Not that simple a thread, are you now, simplethread, if you need cookies and JS.

Pretty sure they couldn't care less whether or not those buying into the IPO are human as long as the money is good.

"Prosecutors ... argued Holmes is a reoffending risk, pointing out that she has been advising a biotech startup run by her husband Billy Evans from inside prison."

I really liked your design; not only were the colors to my taste, but, along with the contrast, they were gentle on my eyes; the pixelated font was a nice touch for the code samples as well. On the other hand, while still on accessory matters, I think "Nix: The only sane way to use Linux" would serve you better as a title.

Which brings me to: why Nix, specifically? Wouldn't Guix provide the same benefits — a declarative, reproducible, pinnable system – along with a potentially more pleasant language to code in, namely Scheme?

I’m being a little reductive and ignored Guix purely based on adoption; but you’re completely right. I believe the core argument is that there is a (relatively small) category of these tools of which Nix is the most well-known representative.

Heard on everything else, thank you!

"Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives.

"The intention of this list is to raise awareness of AI/LLM usage in popular open-source software. Provided below is an informed set of AI-free alternatives for users and developers to consider should their ethical boundaries be crossed or tolerance for risk be exceeded. This list is not a resource to be used for the harassment of other open-source developers. If you wish to advocate for the cessation of use and/or removal of AI-generated code from another project, we ask that it be done respectfully and constructively."

The repo it links to presents their reasons for tracking and potentially avoiding LLM-supported projects; are all of those ridiculous? Is the technology's track record so amazing as to make the conclusion ridiculous? Or did you mean tar as a replacement to rsync, specifically?

[0] https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware

Yes and Yes and Yes. I’m not an AI maximalist, but this is an extreme position that I believe is, in fact, ridiculous.

You find it ridiculous, you find it ridiculous. But saying it's "extreme" to avoid software and seek alternatives is just absurd.

Could you please elaborate? Maybe because I can't shake a tree on HN without some "I've vibe coded a doomsday device" post dropping, the crypto escrow post didn't immediately scream "forever unemployable" at me.

As am employer I don't want to be a victim of a crime, I don't want my customers to be a victim of a crime, I don't want my vendors to be a victim of a crime, I don't want my other employees to be the victim of a crime.

There might be a legitimate use of crypto somewhere but there is a lot of crime and enabling of crime. In a job market where people are looking at huge stacks of resumes they will apply System 1 heuristics to eliminate people who might have bad ethics.

(Note I am probably more positive about crypto than 85% of Hacker News users!)

> 4. Nothing here is guaranteed, including availability, correctness, continuity, or fitness for any purpose.

There you go.

If you ever do, please reply to this with why.