Ditched Adobe Lightroom 10+ years ago in favour of Darktable and never looked back. It was the first FOSS software, which showed me how green the grass can get.
Don't lead people down a fruitless path. From their own FAQ:
>Is darktable a free Lightroom alternative?¶
Yes and no. Darktable is an alternative to Lightroom the same way any other raw editor is, since it edits raw files, but it would be a mistake to think it’s a direct replacement. Other than both being raw editors with photo library management, and looking somewhat similar, they have very little in common.
What they mean is, Darktable has very capable editing functionality, but its "library management" is such an afterthought that I would challenge whether it even deserves to be called library management. It seems to be oriented around the design philosophy that photographers should be organizing their library with CLI tools.
As the one responsible for writing much of the FAQ, I can assure you that's not what is meant. The point is to hopefully make new users aware that they can't assume their Lightroom knowledge will help them, and thus encourage them to consult the manual or some tutorials. It's an unfortunate fact that many coming from Lightroom think they already know everything and don't have to learn anything new, but when they fail to make head or tails of darktable they conclude that the issue is that it's trash and not that they didn't bother educating themselves - and they will often loudly proclaim this on Reddit in a rather entitled manner.
But yes, the library features could do with some improvements.
Well not if you use the library management, it's not no.
People often use other software as replacement for establishes software, even though not every single feature is available. I still would say Firefox can be a chrome replacement.
There are many image editors. The primary appeal of something like Lightroom is image editing workflow - library management and editing combined. Being able to organize and move around your library is a core feature.
My images are also stored in date-based folders, but C1/Lightroom allow me to very quickly move between folders and identify the file I want, search for files I've rated highly or tagged with keywords/colors, and more.
OpenCL is deprecated, not unsupported, on MacOS and may be removed at some point, but it absolutely does still work for now. If you don't have OpenCL acceleration, it's a bug.
I use it on Mac - I didn’t notice too much. There’s some GPU usage, I assume Apple still has some deprecated OpenCL drivers kicking around that it knows to use.
I gave up on trying to set up an company in Germany. Founding is the 1st side of the coin, but the other side of the coin are the complexities of closing your company (which takes at least a year as well) and exit tax (you might get taxed 6-7 figures when moving abroad even if you don't really make reasonable money).
I'm developing a simple video processing and generation library for Python focusing on short-form videos (think TikTok or Youtube Shorts) and ease of use for humans and AI agents https://github.com/BartWojtowicz/videopython
Lately I think more and more about the famous IBM quote - "A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision."
I think this also applies to current AI solutions and I think that's precisely why the best workers will be humans who both use AI and will put their accountability at stake.
Management is routinely unaccountable and extremely good at avoiding accountability. If this is the difference, humans cant do management decisions either.
Whether management can be held accountable is a question of will. The difference is that they can be held accountable if people so choose, whereas a computer never can.
Maybe a decade ago, I wanted to have some fun with a corporate structure.
One thing I wanted to do, was setup an AI as CEO and board member of a small company. Then, all pay for contracts I do would flow through that entity.
This was going to be simple algo AI, with pre-scripted decisions including "hire an expert for unknown issues" then "vote yes to expert's solution". The expert always being me, of course, under contract.
I'd take a much lower hourly rate for normal rech work, and instead keep capital in the business. The business would buy an old warehouse, have servers, and a guard.
I'd be hired as the guard too.
You can hire guards with the requirement they sleep on site. In such a case the lodging isn't income, as it is required for the job.
So I could take a very low hourly rate, and maybe options in shares.
And of course the car would be corporate leased, and all that.
This is perfectly legit setup in my tax jurisdiction, except for the AI part. Back then, I had two goals.
The first was a way to amusingly conceal where I live. It bugs me that I have to disclose this. The second was to keep as much of my earnings in a corporation, and the mortgage also gave the corporation an asset with increasing value.
But my name would not be on the registration for the company as a board member. Or CEO.
And in fact my relationship to the company would be under contract as a sole proprietor, so no need to file certain employee laden paperwork.
Upon retirement, I could cash out the company in a variety of ways, after exercising my options.
(The company would also be required to help with a bridge loan for this)
Can’t you pull of something similar using irrevocable trusts ? Overly simplified, but have a trust registered through an agent you trust( ha ha), have them add you as a trustee, they then resign?
I love it, I was looking for a simple music player like this! FYI Currently the standard bookmark shortcut `cmd + d` changes the theme instead of bookmarking the website :-)
They will have ~1.5 years of runway forever, since the Foundation tries to spend away any money it receives to justify pressing increasingly aggressive fundraisers. The site offers the same service as 15 years ago while ingesting 10x more money, none of which goes to the content producers.
There's been a ton of development in Wikipedia "sister projects", all of which ultimately benefit Wikipedia itself and the free content ecosystem more broadly. It makes no sense to say that "they provide the same thing as 15 years ago".
Right now at 14:54:05 UTC, it seems like Intimacy is at 0.16% and Warfare at 0.10%, so we got that going for us at least. Moving in the right direction at least.
Agree, Undertale is absolutely brilliant in that aspect. Especially the beginning (the part that is in the demo version). The mood changes after that, for the worse I thought. Things got a bit more silly/naive than I like. The ending is absolutely brilliant again, tough, in the same way (it is a reflection on game mechanics). It is not 4h because you'll want to retry some parts.
Coming from non-Haskell background, it took me a good while to undestand that `Just` is a constructor specific to the `Maybe` type. Found this for a quite nice answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/18809252
