Further back in time, all I ever saw on anyone's parents' computers as a child was DOS and later WIndows (ignoring the odd Amiga or Commodore). However, 2 of my friends at school were using early versions Linux, likely the suse versions still based on slackware. When my dad passed down an old laptop to me I somehow ended up running a long forgotten linux distro that ran from a single floppy, eventually somehow managing to move this distribution to the internal disk drive and manually extracting slackware packages for additional software and documentation , then reading documentation, and finding out about the existence and mindset behind free software in some of the GNU info pages. What I took away from it is that there were people out there working to make computers work how they wanted, in ways that are supposed to benefit society. This realization felt empowering, If I hadn't seen this back then I probably wouldn't have fallen into the computing rabbit hole as deep as I have.

Today, all this is decades old tech and not much of what the free software community stood for back then has had any effect on people who aren't deeply into computers. It feels like we have fallen into the undesirable future we didn't want. The entire OS is abstracted away, and people now create software without even knowing what a filesystem is or why you would need one. When I rented a bicycle in Berlin this summer, during chit chat the shop owner proudly showed me software he had built with LLMs which automated scanning a QR code by pressing a single key on the keyboard in order to transfer the sale into his accounting system via some app on his phone. He stated he wasn't a developer before this and has zero understanding of the systems involved. He felt super empowered by this achievement, yet I wouldn't be.

@stefano So while creating and working on @gothub all this sticks in the back of my mind a lot. This is a very bare bones git forge which now also has mailing lists as the main form of communication. Which would have been perfect in the 2000s for many young people and projects in the free software / open source space. Nowadays, the user base which needs this exact setup appears to be incredibly small. It's not immediately usable with LLMs because there's no hosted CI. It runs Git, but there is no way to send pull requests via the web. It forces users into Git GUI or command line clients and email clients, and especially the latter is probably considered a necessary nuisance rather than a development tool by young people today.

So I'm honestly not really sure who will use it. Sure, there's a few BSD affiliated users on there right now, but that community is very small and is usually self-hosting anyway.

I don't even know what would need to be changed or added to the hosting service which is both acceptable to me and desirable for young hackers so they will start using it...

@ivor so much quotable stuff in that thread 👍

@midtsveen @fbfortune @selea @libreleah @martin thank you!

@oxy @katzenberger or the pizza. Or the combination of the two.

@ZoidbergForPresident yes, they're good people. And good people *can* make mistakes, as we all do.

@katzenberger currently not. But maybe I should start 😆

I'm terrible at self promotion. Drawing maps is more fun than making stupid videos or updating websites. But, my website has my portfolio, and it was neglected and sad. Until yesterday, I finally got round to adding the missing maps. Link in bio.

Https://www.chloethecartographer.com

Check it out. I'll try to keep it up to date. Try.... Right, back to designing a spaceship, which honestly is the most fun.... #artist #maps #portfolio #cartography #illustration

Meet Lucy. Lucy is a little concerned about whether she's got the spell right. Will keep trying.

@Jasperthecat

#sillySpookyHatting

Ive been super quiet but always still busy with maps.. this is a fabulous dnd setting by @maddaloon_ on insta, a Percy Jackson style greek island. This time I took my experiments with 3d and little further, I started by sketching a greyscale heightmap then in Gaea by Quadspinner i was able to model erosion and produce a realistic looking island that i rendered in bright colours and added hand drawn buildings. #mapping #ttrpg #cartography #dndmap #novelmap

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