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by Seirdy 6y ago
If you mean other federated FOSS alternatives to mainstream social media, I gave a brief overview in another comment [0]. You can get a bird's-eye view at https://fediverse.party/ or a more detailed look at https:&#x2
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Mobilizon is written in Elixir because it is based on Pleroma, a Mastodon-compatible/Mastodon-alternative server for the Fediverse. Elixir isn't one of the most popular langs out there, but it is far from being a "niche"
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Mobilizon appears to be a Fediverse server just like Mastodon, Pleroma, and others.
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It might be better to simply switch to the LGPL v3 or later, since that explicitly addresses header libs.
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Sorry, I wasn't clear enough. I meant that you still have an offline copy of the mailing list and can see the full picture of what's publicly going on, and you have everybody's contact info. You can see who's involved wi
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by Seirdy 6y ago
I responded to this argument in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24295610 TLDR: the alternatives are also centralized and give you vendor lock-in since issues/PRs are tied to the instance.
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by Seirdy 6y ago
> Surprise - technology evolves Evolution != constant re-implementation to fit the latest UI trends. (Neo)Vi(m), emacs, terminals, REPLs, email, etc. are still common because they’re the best tool for the job. Hell, even IRC refuses to d
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by Seirdy 6y ago
> Email archives are even harder to transfer Mailing lists are trivial to distribute. Thanks to maildir and mbox, everybody has a full copy of the mailing list just as they have a full copy of the repository.
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by Seirdy 6y ago
If GitHub goes down, you can still use a different remote; however, you lose issues, PRs, and code review. If your remote goes down but you have an email based workflow, you can continue as if nothing happened. One could argue that your mai
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by Seirdy 6y ago
> stop relying on duct-taped solutions from the 70s I wonder how you feel about age discrimination. Some old tools and ideas (vim, emacs, the UNIX philosophy, etc.) are still going strong because they haven't been beaten by decades
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by Seirdy 6y ago
There's also https://i.reddit.com for mobile. I personally prefer using the reddio [0] CLI and tuir [1] TUI for Reddit on the desktop. Ultimately, the best Reddit experience is less Reddit. [0]: https://gitlab.co
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by Seirdy 6y ago
You might be interested in feed2maildir [1], which saves feeds in maildir format so you can use all your favorite mail clients and index with notmuch. That way, you aren't dependent on another centralized privacy-invasive proprietary S
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by Seirdy 6y ago
This is a classic example of how meeting corporate expectations of a software developer isn't the same thing as being a good software developer. You aren't paid to make good software; you're being paid to make an ROI. That be
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by Seirdy 6y ago
It could be the case if AMP grows dominant; given the market share of Google Search, it could be enough to create a controlled (er, "curated") web in a similar spirit.
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"Senpai" means senior/superior (e.g., "Senpai Dev"). A better honorific would be "dono".
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Being able to inspect the code is a necessary but insufficient measure for being secure. If you cannot inspect the source code, you are not fully aware of how the program works. Tools like strace can help you analyze a program's behavi
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Flatpak has done this better than iOS has. - Completely FOSS stack - Uses multiple repositories (no lock-in) - Everything is sandboxed with Bubblewrap - Fine-grained permission control that offers more than iOS: control whether apps can acc
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Almost each of the non-macOS tools was once used daily by me, but I've since switched to even better ones in some/all use-cases. zsh + zinit [0] + powerlevel10k [1] > fish + starship. Powerlevel10k and zinit make prompt initial
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Solution: replace MLA requirements with an HTML form that accepts plain text. Teach students how to click the BibTeX link on Google Scholar, and how copy/paste works. Now they can submit their papers and citations.
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Plenty of middle schoolers can handle Reddit commenting just fine. I know I wasn't the only person in high school writing essays in Neovim with Pandoc. A friend and I would do our peer reviews in English by diffing our papers. Markdown
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by Seirdy 6y ago
PyCharm is an open-core editor. The FOSS edition is a second-class citizen. I make a point not to run any proprietary software on my machine besides occasional whitelisted JS, firmware, and patent-encumbered media codecs (which still have f
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by Seirdy 6y ago
Check out the (sadly inactive) Node9 operating system [0]. > Node9 is a hosted 64-bit operating system based on Bell Lab's Inferno OS, but using the Lua scripting language instead of Limbo and the LuaJIT high performance virtual mac
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by Seirdy 6y ago
net7-client[0] is the reference implementation for doing speed tests with Measurement Lab, which is also behind the speed test widget in Google search results for the "speed test" query. SpeedTest[1] is an alternative to speedtest
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by Seirdy 6y ago
This is excellent. The great thing about Sourcehut is that if you have extra git remotes, you can keep working like nothing ever happened if the site goes down. Issues and patches are decentralized over email. The Project Hub looks like an
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The changes I actually noticed: new versions of `zsh`, `curl`, Python, GCC, LLVM, kernel, and dnf. If you arent' using rolling modules, then you'll get a much newer version of Sway as well. The new version of DNF features colored
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by Seirdy 6y ago
If you have multiple remotes, then downtime quickly becomes a non-issue. As long as at least one remote is up, you can keep pushing and fetching. I wrote about mirroring in another comment [2]: > I put together a script [0] to automate t
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by Seirdy 6y ago
> I'm surprised nobody has thought of this sooner Firefox already has a Responsive Design Mode [0] that does this, but for one pane. Combine that with a tiling window manager and you get everything except the pane mirroring without
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by Seirdy 7y ago
If you think others might be interested in helping out, creating+seeding a torrent and pinging r/DataHoarder [0] is one of the most effective ways of getting redundancy for large amounts data. It's a subreddit for people who have
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by Seirdy 7y ago
On a smaller scale, you could do what Low Tech Magazine [0] does and actually have downtime when sunlight is low. Since this doesn't happen too often and users can just save articles (with RSS, email newsletters, etc.), websites like t
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by Seirdy 7y ago
All my scripts are in one directory [0] that's added to the front of my $PATH [1]; listing files in it would be trivial. The author's solution does seem much better; I just use my approach instead because I don't like the fee

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