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What's Cooking on Sourcehut?(sourcehut.org)
4 points by ddevault 5y ago|5 comments
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by ddevault 5y ago
I don't have any specific experience with Matrix to share suggestions from, unfortunately. But that's a good solution! Thanks for looking into it.
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by ddevault 5y ago
A CI is made out of code and configuration files and policies which can also be screwed up. Using CI can be helpful but it won't save you from these kinds of mistakes.
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by ddevault 5y ago
Hi Alex! Please, please, please do not use Discord to organize your open source project's community. Open source projects should rely on open source infrastructure. Discord is a proprietary platform, with a proprietary client, using a
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by ddevault 5y ago
Correct.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Hm, weird. I had grepped for "link" et al just to make sure I didn't miss it. My bad.
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by ddevault 6y ago
This article does not answer the only question I had: where does it go? My phone cannot scan any of these pictures.
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What is a fork, and how GitHub changed its meaning (2019)(drewdevault.com)
2 points by ddevault 6y ago|0 comments
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by ddevault 6y ago
Dude, just use Linux.
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by ddevault 6y ago
In either case, it's a bad title. It should be rewritten to avoid clickbait. Edit: sigh. To quote the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please use the original title, unless it is mislea
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by ddevault 6y ago
If nothing else it serves to signal that your website doesn't want in on Google's bullshit.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Ads considered harmful. Don't let random companies spy on and mindhack your readers. It devalues your reputation and is not a humane way to treat people.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Aye, my condolances to anyone on Teams who will have to deal with annoying Matrix users. Their client has been a major nuisance to IRC.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Coming in late, but sr.ht also differs from RedisLabs in the sense that sr.ht is 100% FLOSS, no strings attached - and RedisLabs publishes a lot of source-available (i.e. nonfree) software.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Hacker News gets it most wrong with the flagging system, which is ripe for abuse (and is constantly abused). I sent this to dang some time ago, and was met with a muted response: I realized something interesting the other day - users gain a
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by ddevault 6y ago
Bitcoin is an enormously wasteful ponzi scheme mind virus and YC should be ashamed of their involvement in it - not proud. I long for the day (which it seems may come soon!) when cryptocurrencies are outlawed and we can all move on with our
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by ddevault 6y ago
Gold is also the most reasonable element to use as a store of value. It isn't very reactive or radioactive, so it's stable for long periods of time, it's a solid at room temperature, it's not hazardous to human health, i
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by ddevault 6y ago
Though it's not entirely in the spirit of the HN guidelines, I find it reasonble to flag dangerous content. I've done so for this post, and I would advise onlookers to do the same.
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The Developer Certificate of Origin is a great alternative to a CLA(drewdevault.com)
11 points by ddevault 6y ago|4 comments
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by ddevault 6y ago
I'm happy to see a couple of good choices made here: - Sticking with Apache 2.0 - Asking for a Developer Certificate-of-Origin rather than a copyright assignment This bodes well for the future of this fork. Amazon also has the resource
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by ddevault 6y ago
>I'm not an economist The last thing we need is the insights of an economist when it comes to solutions to climate change. It's thanks to economists that we're still dealing with the problem in the first place!
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by ddevault 6y ago
dvtm is very good in principle, but in practice its terminal emulation leaves a lot to be desired. I would love to see someone refactor it to use, say, libvterm as the terminal backend.
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by ddevault 6y ago
The Signal outage was SIX DAYS?
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by ddevault 6y ago
Matrix being slow has a lot more to do with their crappy implementation than it has to do with the nature of a federated network.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Threema does not have federation, therefore it suffers from the same fundamental design flaw which allows Signal to abuse its position like this.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Let's stop making the same mistake over and over again. It is centralized, not federated, and therefore Threema is likely to suffer the same fate.
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by ddevault 6y ago
Moxie has a history of being an asshole to anyone trying to make a third-party client. They're prohibited from using the OWS servers, which do not federate (so they couldn't talk to Signal users), and Moxie has attacked third-part
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by ddevault 6y ago
Prison is not a free market and is not subject to market efficiencies. The purpose is to extract the maximum possible value from human suffering. They do this by charging them obscene prices for every basic necessity, double charging the go
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by ddevault 6y ago
Yikes. https://www.notion.so/Privacy-Policy-cd4b415950204a46819478b...
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by ddevault 6y ago
At least OFTC and Rizon are also still going strong, in addition to Freenode. There are also many private IRC networks which serve smaller communities and have not seen much in the way of stagnation.

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