onlyspaceghost

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Comment · 2 months ago

I forget who said this to me, but it's great - it feels like agents are DDoSing our attention. Historically, popular projects would have this from humans sure but the time spent interacting with those people felt worth it for exactly the reasons you outline. When we put time into code review, sometimes even holding people's hands through completing a PR, the benefit is that we get highly motivated passionate community members who will contribute - and that's not even necessarily through code. Contributions come in all shapes: code, docs, ideas, sharing the project, etc.

Open source is as much a philosophy as the code being available to download. It's great in many ways that the barrier to software has lowered, people can create the things they need even if they're not technical. However, one side effect is that we loose crowd sourced software - everyone's ideas coming together to make something better. Individual software has it's place, but there's also a massive benefit to a community of people with different backgrounds and ideas working to make something the best it can be. Also even with LLMs there's still a burden to maintaining individual software, and even if you pull in other peoples AI generated code there's no guarantee they'll continue to maintain it. With people who are passionate about a project, you can trust in them to carry it on as long as they can - and instead of spending that money on tokens, you can donate to them.

I also agree that LLMs have a place in Open Source - I think this post beautifully extends the message that Daniel Roe posted about (https://roe.dev/blog/using-ai-in-open-source/) - not letting an LLM speak or think for you. I'm perfectly happy to put time into reviewing AI code as long as the people behind that PR are, well, people. Tools like AgentScan are helping reduce the burden of the spam that doesn't follow the contributing guidelines, and giving us time back to review real PRs.

Humanity in Open Source 43081j.com

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Comment · 7 months ago

but it still increases compile time, attack surface area, bandwidth use, etc.

The three pillars of JavaScript bloat 43081j.com

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Comment · 1 year ago

exciting!!

Comment · 2 years ago

This looks super cool! Will try to find some to compare it to the setup I'm on now

Comment · 2 years ago

> reads like an ad for something called AdGuard (I use unbound for most of this).

Definitely not an AD - it's just the best option that I found, and have been super happy with it! There are lots of ways to do this (people have shared even more options in the comments here), and for a lot of people AdGuard/Pi-hole/... are the relatively easier options

Comment · 2 years ago

I haven't gotten this deep into it yet, but I hope to! It's very interesting - will try to be clearer next time :D /gen

Comment · 2 years ago

I apologise that it wasn't as clear as it could've been! What I was trying to get at is that for my requirements Pi-hole simply can't do it all without faff (DoH being the main one).

Comment · 2 years ago

> I don't think calling the ISP was actually what they didn't feel like doing. It is more the call itself. Being put on queue with wait music, dealing with first line customer support who have no clue what you are asking, waiting to be connected to the right support, being connected to the wrong support, being put on hold again, suddenly being hung up on, rinse, repeat.

Exactly this... we have enough issues with our internet I didn't want to add this into the mix - especially as if they decide to not really give me a static IP, then I have to change it everywhere :/

I trust my VPS provider far more than my ISP

Comment · 2 years ago

The post was about self-hosting, not about the subscription. I do think the subscription is a good way to do it though!

Comment · 2 years ago

My journey of DNS, including self-hosting with Pi-hole and AdGuard Home, using paid services like NextDNS and AdGuard DNS, and public privacy-respecting resolvers.