So relying on closed source code using a closed model to configure a free OS. That's a step back.

On the contrary, the model doesn't actually add any lock-in. When GP wants to switch to free model the config files are still there. There's no lock-in, as I see it.

It is not about lock-in, it is about free software being usable without resorting to non-free software. One of the free models is usable for this would be a better shift and that might be workable but I'm not sure about how well they'd work.

I think Wayland is basically waiting for a higher level abstraction to fully replace X11, at least for the desktop. I'm currently playing with the River Wayland compositor (https://codeberg.org/river/river) which separates the window manager from the compositor and I think it could fill this gap left in the transition. Not as sure about non-toolkit (gtk,qt) application development...

I think this is what will happen. That the public internet will become the place you go to seed the data you want to the scrapers and you will use a private internet for everything else. Private sites, private feeds, mesh networks, etc. We're basically going back in time similar to when AOL and friends had their own private networks for their members.

There are plenty of telnet-enabled BBSes that have both: https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/

There's a lot of this back-to-basics stuff out there: BBSes, Gopher sites, Gemini protocol, etc. A lot of it is very refreshing in comparison to what the modern web has become.

That is "a" purpose of a business, but not the primary purpose. The primary purpose of business is to provide a service or product people want. You can want profits all day long but if you don't have something people want you don't have a business.

Opposite. Everyone of my friend's companies don't do this. They all work at smaller companies though, which I bet is the difference.

I work at a smaller company that does this.

Weird. I would have thought most smaller companies would not need this sort of useless metric where people know each other and know what they are doing. These things are generally the domain of larger companies where they have already dehumanized their employees and deal only with numbers.

I don't think they were ever meant to be in order of importance.

Which models?

Most recently https://lmstudio.ai/models/qwen/qwen3.5-9b

Thanks! I've been playing with some of the qwen models via openrouter as well.. I'll have to give 9b a go at some point, I've been mostly playing with 27b and coder-next up till now.

I was thinking the same thing, that this wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. I'm curious how far it will go.. if we'll get invite-only mesh networks with self-contained mini-internets and the like.

The FSF stopped requiring copyright assignment in 2021.

> Code quality doesn’t matter that much. No one else is going to see it.

You seem to be claiming that enterprise shops never adopted code reviews. Interesting if true.