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by toastal 8mo ago
It’s weird being literate enough in a language now without a bicameral script (or spaces). When I was younger, I thought this stuff wasn’t so important, but then when you learn a new language, you are trying to figure out what a “robert” is
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by toastal 8mo ago
I would be much happier if folks were trying to do with something revolutionary in terms of VCSs instead of always being yet more Git tooling.
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by toastal 9mo ago
There’s never been a better time to migrate to another forge or at least have a self-hosted bare repository to handle outages.
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by toastal 9mo ago
A contributor sent me a fix for the Darwin build as I don’t own any machine of this architecture & cannot test. It’s merged into Nixpkgs unstable. I have tried a lot of technologies & chose the ones I like for on their own merits wi
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by toastal 9mo ago
Location: Thailand (UTC +7), but night owl Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No, but can travel on occasion Technologies: Nix, but also any functional or scripting language Résumé/CV: https://toast.al/skills&
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Nixtamal: Fulfilling, Pure Input Pinning for Nix(nixtamal.toast.al)
2 points by toastal 9mo ago|2 comments
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by toastal 9mo ago
It allows Microsoft to collect the traffic data. Generally it also implies the code is also hosted on Microsoft GitHub—which requires an account, accepting ToS, training the Copilot models by interacting with the platform.
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by toastal 9mo ago
> it's more likely that users ALREADY have that CDN link downloaded and cached on their machine than not This isn’t how it’s worked for years . Browser isolate isolate assets like this to mitigate fingerprinting which renders the w
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by toastal 9mo ago
Which is why PRISM Break was created.
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by toastal 9mo ago
> Free > Privacy-focused > GitHub (Microsoft) > Cloudflare Which is it? These US megacorporations are respecting neither users’ privacy nor their freedom. Then on top is a proprietary license stating: “No
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by toastal 9mo ago
GitLab, Codeberg, SourceHut, Notabug, Radicle, Tangled… & that is just Git but there are other VCSs hosted other ways like Darcs, Pijul, Fossil, & so on.
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How GitHub monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem(ploum.net)
71 points by toastal 9mo ago|26 comments
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by toastal 9mo ago
That is very good insight. Thank you. I recently added H2O+PostgreSQL support for the NixOS module & it has been running fine for me. I had a bit of a hard time assessing the open source options but Dolibarr using PHP meant it was proba
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by toastal 10mo ago
Why not Dolibarr?
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by toastal 10mo ago
Location: Eastern Thailand (UTC +7) Remote: yes Willing to relocate: 98% no Technologies: Nix, NixOS, & functional programming (OCaml is current favorite) Résumé/CV: https://toast.al/skills&#x2
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by toastal 10mo ago
> Now everything "has" to be a SPA because developers want to use React Have you followed anything in the last 5 years? Outside of bootcamp students, this has been on the decline for a while… in some cases overcorrecting for wh
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by toastal 10mo ago
> small experimental utilities This is what CDNs should be used for at this time—or for fetching the scripts to vendor. That’s fine, but recommending I don’t think is the best call since one folk’s experimental utility will inevitably
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by toastal 10mo ago
I have this as !important in a global userStyle for code, pre, kbd, samp elements.
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by toastal 10mo ago
> The alternative to CDNs is to use npm and have a build step for your projects. I find this reduces my productivity at hacking on individual tools and makes it harder to self-host them. No. You can vendor these scripts & host them 1
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by toastal 10mo ago
Darcs by it’s nature can just be hosted by HTTP server too, but without needing a special tool. I use H2O with a small mruby script to throttle IPs.
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by toastal 10mo ago
I am already working on this < https://darcs.toastal.in.th/nixtamal/trunk/README.rst >
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by toastal 10mo ago
These are different concerns. There are a lot of use cases, where folks are just getting dependencies & not interacting with bug tracker or continuous integration use which are less critical & can be accessed later or ran locally.
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by toastal 10mo ago
Building your software usually involves getting dependencies, & those dependencies are, hopefully, in more than one location—which includes a cronjob to a bare repo, or Alice’s fork on another repo that at least has the latest tags. It
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by toastal 10mo ago
This is why I keep encouraging folks to a) have a mirror & b) make sure their tools automatically pick up the mirrors. I recently got mirror support upstreamed into Nixpkgs for fetchdarcs & fetchpijul which actually work on my just-
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by toastal 10mo ago
I have an Xperia with Sailfish OS. The Android app support ironically ends up what makes it usable, but the new patch isn’t released with kernel support that actually makes the IO work properly. Its own app selection is pretty small. It wou
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by toastal 10mo ago
reStructuredText support :math: roles. AsciiDoc has stem blocks. Why do folks keep trying to shoehorn Markdown into everything, creating yet another fork, when there are other lightweight markup languages that support actual features for te
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by toastal 10mo ago
> but still I'd like to choose my hardware and software separately interoperating via standards This is why I can’t do GrapheneOS. Pixel devices do not suit my needs (& aren’t available). 2 of the big appeals for my going Androi
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by toastal 11mo ago
You could also try Movim. You could have a decentralized XMPP server with a client that support group calls as well as having posts like a forum folks can comment on.
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by toastal 11mo ago
Darcs is older than Git
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by toastal 11mo ago
Darcs & Pijul as the Patch Theory-based approach eliminates an entire class of merge conflicts which make working in a distributed manner more feasible. These DVCS have good (subjectively “better”) foundations & need better tooling

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