Also, Foundation members have no say on the direction of the language.

I was kinda surprised as well that you couldn’t annotate the function or something. But then again, an attribute like “please don’t use this instruction” sounds like something that’s pretty hard to integrate in the code generation. What kind of flag would you use? I don’t think you want to apply that flag to everything, just to that particular function.

My instance runs on a dedicated server at hetzner, from their server auction. My price only increased like 3%, which is honestly lower than inflation given how many years we’ve been at that price point. So I’m completely fine with it. I’ve not heard of these enormous price hikes before.

I honestly don’t think that is very usual. I would even say it’s more usual to see bare links posted, at least if I look in my own feed. But maybe that’s just the sort of stuff I follow.

What do you mean?

I’ve been very happy with typst. Works great and so much easier than LaTeX.

Sure, but the point of this post is to highlight Bambu’s anticonsumer practices.

I’ve been considering what printer to buy for a while now, but I sure as hell know it won’t be a Bambu.

catch_unwind […] does not guarantee the program is in a consistent state afterward, since Drop impls may have run partway through.

Wait, what? Any more details about this, I’ve never heard about that before. Partially run Drop impls sounds like a big potential for undefined behavior, how could catch_unwind possibly cause that?

EDIT: The more I read this article, the more AI-generated it looks and so I’m sort of wondering if the above quote is just complete bogus.

he’ll never be able to put out those fires without you.

Why do you say that? I would guess that we are very few years away before we have AI systems monitoring for downtimes and such that can quickly diagnose and fix issues that occur completely automatically - in fact I would not be surprised if this already exists today.

Which model are you using? My experience is that it can definitely do “standard boilerplate”. What programming language are you using?

It’s clearly a controversial thing to say on the fediverse, but everyone must realize that AI is another tool - a sometimes faulty, sometimes great tool. A professional can use it well, a careless person can use it carelessly. But it is a tool that can help in certain cases. It’s a nuanced thing, which many people unfortunately have trouble accepting. It has flaws, yes. It also has benefits. This shouldn’t be controversial to say.

That of course doesn’t guarantee that providing that tool must be profitable. It may well be that providing AI models is just too expensive to actually make sense, at least as it is right now.

I think I’d have a hard time picking out single projects to support. I sometimes do one-time donations to things I like (for example I donated to LocalSend one time when I discovered it and liked it a lot).

I have a regular donation to the Electronic Frontier Foundation though, which I feel sort of covers the same area in a more general sense.

It would be really hard to decide which open source projects would be deserving of such a foundation’s grant.

That said, if you want to support open source in a more general way, I would say you should donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Cory Doctorow, the guy that invented the term “enshittification”, is part of EFF. I donate myself, it’s well worth it I think.

I applaud you for that, but it sounds like you’re admitting that Prusa is overpriced and that you can get equally good printers for cheaper elsewhere - is that correct or do you think otherwise?

I really couldn’t care less about speed 😅. Dunno why so many printers advertise speed as a main selling point, I’d always choose high quality and reliable prints rather than speed. I guess it’s important if you’re running a printer farm or whatever, but I’m just looking to get the one printer.

From what I can read, Voron is more like the printer itself becomes the hobby, rather than actually printing stuff. I’m not really interested in tinkering with the printer itself, I just want it to work.

Snapmaker U1 looks really good, but then again it is another Chinese brand in the sea of other chinese brands. But multi-color printing included in the price… It’s a really good deal.

I wouldn’t say that. I think you can definitely tell if something is AI generated. If nothing else, you can see it via the git history, with the amount of code written in a short amount of time.

I have this feeling that a lot of people are against AI-generated code, even if you use it in this “responsible” way - but maybe I’m seeing an exaggerated view? I’m sort of wondering if I should start using AI models in my own work, including open source stuff, but I don’t want it to be like I’m just having the AI do everything for me and I’m worried that others will disregard the code as slop. I’ve seen a lot of frustration with new open source projects that are largely AI-generated, but then again, we’re seeing a lot of those because it’s a useful tool that lowers the barrier for a lot of work. I’m conflicted, anyone have thoughts?

Nice stuff all in all!