"Best" depends on your use-case, like always.

I mostly work on my own projects, and keep many things private. I switched to a privately hosted gitea. I'm fairly happy with it.

Some perspective ... I really do not see 'the public hating AI' outside of a very specific demographic (17-30 year old artsy types, generally left-leaning). Average everyday people in my area either don't care about AI at all, or like it, using it as a better search engine.

The situation might be different in the States, but I'd wager Joe Sixpack, brass fisher in Montana, couldn't care less about GPT-5.5 or whatever Musk is up to these days.

Joe Sixpack from Montana is thinking about whether he wants a data center in his town, and increasingly they are saying no https://www.wsj.com/us-news/maine-governor-vetoes-bill-to-te...

On the contrary I would bet people who enjoy fly-fishing in Montana are over represented in Congress.

You'd think the natural result would be 'This was horrible; this trainer is a psychopath. I am not going to do that to another human being.'

But then, we're talking about humans, especially the violence-enjoying strata of humans here.

That is the natural result. They're selecting for people that don't have that reaction, or those that can suppress it.

Just like chefs... a lot of lowlives lurk there too.

Wut? How are chefs like waterboarders?

presumably they were abused as line cooks or whatever and once they make sous chefs they become abusers. Similar dynamics exist in jail, in fraternities, etc.

That's actually pretty common.

Deutsche Bahn does everything from real estate to infrastructure to truck companies (no longer in Europe, though, they had to sell that off) to car sharing to energy production to IT development to trading lumber, workforce rental and startup venture capital. The list changes every few days, so some they may no longer do, others they will now do. It's a megacorp.

Many of these have grown out of the original business model.

I was hoping for some 'technical' secrets.

Like: you can actually change the lightbulbs for the headlights of the Series 0 train while it being underway - there is a service hatch that opens to a human-sized service area accessible from the driver's cabin which allows such repairs.

> If Johnny sits back and picks his nose in the workshop and then hands in a paper that's suspiciously good, it's probably slop even if it isn't obviously so.

Or maybe, you know, he's an introvert.

As an old school hacker ... I feel your pain.

Words change meaning all the time. I vividly remember when 'coder' was used as a diminutive, much like the later script-kiddie or code-monkey - "A software developer of little skill or knowledge". Today, people habitually call themselves that.

The way I always understood it is that "coder" is a broad term that includes writing non-turing complete languages like HTML and CSS as well as turing complete languages, whereas the term "programmer" is more specific to writing executable code.

Nowadays I'm not sure anyone is employed writing only HTML and CSS but in the 90s and 00s it was definitely a distinction worth making.

The irony of calling yourself a hacker while complaining about new words being cringe when hacker is the epitome and grandfather of all cringe names in this domain.

That's an interesting euphenism for 'spend a massive amount of money on ~~corruption~~ lobbying',

not necesarilly, any government will make decisions, if there's no one to speak up and inform them why the decision is stupid, like the one from LaLiga, then we end up in this situation

This is incredibly naive.

ok, then what do you suggest? we don't get involved and decisions at the government level are made for us? I might be naive, but let's not be restrained by the cynicism of any involment in politics and governance is corruption

What? This is how governance and public opinion happen, at least in Spain. Government does something bad? Everyone out on the streets to complain, and calling politicians to change their mind.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it does not, but doing nothing is never an option if you disagree with what they're doing. To think that doing nothing is better than something, that's incredibly naive.

Doing nothing can't be better, but it's entirely possible that doing nothing has exactly the equal effect as doing something.

> but it's entirely possible

You're right, it possibly has the same effect. How could we figure out what's the actual answer in practice?

Technically, Obsidian is just a fancy 'browser/editor' for markdown files laying around. Should Obsidian disappear as a functional tool tomorrow, recreating the basic functionality (show, edit, manage links, follow links) would take a sufficiently motivated guy a few hours. If you need the 'petri dish' view, maybe a little longer. In such an event, I suppose enough people would be eager to build their own and OSS variants would emerge within days.

If you can stomach not working in Markdown, emacs' ORGmode exists and has all the functionality Obsidian has, and then some, open source, with a slightly different hypertext format.

Unless you are hellbent on one particular Obsidian plugin, you should be good.

That’s why Im not using Obsidian