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by xte 8y ago
As a FF user (and a browser's user in general) I found actual browsers absurd monsters that service like ffprofile only try to mitigate. Few example: any complex enough software offer config files/dir. normally human readable and
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by xte 8y ago
That's what I do in the first post... Maybe I do not understand what you say then, my English is somewhat poor... I understand that you complaint about my comment's long lines because I "format" in F-F style (i.e. no lin
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by xte 8y ago
My answer is that "the best" of anything are always a small percentage so I care "my élite" not the masses... Always remember a thing: from diversity born evolution, from standard borne Ford-model workers.
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by xte 8y ago
Well, "company policies", at least in the part of Europe I know are not hard stuff nor applied in a too bureaucratic manner: you ask/negotiate and see results. BTW I do my best to avoid too big companies because of bureaucrac
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by xte 8y ago
My point is that we should not normally need to use "other machines", of course for work there are requisite but tech users should IMO do their best to avoid working in bad environment/do their best to convince their company
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by xte 8y ago
If someone is not willing to contact me via classic phone, mail or SMS well... I do not need to be contacted. It's not a matter of social ostracization. Also IMO it's a lesson I give for free to my contacts because I explain why I
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by xte 8y ago
I never been nor on FB nor on Instagram and never feel the need of being on. Many keep asking me for WhatsApp, Skype, Hangout, ... I polity decline saying I have mail, with a good setup not crappy webmails, and I have a VoIP {soft,desk,cord
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by xte 8y ago
Probably i switch so often because of actual limited and limiting system design: in a Plan9-like world user's desktop is the center of the world and anything start from it and being done and used from it. In a commercial world it'
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by xte 8y ago
Try Emacs as a WM (EXWM now) and you'll rediscover LispM GUI, far superior to '90-style UI CDE included.
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by xte 8y ago
Sincerely the sole BeOS concept I found really nice that is also by some extent in NEXT is the "fs database" or the ability to "query" storage by file types etc vs only access in a classic files/directories tree. On
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by xte 8y ago
Hem, notmuch/mu4e offer easy magit integration so you can see, test, patch etc straight from a mail messages... That's the power of a text-centric UI vs a graphical-centric UI.
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by xte 8y ago
Mh, nntp news are decentralized and no one control the entire network, email are similar in that sense. On crypto GNUPG works in a fairly decentralized concept because yes we have keyservers but they are no single body and we can also build
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by xte 8y ago
> The reason for why E-Mail based workflows like those used by Linux and Git didn't win over "just host on Git(Hub|Lab)" is because this requires a lot of setup [...] That's a reasoned recurring argument and my usual
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by xte 8y ago
Well for me "evolving" from a standard thing to a monster web app that require far more resources and offer far less flexibility have a name: involution... Of course I know that many are limited to webmails or obsolete, limiting a
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by xte 8y ago
Tying to leave Google as much as I can (hoping for Purism phone or something else to ditch Android, web part already done) I do not feel the loss... The real problem is that SFLPhone (now Ring) lost somewhat its way and Jitsi substantially
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by xte 8y ago
Yep for simply putting it on-line, but using platform features like GitHub pull-request, wikis, pages etc means voluntary tie to a platform. If I only use Git{Hub,Lab}, Phabricator, ... as a repo host no problem, I can change as I want.
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by xte 8y ago
I have used it both FreeBSD port and LLNL port but for now on GNU/Linux IMO it's better LUKS+LVM+nilfs2 for stability and performance...
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by xte 8y ago
IMVHO the most efficient language is the one all involved parties in a communication speak, understand and can use to express as clearly as possible anything they want. So IMO German is the most efficient one for Germans native speaker&#x27
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by xte 8y ago
I do NOT run "projects" with web(cr)app as much as I can, when possible org-mode and a dCVS repo are the best tools. IMO web based stuff for "headless ..." literally means head-less, or brain-less (sorry for my English).
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by xte 8y ago
In the mean time I'm a happy nilfs2 user (not so happy for the cleaner performance but in the end it works) down from the root. A logfs is really nice against accidental overwrite/delection and coupled with LUKS+LVM while far from
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by xte 8y ago
A small note: what's the difference between GitLab, GitHub etc? Are they companies with a substantially identical target: making money? Does they offer storage on their own server (or even worse others servers in a chain)? So why the h
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by xte 8y ago
Mh, war needs big resources, especially if parties involved want to win against big enemies and they have to fight for long time. In other words I do not think "terrorist"&c exists on their own. Sure lone wolves can do act aut
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by xte 8y ago
Not unfree by itself but as a model: free software are born to be as integrated, flexible, easy to evolve as possible, isolation means or that you can't properly integrate your software or you can't trust it. Think about the level
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by xte 8y ago
Yep, thanks for correction :-) Anyway for me OS partition or real virtualization are similar beast, while on power they have no overhead they are still a sign of bad development model. A way of avoid solving a problem proposing "interm
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by xte 8y ago
I found everything I need in NixOS, Arch and in general community-based true distro (true means not a recompilation of another distro). While I often found old software in Ubuntu and Fedora, for instance. This system scale far more than pro
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by xte 8y ago
That's true but also that's means that you can tweak your environment with nix, for instance if you develop in python, while on Ubuntu/Fedora you have to go by hand/pip etc. It's IMO a plus, even if it's "
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by xte 8y ago
Tell me how... Saltstack/Ansible on top of traditional distro is a small car compared to a spaceship... BTW NixOS, repology at hand, offer the most up to date and big package set, second only to Arch AUR... Fedora and Ubuntu are far be
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by xte 8y ago
Yep, that's why I second to try GuixSD but for now GuixSD is really raw&limited compared to NixOS... And nix itself while in some case it's not much clear for most usage is clear enough...
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by xte 8y ago
With NixOS and GuixSD you have easy to deploy, easy to update immutable systems with IaC built-in and no containers at all... They can be used also for development create isolated FHS environments with a simple text file describe the enviro
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by xte 8y ago
Take a look at NixOS then :-)

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