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samc

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  • Quanta disappoints yet again

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  • There's something chilling about an expert being asked if a statement represents their opinion, them saying "no", then the statement appearing regardless but attributed to "some experts"

  • GitHub is introducing rate limits for unauthenticated pulls, API calls, and web access

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  • If you're able to easily migrate issues etc to a new instance, then you don't need to worry about a particular service providers getting shitty. At which point your main concern is temporary outages.

    Perhaps this is more of a concern for some projects (e.g. anything that angers Nintendo's lawyers). But for most, I imagine that the added complexity of distributed p2p hosting would outweigh the upsides.

    Not saying it's a bad idea, in fact I like it a lot, but I can see why it's not a high priority for most OSS devs

  • GitHub is introducing rate limits for unauthenticated pulls, API calls, and web access

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  • The project's official repo should probably exist in a single location so that there is an authoritative version. At that point p2p is only necessary if traffic for the source code is getting too expensive for the project.

    Personally I think the source hut model is closest to the ideal set up for OSS projects. Though I use Codeberg for my personal stuff because I'm cheap and lazy

  • Gnome

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  • Its actually GNU image manipulation program, so pretty much.

    Or "Green Is My Pepper" if you ask RMS...

  • The games industry is screwed. [26:11]

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  • Just to lob a controversial thought in there: There may be some challenges the game industry faces that aren't solely "capitalism bad". The most compelling one I've heard is that, as games as a medium they have to increasingly compete with a growing back catalogue of classics.

    Between that and the rise of indie games, it gets increasingly risky to invest in large projects.

    (To try and preempt some comments: I am not saying that investors are "right" to pull out of the games industry. I just want people to consider whether the problem, and hence the solution, is more complicated than they first thought)

  • How the U.S. Lost the Canadian Election

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  • Whether or not he represents Americans, as head of state, he represents America

  • Theia IDE – Open-Source Cloud and Desktop IDE

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  • I think it means client-server basically. You can host a server in "the cloud" then access a frontend to it via your browser.

    Might also mean it has features relevant to debugging/deploying cloud services.

    Cloud is often a BS marketing word, but I'm sure there's ways to make it justifiable in this case. (Not that any of us has to like these features. I for once can't stand the idea of having my editor run inside a browser...)

  • Keir Starmer welcomes ‘clarity’ of UK supreme court’s gender ruling

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  • Guy Fawkes wanted an absolute monarch beholden to the Catholic Pope. Just because someone wants to tear down a bad system, doesn't mean that they actually want a better one...

  • free and open source street

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  • There's a river Foss that runs through York. Brings a new meaning to sending patches upstream...

  • I just wanted another folder at /

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  • Yeah, I'm leaning toward this option tbh.

    If we got to the point where popular machines had custom images with all the necessary extra drivers etc, it might be a value add. But for now I'm not seeing a huge benefit

  • I just wanted another folder at /

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  • Yeah, thinking I might have to do something similar to start the services after login. Unfortunately they need to run as root, so it'll be tricky to avoid having a second password prompt every time I login

  • I just wanted another folder at /

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  • Some updates after sleeping on it and trying some morning debugging:

    • It's actually either service being enabled that prevents login
    • It's a gnome-shell issue. Logging into a tty is fine, and shows that it's gnome-shell crashing when trying to log-in normally

    Maybe it's time to go back to debian...

  • Linux is too hard

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  • man 1 git-gud

  • Finally fixed my torrent ratio

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  • Keep the files in a dedicated torrents folder then make symlinks to where you actually want them?

  • Anyone here tried Owncloud?

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  • Be aware there are basically two different things called Owncloud. There's still the original php version, which is similar to nextcloud but worse (not open source, smaller plugin ecosystem I think)

    On the other hand is owncloud "infinite scale" (or ocis). This is the thing entirely written in go. But as others have pointed out, it's little more than a file server at this point.

    IMO the self-hosting community is really missing a self-contained "all the DAVs" server (files, calendar, contacts). Baikal etc seem like a great start, but it would be great to have somewhere to get those parts pre-assembled. Until then, nextcloud works for me.

  • Microsoft: "My PC"

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  • Its called "modern standby" or something, and is the main option for suspending windows laptops I believe

  • Thunderbird 136.0 released

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  • Are there any new features in particular you're hoping for?

    For me, those two are the only things I can remember thinking it would be nice to have. Q

  • YSK: Lemmy browsing app Boost is tracking your data for profiling and more! Consider using other trackingless Lemmy apps such as Jerboa or Voyager

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  • For me at least, my objection with YouTube is that Google takes a cut. I'd much rather contribute an equivalent amount to some creators via patreon and adblock the site.

    Also I'm not saying the host doesn't deserve a cut, I just think that corporations like Google are a general pest that should be eradicated

  • Emacs 30.1 RC1 is available

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  • Sounds minor, but I'm excited for right aligned mode-line segments. I've been working on a minimal powerline-esque theme and this will make it soo much cleaner.

  • "Reach" news websites

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  • Found the Private Eye reader