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by rapnie 3y ago
+1 for hedgedoc. Only weird thing missing is an admin interface and easy way to check if no one is abusing any of those forgotten public pads that are hanging about.
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by rapnie 3y ago
Thank you! I already bumped into the virus lounge, with their TVIX project [0] that I found quite interesting. [0] https://code.tvl.fyi/about/tvix
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by rapnie 3y ago
Newcomer here. Could anyone tell if std [0] is a good way to bring more sanity into flake design, esp. in avoiding ivory towery custom approaches? Using devenv.sh is another option, but I liked emphasis on creating a common mental picture o
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by rapnie 3y ago
I have two pre-WWII Gispen chairs with thick foam seats, and only recently (last couple years) they started to dry out (become 'crispy' at the top surface). I suspect it is because I am not actively using them anymore, rather than
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by rapnie 3y ago
Agreed on the experience, hard to onboard. I looked at devenv.sh as easier way to get going. Implemented all with Nix, less lock-in. Just found std [0] and that looks quite promising too. [0] https://std.divnix.com/
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by rapnie 3y ago
It is text taken from a popular cartoon [0], with some stuff added by the OP. [0] https://ifunny.co/picture/yes-the-planet-got-destroyed-but-f...
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European Climate Risk Assessment(eea.europa.eu)
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by rapnie 3y ago
I often see similar sentiments expressed, and then I wonder if they come from a different Matrix world than mine. Matrix is my primary chat, using daily. I'm in 100's of chatrooms hosted on federated servers (to be fair many on ma
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by rapnie 3y ago
Tim Bray does not emphasize or advocate an unwillingness to pay, just seeking reasonable price point vs. aspects that make him uncomfortable (the data harvesting). Which will differ for everyone depending on their financial means. If you ca
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The De-Google Project(tbray.org)
47 points by rapnie 3y ago|14 comments
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by rapnie 3y ago
It is a curated collection of their own portfolio looks like. You can see it when doing "view source" on them.
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by rapnie 3y ago
I recently found Nex in the context of Wasmcloud [0] and ability for it to support long-running tasks/workflows. Impression that indeed Nex needs a good time to mature still. There was also a talk [1] about using Temporal here. For Hat
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by rapnie 3y ago
This article reminded me of a recent item on Dutch national news, about an artificial pancreas device for diabetis type 1 sufferers. https://www.dutchnews.nl/2024/03/artificial-pancreas-offers-...
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by rapnie 3y ago
It is a bit tangential, but this article [0] by Baldur Bjarnason sheds a light on the EU's perspective in crafting regulations such as the DMA, and how that seems to be largely misunderstood by the big US tech companies. [0] https:&#x
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by rapnie 3y ago
Curious as well. Searching around I found this documentation on their ecosystem [0], which may shed some light on the organization structure. It may be they are organized as a DAO? From the intro: > Radworks is a community dedicated to c
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by rapnie 3y ago
Much less so than Amazon and Amazon, Meta and meta, and Threads and threads.
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by rapnie 3y ago
Extensions, importing, linking? If your (A)GPL licensed app has a plugin framework, does that 'infect' all the plugins to be similarly licensed? There's likely different situations here, or no? Like e.g. Hashicorp go-plugin w
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by rapnie 3y ago
And hopefully now we keep going on the (still slow) uptake on the local-first software [0] paradigm. [0] https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
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The Staggering Ecological Impacts of Computation and the Cloud(thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
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by rapnie 3y ago
This can be a good approach, and indeed pragmatic. I wonder how your experience will be on the longer term wrt partioning the community, as each tool introduced adds frictions and maintenance burdens. Would people flock to the lowest fricti
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by rapnie 3y ago
Before striving for market share and leadership, there's product-market fit. The ambitions of FOSS projects needn't be (and often aren't) to become a leader. Offering a good alternative to some proprietary product is already
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by rapnie 3y ago
Maybe. But I wonder how much of a healthy community collapses when you are forced to make a switch from, say, Discord to some alternative tool. Building and maintaining healthy communities requires tremendous amount of effort, especially wh
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by rapnie 3y ago
> It is a valid point, but you are not necessarily required to use such tools (I deliberately don't use them, due to these problems). Yes, it is very prudent if you are considerate like that, and you mitigate the risks of lock-in th
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by rapnie 3y ago
It is understandable, since the majority of FOSS enthusiasts consist of developers, techie folks. An audience of power users that indeed have different preferences for their UX. There's a lack of people involved in FOSS projects (e.g.
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by rapnie 3y ago
It is true that highest quality FOSS is found at the level of libraries and frameworks, not on the end-user app level. There's still a lot to win by improving the practices on this level, which require more than pure technical focus. A
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by rapnie 3y ago
That's different. These OS'es are more bottom of the stack. Below that they run on proprietary firmware, even Linux.
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by rapnie 3y ago
> I agree with what it says; however, using Discord is even worse than using GitHub, since GitHub is a git-based service which others I think Github is worse. The pervasiveness of this centralized platform leads to a way more insidious f
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by rapnie 3y ago
If use is the only thing you do it may contribute to the Tragedy of the Commons and you undermine FOSS. If you also contribute back in some ways, even for very practical purposes, you are also serving the higher philosophical principle of
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by rapnie 3y ago
Exactly, ones convenient choice undermines and erodes collective freedoms. In FOSS you 'vote' with your choices. In an analogy with politics this lack of consideration of freedoms and values, and applying of critical thinking may
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by rapnie 3y ago
> However, they all have a similar problem. There's almost no one except bored tech people on them. In the case of Mastodon this very much depends how you 'build' your personal timeline. It is empty at the start, and you h

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