I used to use XFCE a lot, but since then, even though it sucks in its own ways quite a lot, Gnome defaults to a nicer environment nowadays and doesn't seem so resource intensive anymore.
Yeah the reason Google and OpenAI etc are silent is because their services do the same but they "aren't the bad guys" so if they shut up the crisis will pass.
This of course implies that the crisis itself and persecution of Musk/Grok is politically motivated, or just based on stupidity.
The same capabilities might be present in many available models, but I do think that the public/social aspect in usage is quite different— people can’t come into my Google account and save nudified versions of my family photos directly to my Google drive, but X generated a lot of attention because the users are directly replying or quoting other users and @ing them with the modified photos.
I think the important thing here is that governments shouldn't have the right to make life hard for ordinary people with punishments like taking away access to banks and finance system etc.
As for the US slapping European politicians etc, it's high time the people on high horses in Europe feel the shit they push on ordinary people.
Incus is very nice and super featured, but suffers from a few issues, namely unintuitive/hard onboarding and bad defaults, which makes giving access to people annoying, as it requires teaching them first and that they can't just make a vm with a few clicks immediately, limited authentication and user control options, like if no external auth users must exist on underlying system, and with limited but very strict auth options requires a full domain and no proxying, currently (might get fixed partially later).
And finally, it suffers from hardcore tracking upstream, ie canonical/lxd(-ui), meaning they won't really do any changes that lxd wouldn't do, and thus are slaved to them : (
Sorry what? Lxd is NOT incus upstream. Incus was forked from lxd specifically to allow divergence and the licenses mean changes rather flow in the other direction. Not that canonical considers incus “upstream” - they’re just divergent forks at this point.
I forked Incus from LXD, and I would not describe LXD as Incus's upstream at all. In fact LXD, tends to take patches from Incus these days -- on the other hand, we can't take patches or even look at patches from LXD because they're all AGPLv3 now.
Most of the maintainers and contributors to LXD have moved to maintaining and contributing to Incus instead because it is community-oriented. Incus also has a lot of features LXD doesn't have (list is too long to enumerate, but one notable one is support for OCI images is Incus-exclusive).
Stephane was arguably the primary maintainer of LXD before the split and how now exclusively works on Incus. AFAIK the only LXD-related thing that is still shipped by Zabbly is the LXD web-ui (which I get the impression Stephane doesn't feel is worth maintaining separately since it's easy to just swap out the branding -- which is what he does). Ultimately an optional web-ui is not a particularly large part of the project...
(To be honest, I only learned about the web-ui when someone asked I package it for openSUSE a few months ago. Maybe I would've forked it too back when I forked Incus if I knew about it, though I'm not a web dev.)
The only time this held, vaguely to my recollection, true was prior to Incus 0.4 where both were cherry picking from each other but neither were upstream of each other
It's very very different between the UI and Incus itself :)
The Incus teams are low level system engineers who develop in Go or C.
The UI is a pile of typescript which none of us really want to understand/touch any more than strictly needed.
The Incus UI is a soft fork (really just a small overlay) on top of the LXD UI to adjust for the API differences between LXD and Incus and for fixing the few big gripes we had with the LXD UI. Because both projects are under the same license, we can actually just follow what happen in LXD UI and pull in code from it.
Incus is a very different beast. The whole reason the project had to be started is because of Canonical's series of changes which eventually led to a re-licensing of LXD to AGPLv3. With Incus remaining Apache 2.0, none of us can even look at the LXD code without risking being "tainted". We cannot import any code from LXD since that license change and we never have. However LXD has no problem with importing Apache 2.0 code into an AGPLv3 codebase, which they have quite actively been doing.
In short Incus is a hard fork of LXD, we don't look at any LXD code or even at their issues or release announcements (mostly because it's not useful for those two). That means that everything that happened in Incus since December 2023 has been completely independent of LXD.
The Incus UI is a soft fork of the LXD UI, it's rebased every time they push a new version out and our goal is to keep the delta as small as possible as it's something we want to spend as little time on as we possibly can. It's also why we always package it as "incus-ui-canonical" to make it very clear as to what it is.
There are also other UIs out there that could be used, sadly last I checked none came close to the feature coverage of the LXD UI or they had dependency on external components (database, active web servers, ...) whereas what we want is a UI that's just a static javascript bundle which then hits our REST API like any other client.
> I mean sure, it's the UI component only, and not on the lxc repo but the Zabbly one, and maybe they treat things widely differently depending.
This one is fair since Incus and Zabbly have had no desire to reimplement a web UI, they've instead opted to leave that to the community resulting in LXConsole for example.
Zabbly, for additional context, is Stephane Graber's company that he set up as a consultant service for Linux and Linux Container (both in terms of the Linux Container organization and the LXC project)
EDIT: I read this part to suggest that former LXD team members that are now on the Incus team potentially have the same mindset, if this is wrong, please correct me.
> And I swear I had a similar experience with regards to some other incus issues where there was a similar response about changes.
So far from my two years of interaction (both as a lurker and commenter) on the forums and purveyor on the issue tracker, I've yet to see anything that resembles treating Canonical LXD as any form of upstream especially since the split.
"Power bank cells are mainly divided into 18650 cells and polymer cells. The most common one on the market is 18650 lithium-ion batteries, with a market share of 70%."
Finns need to mentally evolve beyond this mindset.
Somebody being polite and friendly to you does not mean that the person is inferior to you and that you should therefore despise them.
Likewise somebody being rude and domineering to you does not mean that they are superior to you and should be obeyed and respected.
Politeness is a tool and a lubricant, and Finns probably loose out on a lot of international business and opportunities because of this mentality that you're demonstrating. Look at the Japanese for inspiration, who were an economic miracle, while sharing many positive values with the Finns.
Wow. I lived in Finland for a few months and this does not match my experience with them at all. In case it's relevant, my cultural background is Dutch... maybe you would say the same about us, since we also don't do the fake smiles thing? I wouldn't say that we see anyone who's polite and friendly as inferior; quite the contrary, it makes me want to work with them more rather than less. And the logical contrary for the rude example you give. But that doesn't mean that faking a cheerful mood all the time isn't disingenuous and does not inspire confidence
"I never smile if I can help it. Showing one's teeth is a submission signal in primates. When someone smiles at me, all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life." While this famous quote from The Office may be quite exaggerated in many ways, this can nonetheless be a very real attitude in some cultures. Smiling too much can make you look goofy and foolish at best, and outright disingenuous at worst.
Yes, globally cultures fall into the category where a smile is either a display of weakness or a display of strength. The latter are more evolved cultures. Of course too much is too much.
You know there is a difference between being polite and friendly, and kissing ass, right?
We are also talking about a tool here. I don't want fluff from a tool, I want the thing I'm seeking from the tool, and in this case it's info. Adding fluff just annoys me because it takes more mental power to skip all the irrelevant parts.
Since it's a tool, what does it matter if it's too polite for your liking? It's just a tool. We've always had these things. Every time you started your computer, Windows would have a load screen saying "Welcome".
I find the hubris of this article absolutely disheartening, and toxic, and it frankly just reinforces how Wikipedia isn't a good place, and people who shouldn't have control over it have control over it.
And it isn't because of the self promoting described, but because of the response to it.
Apart from the fact that this was pure self-promotion, it was also spamming the Wikipedias of small language communities with low-effort autotranslated garbage, which I think is rather insulting.
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