Andrex

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by Andrex 6mo ago
Thought experiment: a language that enforces dependencies to be 2 levels deep or less. I wonder if dependencies would flatten out with this limitation in mind.
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by Andrex 6mo ago
I just rewatched that scene last night on YouTube. Maybe this is the universe telling me to watch the whole movie again... It's cool to see Noah Wyle getting his due these days ( The Pitt ).
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by Andrex 6mo ago
The social features were GH's early secret sauce that contributed heavily to its stickiness and why it eventually dominated. IMO. I should have said "will dent whatever profitability." I'm not sure it exists either. Fr
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by Andrex 6mo ago
Microsoft: "We're EMBRACING open source!" Everyone who remembered Microsoft in the 90s: "Uhhhhh... :concerned_face:"
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by Andrex 6mo ago
I really like the end-user experience when I stumble on Gitea repos online, too.
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by Andrex 6mo ago
I've been thinking about this. If you have any kind of home network with attached storage at all, setting your local Git to just use that seems like a logical step. And then if you're still paranoid do a daily backup to like Dropb
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by Andrex 6mo ago
They can have the new users pushing out sloppy projects. The serious users leaving will definitely dent profitability. And GitHub being a social network, could start a death spiral.
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by Andrex 6mo ago
Embrace, Extend, Enshittify?
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by Andrex 6mo ago
You could argue this is in keeping with consumer trends, unfortunately. "Endorsing products is the American way to express individuality." Calvin noticed it 30+ years ago.
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by Andrex 6mo ago
I've always wondered how many people know about this. As someone who had to persist on Chromebooks for a bit ( before Linux support ), it was a godsend for quick fixes.
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by Andrex 6mo ago
Oh God, Juno Mail, my first email host. Thanks for unlocking that memory.
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by Andrex 6mo ago
The attractiveness of a spreadsheet comes in the display and the charts, etc. For a serious database doing actual transactions, I'm not sure about the utility.
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by Andrex 6mo ago
Biases will always be endemic to any human system.
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by Andrex 7mo ago
*has been for 20+ years Meanwhile editions of Gnome come with Gnome Builder and Flatpak has solved the distribution problem. Things are so much better today on Linux than most people who have used Windows will even remember.
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by Andrex 7mo ago
TBH it is a little surprising, because one option available to Google was staying the course and hiding behind their Epic court loss. "Everyone can still access F-Droid, it just has to live in the Play Store. We're bound by law to
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by Andrex 7mo ago
Supported Android since the beta m3 SDK in 2008 (ok, I was in high school, but I still downloaded it!) Never considered abandoning it before now. It's time to leave Android. Call me naive, but despite the feeling in my gut I was holdin
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by Andrex 7mo ago
2035 for Switch 2 piracy to get started sounds nice, as someone invested in the platform. Maybe we should think about this like the concept of public domain. Locked down for X years in order to protect the artist, then opened up for everyon
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by Andrex 7mo ago
It's certainly an extremely bizarre and false statement. Curious what he meant as well.
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by Andrex 7mo ago
...so you're reinventing usenet? ...I'm in.
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by Andrex 7mo ago
Supply and demand? He'd just up the charge in that case. It's cat-and-mouse but he's getting richer and richer while the value to you will be constantly in flux.
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by Andrex 7mo ago
v3 introduced proper nested comments and filtering, problem was they were slow to load but even worse was the design. Just very bloated and padded and the information density dropped through the floor. (All based on very old memories.)
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by Andrex 7mo ago
I also remember Pownce and Oink (Milk's only app?) https://www.wired.com/2008/12/six-apart-pounc/ https://techcrunch.com/2012/03/14/kevin-roses-oink-shuts-dow...
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by Andrex 7mo ago
I think there was a v4 that attempted to bridge the gap between v3 and v4. Then v5 was when it wasn't curated at all and just a generic news aggregator. So this is v6 I guess.
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by Andrex 7mo ago
I could see some kafkaesque organization writing-up or firing someone for using the wrong font on a PowerPoint presentation. Such companies should be mocked and shamed, not held up as examples to follow.
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by Andrex 7mo ago
I'm going to go the unpopular route and ask, how mission-critical are fonts, really? Protected fonts such as these can't be mission-critical, legally, right? Never felt myself lacking for fonts in Docs, myself. Quite the oppos
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by Andrex 7mo ago
Honestly the most cohesive experience I've found online are forums with strict, sometimes overly strong, moderation where it's allowed to also complain about the mods openly. They can have the power but at least let me bitch when
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by Andrex 7mo ago
Maybe WiG?
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by Andrex 7mo ago
"As long as it's just theoretical I don't have to feel bad. Just keep plowing ahead and breaking things." Well it's about to turn from theory to reality very soon.
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by Andrex 7mo ago
> Do you wanna do naughty things?? Don't use such services do to so. Is that really what happened here? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Cop_City
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by Andrex 7mo ago
It underpins all software, and has wormed its way into Windows. I'm not sure this is as good a point as you think.

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