Yes, but also, if people like wearing pijamas or sportswear, don’t judge them for that. Just let people wear what they are comfy in.

I get the second part, but I think the first part is just an US thing. While I feel that we are still terribly repressed over here, something being sexual (especially when it’s just a double entendre) doesn’t always and immediately make it unprofessional in Germany, which I feel applies more so in other parts of Europe.

Why is a sexual term automatically offensive?

What is “open-sourced” supposed to mean here, exactly?

I mean, you can write however you like. But it does kinda give the vibes of it being written like a click bait YouTube speaks.

It’s less any verbosity, and more that the sentence and post structures sound very ai. Not that you’d be the only person that just writes like that, but especially the concluding paragraph sounds exactly like something an LLM would output.

I host several services accessible via the open Web. They are isolated enough that a breach would most likely only compromise that service. They are also kept up to date, and logs are monitored.

There’s always a risk when exposing something, and I am limiting some services to access via VPN because either the data in them is too sensitive, or I don’t trust them to be secure enough.

You probably also aren’t a worthwhile target in most cases.

To further stretch that metaphor, it’s like I manufacture bikes, and you copy one of my designs to build a single unit for yourself.

Also, I imagine it would be hard to discover and then prove that the app someone is using on their own machine is a clone of yours.

Also also, the validity of software patents heavily depends on your jurisdiction.

Also also also, there’s a lot of word processors and photo editors out there. The usecase of an app would have to be incredibly specific to even try and prove a clone is infringing on anything. If it’s a library - reinplementing a function in your own (or a LLM’s) code is unlikely to be a problem.

I don’t trust current LLMs to do this well, or in an affordable way, but if you somehow manage it, I don’t think the original manufacturer would have an easy time sueing you.

Also, all of them (I’ve seen) have a new account, and all their text output seems LLM generated, with them claiming it’s cause english isn’t their native language and they need LLMs to translate - on that note, that’s suspect to me, cause translating a human written text, at least with dedicated translation services, tends to retain a human structure. This feels more like they’re generating the whole message.

Doesn’t apply here, but some also had a story about “working in X trade for Y years”. It all feels very disingenuous, very much like marketing. I’d be surprised if even half of these projects are still around in two years time.

Rant over, just something that grinds my gears.

Did that for a while, cause I had no choice. Very little stress, for a bit. Till the money starts running out.

I have run qemu successfully on a mobile Kaby Lake processor. Was a 8th gen i5 with 4c/8t, though, and the system had 32 gigs of Memory.

With that setup, I ran Windows to use Lightroom, went pretty smoothly.

So, like, the architecture can do it, but with 2c/4t and almost no Memory, you probably can’t do much on the host OS while running the emulator, and whatever you emulate probably also can’t be very heavy.

That might be the case. And you might in fact be perfectly well intentioned (though, as you might have found this community isn’t, on average, very into closed source software).

On the project site, this post, your replies, I have read nothing that sounded like genuinely you. It all reads like marketing. Or, more precisely, as if you have a LLM write/rewrite your responses. This, to me, makes them feel incredibly disingenuous. You might just sound like that naturally. In that case, I’m sorry.

If you want to win over this community, a good avenue would probably be open sourcing your application and arranging for some form of donation.

Edit: Also, you didn’t state that it’s closed source in your first sentence?? Well, you did in the first sentence of the reply to the comment that called out there not being source code on the repo, but the cat was out of the bag at that time.

An unkind observer might suspect the goal to be having the aesthetic of an open source or at least source available project without actually being one.

I don’t think this fully applies to Ferrari in the way it might apply to mass market cars.

I would argue that those sanctions, if general, shouldn’t include necessities like food or medicine. Also, I feel that sanctions against specific figures in the government might be relatively effective (many countries are doing this already). Make it difficult to enjoy the fortune they stole from their people.

I also don’t like the idea of sanctions that aren’t based on specific/ongoing actions, but the existence of a certain government/regime, though I see where you are coming from.

I would also still argue that the Russian people chose that government, back when they did choose, because they didn’t see many other options, and keeping them in perpetual destitution long term isn’t likely to change that.

Geizhals, Hardwareschotte, etc. are paid by the stores per click. If a stores budget runs out, they stop being displayed. Seems like a mid solution.

Demonising a whole people like this is in itself wrong.

What is your supposed solution, then? How does one deal with tens of millions of people who are supposedly evil and wrong?

Where they, though? People drafted and sent to the front generally have few options. I get that people dying is what happens in war but casting all individual soldiers of one side as “bad”, of the other as “good” just serves to dehumanise people and excuse atrocities.

This was a legitimate military target, but I don’t think anyone should cheer about a hundred dead people.

Most Autobahnen have a Seitenstreifen, which is essentially a shoulder, but in German. Maybe look things up before stating them?

Huh, Authentik was what I used before Kanidm. Wasn’t anything wrong with it per se, but there where a lot of moving parts and complexity rhat didn’t really serve a purpose for me.

I thought about kubernetes or proxmox, but I don’t really see any reason to. All my containers are controlled via podman quadlets, and either run on a single machine locally, or on a VPS.