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I see it's once again time to post this: https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives
Discord Alternatives, Ranked

Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.

Here is a good example of workflows that are possible with Discourse MCP, Discourse → Jira integration.

https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/discourse-mcp-is-here/

#ai #community #opensource #mcp

Here is a good example of workflows that are possible with Discourse MCP, @Discourse → Jira integration.

https://blog.discourse.org/2025/10/discourse-mcp-is-here/

#ai #community #opensource #mcp

Exclusive gift for the Builders group in this Google I/O is the coolest!

#GoogleIO #GiftFromGoogle

we enabled some of the @Discourse provided AI features on discuss.elastic.co. the stats are for the last 24 (the weekend is a bit quieter)

feels more about making things more useful than just generating more text:
1. better search with semantic search: that should be an easy win
2. better spam detection: great
3. summarization: not quite sure if that will be as useful — also this output cost 1.9K tokens in total

C IS LEGAL AGAIN
ModernBert, https://huggingface.co/blog/modernbert, is shaping to be the basis of a whole new generation of embeddings, classification and re-rankers. Hopefully we get good multilingual ones too.
Finally, a Replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Qualcomm wants to buy Intel

With Intel’s business sliding downward, the WSJ reports that fellow chipmaker Qualcomm has reached out about a possible takeover.

The Verge
I'm downloading a pirated game after over a decade away from it, and it's so nostalgic. The torrent download, the installer music, the .ru forum with over 500+ pages, .ini editing, etc.

Ruby is such an awesome language, but the lack of any ergonomics on the standard library to create simple worker pool using either Ractors or the FiberScheduler are baffling.

Those can be so useful to make a script fast in today machines, that I have no idea what people are doing.