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Even looking at the comments from that thread and the Codeberg page at that time in archive.org, I don't really see much that points to it as a proper GitHub alternative, other than the editorialized (I think) post title.

Which I think might be the cause of confusion here. I suspect that there was never an official statement (or intention) of Codeberg being a full GitHub replacement, but since a lot of people recommended it as an alternative to GitHub, it started to be seen that way.

I'm happy to be proven wrong, though, as I'm quite confused about the outrage about Codeberg's decision. At least in my mind, Codeberg was already a highly opinionated forge (with the private repo ban and all), so this was not much of a surprise.

I have a similar opinion but I think Java's model with maven and friends hits the sweet spot:

- Packages are always namespaced, so typosquating is harder - Registries like Sonatype require you to validate your domain - Versions are usually locked by default

My professional life has been tied to JVM languages, though, so I might be a bit biased.

I get that there are some issues with the model, especially when it comes to eviction, but it has been "good enough" for me.

Curious on what other people think about it.

Same.

I was surprised that both Fira Code and Fira Mono were options, that was a bit cheeky.

> I work from home and value it but it never would occur to me to strike for that.

I believe that the value from WFH varies a lot from person to person.

If you were working from the office before and the company changed to a WFH policy, you might see it as a nice to have. You already made some life choices to accommodate going to the office. Maybe you even go to the office anyway.

But, if you were hired when the company already had WFH, you probably made some life choices based on that (buying a house far away from the city, having kids, not buying a car,...). In that case, mandatory RTO is a complete disaster (especially with the housing crisis) and you pretty much have no option other than resigning.

I assume NYT was doing WFH since ~2020, so a lot of employees probably took decisions based on WFH, therefore the strikes.

> Why the heck not use AI when it's better?

I think that, in its current iteration, it is not that easy to know.

I haven't tried GPT 4 (which I've heard is much better), but my experiences with 3.5 have been extremely frustrating and underwhelming. I absolutely hate when it starts making stuff up and I have to fix it via the traditional way, it just wasted my time!

I guess this boils down to personal preference, but so far I just prefer a good old Google search.

I was quite happy with copilot auto complete, though. Mostly because of how low friction it was.

One of the issues I have with "languages that don't suck anymore" is that, even after the language gets all the cool new features, you'll still end up having to use some libraries targeting old versions.

So you end up having to choose between stable libraries in the old style or experimental modern libraries.

While some features can be retrofitted to work with old code (e.g. Java 8's SAMs were smart a way for old libraries to support the new lambdas), in a lot of situations you'll have to wait years for the stable libraries to support the new features.

Having said that, it's nice to see PHP catching up. I haven't used it in a long time, but I like to check the changelog once in a while.

I think you just need the Wohnungsgeberbestätigung from the landlord and fill the registration paperwork at the Bürgeramt (which, depending on your city, might be a bit hard to get an appointment), you might also need to take care of the TV bill stuff.

While not awful, comparing to Portugal, where I just need to register in a website an then wait to get a confirmation code by mail, it feels like going back to the stone age.

> I tried using it for coding but it made up APIs constantly or had subtle errors.

This has been my experience so far as well. I also find it very tiring to have to review all the iterations of the code.

I do find GitHub Copilot quite valuable at work, especially when it recommends one liners (they are easy to review, so I just feel like I'm writing faster).

To be fair to ChatGPT, on one of my recent experiment it actually said something along the lines of "you need to integrate with the library/API yourself", and it only started spewing garbage after I insisted to write the code. I see a lot of people online complaining that GPT is getting lazy, but I would rather have it lazy than wrong.

It's interesting to see PornHub in there, but not the other Aylo (former MindGeek) properties (YouPorn, RedTube...).

I wonder if they could in theory bypass the DSA by just breaking PH into smaller services and hope for a split user base.

> That's not a good idea though.

I wonder why you say that. At least an ad for a specific ad blocker sounds like a great idea.

- Ideally, you don't send ads to users of your product - Users of inferior products will see your ad, and it might be super effective (if you used MY adblocker, you wouldn't be seeing this ad) - Everything else is a user that doesn't have an ad blocker, and it's probably an easy sell to say "would you like to never see ads like this?"

> This is the part that I don't get either. I can imagine hearing "this coffee shop got better since the new owners", but I know I have heard "this place used to be good until it changed owners". And since the new owners have paid X years of profit which they arguably want to recover in less than X years, it is more than likely that they'll start cutting costs as a result.

To be fair, I know at least one case of "this coffee shop got better since the new owners", but to be fair, it's because coffee shops are not really comparable to startups - namely because a very unsuccessful café can still hold huge real estate value.

Namely, in this case I'm talking about a café near a city center and a huge office building, but it was very dark, had old moldy sandwiches exposed and mixed low quality coffee with the brand coffee.

As you can imagine, after it was acquired by the new owners they just had to redecorate and sell normal products, and it quickly got packed every day.

Not sure if there's any possible equivalent for tech companies, though.