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Total non-issue

I thought it was pretty funny.

They got suspended sentences. The author of the article didn't do their research (probably an LLM anyway).

Many who don't see the danger were not here in the 2000's. There are so many great technical achievements that were killed by microsoft, google or facebook EEE'ing the shit out of it. Remember jabber/xmpp? Yeah, both FB and Google implemented the protocol in their chat apps. Everyone was thrilled; I could use my jabber client to connext to fb and talk to my friends. Then they remembered there's not any money in that and killed the projects.

Even if it's good for the fediverse now, as soon as they realize they can make more money by not having to sync with other companies and organizations, they'll be out of here, leaving nothing behind like a swarm of locusts. The only defense is defederation.

That's correct. It's also horrible for the comments section because people hate-downvote comments they disagree with, which in turn leads to people avoiding making possibly unpopular comments. It's really hurtful to meaningful discussion.

Who?

This one experiment gets recited over and over and over again. I'd like to see some more recent data on this rather than seeing the 8th article telling me about the same unreproduced experiment from 2024

How is it more "spicy" than anywhere else in Europe?

I wanted to see what the COBOL job market looked like. So I learned the superficial basics of COBOL in a day or two, just so I wouldn't be a complete fraud when I put it into my linkedin profile as a skill to see what happens.

What is it that you're doing that is still not using some form of authenticated encryption? Almost everything is https, ssh, almost all mailservers have tls support, irc does have tls support.. What's left that needs to be encrypted by a VPN?

The courts, probably. That's what they are for.

As a tech savy person, I can confidently say lemmy is not a viable reddit alternative at this stage for an arbitrary reddit user. The UI and clients are just terrible and full of small bugs, annoyances and inconsistencies. Sure, it will eventually get there, but negative opinions about lemmy are not completely unmerrited. Just as I'm typing this, I get screen tears and flickering elements. It's just very, very bleeding edge and I can absolutely see how someone trying it for 5 minutes would be turned off. If you want to capture the masses, the user experience has to impeccable.

PS: my first try at submitting this response timed out. This is my second try.

Didn't get a single reqeust, so this had less impact than expected. Thought there was more old rusty companies looking for a non-retired engineer.

I'm not sure I agree that Void is a bottom type. If so, void-functions would never be able to return/terminate. Java's void is probably more of a unit type.

Who sneers at non-medical doctors?

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They did the same thing with jabber / XMPP back in the day. There was a time where I could use my jabber accout to talk to ppl on FB. They (and also Google) turned that off and unfederated. They'll do the same thing here.

I think most of your concerns have at least one "yes, and.." response.

For example, yes it's niche; it also has the most number of first class available software packets out all distributions. So it's not a little unsupported corner with a small community; it's quite large actually.

The security model is inherently at least as good as for any other major community. If package maintainers read the new upstream code, it's safer, if they don't it's not. I don't know of any useful security mechanisms in debian or arch that don't exist for nix. However, packaging software IS less cumbersome with nix, once you know how; which leaves more time for code reviews and testing in theory.

Programmability of software packaging is mostly irrelevant to the normal user. Package maintainers will have to do some special handling for the odd package, and power users might want to put abstractions into their configuration. For normal day-to-day, where you want to package your own project and get a dev shell, it's mostly straightforward.

Most of the time, for os features, it's absolutely not 1:1. Many very useful intents are modeled as nixos configuration flags. In most cases no, you don't need to figure out what you need to install and what file to change to set the theme in gtk; there's an option and you're done. Sure, there are packages with less abstraction, but nixos makes it very easy to add. Furthermore, the options are safe between system upgrades which is not always the case for major software releases.

Yes. NixOS is complex, yes Nix is hard to learn, there's no doubt about that. I assume there's going to be many projects down the line taking nixos ideas and wrap them into nicer UX.

Holy shockwave! (1.05min)