Social Media is an entirely different game if you’re not doing it for manipulation purposes. At scale, government operated social media fails, due to lack of or excess moderation. Social media works because it triggers emotions. People go there to hate. Mastodon is methadone for these junkies.
I don’t even understand why anyone would trust any self-published metrics from this scam artist.
Have you heard about Tor?
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On desktop, using testing + manufacturer repos is fine. Don’t use repos intended for other distributions.
I heard this phrase once: Trying to save the ecosystem with domesticated bees is like trying to save biodiversity by putting up another cattle ranch.
If you’re comparing YAML with JSON, it displays that you understand neither.
JSON is designed for data exchange between systems. YAML is designed to describe data for a single system, and is always subject to individual implementations.
They are not interchangeable concepts.
Best to sit your hands if you have greasy palms
Maybe I’m just old, but I thought a distribution is literally just a package delivery basically, just like you speculated. Making software work together nicely is actually already hard enough IMO. I don’t think anything is wrong. Valid question though
How do you sell what you did as “it just worked”? Rightaway? You lied to them. You have your coworkers on an unmanaged machine with a foreign OS on the guest WiFi with custom networking. Don’t oversell a workaround as a solution.
Simplifying the problem to “Windows” seems unfair, given how many problems you found. All of them still require a long-term solution for regular operation.
You don’t realize a 500km route you take once is shit. It’s when the software sends you on a shit route across town every single day when you measure quality.
Especially because TypeScript compiles down to JavaScript JS
SmegmaScript is just too close
I’m just waiting for someone to lecture me how the speed record in wheelchair sprint beats feet’s ass…
They do. Reality is not going to change though. You can enable a handicapped developer to code with LLMs, but you can’t win a foot race by using a wheelchair.
Reddit is free. Other people paying for your free service is a very weak argument to bring up. If Lemmy dies today, nobody but hobbyists and amateurs will care. Just like with LE.
I’ve been there. Not every CA is equal. Those kind of CAs were shit. LE is convenient. There are more options though.
I actually agree. For the majority of sites and/or use cases, it probably is sufficient.
Explaining properly why LE is generally problematic, takes considerable depth of information, that I’m just not able to relay easily right now. But consider this:
LE is mostly a convenience. They save an operator $1 per month per certificate. For everyone with hosting costs beyond $1000, this is laughable savings. People who take TLS seriously often have more demands than “padlock in the browser UI”. If a free service decides they no longer want to use OCSP, that’s an annoying disruption that was entirely not worth the $1 https://www.abetterinternet.org/post/replacing-ocsp-with-crls/
LE has no SLA. You have no guarantee to be able to ever renew your certificate again. A risk not anyone should take.
Who is paying for LE? If you’re not paying, how can you rely on the service to exist tomorrow?
It’s not too long ago that people said “only some sites need HTTPS, HTTP is fine for most”. It never was, and people should not build anything relevant on “free” security today either.
Containers are over hyped. They are so stupid for home use. People put init systems in containers, then run the entire pile of shit in Docker as root, and talk to me about security and resource isolation. And then all these shit Alpine containers with that MUSL joke. You really can’t take any of it seriously anymore. These people want Windows or a mobile phone.
Flatpack is using OCI so they can publish their shit on any registry. Just another way to pollute an existing ecosystem with garbage nobody really needs. Easing the installation of crap onto your system is not a goal worth pursuing