Seirdy

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by Seirdy 5y ago
My favorite is 3008, the Infinite IKEA: http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-3008 On the outside, you see an IKEA. On the inside, the store is infinite and fully staffed. At night, the staff begins to strange. Even stranger than regu
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That's what happened during the decision-making process, but then one got shut down. Now new users joining #newsboat will be directed to ##newsboat, which is completely out of control of the #newsboat ops. They won't be directed t
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I wrote my thoughts on IRC/Matrix wrt moving from Fleenode in the Libravatar mailing list: https://lists.launchpad.net/libravatar-fans/msg00330.html Pasting the message below: Personally, I don't have a big p
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Adapted from a comment I made in the wrong thread: It's hilarious that rasengan is complaining about Libera "fracturing the FOSS community".[0] For example, #newsboat members decided to move by June 5th, and we've been d
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by Seirdy 5y ago
It's hilarious that rasengan is complaining about Libera "fracturing the FOSS community".[0] For example, #newsboat members decided to move by June 5th, and we've been deciding between OFTC and Libera. Then this happened
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Some channels are also moving to OFTC. Alpine, cat-v, #freedesktop, #wayland, and others are examples.
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1. The reason why things have moved to a bit of a monoculture is because of a lack of portability in software. 2. People have PowerPC and ARMv7 devices that work perfectly well. People shouldn't have to buy a new device every N years.
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I think the implication was that this site was supposed to entertain "hacker culture" rather than "software development culture". I've also noticed a general trend from "Hacker News" to "Software Deve
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by Seirdy 5y ago
For Rust to become the go-to systems programming language, it has to beat C. But Rust lacks C's biggest advantage: portability. Pretty much every architecture and OS out there has a C compiler. Rust only works well on the most mainstre
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This was post-sale.
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Worth noting that nearly the same thing happened to Snoonet in 2019 as well. Some choices that prawnsalad made caused some Snoonet staff members to step down. A letter of resignation signed by three staff members with some context: https:&
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Other entries in the recent wave of "compiled high-level" languages also neglect support for operating systems outside the mainstream Linux, macOS, and Windows or ARMv8 and x86_64; D supports a variety of operating systems and tar
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In addition to what other commenters have said, I'll add that D has good portability. It's able to target operating systems and architectures outside the current mainstream. IMO, its niche is similar to Go and Nim.
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I upvoted you because you presented an alternate view I hadn't heard before, but I disagree. After a few years, a laptop's battery degrades. In well under a decade, Wirth's Law kicks in to make devices seem slow. This attitud
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by Seirdy 5y ago
If it wasn't already obvious, this basically confirms that Freenode is no longer a good place to be. Most projects are migrating to libera.chat while some are migrating to OFTC.
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The time to first paint for a smallish website from across the planet seldom crosses the two-second mark. I would happily take that over a website that fails to load from a server <100 miles from me because my packet loss is >40%.
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One of my least favorite aspects of websites is change and redesigns when the original design worked perfectly well. Given that change is bad when a site has already hit the "meh, good enough" threshold, I doubt that testing and i
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I disagree; they're much better than having to look at people's faces.
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It's not uncommon for people to spoof their referrer headers to a site they want to promote or to shock content. Back when I used to track referrers in my access logs, I ended up watching the Simpson's Couch Gag "You're
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Agreed: disabling 3rd party fonts just makes pages look more native (by using fonts I've whitelisted) and load faster. The only regression is that some pages use icon fonts instead of SVGs. An often-cited justification is the small siz
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Rhetorical question: how much e-waste do you think Wirth's Law is responsible for? I personally don't think that people should ever have to buy a new computer until their use-case changes. At most, they might need a battery replac
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by Seirdy 5y ago
I wouldn't go that far. Most distros have switched to GNOME on Wayland by default, and Fedora 34's KDE spin has switched to Wayland too. Sway is niche but not insignificant anymore (I use Sway). X11 is definitely not dead yet, tho
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+1 for Foot. Much faster than Alacritty (esp. with PGO), supports ligatures and colored emojis (and any charset [inc. emojis] uses font fallback at a configurable custom size so you can get emojis to fit in one cell), and also supports an o
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This is true, but the right to inspect software has meaning even if it isn't used. It can be used by other people besides the proverbial "average Joe", and non-techs can ask tech friends about software. Every technical pers
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by Seirdy 5y ago
This, AMP, and a thousand other things are making it hard to share canonical URLs. Two workarounds: 1. Find "rel=canonical" in the page's source. 2. Look up the page/article title on your favorite search engine.
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> Think of your favorite site with the best experience possible. That is possible because people tested countless times what works, what didn't, what is the most efficient path to a rewarding UX, and so on. Funny; those kinds of sit
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by Seirdy 5y ago
Agreed. Children can't give informed consent to whatever the software may be doing behind the scenes (or in the backend) esp. if it handles their personal data. This is exactly the sort of thing the AGPL was made for: it should be poss
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This has not been my experience. On public timelines of instances with even moderately popular users, the public timelines get messages minutes or seconds apart. Plenty of users have hundreds (or in the case of some admins and fediverse dev
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Software that isn't executed on a user's machine is out of the user's control. The GNU AGPL redefines distribution to include serving over a network so that software served over a network must disclose source code as well (un
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Excluding some portion of sites from a user’s cohort calculation doesn’t necessarily make a user less unique if a nontrivial number of sites doesn’t opt out. I wrote more about this on my site: https://seirdy.one/2021/0

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