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by rollcat 1y ago
Here's my €0.03: I really wish Linux distributions started adopting a similar model to the BSDs. Ship a base system that's minimal but rock solid; stick to LTS kernels, etc. Issue patches/updates for security issues ONLY . S
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by rollcat 1y ago
This is a bit unfortunate. Flatpak is outright just a better tool than Snap. (I've had nightmare stories with Docker-via-Snap.) I do like AppImage better (it's simpler), but there's no equivalent of FlatHub, the discoverabili
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by rollcat 1y ago
Catan is played widely enough that many groups tend to introduce their own house rules[1]. E.g. one of my rules is: rolling 2 is the same as rolling 12, so these hexes are slightly less undesirable. I guess if this really matters, you could
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by rollcat 1y ago
I like it that Apple's Calendar app now includes scheduled TODOs from Reminders. I love checklists (early adopter and fan of Trello; sadly it's well past its peak), so Reminders is now a natural way to organise them. I can add a d
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by rollcat 1y ago
SaaS rots faster than the bits on your spinning rust. The incentive structure tends to drift away from a corp's long-term strategy. If you don't own it, you don't own it. Even the bits you own rot faster than brick and mortar
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by rollcat 1y ago
It's more difficult to innovate today on a similar scale, or with similar impact. It also seems that big budgets don't really help. Graphene chips are an insanely exciting (hypothetical) technology. A friend of mine predicted in 2
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by rollcat 1y ago
This is a library, not a tool. You can use it for a number of purposes: - Providing "reader mode" for your visitors - Using it in a browser extension to add reader mode - Scrapping - Plugging it into a [reverse] proxy that automat
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by rollcat 1y ago
How are any of the players mentioned in the comments banned on iOS?
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by rollcat 1y ago
Since everyone's dropping their fav/DIY players, shout out do Decoupled: < https://apps.apple.com/app/decoupled/id1382409837 > You just upload your files (e.g. via Finder) and play them. You can brow
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by rollcat 1y ago
You really would move to a different country just because they have better bread? What's the problem with baking your own?
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by rollcat 1y ago
Mostly the prebuilt binary packages, "casks". Out of 13 casks I currently have installed, only 6 are in nixpkgs. Some are built for Linux (e.g. Ungoogled Chromium), but not for Mac. I've also cherry-picked a couple non-cask p
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by rollcat 1y ago
I feel you. I could write an essay about Homebrew, instead I'll list the other alternatives. There's pkgsrc[1], MacPorts[2], and Nix[3]. In my experience, none of these are as comprehensive, and each comes with its own quirks. Wor
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by rollcat 1y ago
Lots of small things to pick on. Doesn't matter. This is really cool. I've tried to build a mockup for a retro/"fantasy" OS; some details that you'd think are easy or obvious turn out to be time sinks once you
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by rollcat 1y ago
I am not denying the transformative value. I am denying "inevitability".
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by rollcat 1y ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but in RISC-V's case, you would be licensing the core design alone, not a license for the ISA plus the core on top. Right now, AFAIK only Apple is serious about designing their own ARM cores, while there are m
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by rollcat 1y ago
Can I go to any grocery shop, check out, and pay by sticking my watch to a terminal for one second? Can I go to any website, have my browser fill in the credit card details, and click "pay"? Can I submit a dispute if I get charged
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by rollcat 1y ago
> Only fools would speak about crypto so confidently without doing a minimal investigation into its utility. Only fools would speak about a technological solution without understating the reality, that technology still leans on society,
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by rollcat 1y ago
It's not a "mathematical" solution. The maths are cryptographic hashes and consensus protocols, means to some end - exchanging value. You're proposing that it's a technological solution to a societal problem. These
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by rollcat 1y ago
So you're saying cryptocurrency remains a solution in search of a problem?
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by rollcat 1y ago
Two days after the announcement: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/4/3/april-1st-post-mortem/ I think there was another, later retrospective? Can't find it now.
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by rollcat 1y ago
> The code could easily be open, but the productions device could be made unflashable if the law really required it. Excellent point. Many people (myself included) do assume that open source = redeployable, as in GPL3. I guess an e-fuse
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by rollcat 1y ago
Flask also started as an April 1st joke, in response to bottle.py but ever so slightly more sane. It gathered so much positive response, that mitsuhiko basically had to make it into a real thing, and later regretted the API choices (like gl
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by rollcat 1y ago
There was a story written by (IRRC?) Stanisław Lem: technology went to absurd level of complexity, yet was so important to daily lives that the species' survival depended on it. The knowledge of how everything worked has been long forg
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by rollcat 1y ago
I love this bit from TFA: > Is this system usable for me ? > Accessibility is about making our software usable (and, ideally, pleasant to use) for as many people as we can. Exactly. I don't have any disabilities to speak of (le
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by rollcat 1y ago
Disney continued to lobby to extend copyright for like half a century. A lot of people did care. What use is regulation if you can just buy it?
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by rollcat 1y ago
Well I always felt rebellious about the contemporary face of "rules for thee but not for me", specifically regarding copyright. Musicians remain subject to abuse by the recording industry; they're making pennies on each dolla
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by rollcat 1y ago
I think the only large projects that presently take SBOMs seriously are Nix, Guix, and Go (non-cgo). Bootstrapping is non-trivial, but at least builds are reproducible and can be compared against existing binaries. "Oh, just write plai
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by rollcat 1y ago
Either that, or a dead end. X11 stayed afloat thanks to the endless extensions, in particular Xcomposite. Windows and OSX have had full modern graphics stacks for 20-25 years, by default . OSX in particular has provided backwards compatibi
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by rollcat 1y ago
Agree on DAWs. Even though I'm familiar with the general concepts, every time I try out a new one (Logic, Reaper, Ableton), it's quite overwhelming at first. You have a pretty good idea about what's supposed to be there, bu
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by rollcat 1y ago
Yep it's unfortunate, "it works for me" until it doesn't. OTOH it's not a moving target. Docker historically has been quite infamous for that, we were talking about half-lives for features, as if they were unstable

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