TheBrokenRail

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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
It's always weird when something like part of Google goes down. I just don't expect it because of how massive Google is and how much money they put into their site running reliably. I guess it's interesting to be reminded tha
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
I came into this article expecting to disagree with it... but the author actually makes a lot of good points. It's nice to see an acknowledgment that crypto is simultaneously useful (and actually pretty cool) but also not a magic solut
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Everyone uses Google Play because it's convenient. But as a notable example, Fortnite refused to use Google Play for a while precisely because of that 30% fee, and it worked out pretty well for them. Eventually they gave in and put For
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Apple has a lot of things going for it, but let's not pretend they're perfect and anyone who doesn't use their products is unreasonable. iOS still doesn't allow you to sideload without shenanigans (requiring your to not
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Apple doing what they do is the main reason I will never buy an iPhone. It's my phone and I should be able to install whatever I want on it.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
While it's obviously bad that people are making malware with this key, I do wonder if there could be a silver lining. Samsung and Google lock a lot of cool permissions behind system apps. I wonder if you could use this key to sign you
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> there is a single executive who cannot be held accountable I mean, they can be held accountable. That's what law enforcement is for, to hold these people and firms accountable.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Having a mental health crisis should not mean that you're free of consequences. It's not like random people are driving up to their house to harass them, they're reporting them to a regulatory body who will investigate themse
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Yeah, GitHub definitely has its issues. But I can be fairly certain that GitHub's CEO isn't going to suddenly go AWOL and have GitHub lose all funding.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
I'm excited to try again this year! Last year, I only got 7 days done before getting distracted because of how crazy December is.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
While the seeming lack of communication from the Gitea owners (see the Gitea open letter) is a bit worrying, it does seem a bit premature to fork and potentially fragment the community before they've actually done anything.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
While those are funny, I'd hate using a compiler that actually gave me error messages like that.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> Only if the server has been boosted enough to allow for it. Boosts = paying money. This just isn't true. I'm on a server which has never been boosted and I can scroll back all the way to the server's creation with no lim
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
This just isn't true. I'm on a server which has never been boosted and I can scroll back all the way to the server's creation with no limits.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> For limited definitions of 'preserves' if you aren't a paying user. What do you mean by this? I don't pay for Discord and I have never had any issues scrolling as far back as I want to. > Not really, you can&#x27
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
This was a much better (and more accurate) description of my complaints about Matrix's permissions system. Thanks!
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
The issue I have with Matrix/IRC/IRCv3 compared to Discord is that they don't really work well with public communities. Discord's server/channel/role system is amazing, and I don't know why everyone else i
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
This is so silly. You hear about how entropy always increases.. and you response is to make it increase faster? All to spite a theoretical simulation creator? Sorry, but I don't want to kill the universe, that I live in mind you, out o
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> I'm just wary about restarting the server because I haven't setup a way to be able to reboot without losing the websockets Wait what. Not being able to safely restart the server sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
At least on Android you can install alternate app stores like F-Droid. All you have to do is allow apps to be installed from unknown sources. If you use Apple, you're just out of luck unless you want to mess with whatever hacky workaro
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GitHub's New Code Search and Code View (Beta)(github.com)
2 points by TheBrokenRail 4y ago|0 comments
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Given just how important content is to streaming services and Netflix's reputation for canceling good shows, this doesn't seem that surprising to me. Especially since rather than focusing on content, Netflix is instead focusing on
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Paramount+ also allows you to this.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
100% this! There doesn't seem to be many general servers that: 1. I can trust won't just shut down in a week. 2. Are accepting signups 3. And won't end up having a negative stigma a in year when the creator goes off a deep en
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> sudo make install Even ignoring security issues, all of make getting elevated privileges can cause other issues as well. All it takes is the incremental build system being a little finicky, and "sudo make install" could rebui
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> sudo is almost 150k lines of code I'd argue that's (at least part of) the problem. More code = more surface area for bugs, and sudo has a lot of code.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
> EDIT: Oops, apparently Alpine added that This seems like a really weird thing for a distro to add themselves rather than upstream.
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
Seriously, why is sudo so complicated? Most of the time, all sudo has to do is hash a password, check that hash against a file, and if successful, run a program as root. Why can't we just have a minimal version of sudo that does just t
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by TheBrokenRail 4y ago
For me this is a benefit, GitHub's UI in my opinion is really good and I'm glad I don't have to learn a new one for Gitea. Whenever I need to report a bug on a GitLab instance, its UI is a big source of friction (especially s
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Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea(blog.gitea.io)
157 points by TheBrokenRail 4y ago|182 comments

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