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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
My advice, as somebody who has a master’s degree, is to pick a topic that you are really interested in, and that captures your imagination. You will have to dedicate yourself to this work for a considerable amount of time. Doing a CV-driven
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
In my experience, systemd is much better documented, way more consistent, and way more reliable than what came before.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
> We can replace the endless and useless discussion on how to format code with an endless and useless discussion on what linting tool to use. That is why gofmt is so great. As the saying goes: gofmt’s style is nobody’s favorite, yet gofm
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
> 20+ years of software engineering experience across full-stack, backend, infrastructure, Site Reliability Enigneering, and AI engineering. Past work includes Uber, Airbnb, Canva, and a wide variety of startups - several of which I co-f
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
Give it an hour or two. It is really not that complicated. A little bit of investment will pay huge dividends. Do yourself the favor.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
Read the comment again. I address this directly.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
And I never claimed that it was. Stop attacking that strawman. My point is: Codeberg is not a neutral and free git forge. I wish that it was. What they are doing is completely within their legal and moral rights. I just disagree with it.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
I do not think you get the point. Yes, human rights should apply to anybody, including war criminals. That is what makes them HUMAN rights. Universal freedoms and neutrality should apply universally, including to waste-of-time-and-resources
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
Yes, but the world is not black and white. It’s all shades of gray. Codeberg just darkened their shade quite a bit.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
Exactly. > The line is open to interpretation precisely where it needs to be enforceable. It is way too arbitrary and open to interpretation and biases.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
Fully agree. I am against AI slop, LLM overhyping, and cryto scams, as much as anybody, however: > the main property I need from infrastructure [is for] it to be predictable, dependable, and reasonably neutral towards the legal Open Sour
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
Simple: Provide the same freedoms to everybody. Do not get involved unless absolutely required to by law. That entails not restricting access for specific projects, and not revoking freedoms for any reason. Everybody should get the same tre
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
I have made it VERY clear that I am talking about FREEdom, not the price. I have to assume your comment is in bad faith.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
> You think Stallman and Torvalds did what they did because they were neutral? Is that a joke? Both have made it abundantly clear that yes, this is their stance. Let me quote literally the FIRST freedom RMS put into writing: > The fre
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
Of course nobody is obligated and I never claimed that. In fact, I fucking hate the LLM hypetrain. But this decision is decidedly non-neutral and non-free.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
Free software is about freedom and liberty. Sure, you can decide to prohibit certain use cases. That is absolutely legal and absolutely okay to do. But it makes you non-neutral and non-free.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
That is fine unless you claim to be a neutral and free as in freedom service provider. You are clearly not at that point.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
If you can’t keep up with the load, say that. Limit new signups and/or implement rate limiting, and ideally scale up if you can. DO NOT try to spin that into taking some form of moral high ground. DO NOT make yourself the arbiter of wh
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
> a hub built around “free software” is now telling its users which kinds of software are deemed good and which are not, and that is closer to censorship than it might seem. Once a platform writes into its terms that an entire category “
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
It really is a shame Drew is so opinionated and dogmatic. I like most of his work, but his politics make Source Hut too shaky of a foundation to build on.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
> Hard agree on highlighting. I never understood it. […] It's just too much. Never worked for me. I only did it when I was forced to by teachers! > There would've been essentially a post-it note on every single page. Or I&#x
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
That just means you did not really try for 20 years.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
> It was a great read, especially that it was probably 100% written by author with no AI help. > I appreciate that the article wasn't written by human, but now that we have great AI tools […] I have to assume this comment is slop
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
Isn’t that exactly what the author suggests? Editions as a set of config options that are already there. The config options are already implemented, so the heavy lifting is done. Editions would amount to a few hundred bytes.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
I am always aghast at how proudly people pronounce that they don’t know how to use one of the most central and essential tools in the belt of a software engineer. Maintaining history is well worth it, and allows you to use tools like
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
> if you're already working on a team where history is not used in any serious way Then you are doing it wrong. Sadly this is very common.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
Git is not nearly as confusing as people make it out to be. They just never take the few hours it takes to understand it. Which is a sad state of affairs for such an essential tool in the belt of any software engineer. git commit -am
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
The JDK is too big for every app to do that, imo.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
> I'd rather not hide what I am doing So why are you doing that by sloppyfying your own writing? If you want people to take interest in your writing, it should probably actually be your own writing.
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by Hendrikto 3mo ago
> my sense is that the community mostly doesn't want to read it I can confirm. Most LLM-written content is low effort, low value. This is somewhat by construction. You get the blandest takes in the blandest language.

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