That’s awesome! I think most people never bother to try, so great job.

I’m curious too, do you think it’s useful for projects to offer “sponsorship” placements? “Here are our Platinum/Gold/Silver sponsors?” I figure a lot of companies wouldn’t care about the marketing but some might.

I don’t make financial decisions, so I can’t support FOSS from the corp coffers directly.

Have you asked?

I too fixed performance problems in that repo a few years back and did a write up on it - https://jackson.dev/post/rust-coreutils-dd/

I’m glad this project is getting some more attention, maybe even getting funding from Ubuntu since they’re using it? Last time I touched it most of the code was still pretty clearly written by Rust beginners and non-systems programmers so it likely had/has many such issues to uncover. Ubuntu putting it into their distro should hopefully get more experienced (and actually paid!) devs taking a closer look.

Only if you want to.

So you’re also contributing to the declining viewership that these channels are complaining about. They make no money off of your watch time so to them it is the same as no view at all.

I wrote a full rant about this yesterday as I have been trying to decide on licensing for a large OSS project that I’ve been developing. Licensing and funding are inextricably linked, so I wanted to make the right decision up front.

https://jackson.dev/post/oss-licensing-sucks/

Author here! Actually the first time I’ve ever seen anyone (other than myself) share a post of mine.

If there are any suggestions I’m happy to update it, as noted in the post I’ve had a few people reach out with improvements over the years. It seems like this post in particular is liked the search engines.

And use what instead?

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts - https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

You still think it’s sketchy?

I’ve explained that it’s perfectly normal, that it’s just someone who wants to use Unicode in their domain name (in this case because they probably speak a non-ascii based language), and most good web clients should be showing that link as the Unicode characters. Firefox for example shows that as the proper Unicode directly.

It literally is just a way for non-english speakers to have a domain name in their native language.

Are you talking about the “xn—“ domain name? Because FYI that’s just a punycode domain. It’s pretty commonly used for non-ascii domains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

The article itself is only available over Tor or I2P anyways though.

I have started, and ended, many bar chats over this. I am a firm believer in the cube rule above all other starch based food classification systems.

How do you make it illegible for LLMs?

I wish our societies picked base-12 instead of base-10.

Me too! https://jackson.dev/post/base-10-was-a-mistake/

So you prefer ad supported content?

130ms is perceivable but still quite small, and you’d only hit it once per domain (per TTL). If you care enough to intentionally use it then I wouldn’t worry about it. You’ll rarely notice the difference.

There are a few other services with similar ethos that you may want to check out as alternatives. Quad9 is the one I remember off the top of my head.

Because that’s where all contributors are.

Personally I’ve been moving towards dual hosting everything on GitHub + Codeberg. It’s pretty easy to setup CI to keep them in sync, and I’m open to dealing with the annoyances of managing multiple issue trackers.

Some things do charge different amounts though. YouTube Premium for example is more expensive if you subscribe in iOS but maybe that’s just because it’s Google.

They also could have just not let anyone subscribe through the iOS app. Lots of things do that.

Japan already passed a law that explicitly allows training on copyrighted material. And many other countries just wouldn’t care. So if it becomes a real problem the companies will just move.

I think they need to figure out a middle ground where we can extract value from the for profit AI companies but not actually restrict the competition.

I don’t think they’re wrong in saying that if they aren’t allowed to train on copyrighted works then they will fall behind. Maybe I missed it in the article, but Japan for example has that exact law (use of copyright to train generative AI is allowed).

Personally I think we need to give them somewhat of an out by letting them do it but then taxing the fuck out of the resulting product. “You can use copyrighted works for training but then 50% of your profits are taxed”. Basically a recognition that the sum of all copyrighted works is a societal good and not just an individual copyright holders.

https://jackson.dev/post/generative-ai-and-copyright/