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by ezst 1y ago
see my sibling comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45479690 tl;dr you lose some semantic (and practical capabilities, UX and effectiveness) when you don't capture branch information at commit-level
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by ezst 1y ago
Before git abused the terminology, a branch used to refer to a long-lived/persistent commit lineage, most often implemented as a commit-level flag/attribute, OTOH, git branches are pointers to one single commit (with the git UI te
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by ezst 1y ago
Dev UX is only good in that we regressed to the point that there's not much left but Web, and that's what the majority of devs know as a result. The Dev UX of the Web is pretty bad, though, compared to past and present alternative
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by ezst 1y ago
That's why I skip the Signal intermediate stage plain and simple: once Signal inevitably enshittifies (a property of centralised services), the people you painfully brought there will no longer kindly listen to you when, lesson learned
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by ezst 1y ago
That's the kind of "compelling in theory, irrelevant in practice" comment I would make if I had no/obsolete experience with XMPP. It just works, with a healthy and thriving ecosystem of compatible client/server impl
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by ezst 1y ago
> For many of them, each branch has taken of its own life and could be considered its own completely different codebase. Seems you have bigger process issues to tackle. There's nothing inherently wrong with having per-env branches (
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by ezst 1y ago
Signal don't want you to build 3rd party clients and integrations, they are another fully centralised product meant to capture and lock users into what signal believes is better for them. That's the whole "we love opensource
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by ezst 1y ago
> I'm still hopeful for matrix to become easier to deploy and easier to use, as it has real potential. I mean, I'm admittedly biased here, but the "easy to deploy, $10 shared host IM" already exists and is XMPP. Matri
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by ezst 1y ago
I admire your perseverance, I gave up on Matrix personally. When was the last time you had a shot at XMPP? Have you tried ejabberd? That's probably one of the most "fire and forget" services I sysadmin, and it does everything
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by ezst 1y ago
> I wish it were easier to be a Synapse admin! It seems like all server updates are focused on scaling matrix.org and the little guys that provide network diversity are not really being considered a priority. Matrix is a product of ventu
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by ezst 1y ago
I second the sibling comment recommending XMPP. Take a mature server like ejabberd, set up your DNS and firewall, and you are good to go. Easy, secure, extremely reliable and scalable. Matrix problem statement/what it set to do differe
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by ezst 1y ago
You are the best kind of correct since "many" can refer to some large number that is also insignificant. The pro-European sentiment is vastly dominant, though, and that's what matters.
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by ezst 1y ago
Seems heavily inspired by MSTeams
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by ezst 1y ago
Yeah, no. I lost hope that they have any idea of what they are doing, or any willingness to improve and drop out of the sunk cost fallacy that paralyses them. Every two years or so they break protocol and implementations with big promises t
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by ezst 1y ago
Following your argument we should just outright reject progress because, for the most part, humanity has been really really shitty. Also, how much thought did you put into it before writing that this type of society isn't sustainable?
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by ezst 1y ago
> Many people in Europe don't want the EU Those things Americans say about the rest of the world...
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by ezst 1y ago
Yeah, for the record my yakuake is maximized both horizontally and vertically so it looks and feels like a full-screen term :-)
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by ezst 1y ago
This, so much. Not the UK, but another western-European country that has slowly succumbed to right-wing rhetoric and fear-mongering. There, legal immigration has continuously been a boon to the economy, but each politician having had to &qu
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by ezst 1y ago
Why would you think that yakuake is limited to one-off commands? It has tabs, and splits/tiling, it gets in and out of the way seamlessly. What would a dedicated terminal add to it?
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by ezst 1y ago
I use yakuake for everything, I don't know what I would be missing out from a dedicated term: yakuake has tabs, and splits/tiling, so the entirety of my terminal needs are covered in one convenient and easily accessible place :-)
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by ezst 1y ago
Who needs konsole when you can have yakuake?
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by ezst 1y ago
You only really have two options there: - a system of lords and peasants, where the lords are held accountable and kept in check by the peasants, as the social contract obliges, or - a system of lords and peasants, with no checks and balanc
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by ezst 1y ago
Or, you know, socialize risks, socialise profits. I don't know why we would have to put up with this abuse and corruption any longer.
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by ezst 1y ago
You should fix your model of governance, because by that measure, any hope for progress is futile. The simple fact that we were better a few decades ago should be comforting. Enough of the shirt term profiteering sociopaths running the show
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by ezst 1y ago
> As I said, there is something here beyond just aesthetics. And one of the conclusions may be that our current UI/UX philosophy has inadvertantly become user-hostile. It's almost like, "marketing", itself, as a conce
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by ezst 1y ago
Isn't that to store energy as heat so you don't produce it by other means during winter? Seems to address a specific class of storage needs
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by ezst 1y ago
> Europe relies way too much on US companies What annoys me to no end is the temporal amnesia there is to this. Sure, yeah, true, cloud providers are practically an American cartel at this point in time. But cloud itself is a fairly nove
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by ezst 1y ago
Some time ago I realised how vulnerable I was keeping all my TOTPs in Authenticator __only__, in the event of losing/breaking my device (and no, there is no way I would sync them to Google cloud). This taught me few things: - there isn
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by ezst 1y ago
Thanks for clarifying, it seems analogous to having a physical mouse button, then (except that the haptic feedback is simulated, which strangely isn't off-putting to most, I've personally always felt the sensation uncanny)
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by ezst 1y ago
Just for me to understand, you navigate to that thing you want to drag, then press harder (without the double-tap+move in short sequence, do there's that), and that registers a drag event? Could you do the "press harder" part

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