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The new Montmartre finish of the Tour de France is maybe the greatest spectacle in sports? Utterly wild.

(And I had to leave Paris yesterday. Only a little bitter about that.)
nostrich · 5d
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nostrich · 6d
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Luis Villa · 1w
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@nprofile1q... and on the flip side LLMs can also enhance collaboration: a proper test suite can mean much higher velocity to accept new contributions and contributors, and it can also mean users who used to be “just” consumers can now contribute, if there are proper on-ramps.
Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 · 1w
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@nprofile1q... the overwhelming majority (I seem to recall something like 80-90%) of projects on sourceforge only had 1 contributor. And the number has only gotten worse since then!

I do think there’s some real challenges around LLMs and collaboration but a fake idealized past is not how to address it.
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Luis Villa · 1w
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Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqy4nygj85ggturx4nlzzmdqunaxzsallu2cltm50f37kunx0h7jcs738atu Absolutely! Even https://codeberg.org/mcepl/m2crypto/ with packages in all major distributions have really one developer: me. Yes, I had some PRs in the past, but they are really rare.
Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 · 1w
Let me comment on https://blog.codeberg.org/protecting-our-floss-commons-from-llms.html I don't want to get to the issue itself, but I really dislike sentences like “In Frankfurt, data centers alrea...
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@nprofile1q... I found this really interesting; the idealization of coding as collaborative (always more of an aspiration than a reality) seems like another very problematic part of the announcement:

https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/i-regret-migrating-to-codeberg/
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Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦 · 1w
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