It’s interesting that the people who claim to avoid politics being prioritized over technical merit in a project, usually end up doing so themselves. Nobody else cares about whether their Linux Distribution is “woke” (whatever that means) or not. NixOS is innovating with declarative configuration, Bazzite makes itself accessible to a whole new demographic, Debian continues casually maintaining global digital infrastructure and meanwhile in contrast, some are hunting for rainbows.

Have you tried Tweakers Vraag & Aanbod yet?

It’s not that bad. A lot of our servers at work use Windows. It certainly took some getting used to as someone who has been using Linux on all their devices, but it does work.

Great choice, using some of that VC money for things that actually benefit the world

Go seems like a good option to begin with; you can do a lot with it, and it’s not that complicated but does expose you to concepts like pointers.

There are plenty of very “serious” systems written in Go (e.g. Kubernetes), it’s not a toy language.

I’d say go ahead but make sure it produces accurate enough results and make sure to add something like [AI Transcribed] in front so people can take the potential for additional errors into consideration when reading it.

Also, if you’re using an online service make sure you’re using something that doesn’t use it as training data. Many (probably almost all) artists / photographers won’t appreciate that.

Almost all OCR tools use machine learning AFAIK, the commonly used Tesseract OCR software also uses a neural network.

It certainly isn’t AGI, but AI just means machine learning nowadays.

Perhaps Kopia? It supports compression and deduplication.

Well, they already use Bugzilla. Although I personally do not find it particularly intuitive to use.

cm0002 meant it with /s

It would make it easier for people to find if a bug has already been reported, which is what Torvalds mentions as being a problem.

E.g. when you have a proprietary program that is only available on x86, but you want to run it on ARM.

Could you make a graph with defederations? I suspect that plays a role

I think they’re defederated from poorly moderated instances and therefore don’t need to ban as many users. Perhaps db0 doesn’t defederate as often?

We are obviously looking at things like Mythos, which is more sophisticated at finding vulnerabilities. In the next week or so, we will be changing our tack on coding the open and making our code public until we’re on top of that risk.

Most of our repos, unless they’re essential, will be removed for security reasons.

Security by obscurity because security vulnerabilities don’t exist if you can’t see them

Assuming reliability is the priority I would suggest going with Tailscale Funnels or a cheap VPS acting as intermediary.

I don’t have a lot of experience with dealing with GCNAT, but perhaps you could look into some solution with UPnP or RFC 6887.

object_store does indeed also support WebDAV among a variety of other protocols, Apache Druid or Apache Pinot probably would be better examples. My only experience with WebDAV is with Nextcloud and hasn’t been that great because it has been very slow, probably should look into it sometime.

EDIT: Apparently it supports CAS, and even has a locking mechanism

Scaleway, Exoscale, Cyso, Contabo, UpCloud, and others too

Many cloud providers offer S3-compatible storage, so it’s a common protocol to use in applications. There are even some databases like SlateDB that fully rely on object storage for everything. Supporting more API’s is extra work (unless you’re using OpenDAL) so most people pick S3 compatible API’s because they’re the most widely supported across all cloud platforms.

S3 isn’t just an AWS thing anymore. It has kind of become the standard object storage protocol, and almost every cloud provider uses it aside from a few the made their own API’s (e.g. Azure Blob storage)