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Lots. But the difficulty as ever is finding something that the people you want to talk about are also using.

fucking idiot

One thing Carney definitely isn’t, is that.

Buh-bye Anthropic…

Nah. Short term dip in value, that’s all, but I expect it to recover and improve.

When you realise the the US in not the only customer in the world, and other countries will be prioritising AI/LLMs that aren’t embedded and ultimately controlled by the unstable and fascist government there. Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, Canada - all places that have good reasons not to want the US Government being fed their data.

There’s also Elon Musk’s strange relationship with that government, and he would likely get access to Anthropic’s codebase and IP through them too.

Also, non analytically, well done for standing up to bullies.

Somewhat de-values real supply-chain risk alerts, when they’re used for political ends.

Anthropic would have been less secure if they had give the access required to the US Government, so it’s actually more secure today than if it had bent over.

I use:

• Apache with Letsencrypt client for single host reverse proxies or those with more complex needs. Not the easiest but when you understand it, it’s fine. Lightweight, solid and very flexible.
• NPM (Nginx Proxy Manager), either service or docker, where there’s a lot of proxies on one host. Very simple, very reliable, baked in authentication.
• Traefik, when building or deploying services, especially with docker swarm. Tags make it very smooth once you’ve got things set up and in your workflow.

All are good choices, but each has a specialism that make it a little bit better than the others.

(Breathes in…)

Having spent a large part of today wrestling with a selfhosted mattermost upgrade, it would be nice if they spent a bit of time focusing on making this better, like many other things do. Nothing else, at least since we dropped Atlassian selfhosted apps, has been as consistently poor at this.

Changes to supported databases (not once, but twice), forced migrations, breaking change after breaking change (especially of things that could easily be handled automatically but instead block until you’ve found the log error and researched it), and so on. Support, even for commercial customers, is very poor and sometimes extremely rude (at least one senior dev is very opinionated). And things like arbitratrily restricting how many historical messages you can read without a commercial licence shows a deep disrespect for users, plus random feature creep like adding telephony, who actually uses that?

Compare to Teamcity where you click one link in the ui and are pretty confident stuff will work afterwards, and most other selfhosted apps where major distro specific packages are provided, and add a very rapid release cycle, it’s a lot of work to maintain.

Overall, I’m not convinced that Mattermost is a well run project, foss or not. Major changes in direction smack of poor roadmapping and leadership. It would not surprise me at all if the licence issues in the post turned out to be accidental rather than deliberate.

Seriously, if you’re in the market for a chat app - whether it’s free or a thousands-seat enterprise, pick something else. Almost anything else.

Meanwhile, we in Europe have American Billionaires constantly attacking any government or legal body that enforces their own national laws, by threatening to sue and throwing childish insults for suppressing free speech.

Many of us haven’t ever had legal freedom of speech in our constitutions, but the reality is we have a lot more than Americans right now.

Inevitable but stupid.

If they choose to still vote for more of this madness and the obvious damage to themself economically and socially, they’re clearly in denial and there’s little you or I can do to change their mind.

Yes. The term came from the Polynesian languages into English via Missionaries. The island people would war with their enemies and the winner got to eat the loser, calling them long pigs.

I think it’s lovely. Life is short, make the most of it.

So, just like any vehicle that downloads software updates from its manufacturer?

If they do that, the manufacturer can add whatever they like to specific vehicles, including kill switches.

Needing to put food on your table is a good motivator.

Also - you might want to check something - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_open_source Even allowing for the three Es, MS has employed a number of people who worked exclusively on FOSS projects.

For me, one 2001 game is lodged forever in my mind, Hostile Waters

It’s a great game, although sadly won’t run on modern systems. And not strictly voice acting, more narration, but I’ve just re-watched the intro and Tom Baker’s narration still gives me shivers.

Almost a quarter of a century since I first played it, the phrase “These are hostile waters” in Tom’s voice still pops into my head from time to time.

Beat me to it. This unskippable sequence has stopped me replaying Skyrim at least twice.

Frankly, it’s a bloody weird thing to do unless medically required. Leave him be.

You should contact a local history group or museum. That could be a significant find - it’ clearly old, possibly thousands of years.