Barry Rowlingson

@geospacedman
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Maps, statistics, guitars, land rovers, photography.
Show threadBarry Rowlingson4h ago
@nyalld codeberg.org? Not sure what restrictions are on private repos, but I think they are still Good Guys wrt llm training. But I may be wrong...
Barry Rowlingson5h ago
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦7h ago

Just got this from Microslop GitHub:

> We're updating how GitHub uses data to improve AI-powered coding tools. From April 24 onward, your interactions with GitHub Copilot—including inputs, outputs, code snippets, and associated context—may be used to train and enhance AI models unless you opt out.

I barely ever use GitHub. When I do, it's when I am forced to because some project I rely on only uses GitHub.

If your project is only using GitHub, please consider migrating.

#GitHub #Slop #AI

Show threadBarry Rowlingson6h ago
@ultrazool And Google are trying to ban side-loading non-Play Store apps on security grounds...
Show threadBarry Rowlingson13h ago
@AtanasE Inside you there are two shapefiles. Oh wait, there's a .shx file missing.
Show threadBarry Rowlingson17h ago
@danwwilson @koantig @GillesColling That's one reason I suggest VS Codium for new coders. Or vanilla RStudio for R-only users, or Jupyter notebooks. Emacs has so much old baggage, has never been polished, has a tiny userbase compared to modern IDEs etc. But keyboard shortcuts win in whatever IDE you use! Every time I reach for my mouse when coding causes me pain!
Show threadBarry Rowlingson17h ago
@jimbob Radcliffe and Maconie have been running a listener-suggested daily linked chain and they're up to 8771 songs now. https://thechain.uk/ Not sure if its still going, no dates there :(
The Chain

A searchable database for BBC Radio 6 Music - Radcliffe and Maconie's The Chain, officially the longest listener-generated thematically linked sequence of musically based items on the radio.

The Chain
Show threadBarry Rowlingson17h ago
@danwwilson @koantig @GillesColling Quite. Obviously the community benefits if I do Posit's bug fixing but they're the only ones who can make money from it. From me. From the community. For free. But Posit are free to choose this license, we're all free to choose to use it or not. But I suspect a lot of people just think "I can see the source therefore its Free (as in freedom)". Am sticking with emacs and occasionally see how VS Codium/R is doing.
Barry Rowlingson18h ago
Prevent software supply chain attacks by keeping a year's supply of software in stock. Software was not meant to be in a "just-in-time" supply chain. They have played us for absolute fools.
Show threadBarry Rowlingson18h ago
@koantig @danwwilson @GillesColling The license is the Elastic License which restricts certain usages of the product, and hence makes it not an OSI approved license (which is why I capitalised Open Source). Feel free to commit PRs to that repo so that Posit can make more money (from Palantir and friends?).
Show threadBarry Rowlingson1d ago
@danwwilson @koantig @GillesColling and more recently, when positron was released as non-Open Source.