Dell have announced the return of XPS.

Fairly limited specs available so far, but more are coming, including a developer edition - which ships with Ubuntu 24.10.

Current configs are limited to 32GB of RAM, which is a little low, but hopefully that will increase with future iterations.

They also got rid of the SD Card slot. Which I actually still use.

> ... the company which made the ad, defended its use of AI in a post on LinkedIn

> “It’s never about replacing craft, it’s about expanding the toolbox. The vision, the taste, the leadership … that will always be human,” she said.

> “And here’s the part people don’t see: the hours that went into this job far exceeded a traditional shoot. Ten people, five weeks, full-time.”

That response sounds like it was written by ChatGPT, which is a fantastic piece of tone-deaf irony from the creators.

Cool idea. Just a heads-up that the Demo link at the bottom of the page leads to a 403.

> As long as you have Pricing on your website your product is not open source in the true spirit of open sourceness.

It's an MIT license. That IS open source.

If they have a commercial strategy - that's a GoodThing. It means they have a viable strategy for staying in business, and keeping the project maintained.

MIT == OpenSource. Pricing == Sustainable. That's a horse worth backing IMO.

Exactly, if everything looked too good to be true and there was no transparency or hint of a business model it’s actually less attractive for some who value predictability.

> It's an MIT license. That IS open source.

The source is available and you can do much with it, but the incentive is that this alone should not be enough.

You are not wrong but in most cases this is a trojan horse. It has the characteristics of a classic rugpullware.

At the top level looks like open source but it is not really because parts (the most useful ones) of the project are not. Imagine if python was open source but the core libraries where not. You wont call this open source in the true spirit of open source. You could make the argument that at least it is sustainable because they a have now a business model. It doesn't add up.

I prefer more of a honest take on software. There is nothing wrong to make money while contributing back to the community in some meaningful way or by simply being transparent. In fact this is the best kind and there are plenty of good examples.

All I am saying is that when I see such projects I tend to think that in most cases they are dishonest to themselves or their communities or both.

It's not really confusing at all.

Content under backend/ee requires a license, everything else is MIT Expat. Pretty standard stuff.

> Can you call it open source if you need a subscription license to run / edit the code?

MIT is open source, their other stuff isn't. Pretty clear.

Thanks!

I've finished up there now, so this is purely retrospective.

For them - the workaround (sadly) was -- a lack of testing.

I was really surprised that in a heavily regulated environment (this project faced off to a regulator) Integration testing (which has gotten really easy on the JVM thanks to stuff like TestContainers) just didn't exist.

That could be symptom of a broader lack of a test-driven culture though.

The block was not for docker license cost reasons - it was part compliance, and part an issue with the underlying VDI VM they were using.

The onshore team were able to use Docker, but not offshore.

That's not what happened here. The BBC edited footage to make it appear that Trump said something he didn't in the leadup to the Jan-6 riots.

My personal biases are pretty strongly in favour of the BBC, but what they did here was really bad. It's appropriate that heads roll. I wish more orgs would have the same level of accountability.

The problem here, like the gaza documentaries, is it's produced by outside companies, and the BBC -- like most companies -- sucks at governing outsourced providers.

We all have our echo chambers, as they say.

Congrats on shipping.

However, the "Privacy First" and "No Ads" claim gets eroded pretty quickly by cookies, and requests to trackers like n.clarity.ms, google-analytics and adtrafficquality.google.

Note - I don't actually have an issue with any of those things - if you wanna monetize this service through analytics and ads, that's up to you. But it's at odds with your privacy first claims.

Yeah, I made a local image compressor/converter for myself that's actually private: https://github.com/blopker/alic

Good job!

Thanks for your advice, I’ll update some of the text to fix the issue

Not OP, but link goes to the GH issue where this is being discussed, which is pretty interesting.

They definitely could've communicated this better.

https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/21647