Github users right now: I don’t care, I’ll depend on it harder now!

If you think creating something means you must maintain it out of a sense of"responsibility", no amount of money can prevent burnout, unless it goes to therapy. For other people, money will definitely prevent burnout.

If I had UBI and could work on anything I like without being forced to work on a specific thing, the most I’d get is choice paralysis, not burnout. That would probably be similar for other devs. It wouldn’t surprise me if a majority would immediately drop their current jobs if they could work on whatever they like and still get paid. Burnout would be rare.

Anything under 25 should be considered a child.

Domains are, sure but the space is much much larger. With namespaces the space is for example namespace x crate instead of just crate. With domains it’s impossibly large. And if you introduce some kind verification with domains e.g putting something in the DNS TEXT entry, or calling a well-known path, or or or, you basically can’t squat anything well-known anymore.

As for github, you must have a github account to create a crate on crates.io. to my knowledge there is no alternative crates registry. Point me to one if you do, because I’d be grateful and willing to publish my crates there.

BMAD? Be Mad? Bet my ass on drugs? Bro Man App Dawg? Business Minded AIDs Design?

Why wait?

Kepp going Google. Maybe this will get the EU to sue you too.

Best thing would be paying for hosting. That comes with an admin interface and the ability to add bots and bridges. With admin access you have all the power you need

https://matrix.org/ecosystem/hosting/ has recommended hosting solutions. I can recommend https://etke.cc/order/

Without admin access, any reports dont go to you but server admins of the public instance and if you’re on matrix.org instance, moderation can take a while. Hence the recommendation. With 800 people, you should be able to get enough donations to pay 40€/month on etke.cc or something else.

My biggest issues with rust are

• borrow checker barely ever uses the term “borrowed” and I have to relesen it every time I pick up rust
• async is absurdly complicated, there are so many gotchas. Streams are actual hell
• crates are github only and have no namespacing. Java has the best solution IMO with their reverse domains for example com.github.myuser.myproject.somepackage

It’s good to know I’m not alone. But I’ll never choose C/C++ over Rust. If I need speed and typing, it’s Rust, no questions asked. For everything else, there’s Python. I just wish Rust has better GUI frameworks…

What are these books you speak of? Do they have special features?

I don’t know what people use discord for, honestly. I just call up my friends on signal for the regularly scheduled gaming session and play. All I need is audio.

I don’t understand what people need video or screen sharing for while gaming. Are they playing a game watching each other’s facial reactions or something? And others talk about screen sharing… Are you guys gaming while watching the other person’s screen? I’m puzzled.

Signal can audio and video calls with screen sharing 🤷

Matrix I only use for opensource projects or as a replacement or client for IRC (IRC sucks ass). There was also a time fosdem streamed everything on matrix. It was glorious. I wish more conferences (and fosdem itself) had chatrooms for every talk, rooms for different topics, and a general chat room for everybody. We don’t have to fly and waste fuel to participate in conferences. Not everybody has deep enough pockets to pay 2k for a flight to Sydney and a further 1k for food and lodging there. Or worse, a trip to the US to get fondled by US border patrol and sent to Guantanamo bay for having said “Trump is a dunce”.

Meanwhile, NixOS won’t budge, as is standard.

We better all flood this. It’s a good chance of getting funding for opensource, which is very much needed. An EU wide mandate to get rid of US tech in anything governmental would be killer.

That could’ve used an example of debugging recursion to show how useful the repl is. I knew about the repl and have used it to find duplicate packages for example, but what it doesn’t help with is finding out how stuff was added to environment.systemPackages and, most importantly, why.

The most glaring omission in nix is the lack of a debugger with conditional breakpoints. Nix is interpreted, is it not? Shouldn’t it be possible to have breakpoints?

Why is this thing so popular? Do people just love faschtech?

My memory of it is how unnecessarily arcane it is. I had (and still have) a better understanding of assembly than COBOL. COBOL has hundreds of keywords. And while an instruction set can have thousands of instructions, COBOL still felt more difficult.

Also, nearly any executable can be decompiled to assembly. If you understand assembly, it has a plethora of uses. COBOL can make big bank, but it currently has very limited use.

I’d much rather write in assembly than COBOL

Haven’t heard or read about it since it was kicked out of the kernel! Does it still exist?

Ho boy. Don’t ruin the good ol’ memory of the dude. Some things should be left untouched, just like the movies you watched as a child.

While I dislike the look and GNOME’s approach to things (“we know better what the user wants than they do” aka the crApple approach), I do appreciate that they do provide an alternative for crApple users. They also write a lot of libraries and software that are undeniably good and useful. No one is forced to use GNOME so I’m glad they exist.

Of course this blog post only has one view of the issues and I’m not going to spend a morning going down the rabbit hole to make an opinion on it. But if System76 really does have a problem with upstream for whatever reason, they are free to fork their stuff and cut all communication. Since they did write COSMIC, it looks like that’s their goal. Good on them. It may just decrease the drama and make GNOME developers’ lives easier.