Given Meta's history of torrenting every book it could get its hands on for training, I'm not convinced that the majority of AI companies would respect that license. Maybe if we also had a better way to prove that such code was part of the training set and see a couple of solid legal victories with compensation awarded.

I'm pretty astounded that "The Stack" at least did and effort, and continue to do so by weeding out GPL or similar strong copyleft source code from their trove, and even implemented an opt-out mechanism [0].

They look like saints when compared to today's companies.

[0]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack

They're also getting sued for it, and the judge ruled they had no right to torrent those books so now it's just a matter of calculating how many trillions Meta has to pay, then extracting it from them.

Because Meta got caught. I'm not convinced that every random OSS lib will have the resources to audit every model out there for a hypothetical GPL+no training violation.

Even if you dislike Pocket, its purchase/deprecation is an example of Mozilla failing to effectively use its capital.

> Wouldn't it make more sense to just send them to the home countries if that's the point anyway?

The point isn't to repatriate immigrants to their countries of origin. It's to inflict as much cruelty and suffering as possible to act as an example/deterrent for future would-be immigrants, and to encourage as-yet undetained immigrants to self-deport.

(I am not defending this policy, I think it's abhorrent)

Oh yes they do: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic.php

The programming languages world is broad/varied enough that any statement like "no other language does this!" is almost certainly wrong (outside of esoteric languages, which python and php most certainly are not)

Lua, too:

  __add, __sub, __mul, __div, __mod, __pow, __unm, __idiv
  __band, __bor, __bxor, __bnot, __shl, __shr
  __concat, __len
  __eq, __lt, __le
  __index, __newindex, __call
  __gc, __close, __mode, __name

> Rails is not only alive and well, but actually booming.

Do you have any references that validate this?

Rails 'booming' on a 3 year time scale wouldn't surprise me, but would on a 10 year scale.

We're experiencing a global peak of Ruby meetups (globally). About 800-900 meetups in the last 12 months as per https://rubyconferences.org/meetups/ I'm hosting probably the largest Ruby meetup in San Francisco, see https://lu.ma/sfruby

Rails is not at the peak of visibility (like it was in 2008-2014), it is not a "default stack for new products" but here's what we see: Rails startup just did a large IPO (Chime), another Ruby startup filed for IPO (Figma) Rails startup just posted a record ARR growth (bolt.new)

Lots of startups and lots of success stories. See https://evilmartians.com/events/startups-on-rails-in-past-pr...

Again, not the #1 or "default" choice, which is probably a good thing, because we are past the hype+disappointment cycle and on the pragmatic side of things.

Many of us will make that shift effectively, sure. I think the problem is that to really be a good architect, you need 10+ years of actually doing things to understand what should/should not be built, and the industry is rapidly removing the jobs that let people acquire that experience.

Yeah I would recommend avoiding LLM's while learning to anyone new to programming, because I have experience with meticulously rewriting code until I was happy with it's performance, conciseness and readability I can see when an LLM is writing something that could be improved and just gently nudge it in that direction and it resolves the issue.

Your version assumes that the user knows that luks exists in the first place, OP's does not.

OP specifically said they were looking for luks commands.

I like the simplicity of the approach. I've been following trailbase for this purpose as well: https://trailbase.io

I appreciate how it seems like we have a spectrum of similar options emerging now for simple backends, ranging from pennybase to trailbase to pocketbase. I do hope one of them eventually implements postgres as an alternative to sqlite at some point though.

This mirrors my anecdata on consumer (<$150) wifi router hardware. I recently upgraded my home router specifically for wireguard and it's been 5x faster than openvpn.

More or less my experience as well. I run Mikrotiks usually, but also on openwrt consumer hardware it's at least 3-4x more throughput than OpenVPN.

Very useful for low-end routers, travel routers and similar.

Also initial connection time is basically instant.

1. SSL 2. Started working in 2000, right on the boundary