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by wvh 2y ago
I agree with your general point, but it might still be cheaper to redesign your system if a rare breaking change happens to usually reliably stable external registration systems, rather than to pay the cost of a thousand paper cuts by indir
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by wvh 2y ago
I've lived and worked in multiple countries and international environments. I always get a US/EU (Intl) ANSI, also used as the modern Dutch keyboard layout, configured to get umlauts and accents. I used to drag around my own X key
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by wvh 2y ago
There is a growing backlash against technology and its harmful effects though. People are rightfully getting suspicious about that handful of tech companies and their intentions. Few are willing to give up on technology, nor should they as
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by wvh 2y ago
I always admire the depth and effort people are willing to get into, especially if the chance of messing up means losing actual money, like tweaking guitars or hardware. I assume you have to gain some experience with soldering irons or wood
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by wvh 3y ago
This one seems pretty obvious to those of us around computers and BBS and FTP in the nineties. On a side note, I made the pinky-thumb phone gesture to my 10 year old daughter a few days ago, and she didn't have a clue... Nor does she u
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by wvh 3y ago
This person is experiencing the same kind of existential conundrum and arriving at the same conclusions as I am at this not so easy point in life, and although I can't really offer them more wisdom or insight as they themselves are off
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by wvh 3y ago
This. Why not support the projects a company uses in ways that go beyond the traditional ways of hiring employees in the form of physical bodies that defy traffic jams to spend large parts of their day in a physical building? There are some
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by wvh 3y ago
This sounds familiar, including an unstable or uncertain view of oneself caused by – depending on the situation – not knowing if one's pretty smart and inventive, or a total idiot not capable of living life. Finding the right environme
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by wvh 3y ago
A lot of the needed functionality might already be available in the Rust ecosystem, while a large amount of the code in Nginx predates general HTTP utility or even Unicode libraries. I assume that software that has grown organically with th
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by wvh 3y ago
This is a cool project; it has just enough meat on its bones to learn a bit about WASM and mapping data, and an attainable goal with a clear, visual result after some effort. I just spent half an hour to try to get this to work myself to se
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by wvh 3y ago
Au contraire, I think most of us prefer to put engineering above politics, and prefer to stay clear when detecting warning signs of upcoming drama. I don't know anything about Forgejo specifically though. I think it's good to have
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by wvh 3y ago
I both agree and disagree. This is just how how larger groups of humans work, slowly and chaotically. Herding cats. It's also not clear where we're collectively going with the web and all of its technologies, so there will be lots
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by wvh 3y ago
I used to be active in a few distributions 20 years ago – when I still had time for that – and I also feel documentation and general news and changelog reporting are absolutely crucial. We can come up with the greatest code and technical so
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by wvh 3y ago
That's a nicely balanced view. I've been working on the intersection between dev, sec and ops for many, many years and one of the most important lessons has been that every dependency is a liability. That liability is either compl
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by wvh 3y ago
Currently the generated binary is not static anyway, so you still need some parts of the system installed to run code. To be more precise, you can't use a "from scratch" container image base, but need to use something that at
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by wvh 3y ago
Cats and dogs rely on other senses such as smell and hearing a lot more than humans, who are very visually focussed. They just "see" the world differently and might not be that excited about something that mainly revolves around v
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by wvh 3y ago
Probably because it would have been helpful to you , the actual subject of the data, and already guaranteed paying customer.
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by wvh 3y ago
I buy most of my music from Bandcamp in FLAC format. I'd be sad to see it go. I've been digitising my music collection since the early 2000s in FLAC – which was pretty expensive on disk space relative to the size of hard drives ba
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by wvh 3y ago
I think I created my first IPv6 tunnel in 1998 or 1999. Not holding my breath. For as fast as everything technology seems to move, the basic building blocks of TCP and DNS evolve very, very slowly, if at all. I wonder if there's a genu
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by wvh 3y ago
If this happens at Boeing, should we double-check other aviation companies? Is this part of a systemic trend to hollow out engineering industries for maximum profit extraction? Back to my "trying to buy a toaster" problem... I jus
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by wvh 3y ago
I have written a one-liner that exports dot-env files stored in `pass` into the current shell for those projects that have a lot of secrets. I don't use `direnv` though, just close the shell (or all of a project's tabs/window
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by wvh 3y ago
I've been trying to buy a toaster for the last two months. People seem to either get the cheapest models, or some get "the Smeg" or another expensive name brand that has the same designer product in a zillion colours. There a
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by wvh 3y ago
I think those companies and people generally underestimate the bad blood that lives with users of those ad-supported websites that don't respect users' privacy. The majority of people will keep on using Youtube even if you show th
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by wvh 3y ago
Maybe that money could be used for meet-up events and other activities that benefit the project and indirectly its contributors. That seems like a safe way to spend money without getting into trouble for paying some and not others, risking
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by wvh 3y ago
If you get up to mass-scale production quantities, $100 might be feasible. I imagine small-scale production with little up-front capital and no guaranteed market might be lot more challenging. It's not software, you're going to ne
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by wvh 3y ago
The people who originally wrote those utils are slowly disappearing, and with them the knowledge and ancient C hackery skills. It might be a good idea to have a new generation that can take some of that knowledge and interest and carry it f
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by wvh 3y ago
Didn't they run Mason and Perl at some point?
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by wvh 3y ago
Most professions require some sort of degree or license before you get to practice it. If your wife wants to develop software, she should learn the basics. Especially when her code is included in larger projects and ecosystems. I think the
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by wvh 3y ago
Good point. I work in security and although I care about privacy and self-sufficiency, sadly enough most (usually smaller) companies that have a dogmatic self-host policy tend to have a complete mess as infrastructure. Old software, servers
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by wvh 3y ago
I feel the opposite. The desktop app makes the data – my data – local. If it's a web app, the data and access to it is controlled by the service provider. If you stop paying, if they decide they don't like you, if they go bankrupt

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