If they won’t pay with it, isn’t it just an email address with a password? If the laptop is company issued OP can just use their new compwny email address, than don’t use that address for anything outside work related stuff.

I work around this by enabling rdp or ssh on guests as soon as possible and connect from my terminal for ssh, I use remmina for rdp, paste works there.

I don’t know other situations where I would need this.

2017 was 7 year ago, Aaron died 11 years ago. There are a lot younger users who can’t remember these things.

Let’s see a 20 years old university student was 13 when the source was closed down, I think it’s not easy to find a 13 years old who is familiar with such legal things.

Reddit was open source until 2017, and one of the founders was Aaron Schwartz. So it didn’t look like that for a long time.

Python is installed by default on all linux and mac systems, so it’s just one more command to install pipx. From there just pipx install tagify. You don’t need an installer, just specify the build tools in pyproject.toml: https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/pyproject-toml/#declaring-build-system-dependencies-the-build-system-table e.g. with setuptools: https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/pyproject_config.html

If you publish to pypi it will build the wheel files when you publish a version. That’s the easiest way I know.

Innosetup is windows only. On linux you don’t need such a thing.

Some feedback:

• On white background the text next to the logo is not visible
• Add screenshots in the README, it’s a GUI app
• Requirements.txts for dependency management is the old way, read about pyproject.toml you can merge them a single easy to read and edit file
• “Install the dependencies” means nothing to a non-python developer. Direct users to install your project via pipx, that’s modern and secure way of installing a python application with dependencies for non developers. Publish it to pypi for even easier installation.
• Add a notice that currently it’s windows only os.path.join(os.environ["APPDATA"], "Tagify", "config.yaml") will fail on *nix systems. Use pathlib.Path instead of os.path. Use pathlib, I see on a lot more places it would make your life much easier.
• I have a feeling that the file icons are not your work. If you copied them from somewhere make sure their license is compatible, and add an acknowledgement.

Keep up the work, it seems like a nice project!

It was a terrible sub for years much before the apicalypse. It was full of apple fanboys who believed every marketing bullshit.

It’s a marketing article with nearly zero actual facts. One screenshot about the actual product.

MS and others already use AI for drawing building countours for OpenStreetMap and OvertureMaps from aerial imagery. In osm these AI generated lines are only allowed to be imported after a human supervision and currently it’s very hit or miss. On low density areas it’s mostly good, but in dense city centers it’s unusable.

In overture maps these lines are imported automatically, that’s why you can see buildings on rivers.

They don’t write about these shortcomings in the article, and how they solved AI hallucinations

It was 33rd in 2010:

In November 2010, the Air Force Research Laboratory created a powerful supercomputer, nicknamed the “Condor Cluster”, by connecting together 1,760 consoles with 168 GPUs and 84 coordinating servers in a parallel array capable of 500 trillion floating-point operations per second (500 TFLOPS). As built, the Condor Cluster was the 33rd largest supercomputer in the world and was used to analyze high definition satellite imagery at a cost of only one tenth that of a traditional supercomputer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster

https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomputer.html

Good video… but a nearly 2 minute ad in a 5 minute video? ~40% ad? Wow.

Not counting yt ads as I block them. I’m considering starting to use sponsorblock, this is too much.

They are users not developers. An academic or civil engineer who uses a CFD simulator usually has not enough programming knowledge develop such a complex application. The employer has not enough funds to pay for developers (see, they use a pirated software). Paying for developers is still more expensive than buying an already developed product.

Just look at the state of FOSS CAD software. There are some, but they are very-very limited compared to proprietary alternatives. Most people don’t care, they just want to get the work done. Not everyone is a programmer, even if it looks like that from our lemmy bubble.

In the Register article they didn’t copied from the source that the scientists were from Egypt.

Flow3D has different academic and research licenses: https://www.flow3d.com/academic-program/

• There is a free research license available, but it’s only for 4 months. It’s short, researches can take much longer than that.
• There is a free teaching license, but it can have limitations for using the software outside education. It may be forbidden to use outside classes, so it’s possible that they had a teaching license, but they couldn’t use that for research?
• There are licenses for full departments, but it’s available for selected countries only.

It’s strange that they went after these scientists. In 2nd and 3rd word countries software privacy for work is still common. Everything is cheaper, but software prices are the same as in the US, so they pay relatively more for the same tool. I found that a normal license for Flow 3D can cost USD 100k. According to a quick search civil engineers get USD 2000 yearly in Egypt.

Usually American software companies don’t really care about piracy by individuals in these countries. The rationale is that it’s better for them if they use their software without payment instead of using a software from another vendor without payment. They go after bigger companies, at least that’s my experience.

That’s why this story is strange to me, or at least something else should be behind it.

Grab is just one of the corporate contributors of OpenStreetMap, Grab’s “own map” is not theirs, it’s ours, “OpenStreetMap contributors” is the copyright holder, and copyright managed by the OpenStreetMap Foundation.

Grab is a Gold corporate member of the foundation, it means it pays EUR 15000 annually. You can see other corporate members here.

The license of the data is called ODbL, they call it open source in the article, but software licenses don’t work well outside the software world, it’s a database license. ODbL has one requirement: If you display the map, or any extracted data, you have to display the attribution text, which reads “© OpenStreetMap”. In the article there is a map, and they don’t display this attribution, so this article does not comply with the license of the map it tries to advertise…

This whole article sounds like an ad for Grab. More technological info about how Grab employees contribute to the map on the OSM wiki: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Grab

Edit: One more thing about Grab: they bought the Google Streetview alternative Kartaview in 2019 from Telenav. Kartview had a FOSS Android client, its old version is still on Fdroid. After the takeover Grab still published source changes and releases to Github, but Fdroid compatibility was broken at one point. In 2022 they changed the license of Kartaview, it’s not open source anymore…

So it’s the classic corporate take on open projects… if they could they would close down OSM and their data, but it seems like at the moment they get far more for that 15000 EUR. The wording of the article hints this, they call it “their” map…

While they support the project financially and contribute back and build nice things on top of the open data, the relationship can remain healthy between an open project and a big, for profit company, there are a lot of good examples for that. But the history of this company is a bit shady in parts, and we have seen things go wrong multiple times…

How do you know your assumptions are correct? It didn’t sound that way to me. “Any idea” sounds like they have no idea, but they use the more rare init system.

I pointed in the correct direction, and it seems like they didn’t search for it, as it wasn’t in some super hidden place. The note was for future reference, as I won’t be there to search for them in the future, and life is too short for waiting for easy answers.

Recommended reading about questions on the internet for everyone: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper/issues/15

I just typed “openrc” on the search box on the issues page. People on the internet forget nowadays that you can search, and it’s quicker than waiting for an answer…

If you need a GUI tool, I use Input remapper: https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper Very straightforward to set it up, it’s available via dnf.

Fellow lemming hirak99 has a tool for that as well which should have better performance, but no GUI: https://github.com/hirak99/keyshift no prebuilt for Fedora unfortunately

You will loose your mind, but wayland version of xev is called wev.

It’s available in a lot of distros: https://pkgs.org/download/wev

Those are update services. Upgrading your os is a basic security measure nowadays. You recommend to sacrifice some security because of a minor inconvenience. It’s alright if you can live with that tradeoff, but please don’t recommend it on the internet. Windows assumes a user is not knowledgeable enough about this topic, so it’s enabled for them.

Other hint, because it seems you are also not very knowledgeable about this topic, usually you can disable these things with group policies if you really want to, so you don’t have to run it after each boot. Or you can also set up a scheduled task or create a service with nssm.

I haven’t used any google services for ages (except yt and search occasionally), so I don’t follow it’s development

Excel is the one I don’t hate, all alternatives suck way more. Active Directory is also ok, but you have to click more than in a moba game, it can become annoying.