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Remember the days when people laughed at the range and charge times of first-gen electric vehicles?

I didn't even know that managing dotfiles was a "problem space".

Dick is a normal, be it old-fashioned, first name in The Netherlands.

There's an issue on Github for this now: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/issues/2

There's an issue on Github for this now: https://github.com/darrylmorley/whatcable/issues/2

Doesn't work for me. Says "No USB-C ports detected", although I'm pretty sure my monitor is connected via USB-C, and the monitor also has a built-in USB hub where my USB keyboard is connected to.

In what sense do we need Tangled if there's already ForgeFed?

Without having read the article, reacting on the headline: no single person should be allowed to control our future. Democracy is a thing in large parts of the world, and we should try very hard to keep that functioning and even improve it.

No shit, Sherlock!

There's already an open source tool that does exactly the same thing: https://github.com/knowsuchagency/mcp2cli

I see comments about Swedish personal identification numbers. But the article is about source code that's leaked, not a database of numbers, right? I was thinking: should government source code not be open source anyway?

I used to envy people that work in Silicon Valley, right where all the action is. But with all the recent developments, I don't anymore. I'm happy that I live in Europe, where we are still acting more or less normal these days.

A fully stocked fridge with alcoholic beverages also doesn't belong in a work place.

Why go through all of that? If you vote on paper ballots, the paper trail is baked in.

True! In The Netherlands, where I live, we still vote on paper ballots. The ballots are counted by hand. The counting is public, anyone can go and observe the counting.

You can introduce procedures to minimize the error to a point that it’s not significant anymore.

Having a paper trail and an observable counting process is worth a small error margin.

I live in The Netherlands. We are a reasonable modern country, where a lot of things are automated, even in governmental organizations. However, voting is still done on paper ballots. And those paper ballots are then counted manually. This has huge benefits. There always is a paper trail. It’s hard to manipulate votes without getting caught. If there’s any doubt about a certain district’s results, the votes can be recounted. This happens regularly.

Why do we need machines? Counting the votes for e.g. the parliament only takes 24 hours or so, generally. And we don’t have elections every week, right?

If you ask me, this is not a Homelab anymore.

Yeah dream on. I’m an engineer and know what structured data is. And yet I miserably fail to store my private files in a way that I can find them back without relying on search tools. So how on earth are we ever going to organize all the world’s data and knowledge? Thank god we found this sub-optimal “band aid” called LLMs!

I think the point of the article is not to use that mesh network as a replacement for internet. I think the author's idea is that the mesh network would provide the "resilience club" a communication channel while they work on recovering the regular internet.

I think the point of the article is not to use that mesh network as a replacement for internet. I think the author's idea is that the mesh network would provide the "resilience club" a communication channel while they work on recovering the regular internet.

Yeah, let's focus on the liability, let's cover our ass. Instead of worrying about what this headshot thing really is about: giving everyone a fair chance by factoring out possible discrimination based on gender, race, haircut...

Frameworks that do “everything” are not a good idea. I’m from the Java ecosystem. Spring is the “batteries included” framework there. If you have migrated any real world application to a new major version once, you’ve learned forever that “all in one” frameworks are bad. Please don’t do it!

Instead, use scaffolding tools, that give you a head start on creating a new project, using smaller, specialized libs.

Also, don’t use an ORM. Just write that SQL. Your future self will be thankful.

This seems random and contra intuitive. The article is also confusing, containing a section on how to set a solid color as a background, while that is actually what causes the issue...

Hear, hear!

I'm not sure whether the result is more readable than a UUID. With a UUID you at least know that it can only be [0-9A-F]. Besides, who on earth _types_ API keys? You should copy/paste them and store them in a password manager. So they don't _need_ to be readable.

+1

In my experience, Discourse forums do appear high in search results as well. The added benefit is that they have a good UI to read old threads, unlike mailing lists.

Don't. There are more modern and superior solutions like e.g. Discourse. I don't see why people should use old-fashioned things like mailing lists in 2024.