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Seeing these patterns preceded by blind spots is horrifying, because you then know that pure hell awaits you.

Poetteringware seems to be highly praised by mostly young people who would like Linux to be a Windows clone. People who understands Unix concepts tends to dislike it.

> To each their own, but I won't touch Alpine (outside of docker use) until they get systemd....

Luckily that won't happen as systemd doesn't support musl which Alpine uses for libc.

> Wait then why do literally none of the staunch vegan people I know look like this?

Maybe your are lying or in denial? I have first hand experience with the cult like properties of the vegan movement. It's very clear from how ex-vegans - people how really tried to embrace veganism, but had to quit because of health issues - are harassed by current vegans, any criticism of the movement cannot be tolerated and ex-vegans are very dangerous as they expose that veganism is not for everyone.

> And why does the American Dietetic Association officially state that a vegan diet is completely fine for all stages of life?

Lobbyism? Research some of the former controversies. The name is Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics now by the way.

> Yes they do. Healthy vegans are way more common than you think. There is nothing unique about meat that can't be obtained from plant-based foods.

You can easily check if a vegan is actually following a vegan diet without cheating, because after a few years they will develop the sunken eyes and hollow collarbones, definitely not looking healthy.

To backup the passwords a copy of ~/.password-store/ is enough, but to completely recover, a backup of the gpg keys is also required. What's your strategy for this? Do you just backup the entire ~/.gnupg/ directory?

> And, if I want it to be an app I can use some HTML/JS wrapper and be done in a similar amount of time. I can have a new electron app up and running and on 3 platforms in under an hour. If I had more mobile experience I'm sure I could do the same there.

So now you have made a crap UI that is running on 3 platforms. It was quick and easy for you, but now every user has to suffer with a slow and bloated electron "app".

GUI development definitely has gone backwards at least a decade. Of course it can still be done right, but with so many low skill web developers everywhere, electron "apps" are what we get.

> I am curious, at what point will the features stop?

Zawinski's Law:

Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

How is the process going with reducing Javascript on the frontend? Simple things like reading replies to issues or merge requests should not require Javascript, it also makes Gitlab feel annoyingly sluggish compared to GitHub.

It's not feasible or reasonable depending on the world catering to your every need. If seeing or hearing a word will result in a mental breakdown, the solution is NOT to demand the entire world stop using that word, but for you to build mental resilience and being able to cope with that word, longterm this is the only way for you to not be miserable.

The only right solution is for those people to learn emotion regulation.

> While dairy is not strictly necessary for grown ups, I recognise that it will be present for some time so we should care about how it is produced. Dairy should be more expensive than it is now, similar to what happens to meat.

Dairy and meat is part of a healthy diet. While not impossible to do without, health problems often develops with time. That's why most people (84%) who adopts a vegan diet at some point in their lives, returns to eating meat and dairy again. The first years on a plant diet are usually great, almost everyone feels better than ever. Then after 5-10 years many will experience a steep decline in health, both physical and mental that is resolved with returning to animal products. Of course eating too much animal products and not enough plants will also make you sick, that goes without saying.

So yes, agree very much that we should care how it is produced.

Emacs is a great OS but it lacks a decent text editor.

After trying both Beyond Meat and Impossible Meat, without the stuff being drenched in sauce and other burger ingredients, just the plain "meat", I must say that I don't like it one bit. It smells like canned cat food and taste nothing like real meat to me.

I will switch to fake meat when I'm unable to sense any difference between something like a Greater Omaha ribeye and a fake substitute, not a day before :)

I'm looking forward to the release that will heavily reduce use of Javascript, at least on the frontend.

Ever heard about Bill Cosby's Special Barbecue Sauce? I think it was called BarbeQuaaludes. Anyways, it definitely made the women relax ;)

I'm very interested about the aliases, but I'm not sure that I understand it correctly. I have a example00@fastmail.com address, does this mean that I can also register example01@fastmail.com and example02@fastmail.com as an alias on my account, and it will seem like I have three accounts and recipients will never known about example00@fastmail.com if I send from one of the two aliases? Do I then also "own" example01@fastmail.com and example02@fastmail.com in the same way I "own" example00@fastmail.com while a customer?. If understood correctly, I could register an alias for mailing lists, and disable it if too much spam is received without ruining my main address.

> Electron. Never tried it.

And nothing of value is lost.

In this day and age I always verify the authenticity of downloaded ISO images, but this seems not possible with Tinycore Linux as no signatures are available, which makes me somewhat uncomfortable.

> The people who keep complaining about it seem more and more like children who just refuse to learn something new and better because they've already stumbled through all the holes it fills.

Systemd apologists always seems to think that anyone not completely in love with systemd, is just refusing to learn something new. Please stop with the stupidity, people have real reasons to hate that shit.

I had no problem with switching to WireGuard, after learning about it, because this is so much better in both use and design than OpenVPN that I have used for 20 years. I had no problem with learning about systemd either, but that is just badly designed software to me.

WinWorld has two releases:

https://winworldpc.com/product/hp-ux/9

> I expect soon it will reach GitLab "quality": unable to view source code without JavaScript enabled.

I also hate GitLab for this, but I learned today that they are actually working on fixing this, by shifting some components to server side rendering. Awkward for me if GitLab suddenly will become the better choice.

Ugh, that's not good. Latest commit message and date will not display under <> Code without Javascript enabled, but if I click around in the repository and go back to <> Code or keep refreshing the page, they suddenly show up, still with Javascript disabled. Can anyone explain this?

However, I do like the visual part of the new layout.

Well, that's interesting information. I believe it when I see it, but it could be that my criticism of GitLab is no longer valid at some point in the future.

> Better UI than GitHub

I think that GitHub has a much better UI than GitLab. GitLab is slow and bloated compared to GitHub. Requiring Javascript for browsing the code repository is just bad design.

I should probably have been more specific in my critique, as it sounds like I think GitLab has major problems. It's just regarding the web interface.

On every other Git repository manager, we can browse source code, view replies to both issues and merge requests without Javascript enabled. But not on GitLab. I don't expect anything advanced to work without Javascript, but these simple operations definitely should and I think it's very bad design to have this requirement. The result of this Javascript overuse is that GitLab is both slower and a bigger pain to use than the alternatives. Use Javascript in small amounts were it make sense for functionality, not just for showing text, pictures or other simple things.

There, my two cents. So, what I meant was that Microsoft should look at GitLab and NOT copy the web interface. GitHub has a nice web interface, with Javascript in acceptable amounts and where it make sense, even the language details bar works without.

Please don't ruin something that works fine by adding unnecessary crap. The only thing Microsoft has to do, is to take a good look at GitLab so they know what they absolutely NOT should do.

A big part of the books in NEL are out of print and no electronic versions are available elsewhere, and never will, so had it not been for Internet Archive, it would have been impossible to read these books and many of them had been lost forever.

If it's impossible to buy the book, why is NEL a problem for the publishers? Would they rather have that no one ever read the book again?

> At first I thought this was a a way to run a Beowulf cluster...

Well, it is. Install and configure Open MPI or MPICH on multiple connected Devuan Beowulf systems and you have a Beowulf cluster. As a bonus, your new Beowulf cluster is systemd free.