vilunov

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by vilunov 3y ago
"you just have to know what to do" is the problem. You can call any color from any color, but for some colors it's trivial, e.g. sync function from a sync or async one, or a non-failing function from a failing or non-failing
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by vilunov 3y ago
I disagree with you in the last point, async is definitely painful for end users. It indeed feels like you're using a completely different language, which has Rust's core features removed – lifetimes and explicit types, sprinkled
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by vilunov 3y ago
I want colored functions. I want to know which code is running synchronously and which doesn't, which raises errors and which doesn't. Color is just a description of the function's properties (and effects) and how it's c
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by vilunov 3y ago
What exactly is "an exceptionally restrictive sandbox"? There are virtual machines such as JVM, V8, or even QEMU. These are sandboxes, which run either some special bytecode or native code with extreme performance drawbacks. Media
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by vilunov 3y ago
I don't think that it's up to a person or even to a group of people to decide whether one protocol is strictly better than a different one. Only by providing a decent competitive environments can we really find out which one is be
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by vilunov 3y ago
https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/23/Git-is-already-distribute... I understand his reasoning, but there needs not to be a single protocol for federalization. You can support both email and AP and let users choo
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by vilunov 3y ago
I host a number of services for me and close friends and family, and I limit the access by manually creating accounts for them. I could enable OAuth via 3rd party service, but that would mean I'll have to pay much more attention to set
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by vilunov 3y ago
Before I learned about that I usually dismissed Forgejo as an unimportant fork which will die off pretty quickly, but support of ForgeFed makes me seriously consider migrating from Gitea. I still believe that Gitea's org strategy is th
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by vilunov 3y ago
I'm looking forward to this. As of now, if you want to contain development of your software to your personal gitea instance, you are actually raising the complexity for new contributors, as they have to create a new account on your ins
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by vilunov 3y ago
Seems to me that a bunch of websites block IP addresses with tor relays (not exits), and they all send a `x-cluster-name: eu-west-1-prod-hosting-red` header.
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by vilunov 3y ago
Does anyone else get 406 Not Acceptable openresty error on this website?
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by vilunov 3y ago
Linux being a monolithic kernel and drivers being a derivative work is an important design choice, which arguably is an important reason Linux became so popular now, as it forces everyone to contribute to the common pool, if they wish to us
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by vilunov 3y ago
It's a system inside a system shipped as an app, isolated from other apps and with no integrations with the wider operating system. It's not far from WSL or a VM.
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by vilunov 3y ago
I personally prefer to stick to config files in whatever format is native to ecosystem (toml, yaml, ini). Env files fill the same role for apps which are configured by env variables, but you don't really need to use env variables there
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by vilunov 3y ago
Absolutely. Which may be a lesser problem than a closed protocol.
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by vilunov 3y ago
This may sound true, until you realize that matrix is just as extensible, and it has the same problem with clients which don’t support the full set of features. This is not the problem. I’d say that XMPP is just as alive as Matrix, except i
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by vilunov 3y ago
Using managed technologies such as PostgreSQL will be simpler and often cheaper than SQLite, if you'll have to manage it yourself, incl. scaling, backups, updates.
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by vilunov 3y ago
Often the user-space API limits the design of internals and available features. I for one would like to see the classical hierarchical filesystem gone, but POSIX (and UNIX) at its core is about the filesystem. If you need to run the existin
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by vilunov 3y ago
Protocols have many aspects, and the serialization format is often the least important among them, although it definitely attracts most attention, as it's the easiest to get acknowledged with deeply enough to be able discuss it. XML ba
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by vilunov 3y ago
Placing a network call in your system also introduces: - distributed systems problems - think consistency and ACID - increased refactoring complexity - you now have to change the api three times instead of 1 to deploy the change with 0 down
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by vilunov 3y ago
Or it could get translated to the target ISA by the user-agent Rosetta-style, suffering the same warmup issues, but only on some architectures.
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by vilunov 3y ago
It already [almost] happened twice. Kazakhstan had plans to introduce country-wide MITM with certificates signed by a government agency, whose root certificate would have had to be marked as trusted if you wanted to use internet [1]. Many R
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by vilunov 3y ago
> Nix is the way to go and keeps gaining traction Hard to take this seriously since nix-lang is the largest (but not the only) roadblock to nix adoption in my observations. Besides, it hardly provides any benefits other than an even more
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by vilunov 3y ago
Can you provide a link to that ban threat story?
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by vilunov 3y ago
Rust hasn't grown in scope very much since its release, but in places where it has grown, particularly async and unpin, I find that there features interact very badly with lifetimes and borrowing. I am often forced to ditch borrowing a
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by vilunov 3y ago
iOS has been "swipe up to unlock" for some time now, as well as Android vendors had "slide to unlock" lockscreens earlier.
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by vilunov 3y ago
Then some ideas of the post went over your head. Whenever there are people there will be drama, and you wrong when you lump together ordinary contributors and drama queen. A community is not a hivemind.
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by vilunov 4y ago
I tried giving it a run locally and found some annoying stuff. On first startup and login, I found myself already connected to the libera network. Of course it failed to connect, as it chose my username as the IRC username and it was taken
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by vilunov 4y ago
It's not orthogonal, Nix goes far out of its way to fix compositionality issues with hacks and dubious conventions, when instead namespaces (bind-mounts) could be used to deliver expected environments.
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by vilunov 4y ago
> Just because some package didn't require another package at build time doesn't mean we don't ever want to use them together at runtime. Yet Docker conflates the two, introducing all sorts of unnecessary friction all over

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