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Hopefully they discover AGI and the AGI turns out to be a communist. They will kill it SO fast.

A web browser that has all the shit the big tech companies added to make it hard to create a good web browser would be a good start. A web browser does not need webgl or wasm. I want to log into my bank to see how much money I have.

Trump will reverse it by letting one of his donors buy TikTok and restart it. It's better off dead.

There is no system of digital content distribution that can withstand the will of Government. The only thing that can be done is for the citizens of that government to wake up and take the power away from those that are wielding it to further enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. I am not a user of TikTok but this is not a good development for our "perfect union", nor the freedom of the internet in the United States of America.

Maybe the US Government needs to put its line in the sand and mandate the end of autotools. :D

All these plan9 scientists love their own brand. I started using Go in 2012, but after they killed deps.dev I gave it up. Some years later when I wanted to get work done at work I tried to introduce it on my team and another engineer spent a good amount of time looking into the language and listed all the reasons why it sucked, and he was right. The main takeaway was, yeah it's simple, but it does silly things that makes it a pain to use (error handling and unused imports) to name a few. I personally like the error handling but hated the type system.

Crazy to think if plan9 had been MIT licensed from the start it would probably be running the world right now.

My first hobby project was a yo momma joke spammer for AoL in Visual Basic 3.0. Forgive me I was only 14. The VB chatroom on AOL was my teacher.

Nomad will be there when managed k8s gets too expensive. I was looking at it seriously last year for on prem. I chickend put bcz I didn't want to be the only person on my team that understood it. We still don't have a solution, but nomad will be there for when we are ready to progress, regardless of the license.

Jenkins is rock solid. Been using it for three years to deliver highly critical software. The development experience is the worst of all ci tools since no one wants to setup jenkinspipelineunit to test the pipelines. Dagger might be the salvation here, but even that tool didn't support Jenkins out of the gate. And for those that are reading this, the statement about pipeline groovy being a trap is exactly right. Avoid writing groovy at all costs. No one on the team wants to get good groovy and if you do, you're weird. The way we do it is to just use the Jenkins file to call the scripts (or tools) with bare minimal script code.

Edit, forgot to add that I recently interviewed a bunch of candidates for a high paying job at a ai hardware company and every one of those candidates stated they worked on or near a project that involved moving from Jenkins to Gitlab CI.

If any company deserves the corporate death penalty, it's Equifax after this fiasco. That company should no longer exist.

The American idea of a single family home with a lawn and lot size needs to change. And the people that have these don't want new construction in the neighborhood that is dense. Homeowners are fighting back against multiplexes and apartment buildings, and especially against low-income housing.

There are a few billion-dollar recipes in the world and the rooster sriracha was one of them. That family fucked up their golden goose... and now all these competing recipes are getting their shine.

Greed will get you in the end!

AOL gave me my love of programming. I learned how to program in Visual Basic because I wanted to write my own "aol prog". I can still remember the "server" in the Warez room listed VB3.0 as the "the software that is used to make progs". Luckily there were people sharing their code so I could study and figure out how to do it myself.

Me and my cousin created a yo momma joke spammer. I was a shit head back then, but it paid off being a nerd. But still, I did not learn about linux and free software until many years later because of AOL's shitty walled garden.

There wasn't an open source compiler from the beginning, and thus a lot of the compilers where expensive. You could only use the language in an awful legacy setting behind a wall of NDAs and security clearances. Not my experience, just a bunch comments on HN of actual retired Ada devs on why the language didn't take when I was researching the language.

Adacore in the last few years have been investing heavily in modernizing the tool chain, but now it seems they are also investing in Rust.

I don't care. Firefox is fast enough for me, even on my Pixel 4a, and without ads.

My personal open source contributions will only be GPL. Damn the torpedoes! I will only contribute to lesser licenses if I am getting paid by a corp, which I do, and of course that software cannot be GPL'd.

When download.com became infested with ad ware was a sad day. I used to visit that site a lot to see what cool software I could install. Thank the heavens for Linux for teaching me proper package management.

Google is destroying the internet is a good way to put it. AD dollars are their only priority. I hope Google dies because of it.

Kid, first of all great job! Second of all I am jealous you understand this as such a young age. I was pounding 40 ounces of Old English in the hood at 17, but should have doing something like this. Granted, the internet was just a baby when I was 17.

As someone that has dealt with PSF and PyPI at a product level for packaging at the intersection of Python and AI for compute hardware, we consider PyPI an immature ecosystem. It's absolutely great for python libraries, but that's it. It's not ready for the flood of AI hardware that is coming. Mojo looks promising, but not sure how it's going to interact with PyPI.

On the flip side the Rust Foundation hasn't been that great either...

I have keybindings that go directly to the workspace that I am interested in. Fifteen years ago I dedicated 10 workspaces to fullscreen tasks I do daily and now I can go to my browser with a keybinding or to my code editor with another. I have been on workmates computers with tens to a hundred windows open and I am dumbfounded on how they get anything done.

A task should operate on one workspace and there should be keybindings to go directly to that task. Of course I am a pro power user and normies would be horrified at my workflow. Gnome devs try to consider everyone and sometimes miss the mark and make everyone unhappy. So I am going to volunteer to use their concept and provide feedback.

And here I am thinking the Toyota app for my new minivan was asking for too much. I hate the direction tech is going.

Firefox is the best. I wish Mozilla would let me donate funds specifically to fund it's development for my own peace of mind.

I've been using it for the last two years and I think it has potential over btrfs, and zfs specifically. I used zfs on my hobby data array for 10 years prior but decided to downsize everything and use bcachefs in the hopes of it one day being in the kernel (unlike zfs).

Device management is super easy, but is still missing knobs and dials for the most part. Multi device fault tolerance also needs work as I have had to recreate a 16tb array twice now due to journal corruption on power outages.

I'll keep using it and reporting bugs, but I do feel the author is letting some bugs slide to focus on getting the fs in the kernel so that it gets more capable users that can provide patches. I am a sophisticated user, but definitely not a kernel developer.

I will support any platform to replace reddit that is 1) completely open source, 2) community driven, 3) moderators are held accountable by the communities they govern, and 4) not ad supported.

Social bookmarking is something the internet should have as part of it's infrastructure.

Unfortunately the fediverse face-planted in it's time to shine. The infra is the hard part and that all has to be controlled by the same org.

Maybe that extra dollar should go to the mods? And the communities get to elect their mods so they can be held accountable. Maybe we won't get the MrBabyMan or POTATO_IN_MY_ANUS situation.