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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Part of Mozilla's bad decisions with Firefox generally boiled down to "we don't have someone to maintain this", or "our analytics show people don't use this". Shit gets removed, people get upset, and they&
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Thanks for sharing this journey! I've been considering Love2D for a while so it's important to read about the challenges others run into. You should definitely not have to package Mesa to ship a game! I wonder why it hooks so fa
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
This is relevant to my interests. What roadblocks did you run into when you attempted to build statically? I assume your goal was to have a single binary of Love2D so you can swap it around and not worry about glibc version? (As God intende
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
A lot of RSS/Atom is left unexposed for two key reasons: 1) Google Reader and friends disappeared, and 2) Browsers stopped supporting RSS feeds natively, including discovery of a feed. Put the functionality back in browsers where it be
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Today's web people have horrible standards, too. Who ships an entire browser to ship an application?
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
I'd rather not be chained to serving humans at all, thanks.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Part of that is because profit should not take precedence when making a technical decision unless you are a business. The other part is that if we accept only things that lead to easy profit, we'll avoid all sorts of things that take m
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
People like you must've thought science and art and writing and other shit didn't exist before currency. Like you need a monetary incentive to get a human to do anything .
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Government bodies have done a fantastic job of torpedoing their reputation on their own. If mine would act like a legitimate fucking ally and spend its money on its people instead of Israel, I'd have more respect for it.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Burning fossil fuels for X*Y travel to Z place to do the same job they could do at home, is better? If they can do it cheaper elsewhere in the world then they clearly are not focusing on the premium values of more expensive workers. Natural
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
This style of argumentation is annoying because you're not even participating, you're looking for reasons to dismiss. A sane system doesn't need a whole lot just to check logs. LVM and LUKS are different due to cryptographic
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Are you so sure it's only conservatives? I lean left and a healthy dose of skepticism is needed in science. I've read too many abstracts and papers where the methodology sucked, the sample size was a rounding error, incorrect conc
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
There's knowing about the BLS, then there's trusting that the analytics and data gathering is honest and true . Most people know about BLS, but what reason is there to trust that data when there is an incentive to misrepresent it
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Why should we favor inertia from social mores instead of advocating better tools? So many things get shouted down because "people will think you're weird". Caring about good tools doesn't have to come at the cost of prod
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Look, business is about maximizing profits and minimizing costs. Business should absolutely not be looked to as an example of an entity that makes sane or suitable tech decisions over the long term. Their goals are different from everyday u
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
I'm really not swayed by "we must use this turd because the alternative is nothing". "Nothing", to me, is a technical challenge and a sign I should probably start writing the thing myself. Yes, not everyone has the
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Good lord, that's crazy, haha. You'd think with all of their different frameworks, one would have been more suitable than starting from scratch with a browser tab, jeez. I recently upgraded to 10 because of Steam requiring it in
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
All I use is an adblocker and I've not dealt with malware in over a decade. Turns out if you stay away from shady places on the Web and don't click everything shoved in your face, you can keep a clean machine. Meanwhile, I know pl
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
> No, it doesn't. There are file arguments to journalctl. Read the manpage, sheesh. ... And how are you going to produce the journal file to read? ... with systemd. If you broke the system and it won't boot, you'll need to
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
I will not bend to the sloppy use of words to misrepresent technology. My words are not your putty to mold.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
And you don't think conditions suck for a good number of the world? This sort of rhetoric is empty and meaningless, useful only for antagonism.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
There are reasons to live that don't include being exploited for profit.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Fuzzy and misused words are pushed to muddy the semantics. Actual AI doesn't exist. If/else, case, and while statements are basic building blocks of automation and computational logic. Intelligence is far from anything we've
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
"The algorithm" is going to be the next few decades' scapegoat. "It wasn't a human, it was a machine!" "...coded by a human."
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
What do you think we'll gain by putting every idea into the same cookie jar? This drive to create One True Linux is commercial behavior. People that want One True Linux want to put products on there to sell. These people need to read t
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Missed a few things, my bad. > This. Is. The. Problem. Framing an end-user as a mentally deficient 'normie'. Why? What's the point and what's to be gained from this? Most end-users are, okay? If anything unusual hap
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
Agreed. If I couldn't write my own packages for my OS and scratch my own itch, I'd never bother contributing to the big stuff. The appeal behind libre software is the power to go your own way. If the only way to access it was to i
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
It's how the Bazaar model of development works. You're free to join a Cathedral and follow their policies if you want.
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
It's merely a reminder that they didn't think of it first and aren't trailblazing anything. There have been many community controllers but I believe MS was the first to try to make a real consumer product that serves disabili
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by zlg_codes 3y ago
This is a problem that is meant to be solved by distros. People who don't want many choices should be using a distro that makes a bunch of choices for them, instead of pushing to remove choice from the ecosysytem altogether. Everybody

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