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by noirscape 6mo ago
I decided to look into this (git gc should also be doing this), and I think I figured out why it's such a consistent issue with git in particular. Running git gc does properly pack objects together and reduce inode count to something m
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by noirscape 6mo ago
I can understand in theory why they wouldn't want to back up .git folders as-is. Git has a serious object count bloat problem if you have any repository with a good amount of commit history, which causes a lot of unnecessary overhead i
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by noirscape 6mo ago
The trick is to not overengineer your hobby if you're only doing it to prove a point. ie. Yes, you could run a full on corporate CA, issue SSL certificates for your domains, manually rig up wireguard and run your own internal corporate
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by noirscape 6mo ago
The employee didn't mistreat anyone. She simply stated the procedure (which sucks!). It was OOP that chose to escalate this to malicious compliance and ascribed a lot more to her attitude than what's actually said. OOP assumed tha
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by noirscape 6mo ago
Spoken from the pretty obvious position of never having to have worked a low-wage people facing job. Here's the real situation: the people that pick up the phone when you call them up aren't going to be paid much above minimum wag
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by noirscape 6mo ago
> I never understood why github became a popular place to host your site in the first place. Easy: it was free, it was accessible to people that couldn't spend money for a hosting provider (read: high schoolers) and didn't impo
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by noirscape 6mo ago
Which makes it not really a suitable replacement for GitHub, which is my entire point. Keep in mind, I'm not saying Codeberg is bad , but it's terms of use are pretty clear in the sense that they only really want FOSS and anyone
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by noirscape 6mo ago
From their FAQ: > If you do not contribute to free/libre software (or if it is limited to your personal homepage) , and we feel like you only abuse Codeberg for storing your commercial projects or media backups, we might get unhapp
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by noirscape 6mo ago
I don't dislike Codeberg inherently, but it's not a "true" GitHub replacement. It can handle a good chunk of GitHub repositories (namely those for well established FOSS projects looking to have everything a proper capita
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by noirscape 6mo ago
While the donation banner doesn't seem like an issue to me, the WMF comparison is extremely inappropriate if they want to talk about appropriate means of fundraising. The WMF is notorious for its donation banners making wildly exagge
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by noirscape 7mo ago
I think that may be the first time I've seen licensing drama over something as minor as adding another author to the copyright list. Pretty sure those are completely standard for major changes in maintainers/hostile forks/ack
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by noirscape 7mo ago
Inherently, not really. An expired, self-signed or even incorrect (as in, the wrong domain is listed) certificate can be used to secure a connection just as well as a perfectly valid certificate. Rather, the purpose of all of these systems
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by noirscape 7mo ago
It's probably a bit of both from what I've seen of how Americans tend to react to their government doing things (online anyways). The US's quagmire of incoherent laws and many jurisdictions seems to be a bad combination of: *
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by noirscape 7mo ago
That does sound like there's an exploitable element there isn't it? Statistically speaking, most people use one of the biggest email providers, which use their own models to detect spam (or even quietly drop messages). If you&#x27
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by noirscape 7mo ago
Oh that's awesome. Finally the contradiction of buying Google to avoid Google has been resolved for GOS. I am curious to know how Motorola intents to deal with Google's policies surrounding Android forks, but I'm sure that&#x
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by noirscape 7mo ago
Nobody, because no company is actually pro-customer. Which is fine, the customer and the company's goals don't align beyond "want product" and "supplies product". The problem is that Amazon abuses it's mar
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by noirscape 8mo ago
Well for one, Servo isn't just JavaScript, it's an entire engine. Closer to Blink & Gecko. Secondly, Ladybird wants to be a fourth implementor in the web browsers we have today. Right now there's pretty much three browser
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by noirscape 8mo ago
It's not related to Chinese in specific, but in civilian air traffic, the lingua franca is specifically English[0]. The reason for this is because other languages leave too much room for interpretation. One incident not mentioned in
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by noirscape 8mo ago
Oh that's really cool! I hope it alleviates some pressure on the DERP servers, whenever I notice the connection on tailscale is bad, it's usually because the device is connecting over DERP.
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by noirscape 8mo ago
Given I don't disagree with you about GOS being the best on security, I think there's only one thing really worth mentioning: > The attacks towards us including your libelous claims about us here are what's absurdly toxic.
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by noirscape 8mo ago
GOS creates a complete bunker of a phone that can provide defense against pretty much all but the most dedicated state level actors. If you're worried that someone would steal your phone specifically to target you, Graphene will prot
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by noirscape 8mo ago
It should be possible to redact names from cases for that purpose.
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by noirscape 8mo ago
I think a product focus does exist: Element seems to be a genuine attempt to fully assemble Matrix as one full project. The problem is that it feels like the Element devs are stuck wanting to have their cake and eat it too. There's som
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by noirscape 8mo ago
Basically in the EU, you usually have an ID card (or a passport/driving license/visa card, they're recorded on all of those too) that has a combination of a citizen ID and a document ID. Both of these details are combined con
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by noirscape 8mo ago
Oops, yes, I meant a constant non-zero rate. It's slightly above mobile phones, where the developer is treated as the problem that needs to fix itself. Stuff written for one version of MacOS will probably work for the next few versio
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by noirscape 8mo ago
Wrote about present day reasons to dislike systemd a few days ago on HN, which encompasses most arguments of actual substance[0] (tldr: Unix philosophy, it homogenizes distros and it may be too heavy for some low-resource environments). His
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by noirscape 8mo ago
There's a difference between software that's "done" (it never needs updates, ever) and software that's done (it only needs maintenance for security and platform churn). The former is extremely rare; platform churn a
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by noirscape 8mo ago
Still feels very relevant, since I don't think much has been systematically changed. Structurally, SSL verification is in the same category as stuff like SELinux: most people that interact with it understand why it exists, why it'
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by noirscape 8mo ago
Ignoring the more stupid reasons why people dislike systemd; there's really only three reasons. The first is just the simple fact that most people don't want to administer their distro as a hobby. Similarly, distro maintainers pri
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by noirscape 10mo ago
The spam issue is probably one of the stronger arguments against email centered design for bug trackers, code forges and the like. It's a bit crazy that in order to professionally participate in modern software development, you're

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