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by pkulak 4y ago
Then host your own instance. Your definition of "centralized" as "optionally requiring any trust at all" is pretty broad, and sweeps up even email.
872.
by pkulak 4y ago
Only if you started programming in Go. I've never in my life heard of another project that by default seeds with 0. That's insane. EDIT: Okay, C and a bunch of other languages I don't use. Keep the roasts coming, guys. :D
873.
by pkulak 4y ago
Oh, you can still have fun. Just run something that's not a a full DE. My Sway setup is super stable now, but only after an ungodly amount of tinkering. :D
874.
by pkulak 4y ago
Yeah, didn't want to sound like a shill, but Dx0 is so good I run it in a virtual machine on my Linux box. It's "Deep Prime" noise reduction thing is what I was talking about. There are others, even some stand alone, but
875.
by pkulak 4y ago
I'd argue it's wide suburban streets that encourage high speed driving. The road I live on is not wide enough for two cars to pass each other if there are also cars parked on each side, and driving even 20mph feels way too fast. B
876.
by pkulak 4y ago
I've got an Olympus M43 camera, which has an image sensor that's both significantly smaller than full frame, and significantly larger than a phone. I've found that I can do absolutely amazing things to the RAW image later. Th
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by pkulak 4y ago
I just discovered Chezmoi last week. For years I thought I was fine manually symlinking into a repo. Boy was I wrong! Thank you for the wonderful project.
878.
by pkulak 4y ago
You have a very odd definition of a general purpose language. All the functional ones are out, because immutability doesn’t let you mutate through any pointer.
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by pkulak 4y ago
I’ve done some stuff in C and C++, and Rust is the one that made sense and I stuck with. It’s by far the easiest systems language I’ve ever used. Also, this seems like a classic “Arch, btw” sentiment. Where you hear it over and over and ove
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by pkulak 4y ago
They do say it’s more of a port than a rewrite. They aren’t trying to do everything a new way this time around. That’s usually the downfall of a rewrite. I’ve done these kinds of ports before. After you get used to it, you can almost shut y
881.
by pkulak 4y ago
I wonder if you could use a fuel cell to get power from the hydrogen you'd otherwise vent.
882.
by pkulak 4y ago
With Linux, the word "immutable" (in the context of a file system) doesn't ever actually mean it can't be changed. Here's it explained better than I ever could: https://blog.verbum.org/2020/08&#
883.
by pkulak 4y ago
Anyone know how the immutability is handled? I've seen OSTree, btrfs snapshots, and partition swapping in the wild; very interested to know the take here.
884.
by pkulak 4y ago
I just bought a used laptop on impulse last week, and it still has no home. It's driving me nuts. It's sitting next to me right now. And because it's pre-usb-c, the charger needs a home too. I have about 30 large bins in the
885.
by pkulak 4y ago
Because that is _very_ latency sensitive, not throughput sensitive.
886.
by pkulak 4y ago
If reference counting was faster, Java would do it. It’s better for UIs and lower latency, but a modern, generational GC can beat C in throughput (because allocations get a lot faster).
887.
by pkulak 4y ago
I really like how they have their own Mastadon instance. That's better than any "blue checkmark" ever could be. Wondering if @ivory@tapbots.social is the real Ivory app account? Well... the domain is company domain! A cool bu
888.
by pkulak 4y ago
I've been successfully using their iMessage bridge for my personal server for about a year now. It's very nice to use iMessage on my Linux machines, since that's the chat network everyone around me has decided to use.
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by pkulak 4y ago
The implication that riding a bike puts you at higher risk of head injury than any other moderate activity is precisely what I take issue with. I'd bet good money that showering, walking up stairs, and even driving a car are all at lea
890.
by pkulak 4y ago
But by that logic we should always wear helmets. You're always at some risk of head injury.
891.
by pkulak 4y ago
Unless you go absolutely ham with smart pointers (which everyone knows not to do if you care about performance), C++ isn’t really a reference counting language. I wouldn’t call RAII “reference counting”. I mean, I guess, but it’s the progra
892.
by pkulak 4y ago
I don't know if you can write high-throughput systems with 100% reference counted GC. Swift is targeted at UI work pretty hard.
893.
by pkulak 4y ago
Swift is great because it's the only alternative to Objective C. I don't really think anyone is clamoring for it to move into non-Apple domains.
894.
by pkulak 4y ago
This is all well and good, but for me, it's not SMS. No one uses SMS. It's iMessage. And iMessage is absolutely more secure than Telegram, and probably even Whatsapp, so all these arguments fall flat for me. Personally, I hate iMe
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by pkulak 4y ago
We need to track it in the US now because we _used_ to track it. If you spend 400 years tracking ethnicity to use for systematized oppression, you have to continue to record it for at least the next few generations just to measure your prog
896.
by pkulak 4y ago
The cost is too high. And there’s nothing brutal about quickly stopping an unwanted, unsolicited, bad-faith interaction. Every person on the planet isn’t automatically entitled to my time.
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by pkulak 4y ago
Wow! Never knew that existed. If I can undo 20 years of muscle memory, I'll use it. :D EDIT: Just tried it, and Z being right next to Shift is a deal breaker.
898.
by pkulak 4y ago
Same. Been using :x for about 20 years. Had no idea there was some similar encryption nonsense.
899.
by pkulak 4y ago
I use :x cus it's one less keystroke. And yes, I still use :q to make sure I don't save in case I changed something by mistake.
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by pkulak 4y ago
I bought a used Dell office PC from FreeGeek for about 100 bucks, then installed Proxmox on it with Portainer. Now I've got a place to put all my crap that isn't AWS, which is not only easier, but faster, and way cheaper.

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