It is my understanding that the only difference applies to hosted software. For example, Lemmy is AGPL. If it were GPL, then a company could take the source code, modify it and host their own version without open sourcing their modifications. AGPL extends to freedoms of GPL to users of hosted software as well.

A real example of this would be truth social which is modified Mastodon and as AGPL those modifications are required to be open source as well.

it can barely get single functions correct but we’re supposed to believe it can write entire systems from a single prompt? Either way our job at the moment is writing instructions for another piece of software (compiler) to turn into the code. This just adds another level of abstraction. High level programming languages already let us do more with fewer staff. It didn’t make coders redundant, it let to even more software.

edit: forgot to add, agree with your edit, that or just trying to inflate their stock prices.

Definitely. What I didn’t mention is all that took over a month!

Been there many times. Had one case where support had to through the reseller who sold licenses in our country. Actual people who knew what they were talking about was tier 3.

We had a bug and were trying to report it and get a fix or workaround. Just told no, we’re doing it wrong. After a lot of back and forth we had to pay for an “expert” to fly over and show us what we were doing wrong. Turns out he wasn’t an expert, he was a salesmen. Made a demo for us on the flight and the first time he ran it was in our meeting room on projector.

Failed in exactly the way we had been saying. It was very satisfying.

Finally he phoned the dev team who confirmed the docs were wrong and we couldn’t do what we were trying.

I think another key difference is everyone can use whatever tool they like and still work on the same codebase. They don’t have proprietary file formats that lock in you and your entire team forever.

Same for me. Last day i worked in an office was March 2020. Haven’t done a single day since and don’t intend to ever again

Cave people didn’t have lead poisoning either

I’ve been using silverbullet.md

Its more notes than wiki I guess so depends what you’re after.

I use restic but I switched from Borg because of the cloud features. Outside of that, there’s not a lot of differences really. If you’re happy with Borg keep with it.

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I use audible, then download with audible-cli and decrypt with ffmpeg.

I’m running Jellyfin on 6th gen i3 and quicksync works fine.

You’ve never worked in finance then. All our systems at work do nothing but move large amounts of txt files around.

That said, many of our clients still don’t support utf-8 so its all ascii and non-latin alphabets are screwed. They can’t even handle characters 128-255 so even stuff like £ is unsupported.

I thought colo was your hardware in someone else’s data center.

For me though a VPS is still self hosting because you own your applications data and have control over it.

You’re less beholden to the whims of a company to change the software or cut you off. With appropriate backups you should be able to move to a new cloud provider fairly easily.

I’m working on migrating a lot of old .Net Framework code right now, we’re generally going with a complete rewrite but that’s more to do with poor architectural decisions and the fact a lot of it is VB rather than C#.

It’s pretty impressive that code largely written up to 20 years ago is now running on a modern OS, and it’s using the latest Framework 4.8 with all the latest security updates and I can open VS2022 and hit run and it builds and runs fine. Our issues are the maintainability of the code and how it was written rather than the framework itself.

Meanwhile, a few years ago now, I had a web project written in typescript, it was only about a year out of date and npm install failed. Turns out one of dependencies needed to build something with python2, updating that needed a new version of webpack and that broke something else that never got an update to the newer webpack. Installing python2 didn’t work either I think but I can’t remember why.

There’s systems I wrote for .Net over a decade ago that I can guarantee are still running in production and haven’t been touched in all that time.

In short, I think I’m agreeing with you. It’s painful but it’s possible.

“How many Transporter accidents have there been in the last tens years, Reg? Two… three? What about the millions of people who transport every day without a problem” - Geordi - TNG Realm of Fear S6E2

That’s a cool idea for an automated offline backup. My equivalent is an external hard drive connected to a mechanical timer plug. Every day it turns on for 30 minutes, that triggers a script that mounts the drive, syncs my files, then unmounts the drive. Then the plug turns off the drive until tomorrow.

I like this better though. I’ve got an old pi1 somewhere, might have to try it.