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App Number 18: How2 - AI for your Terminal
#How2 uses AI models to suggest shell commands in your Terminal. It's like using man, but with specific results. It uses a mix of AI code-completion and StackOverflow search.
You get five free queries a day, while $9/month gets you 100.
A common point of friction in opensource is that we promise people greater influence over the software they choose to use, but then maintainers already overworking themselves often fail to take all the input onboard. This often leaves both camps feeling disillusioned.
But moving past this dynamic is challenging.
And onboarding new help takes special skill that rarely pans out.
I don't what to advise (contributing money or skill helps), so something to be aware of?
@lucasgonze@alcinnz Which is another side of the same argument that @alcinnz and I are making. There is an ARMY of UX people dying to help in #FOSS#OSS systems but feel their is just some odd mismatch that no one can figure out. This is why I've given 3 talks on this at FOSSBack, trying to get maintainers to understand how to reach out to UX folk (and for UX folk work better in these environments) Many positive examples, but it feels like there is a lot left to do.
i remember the first time someone suggested to me straight-out that #opensource#FOSS#FLOSS solved a specific political problem I had been talking about.
it was in a job interview. the person was a grad student. i don't remember what the problem was.
i responded, "how would open source solve that?"
He answered, "I don't know. I thought you might."
needless to say, I didn't get the job. & I could see that the other interviewers thought that question exposed something about my position.
@dansup this is a good thing to do, but need to remember it also needs to address/solve the root of the problem. That our "governance" in #FOSS is kings and princes and serfs...
@msprout keep me in touch with the models you're working with. I'm also trying to stay ahead of the curve. #Vicuna is perfect on Apple Silicon M2P, it's almost as fast as #GPT3. I saw also #huggingface made an Open Source alternative to #ChatGPT but it's overloaded.
I have a lot to say about #LAS2023, #Linux, and my old #podcast Linux For Everyone. So those thoughts might be scattered or confined to this thread, but here we go because things need to be said!
First: @sri was dead-on when he described LAS as a family reunion. Such a warmth and feeling of camaraderie to the event. I made new friends, new work connections, and forged some new pathways in my brain thanks to eye-opening talks.
...Think about how often you're talking to people about the advantages of #Linux and #OpenSource software. Or at least HEARING about that discussion.
What advantages are mentioned? Privacy? Hell yea. Freedom? Damn right. Price? Most likely? Customization? Yup.
What about #FOSS having an advantage when it comes to energy consumption? I honestly never hear that. And we need to start screaming that from the mountaintops.
I'm also going to advocate for @thunderbird obtaining eco-certification from Blue Angel, a leading Eco label in Germany. And I have a wonderful friend at @kde who's standing by to help with testing and submission processes!
Shaving those CPU-seconds off transaction time can have a MAJOR impact on the environment when you're talking about millions of users.
So yea... I had a lot to say. Stay tuned, I'll have more. . .
@avuko it's #feudalism... yep it's a bad form of governance, we have the same problem in #FOSS and need to create better paths out of this current mess #OGB
I'm also really interested in immutable systems! They are really cool and interesting to me. Currently I'm using #VanillaOS.
I also like media with environmental storytelling a lot (where you have to figure things out yourself, put the puzzle pieces together.) And I really like CRPG and souls-like games.
I'm kinda new to this social platform and really awkward and shy, sorry for that. I'm not sure if I'm gonna post here a lot. I'm not used to being social.
Whatever happened to that GLIMPSE garbage that those self righteous boneheads forked from GIMP anyway?
Answer: abandoned, archived, forgotten, mostly. The FOSS world is really good at separating the chaffe from the loom and burying the garbage in the dark recesses of the Github landfills lolz.
Have used Pocket for years to save articles and stuff to read later. They want a subscription to access the full history of what I've saved - which isn't a big deal but kind of a bummer. A few days ago I discovered @omnivore! It's free, open source and honestly how much does that rock? Check it out if you like to read stuff later.
Again, @Omnivore is Free Open Source and I just discovered their donate page! Definitely worth a few dollars if you appreciate what they are doing! #Omnivore#Pocket#ReadItLater#FOSS
I have the, admittedly vain, hope that all corporate platforms (#VLOPs) will all fail the digital "acid test".
Except for #GooglePlay (#Android phone) and #Wikipedia, I can easily do without all of them. There are #FOSS alternatives for all of them.
Life will be a bit less cozy without #Amazon's customer evaluations, but dethroning the #billionaires, who have achieved a chokehold on OUR #SocialMedia infrastructure, will be worth it.
I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.
The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.
If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.
The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.
Yep this conversation is about #FOSS and kings, the #feudalism that is "governance" and yes this is a problem, we do need to try to do better #OGB most of the rest is noise.