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by aaravchen 1y ago
After years of working with Ubuntu on desktops and servers, I can tell you that for a server Ubuntu will probably always be the wrong choice. Ubuntu seems to find it necessary to always invent some new way of doing a standard thing. Like ho
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by aaravchen 1y ago
dpkg grew knowledge of Source lists suddenly? If you're installing software from Debian/Ubuntu repos, you can only use aptitude or apt to my knowledge. Other tools give you the ability to install DEB files you already have, and ma
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by aaravchen 1y ago
Not sure what OP was referring to, but snaps are indeed a ridiculous problem. There's no control of when snaps update, Ubuntu has explicitly said they will never add this. There was no way to disable snap auto-updates until just last y
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by aaravchen 1y ago
I just had to use Slack again after 6 years, and it's incredible how much worse its gotten. Honestly I don't know how they managed to make an industry leading tool actively worse by so much that its now _worse_ than Teams. Feature
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by aaravchen 1y ago
The stream of consciousness posts is my pet peeve. A lot of open source projects insist on using Telegram or Matrix instead of an issue tracker or forum and have the same problem. If you want to spend 90% of your time answering the same que
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by aaravchen 2y ago
Hmm, we must have very different sets of apps. I had a number of issues with common apps working properly on GrapheneOS, even with Google Apps installed. Also, Location Services never really worked, because there seemed to be no inserted al
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by aaravchen 2y ago
The linked poetry Issue is pretty understandable why they aren't going to support it. I've honestly never heard of any dependency resolver that allows you to dynamically inject an override of a package's built in specificatio
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by aaravchen 2y ago
A big thing that trips people up until they try to use a public project (from source) or an older project, is the concept of a dependencies file and a lock file. The dependency file (what requirements.txt is supposed to be), just documents
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by aaravchen 2y ago
This appears to either be a wrapper around an incomplete minimal subset of git commands (with git-lfs also included) focused only on the standard feature-branch trunk-based development workflow, or an unecessary rewrite of an inciplete subs
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by aaravchen 2y ago
~~Nice addition of a link that doesn't exist in the actual "quoted" source. If it did exist it would certainly be helpful though, so thanks for adding it I guess.~~ EDIT: Apparently their website design is just so poor their
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by aaravchen 2y ago
I've never heard of the `@/path/to/file` convention, nor ever seen anything that documented using or supporting it. Do you have any examples of tools that do use it (maybe I've just never seen it in the documentatio
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by aaravchen 2y ago
In most practices I've seen, >=128 is reserved because it uses a special bit flag, and fixed codes 64-127 are reserved. But <64 is treated as a free-for-all. Most people are only using existing code 1, but if you have a reason to
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by aaravchen 2y ago
I thought the same, and still get annoyed when I get "no results" back, but almost every time when I then try to use Google I get nothing but totally inapplicable results I had to sort thru. Google made the news a number of years
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by aaravchen 2y ago
Jack invested to get BlueSky moving, and his company has been a major investor since the beginning. He also invested in Nostr. Only just this last week did his company divest from a lot of their social media stuff and invest in Crypto inste
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by aaravchen 2y ago
Realistically there's no benefit to this. Why should the government(s) have to be on social media at all? They're just looking for a broadcast channel, not crowd feedback or interaction, especially not ownership of that public rea
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by aaravchen 2y ago
Mastodon has done a lot to clarify their branding, and most of the tooling is a lot smoother now in terms of asking for your home server for you to log in when you click Follow on someone's profile. However it is fundamentally flawed f
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by aaravchen 2y ago
It took me a number of years of working with git to realize it really really wants you to squash things. Especially if you're sharing branches. git lets you create as complicated a commit tree as you want, and lets you do merges so yo
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by aaravchen 2y ago
Actually you can't. Just like on iOS, researchers found that some of the deeply integrated Google system apps intentionally bypass the VPN. The VPN will reduce which ones report directly, but not eliminate many for the critical ones.
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by aaravchen 2y ago
Nice table, though a couple of the things are a bit out of date on Calyx, and Divest depends a lot on which device you're talking about. I'm assuming you're a GrapheneOS proponent, because I noticed you rarely used "Goog
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by aaravchen 2y ago
A more accurate drill down on the analogy would be that we don't know the exact length of the dog' leash either, but we do know what the limits of it are. We know it's not a 1 km leash, but the "uncertainty around the ed
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by aaravchen 2y ago
Under the "What happens when Apps only mode is on" heading, it clarifies that it only removes recommendations, not ads. > In Apps only mode, you don't get personalized recommendations on your home screen. You’ll find a lis
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by aaravchen 2y ago
It's a pretty solid sign of an inexperienced developer when they think UTC needs to always be listed as the timezone. Most people with more experience know that if there's no timezone attached it should always be populated in, and
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by aaravchen 2y ago
That was my thinking too, until I started looking into them again more recently. They're now basically distributing variant alternatives of Fedora that usually have far better implementation and design choices, but mostly use the same
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by aaravchen 2y ago
That is the exact reason Discord isn't sufficient. I've had to support enough projects as a maintainer to know that you will always get hammered with the stupidest questions and the same questions all the time. The less you have t
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by aaravchen 2y ago
I'm guessing you don't interact with the development community very much then? Almost every open source project I encounter at least has a Discord server, it's the new easier and more accessible version of "find me on IR
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by aaravchen 2y ago
Reddit has become almost defunct in my experience, onky useful as a historical reference since virtually no new content is getting added to it for anything I follow, use, or have interest in. The alternatives mostly aren't, they either
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by aaravchen 2y ago
I work for an FDA regulated company and I presume the handling of complaints is handled similarly. Cases like this fall into a weird regulatory case. If a problem is identified by someone internal before it rises to a certain level of risk,
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by aaravchen 2y ago
Correction: one giving away beer with a little bit of arsenic in it. Which they have slowly been increasing as people build a bit of a tolerance to it.
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by aaravchen 2y ago
I used to use open SearXNG instances, but the results still have all the inapplicable garbage in them that I can't filter out. And the results are often incredibly slow. I switched to Kagi because it gave me better results from the get
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by aaravchen 2y ago
I don't pay them to develop AI. Just like I don't pay Google to develop their ad business. I pay Kagi for search that I use (and Google for limited cloud storage) and what they do with that money is up to them.

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