Isn’t all of their concern kind of demonstrated to be unfounded? CoMaps forked the exact codebase being discussed and moved to Codeberg already, and they’re doing great now. Whatever it is that the Organic Maps team thinks is indispensable on GitHub is clearly not actually an insurmountable challenge to ditch.

I don’t want to discourage the effort you put into trying to build something useful, so I’m trying to say this nicely… you’d probably get more interest if you built a moderation tool that doesn’t involve AI.

Lemmy is probably an unlikely crowd to be looking to for positive reception of an AI nanny bot. Even less so on .ml, and even less so on an open source community.

Would games like Magic the Gathering and Gwent now be considered violating this patent? The wording in it seems ridiculously vague, I can barely understand what the patent is describing, and I’m not sure it means what “gamesfray” thinks it does.

Yesterday I had a nice moment watching my SO use CoMaps for the first time via my phone. I was driving, so couldn’t mess with adding an intermediate stop to the navigation, and she did it instead.

Anyhow, she’s literally never used the app before, and quickly found the business listing and added it to nav. I mean, she’s a smart person so her competence is not a surprise, but it speaks well of CoMaps and OSM that someone who is used to using Google Maps exclusively for years could just pick up this FOSS app and do what she needed painlessly.

It’s encouraging to me to see how increasingly nice an experience it is to be able to not use Google or Apple maps at all these days.

Gender isn’t a binary, so there isn’t necessarily an opposite, but an alternative that my parents considered was “Frankie”.

It wasn’t meant to be confrontational, sorry about that! I’m not judging anyone who is comfy with the stock experience, just saying that it’s not for everybody.

People want to interact with their devices in ways that fall outside the blessed functions permitted by the corporate designed pattern deemed appropriate for them. If corporate UI works for you, that’s great for you, but it doesn’t for everyone.

GNOME does this by default, so if it’s not working for your SO, they probably have installed some extension that modifies that behavior. I’ve never used Mint, but I think it’s pretty heavily modified from base GNOME, so maybe it has that feature disabled with whatever their suite of modifications does. I’d poke around in the panel settings if those are exposed to you in Mint.

(Edit: just saw that I somehow missed you mentioned this already, sorry! I’ll leave my comment here, as a second opinion about it though!)

Yes! System Shock is one of my favorite games ever. If you get a chance, check out the recent remaster/remake of SS1, they did an excellent job with it: https://store.steampowered.com/app/482400/System_Shock/

Looks like they also released a remaster of SS2 a few months ago, I haven’t played that yet, but I’m looking forward to seeing if they did as good a job as with the first one.

BioShock! I somehow missed it years ago when it came out, so I’ve had nothing to go off of for all this time, so I was excited to finally have a chance to sit down with it recently after 15+ years of hearing people rave about how amazing and fun it is.

The artists involved were obviously very skilled, it’s visually gorgeous even a decade and a half later, and the sound design is top notch. No complaints there, and if that’s what the hype was all about, then it’s well-deserved.

However, the plot was almost non-existent, leaving me wondering what the hell my character was motivated by for the vast majority of the first game. Then there were a couple “twists” that I saw coming a mile away near the very end of the game. It felt like watching a young adult fantasy show or something, I dunno.

I managed to finish the first game, feeling very disappointed, and figured the 2nd one might be better. I made it only a few hours into that before I lost interest in it entirely and have yet to drag myself back to finish it. The story was maybe slightly better in BioShock 2, but not by much and not enough to keep me going.

There are people I know who are obsessed with this game series, and I just do not get it, even after giving it more of a chance to hook me than I give to most games. The only thing I can think of is that maybe they played it initially when they were kids/teenagers, and nostalgia has carried them through the series to overlook how utterly dull it actually is. I’m not going to challenge people on it or anything, I’m glad people enjoy it, but I don’t understand the why (aside from the art).

Asking this question in this way (demanding an explanation) frames it so that people will instinctively feel defensive. There’s no shame in being a virgin. You aren’t entitled to an explanation from anyone about why.

Hmm okay, that’s true. I guess there’s another aspect missing from my description above then: no-code is for doing tasks in ways that resemble how you’d do them with code, but without directly using code.

Think about the nodes in Blender or Node-RED, or the blocks in visual scripting for kids to learn. It’s using the same concepts of code, but with varying amounts of abstraction depending on which example we look at.

WordPress is a CMS, that’s true, and is usually how it’s described. Specifically, though, the block editor is what I assume the OP was referring to as no-code. That part of WordPress is abstracted more than a tree of nodes in Blender, but they’re both examples of an effort by those softwares to make doing those tasks more approachable to users.

Inkscape could probably also be described as no-code if you squinted hard enough, since it’s letting you manipulate SVG tags directly without needing to open a text editor and know the SVG spec.

On the off chance you aren’t being intentionally obtuse to troll:

No-code is a term that refers to the perspective of the end user. Of course it is built using code, that’s not the point. The person ultimately using it doesn’t need to use any code to construct whatever the tool is enabling (automatons, websites, etc), which massively increases the target demographic who can use the tool.

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure not all of these suggestions are actually FOSS. DuckDuckGo is closed source, for one. It would be better to put something like SearXNG instead.

This cheese_greater person is not a serious user, check their history. They do this all the time, posting “random” nonsensical questions and responding with illegible nonsense in the comments. You’re probably wasting your time trying to have a real conversation with them.

I’m from the USA and I have no idea what you’re talking about. What’s the context here, what is adopting a corporate marketing image as my profile picture supposed to accomplish?

Partly it’s because they are engaging with the world from a primarily emotionally framed context at all times, which results in a stream-of-consciousness style of speech and writing. Especially when they get really worked up about something and their self-control melts away more thoroughly.

It’s also not just from traditional conservatives. I serve on the board of my housing community, so I see a ton of this kind of thing from the mostly liberal neighbors living near me in a primarily gay community in the USA. Conversations on our local community forum site, or maintenance requests submitted to us are frequently filled with angry ranting nonsense that is barely legible.

Sometimes someone will rant for a paragraph or two in ALL CAPS and insult everyone else living nearby, then their tone totally changes for the final paragraphs of the email. As if they became too angry to continue, stepped away for a bit, then came back later slightly calmer and continued writing with a more relaxed tone. Why they don’t restart the email at that point, I have no idea, but that communication pattern is really quite fascinating and sometimes worrying.

Huh, at first I thought it was weird that this is being posted on this community of all places, but apparently Redis went back to being open source again earlier this year.

I’ve already long since moved my containers over to valkey, which supposedly performs better anyway. Though maybe with the improvements in 8.2, Redis is competitive again?

Still kinda have a bad taste for Redis though, because of all that licensing drama last year.

There are plenty of Americans who don’t speak English as a primary language, but you might be correct that they are simply not being diligent with their proofreading.

Either way, they’re perfectly understandable IMO, but it’s also valid to be frustrated with someone writing differently. I still don’t think it’s constructive to chastise them for it.

Based on their post history, I strongly suspect the OP has English as a non-primary language. They are doing fine, their posts are perfectly understandable. There’s no value in harassing them about that.