Sir_Cmpwn

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An old-school shell hack on a line printer(drewdevault.com)
4 points by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago|1 comments
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
Yes, it was. Thanks, I edited it.
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
Thanks! That context is sorely needed in their web channels.
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
I don't understand, what changed? This was last updated on the 24th. They said they'll be re-evaluating it and returning later, but afaict they haven't made any statements about a blanket cancellation of the telemetry roll-ou
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
Something similar to pull requests is being worked on. I summarized this on Reddit recently: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dmkzgv/gitlab_... There's already a ticket tracker. HTML em
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
There's just one rule which does it for me: Thanks for your bug report! The next step is to submit a patch fixing the bug. If you need help, ask questions in our chat room at...
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
I generally use my blog to announce new projects: https://drewdevault.com I'd been talking about SourceHut here and there in passing in various blog posts, and reaching out to people to invite them to a private alpha in the
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
The same reason I start all of my projects: it didn't exist and I thought it ought to, so I made it.
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
There are lots and lots of reasons, but one advantage that comes to mind is that you're entirely in control of the data, you can just take your mail spool and leave for greener pastures whenever you want. You don't even need an ex
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
Less so in SourceHut's case, where all of the prices are basically arbitrary and the financials are public.
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
These are two of the major unsolved problems blocking the graduation of alpha to beta. The latter problem falls under single-sign-on, and the former problem falls under the project hub milestone. Rest assured, both are known and going to be
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
PGP mail seems to work afaict. Make sure your key is up-to-date, I might have edited it at some point to remove the expiration date.
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
There's a summary of what the alpha status entails here: https://sourcehut.org/alpha-details/ And a longer explanation is coming in two weeks, for the anniversary of the public alpha's commencement.
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
Will keep this in mind for the next one, cheers.
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
Thanks!
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
Heh, I wish.
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
There's also a book based on this quote by the legendary Terry Pratchett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_Times
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
SourceHut is on different infrastructure than my personal Mastodon instance, it can take a lot more heat :)
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
Regarding that screenshot of GitLab: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/linux/tree/master/arch/arm/boot/...
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
I don't have a reply for most of your comment, but with respect to this part: >If that is the situation, where does SourceHut stand? The site makes little sense to me. The URL is sourcehut.org, but there is no statement about it bei
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
My Mastodon is being hugged to death, so here's the content: @sir@cmpwn.com Thanks Gitlab image: https://sr.ht/qAVP.png @sir@cmpwn.com If my competitors keep making stupid decisions then making SourceHut successful wil
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
This is good feedback, but I think the bigger issue is the alpha quality of the service. People who move now will have to be tolerant of some pieces being missing or under-documented, which often means a vote of confidence in the future of
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
This language is the classic "defuse, wait, and try again later" approach to shoeing in unpopular changes. They're still hedging their bets with this language, rather than renouncing the original ideas. Apologising for "
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
Do you mean to imply that VC-driven enterprises cannot be criticised on Hacker News because it's a YCombinator-operated forum? That's ridiculous, the mods go to great lengths to keep their bias away from their work here. That you
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
If you have a grudge then we should really just address it properly rather than bring it up in passive agressive comments in unrelated threads. You can email me at sir@cmpwn.com to discuss it in private or ~sircmpwn/public-inbox@lists.
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
I've always stated that a PR-esque workflow can be built on top of email, rather than replacing an existing system with a new walled garden like GitHub did. SourceHut is all about reaching out to the existing communities, and email i
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
Seems this has been vouched out of its shadowban, so I can reply now. I'm extremely proud to be sponsoring Simon's open source work, and I'm looking forward to sponsoring others. I don't intend to turn SourceHut into an
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
Check out the video here wrt pull requests: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-10-15-whats-cooking-october-... An article next month is going into detail on stability, but the short of it is that if the service meets your
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
You're welcome on SourceHut! Our business model is designed to incentivize us towards the users needs, so adding anti-features to push up a valuation or raise funds from VCs isn't in the cards.
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by Sir_Cmpwn 7y ago
They've gotta support the $2.74B valuation somehow. This is the ultimate fate of all VC-driven end-user businesses, the incentive model puts users well after investors. This problem is why I bootstrapped my business. https:/&#x2F

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