Developer here, this is Code By Humans

Yeah that post is 5 years old, I would think a lot of that has changed by now

I assume they're referring to the announcement check, configurable via an option in your config file. It's what we use to make sure everyone knows about important things like security updates.

Edit: Lemmy keeps breaking the link, it's under allow_announcements_check

Voilà

The expectation is they will put on the exact same brand and model of tires if they have it, and the closest equivalent of they don't.

Yeah in my project open registration is behind an option called yes_i_am_very_very_sure_i_want_an_open_registration_server_prone_to_abuse lol

These will still fall prey to the reason that LLM summaries are bad: LLMs pick up the average, what is common, rather than what stands out and is genuinely important or new. Your writing will end up averaged out and the key things will be missed, only what is repeated again and again.

In my experience you can use a LLM to point out typos or grammar errors, but not to actually edit or rephrase your work. And at that point it's effectively just a slow and expensive, but better, spelling/grammar checker.

'refuse to provide packages'

Open source devs usually are volunteers, you can't expect them to spend hours figuring out different packaging systems for repos they don't even use 😭

They make one request per IP. Rate limit per IP does nothing.

The problem (as matrix people found out the hard way) is some media & content is very illegal. Most individuals really don't want even the chance of being exposed to CSAM or gore, and neither do server operators want the chance of that being shared from their server or written to their disk when that can result in police at the door. You need default-on moderation that is very powerful, and end users should never be distributing media they don't want to. This pushes towards centralisation of nodes run by experts, and heavily punishes true P2P models.

Windows licenses ain't cheap. Never have been.

Not right now.