lambalicious

Harder, yes; impossible, no.

For example, even if there was currently not an alternative to a specific piece of software (might take a while, might be too niche, etc) nothing says you can’t use the latest version of Caddy or whatever before they got slopified. Lists like Open Slopware help find the correct release version numbers for that.

Do NOT do the latter! It allows unprivileged users in the system to spawn processes to take privileged ports starting with port 80 all over to port 1024, including relevant ports like 443 (HTTPS)!

It’s powered off.

Of note, the Frank repos listed in the article are slopified, as reported also in one of the comments in the article.

The second smartest thing to do is to have someone you know / trust offer to buy the machines from the charity before they are destroyed (by getting those forwarded away from them, for example), assuming they still get some. Consider, you have a potential good, actionable source to nab good hardware.

The smartest is to get charity policy changed, but that’s more of a hassle.

Mobile

Heck no. Even if the app was the best available, it’s got to live in an environment that is already sending everything to Google / Apple and trying to whine about nudes where it can, maybe to send them to the Pedophile Elite.

Only if I had something like a Graphene phone, but with the prices incumbent in their current Motorola deal, that’s about a decade away.

This is like the Blip!

There is zero chance for a FOSS, offline tool that uses a decades-established formatting and annotation system, but there is 100 dicksuck on AI?

Wow… get your resume ready to migrate.

Literally just use doxygen. You don’t ever need LLMs for docu.

Isn’t matomo like, literally fire-and-forget?

But also, my main draw from this, is that the simplest solution to analytics is to just not need to profile people (let alone your interlocutors) in the first place. Just like with traffic and transportation problems.

The people of this pubnix are grateful.

Their comments on the bug tracker issue regarding staying on non-AI versions are however rather worrying, and they’ve ignored the issue completely, burying their heads in the sand.

Oh! I might check up how the repo is doing during the weekend, might merit an upgrade once the next major (3.5 if I’m getting my numbers right) comes around.

Don’t sweat it (yet) and just lock it in your package manager. If you are on Debian, the last reasonable versions can be apt get from snapshots.debian.org and then just apt pin / apt mark hold those.

I don’t remember the exact bug but just search for “data loss” and/or “changed behaviour”, either it wil come up or the devs have been whitewashing their inclusion of AI and censoring discussions.

Be wary when you use rsync, to not upgrade past version 3.4.1. Later versions were vibecoded / slopecoded and cause data loss.

How do you even define that?

those who can’t do, teach

XMPP is all the goodies of IRC but modernized for the current age, and it’s not a nu-protocol like Matrix so it’s quite lightweight to host or service.

You start as a bully when a kid, then grow up to be a fash / nazi, then they give you a badge and the ability to institutionalize your hate.

Almost sounds like a pejorative when you say it like that! :p

Wonderment is cool. The key is to know to keep it as you learn more truths about the world.

as we use AI to find vulnerabilities faster (hopefully) than bad actors can use AI to find vulnerabilities.

Oh small, simple child: who do you think has the better access to AI in the first place?

Only if efforts can transfer over, which means devs currently standing on the paid side of Google!Android would have to move over to develop Linux mobile and develop for Linux mobile.

And zero projects today don’t use AI in any forms

Everything I do is a counterexample. Get fucked.

Did your LLM just have a spasm?

And maybe those folks who rush to downvote will realize they can just filter out the posts instead.

Sure, but IMO that’s not the point. About one half of the point of commenting on slopware posts is to make known that the use of AI is disapproved

we can vibecode one together!

I can understand the point that Word is needed for producing some borked, glitched, eldritch formatting that 99% of people expect as correct because Office is that much widespread and has trained people to be Wrong on the Internet; and in that case yeah I would still recommend running a(n older version of!) Office just so that you can process (and test) that you are producing what is expected in the exchange.

It’s curious actually. While LO compatibility has improved, I don’t think anything close to an umbrella “Imitate Word [$VERSION] Breakages” option has ever been added or even considered for LO? How about the other Word imitators? Can eg.: WPS or Calligra replicate Microslop idosyncracies? Because if so, running those would be better than running Office on a remote.

If the only thing you need is not even the whole Office suite but just a Word processor (and not even any particular version) and since you’ll be remoting to it for the graphical access, you don’t need to spin up a whole Windows VM for that. You can just spin up something with Wine and install the Word component from Office 2013 on that (I’d say Office 2013 at most; you might be able to get away with Office 2007 but I wouldn’t recommend it).