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"I built this"... No, you didn't!

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this is pretty controversial opinion here but i think there's difference between 'vibecoded' and 'ai assisted'

the shitty stuff like what op mentioned fits the first category, while linux and other stuff is the latter

like it or not many people/devs like to use it, especially if they're doing it for work because it makes it easier to churn out large amounts of code and features (and ofc bugs). pretty sure apple employees already use llms for developing macos/ios.

i (mostly) agree with the frustration against llm stuff.

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Is there a currently maintained AUR equivalent for Debian? MPR/Makedeb are unmaintained

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yeah, these things are all trivial to compile.

i suggest not dealing with things like MPR for this; just set --prefix=/opt or something similar when compiling the program, and install everything to /opt.

in slackware this is very easy to deal with, as the package manager is extremely basic and basically just unpacks tarballs and logs its file list somewhere. 'packages' are just tarballs so you just compile anything with a prefix to a temporary dir, tarball that dir and install it with the 'package manager' to keep track of things. this is simple enough so you can do similarly on debian without switching distros or using slackware's scripts

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What are some discord alternatives that we can suggest to our friends?

Looked around for a while now, these are the alternatives I found.

  • Zulip: More like a Slack alternative for an organization/team/group, can be self hosted, seems to be pretty mature and well made. Has good client apps. No screen sharing/voice chat.
  • Stoat: Seems to be mostly similar to Discord, doesn't seem mature though, self hosting documentation doesn't seem refined, could be okay if you use their server, not sure about mobile apps
  • Spacebar: 1:1 Discord clone, voice chat features seem to be incomplete but seems pretty good otherwise, I tried to install their server but it doesn't run for me..
  • Matrix: Feature complete, but kinda buggy, may work well enough for some but my friends complained for poor UX
  • Mattermost: Gotta self host or pay, there seems to be some weird limitation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46861331 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46594673
  • IRC: maybe not for non-techies, but IRCv3 has some "modern" features and Goguma(Android)/TheLounge(Web) looks quite decent
  • XMPP: Seems like it should be good, but I'm having trouble setting it up so can't tell
  • Tailchat: UI looks just like Discord, but I just heard of it now so haven't tried