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by akerl_ 3mo ago
> I recently heard that a trip to Popeye's for a family of 3 recently cost $68 in Florida. Does it?
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by akerl_ 3mo ago
We've managed to make the entire corpus of open source software but the thing that's a "Hard Problem" that nobody can find a way to do is making the icons look good? It's almost like it's not a technical challe
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by akerl_ 3mo ago
I mean sure, but if you started talking about google.com as a subdomain, real humans would correctly look at you funny.
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by akerl_ 3mo ago
Are you working on the not-TLD parts in parallel? If you don't get the TLD, do you plan to launch on a more traditional domain? The marketing stuff makes it look like the TLD is your main focus.
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by akerl_ 3mo ago
It just feels a bit like you've decided to solve the hardest possible side quest first. Everything else on your roadmap could have been built and shipped in the universe that exists, and then if down the road it's working, you cou
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by akerl_ 3mo ago
What is the premise for being able to do "one person, one subdomain" that isn't a privacy/security nightmare?
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by akerl_ 3mo ago
Is the point of the site to build reputation, or to share opinions and discuss topics?
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by akerl_ 3mo ago
I'm saying you're driving backwards down the highway, and you're asking how you can read the signs better because they all look blank.
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by akerl_ 3mo ago
It seems impossible that you know the problem is real but don’t know who the right people are to tell about it.
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by akerl_ 3mo ago
How did you decide what to build without knowing who you’d be building it for?
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
You think that users having to find and download software from the Internet at large is both similar to the AUR model and has preferable handling of these issues? Can you elaborate?
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
I think it's clear at this point that the allegations don't worry them. They tried debunking them by pointing out that the overwhelming majority of these are separate daemons that are entirely optional, can be packaged separately,
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
There are also dangers of being on older versions in Debian that rely on maintainers identifying and correctly back porting critical changes. Fwiw the Arch docs are pretty clear that the AUR is a Wild West and that you should be vetting any
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
The AUR is, in my opinion, a pretty convenient selling point if you use any esoteric software. It’s basically like a crowdsourced set of people’s tips and tricks for installing stuff on Arch, all written in the format Arch uses for packages
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Your examples sort of underscore why “assume positive intent” matters a lot for how you engage but not a lot about what you engage on. Working against the feigning surprise thing, if somebody says “oh I don’t know what DNS is”, the problem
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Yay isn’t in the official arch repos? The only way you get stuff from the AUR is by explicitly pulling down to repo and building with makepkg or explicitly finding and installing an AUR “helper”.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
You get a lower risk of them pulling in a bleeding edge vulnerability, but a higher risk that you'll get stuck with an old bug waiting for the maintainer to pull in a patch. Then there's the risk that in their attempt to cherry pi
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
> where packages are more thoroughly reviewed Where are you drawing your conviction that non-rolling-release distro maintainers are doing a more thorough review of upstream changes? > such as TOTP What?
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
It seems like you may have mistakenly inferred that I have issues with the AUR? I don't; I use Arch on 100% of my personal servers, have done so for something approaching 20 years, and don't see myself changing. But I treat the AU
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Gentoo's model appears to be basically the same? Like the AUR, anybody can submit basically anything they want. The requirements amount to containing valid packages, having a bugzilla account, and putting your package definitions in VC
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
AUR isn't just the testing repo of Arch; it's explicitly just an open spot where anybody can put up "here's a PKGBUILD for folks". I don't see how it's like either the Nix or Debian examples.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
Is there another distro that has an equivalent of the AUR with handling you think is preferable?
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
This would ruin my Linear A keycaps!
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
She's not DMing you, is she?
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
With respect, I think you're seeing what you're looking for.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
It's not telling people to assume anything at all.
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
You're the one who's extrapolated that the rule asks you to assume ignorance. The post, and the Recurse Center guidelines it's built on top of, don't make that claim. If I say it's a social guideline to not tell som
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
> It's entirely possible that people can be decent to each other. I know, I know, that's crazy talk This is nearly comical phrasing given the topic of the page. I provided enough context about the specific kind of comment I fou
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
The concept of not feigning surprise may be related to the linked xkcd comic, but I don’t see any indication that it’s the “original”, and I downvoted several comments that seemed keen to steal thunder from the post by trying to frame it as
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by akerl_ 4mo ago
If somebody says something rude to me, why would my reaction be to try to decide if I’m glad they were rude unintentionally?

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