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  • Part of it is figuring out how to pay for all the servers. If we have 1000 instances instead of 100, more people pay a smaller amount for server maintenance. If everyone uses a single instance, who pays for it?

  • I was with it, until I got to this line:

    The Pentagon has denied Grusch’s claims of a cover-up.

    So... yeah. I thought this was interesting when it was the government finally coming clean, but now that I realize it's just another disavowed former employee, I've cooled on the whole thing significantly.

  • Kinda. What you're referring to is "decompilation", which is the process of taking the output of a compiler and trying to reverse-engineer the code that produced it. But decompiled code is really hard to read and modify, because it isn't what humans wrote, it's what the compiler translated it into, and that can have some unexpected changes than are mostly irreversible. And, since it's closed source, if you somehow manage to make a change, you can't re-release it -- you don't have the license to do so.

    With open source, you see the same code as the maintainers, so it has the high-level programming concepts and good variable names, and you have permissions to fork and release your own version.

  • I think a good place to start is: what are you going to run it on? You'll need to leave it on all the time, so probably your laptop.

    Once you have some hardware to run the bot on, you'll want to find a bot project to build and deploy on your hardware. I put most of my software projects on GitHub, but there are other sites.

    Then, start following the instructions on the bot and post questions as you have them.

  • I follow my favorite Lemmy users on Mastodon -- since they're both on activitypub, you can use the one from the other. I like it much better because that's kinda Mastodon's whole jam, following users. Here's what it looks like from Mastodon looking at my account

  • I would absolutely love it! The more the merrier.

    The possibility does seem pretty remote, though, since it would allow us to consume Reddit content without seeing Reddit ads, which seems to be a huge emphasis for the company right now.

  • What do you mean by "save"? Miami are in 29th place -- least points of any team in the league. Will they be in last place at the end of the season with Messi? No. Will they make the playoffs? Probably. But soccer is a weak-link sport, and Miami has some weak links.