Lammy

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by Lammy 6mo ago
“Organizations” didn't exist until GitHub was already popular and entrenched, and it got popular and entrenched by centering the person developing the code instead of the code that was being developed: https://github.blog&#x
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by Lammy 6mo ago
Why are you thinking in terms of “sites”? I was imagining something more like a GitTorrent.
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by Lammy 6mo ago
> But maybe the most underappreciated thing GitHub did was archival work: GitHub became a library. It became an index of a huge part of the software commons because even abandoned projects remained findable. I think this is a bad thing a
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by Lammy 6mo ago
> In the past few years, GitHub has absorbed both a fundamental paradigm shift (agentic coding) AND several different hockey sticks of growth. It's messy. I'm not always proud of the results or the product choices we are forced
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by Lammy 6mo ago
> Its the ultra independence mindset. And there's nothing wrong with it! I take detours on road trips all the time following “Historic <thing> →” signs or just because I see something interesting in the distance and want to go
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by Lammy 6mo ago
> Not all diners look like train cars, but many do because they were fabricated to look that way, […] features a corrugated metal surface Article would do well to mention that this particular style comes from cars manufactured by Budd Co
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by Lammy 6mo ago
> Not just the wealthy I think you misread. I literally used myself as an example and am definitely not that wealthy :p > because they think it will be beneficial The Capital-class have , on the other hand, definitely constructed a w
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by Lammy 6mo ago
> If you're right, the rest of big tech is in a much worse position. Part of “Big Tech” hiring isn't just to have an important thing for everyone to do but also to keep competitors from having access to those people.
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by Lammy 6mo ago
Appreciate it; not a math person :)
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by Lammy 6mo ago
It was inevitable as soon as enough people believed that spending money is necessary to live. Money is the next stage of life. As individuals, people's only truly limited resource is their attention, their time, and so the same is true
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by Lammy 6mo ago
> and sending it to the government It literally is. The network itself is always listening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A The mere act of making a network connection leaks my physical location, the time I&
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by Lammy 6mo ago
The people who write any individual feature want to be able to prove usage in order to get good performance reviews and promotions. It's so awful that it's become normalized. Back in The Day we had the term “spyware” to refer to a
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by Lammy 6mo ago
> people who do actually use Macs — Sent from my (work) MacBook Pro M3
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by Lammy 6mo ago
Yeah no shit. I use Feishin personally: https://github.com/jeffvli/feishin But I think it is very fair to judge the OOTB experience as a whole as a reflection of the company's priorities.
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by Lammy 6mo ago
Sorry, but you're wrong. Music-dot-app is a great example. Check out all the ways it tries to upsell you even if you just want to play local files: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anrB6fP1WeQ&t=65s - opens to a ful
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by Lammy 6mo ago
My screenshots directory says you are wrong: https://i.ibb.co/cKjL8qcG/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-09-07-06.... My last (and first, and only) iPhone was even worse. At one point the Settings app had no fewer than three pa
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by Lammy 6mo ago
I don't want to use a computer whose greatest aspiration is to be a sales funnel even if I am personally strong-willed enough to say no when nagged.
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by Lammy 6mo ago
Dumb comparison, because buying a Framework is a single transaction where I exchange money for a computer, and buying a Mac is an entrypoint to “The Ecosystem” where Apple wants to squeeze me for $<pricing_tier>/month forever. Pe
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by Lammy 6mo ago
> You can't even get secondhand instances of the software like I did as a youth with CS3. Were you able to get the DRM-free “offline” CS3 installers during the time they were offered? I will cherish mine forever lol https:/&#x
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by Lammy 6mo ago
> When someone doesn't want something to be the future, usually, their instinct is not to try to be the first person doing that exact thing. If you don't want this to be the future than why don't you spend your time buildi
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openDoJa — full reimplementation of DoCoMo's DoJa SDK in modern Java(github.com)
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by Lammy 6mo ago
Relevant Lain: https://lain.wiki/wiki/Protocol_7
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by Lammy 6mo ago
https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2021/03/31/introducing-libadwa...
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by Lammy 6mo ago
I support and encourage the death of “““open source””” so that we may retvrn to Free Software.
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by Lammy 6mo ago
You're conflating the two unnecessarily. There's no reason Jekyll's server has to run on the editor's local machine. See my other comment about jekyll-admin which can be used collaboratively: https://news.ycom
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by Lammy 6mo ago
I am a fan of jekyll-admin: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-admin/ Its project page doesn't seem to have a screenshot of the post/page editor, but its editor is simplemde so one can just look at it dire
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by Lammy 6mo ago
Why would I want my WIP site to be on the public internet? This has been built into Jekyll for years. Probably other SSGs too but I don't know/use them. jekyll serve --watch --incremental
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by Lammy 6mo ago
Corollary: we should collectively stop referring to WWW clients as “browsers” because the metaphor no longer fits. They are Web Grazers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browsing_%28herbivory%29
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by Lammy 6mo ago
I am eternally annoyed at GNOME Project for, among many many other reasons, forcing the removal of bitmap font support as of Pango 1.44 due to forcing Harfbuzz as the only supported shaping library: - https://blogs.gnome.org&#x2F
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by Lammy 6mo ago
Points against: “Two Fields, One Problem” :)

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