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@MxVerda @BrodieOnLinux @qdot Well, depending on what you want to develop or communicate there are various options.

Case in point: #discord just makes it more cumbersome and painful than anything. It's basically #Slack + #MicrosoftTeams, but worse

I'm finally moving over to Radicle (radicle.xyz) instead of switching to another centralized code forge (like GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, etc.). I definitely love the idea behind a #P2P code forge and I'm hopeful for Radicle's future, but I do have some reservations starting off:

1) Despite talking a lot about freedom and privacy in the tutorial, the group building Radicle (radworks.org/) is planning to sell hosting and make a profit via an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency (tally.xyz/gov/radworks) as well as NFTs and smart contracts. Some big Libertarian red flags there.

2) At some point there was a Swiss nonprofit "Radicle Foundation", but this now seems to be a for-profit venture (see radicle.xyz/history). I wish it could just be a nonprofit.

3) In the user guide chapter on private repos (radicle.xyz/guides/user), it says that I need to use a public DNS address trusted seed node to share the repo. I understand there's no DHT here, but I hope it's not too much of a pain to run this over my local network instead of the internet. (And yeah, I know I can use git locally, I just want to test Radicle locally.)

Overall, I think that if radworks turns out to be evil it will be a way easier transition to fork Radicle than it has been to leave GitHub, but I still wish I didn't have to worry.

radicle.xyzRadicleSovereign code infrastructure.

I've started migrating my repos from Codeberg to Worktree.ca; I'll keep the Codeberg repos as mirrors.

Doing this because Worktree is Canadian, and I subscribe; I felt a little bad using a non-profit's infra even though all my stuff there is open source and my CI needs are pretty minor.

EU folks: Codeberg.org is great (Forgejo).

CA folks: Worktree.ca is great (Gitea).

It looks like AI developer assistants will always carry the risk that it is trying to pwn the developer who is using it. This is a great write-up of how one was trained to insert malicious links via the source code it was trained on.

arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Ars Technica · Researchers cause GitLab AI developer assistant to turn safe code maliciousBy Dan Goodin
#gitlab#duo#ai
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@heiseonline Jetzt müsste man sich nur noch dessen bewusst werden, dass auch ein beachtlicher Teil an Open-Source Software über eine Plattform verwaltet und verteilt wird, die Microsoft gehört und damit von Microsoft kontrolliert wird und im Extremfall einfach abgeschaltet werden kann. Auch da gibt es Alternativen, die nur vergleichsweise wenige Anbieter von FOSS nutzen. #github #gitlab

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I had a couple of pretty fun days in the #SaltMine. On Friday, I set up a #Jenkins server so that one of my projects can support Jenkins as well as #Gitlab. I always love learning new packages. Yesterday, I spent a lot of time in the #clang compiler's source code trying to figure out some problems with their static analysis, either their static analysis or my understanding of it.

I would like to upload the code to storyseedlibrary.org/ Solarpunk art library publicly and accept Pull Requests with any suggestions / submissions people have.

The repository is roughly ~200 MB, can grow up to ~500 in the future.

What would be the best platform to do it, balancing Solarpunk's #floss philosophy with user-friendliness?

Story Seed LibraryWelcome to Story Seed Library!A library of Solarpunk art and story seeds helping you imagine a better climate future!
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@sirber ... Bare metal in this case is more challenging because I wanted one well-speced Windows VM and one well-speced Ubuntu VM and I couldn't figure out how to reliably run Windows 11 in a VM in VMWare or VirtualBox. My "Fuck it! I know that Hyper-V can do it!" means that the host is running Windows Server ... and things like #GitLab apparently don't run reliably in Docker on Windows. 🤷‍♂️ You win some and you lose some.

In an interdisciplinary Masters-level class at RWTH Aachen, I taught construction, architecture, mechanical and other students how to clone and run Python/NodeJS repositories from GitHub.

One of the projects was based on using a music visualiser to create music animations. At this link, you can find what the students created: diraneyya.github.io/deep-music

Deep Music Visualizer ShowdownDeep Music Visualizer ShowdownWhat is this all about This website was setup in under 30 minutes using the HUGO project template on GitLab. The website provides a showdown of all the visualizations created by the DSSIPD WiSe 2021/2022 students in the CR-Masters program in the RWTH Aachen university.