I guess there are related projects such as busybox which contain a collection of utilities implemented in a single binary. There are others such as toybox, and various alternatives in different languages, or with different licenses to choose from.
I deleted my account, and stopped visiting it at least five years ago.
Too often old answers would be frozen in time, not being updated for new software and better solutions. Similarly most questions got closed as "duplicate" even when they were not.
You can find questions such as "My DNS isn't working", with answers like "Have you tried disabling your firewall?" and it's feels like the blind leading the blind, like PHP developers fixing installations via "chmod 777".
LLMs are terrible, but stackoverflow is definitely worse.
Honestly I reached a point where I was getting pull-requests which were best characterized as "AI spam", I just archived all of them.
Every single one of my public github repositories is archived and no longer updated.
I have projects I work on, but I keep them to myself. I've just lost interest in wasting time on issues and submissions from people - which is a depressing position to be in, because most of the time people mean well, and over the years I've definitely benefited from contributions of many interested and skilled people.
I created this thread thinking that AI is definitely going to shake the open-source world, and I wanted to know how people deal with AI-slop PRs.
Thank you for sharing your experience. I am not an open-source rockstar, and I have only had to reject PRs a few times in my life. All the times I felt terrible for people who put in some effort to build something around my code and got rejected.
Even if you reject their changes remember they have their own fork, and they can keep using it locally. Sure they have to keep updating their local work if you don't include it in your repository, but that's a small price to pay. After all if you hadn't made your code available in the first place nobody would be using it, modified, or unmodified.
Sure! Walk out of the sauna, over the garden, down the dock, then jump into the lake for a naked swim.
Do that daily for about four weeks, come rain or shine, whilst enjoying your summer vacation.
Of course that probably doesn't work for every country, but here in Finland it's normal enough. Too bad I'm a pale-skinned redhead, covered in freckles, and I get burned if I'm not too careful.
I guess it would, but remember there are more services out there than just HTTP(S).
For example the last time I had an IPv6-only host I had issues cloning things from github, as "git clone git@github.com..." failed due to github.com not having IPv6 records.
I used it until I switched to GNOME2 at some point, and I also have fond memories. Just seeing the title of this post recalled the desktops I had had over the years.
My linux days started around 95/96, and I was always using low-resource environments due to necessity. Other than FVWM95 the other system I recall using for a long long time was IceWM which was something I switched to around 1999/2000.
There are no useful discussion to be had on such topics as war in Isreal, Donald Trump (be it "stolen elections", or foreign politics), or Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Nobody will ever think "That was a well-reasoned argument I now believe war crimes were, or were not, committed".
The best thing to do on posts like this is avoid reading them, or flag them.
It feels like there's an obviously correct side to most of these issues, the problem is half the audience here believes their side is correct and yours is wrong.
> There are no useful discussion to be had on such topics
I think there are useful discussions to be had on these topics, and in fact, we must have those discussions. The issue is that, if we want to do so productively and a comment section is the only venue for us to speak to each other, then we must be extremely patient with others and ourselves and reflect on what they say and what we say (i.e., discuss in good faith).
That burden may be too high for most people, but collectively, we don't have a better forum anymore, and we need to have these discussions and come to consensus before the world is engulfed in authoritarianism or war (which is not hyperbole).
Comment sections are not the only venue for us to speak to each other and we must be able to consider that they might actually make the problem worse.
Other venues
- real life, talking to people in person
- telephones, audio & video calling, talking to people
- writing op-eds, blog posts, sub-stack newsletters
- podcasts
None of these of course produce the dopamine hit of seeing your likes/retweets/karma go up and that of your opponents going down though, so we would have to give that up. I think that's a good deal.
We can call internet comment infrastructure "community" but that doesn't mean it actually is one or functions to enhance community.
You might believe there are useful discussions to be had, but when a faction of readers like the GP flag or downvote every thread they don’t like, then it’s impossible to have any conversation, no matter how much good faith is brought to bear.
Manually appealing to dang for unflagging is not a workable solution either.
This really is an entirely unsuitable forum for this discussion.
It shouldn't be the case that people acting in bad faith can disrupt meaningful discussion between people acting in good faith. I am at a loss to suggest a better forum. Town halls, protests, talking to people on the street, Congress, etc, are not able to have these discussions either.
Maybe this is not the forum, but then what is? A philosophy class you took ten years ago?
> I advocate concerning yourself with the things you can control, which do not include this forum’s idiosyncratic moderation style.
I can control my comments, which are a part of this forum's moderation style, and I can advocate in those comments for people to act in good faith, and appeal for help in figuring out how to make it more common.
If we can't discuss important topics in good faith on a nerd website, what hope do we have of discussing them elsewhere? It's not hyperbole anymore to say that if we don't come to some consensus we are going to end up in authoritarianism or war.
> It feels like there's an obviously correct side to most of these issues, the problem is half the audience here believes their side is correct and yours is wrong.
You think half the audience here or anywhere is on the side of israel and genocide? The only reason no discussion can be had is because of the influence of israel in tech, media, government and the bot farms they are allowed to employ all over social media.
I don't know what the numbers are, nor is it possible to determine this from the data we have, but I am reasonably sure that most of the commenters who post about this to HN are doing so in good faith. That doesn't make it any less tough to discuss (or to moderate the discussion). If anything, it makes it tougher.
You should also consider grouping your random hostnames under a dedicated subdomain. e.g. "xxx-xxx-xxx.users.tunnl.gg", that separates out cookies and suchlike.
I run a similar site (https://pico.sh) with public urls and thought the same thing for us. The public suffix has some fuzzy limits on usage size before they will add domains (e.g. on the scale of thousands of active users).
I don’t have tunnl.gg usage numbers but I’m going to guess they are no where near the threshold — we were also rejected.
https://github.com/briandfoy/PerlPowerTools
I guess there are related projects such as busybox which contain a collection of utilities implemented in a single binary. There are others such as toybox, and various alternatives in different languages, or with different licenses to choose from.
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