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Out of interest, why wouldn't PHP be a consideration? I thought it was pretty good now a days...

Yeah, half baked anything is going to screw you over. INI files are certainly programmatically serialisable, otherwise they wouldn't exist. It does move the datatypes to the program rather than being encoded in the config though, which adds to program overhead. Horses for courses though, with greater flexibility comes greater potential to f*uk it up.

I don't order my keys at all. All mine are on a carabiner, for maximum flexibility, it's modular. I'm not taking anything but my front door key for a dog walk, for example. All my separate keys have individual clips too.

The idea is to only have the keys I need for a particular journey.

I love me an INI. By far, IMO, the best human readable config syntax. Sure it's got some gotchas, like all old formats (CSV) there's no spec. But if I have the choice I'd go INI. It's simple and leaves the choices up to the program that's reading the file, because everything is a string.

To me there's no difference in this articles argument that with INI people would have to remember about the idiosyncrasies of the python implementation related to comments, and people having to know and learn the correct syntax of TOML. I'd say remembering when and where you can comment is easier too.

Either way it's personal preference. I do occasionally like to reread this though (because I'm boring): https://github.com/madmurphy/libconfini/wiki/An-INI-critique...

Is there a bus version? This is excellent.

A tutorial on this was on the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41881204

I don't see why I'd use this over fossil for my personal projects though.

Chrome is worse than Firefox, literally a name and URL for a link and name for folder. At least with Firefox you can tag bookmarks and use keywords.

I'm curious how Firefox comes off worse in your view, chrome seems to provide basic usage which Firefox also provides.

EDIT: just saw your other reply about it. Definitely can't agree, there's nothing fiddly with the way Firefox allows you to move, create, rename, delete, or update links and folders. Same functionality as chrome as far as I can tell.

> I think Zim does not really fit into the discussion because it does not rely on easily exchangeable standard software like a file explorer and browsers.

Zim is very much based on the file system. Each note is a text file and if it has attachments or embedded images they go into a folder named after that text note.

Whilst not in markdown the markup used is easy to understand and convert. Zim itself allows you to copy a note to the clipboard in pandoc markdown and export the note to markdown and/or html (though admittedly the styling for html it atrocious).

I couldn't agree more. Bookmarks are simply an after thought today, like RSS. I'm looking for a browser with decent bookmark management. Even just a notes field and a saved snapshot feature would do me. Currently I'm using Zotero for this, but it's a little OTT as a bookmark manager.

As a British national I like to think git is a very descriptive name, because git is a git to use and understand.

Came here for a martial arts tutorial, which I thought was a bit weird to see front page on HN, and now I see an alternative to git.

I don't particularly like git and for personal projects use fossil instead.

Without going through the whole tutorial, and doing a lot more reading, why should I consider using this over fossil?

Nothing, I'm too busy swearing at the computer and threatening to break it in various ways, until I realise I was missing a semi-colon, or I've misspelled a keyword, or any number of other reasons that make me a bad programmer.

Why not use a wiki? Zim desktop is text based local first. It doesn't handle videos but everything is handled. Search is good and you get the other benefits of a wiki. No mobile client, that I'm aware of.

Thanks for this, never knew it existed. Wondering now if there's region specific current events.

My mum has a password notebook which is locked away in a drawer in her house, she knows to use either passphrases or random string that her browser generates for her. For her threat model this is better than any software thing.

Certainly a password manager like keepass would be no more complicated than trying to explain to her that she can no longer access her account because she broken her phone.

I only need one provider. A portable open source encrypted database I'm in control of and can back up and secure as needed. It's what I have now, and have had for years, in my password manager. I won't be at the mercy of a company or a device to access my digital life.

Pretty extensive comparison. Flutter seems to beat out react native in almost all aspects.

I've not used it for websites but have used it for state management in a flutter app, which seemed waaaaaay simpler than learning and then using one of the many state management systems they have (even if I managed to figure out which one to use, paradox of choice always trips me up).

And for data analysis stuff it's absolutely brilliant!

So yes absolutely it's underrated!

You started by moving the goalposts, then set up strawman arguments, and now resorting to ad hominem attacks. Pathetic really.

But I stand corrected, apparently: WFH != WFH. Good to know.

I think my main issue is this modern need for "heros" to be beacons of all virtual who from birth never said or did anything that anyone in the future of humanity will ever disagree with. And if they fail at that they are scum.

Certainly pro Russian propaganda wants him dismissed like this and compared to murderers for comments made over 15 years ago.

I'm sure those comments justify all that happened to him and discredit everything he subsequently did... /s

Can anyone tell me why you'd want to do this? What use case is there for running Linux apps on android beyond curiosity or just because?

Personally if I need to do work that requires this I'd use a computer instead of a tablet or phone.

This might just be me though since I don't do banking or shopping on my phone either as I don't like the restricted nature of the small screen. Working from a desktop or laptop is a much freer experience.

Now running android app from a desktop, that is a killer feature for me!

Haha dream job it is not, but a definite benefit is you never take it home. And I am never not paid overtime if I work beyond my hours. I could definitely get a better paid job but this one is good enough with a decent work/life balance.

If it's silly and pedantic to assume we're talking about the thing plainly stated in both the title and body of the article, then yes I am.

Now if you're actual stance is that when someone says WFH you include all remote work then we are clearly talking about two different things. In which case it should be plainly stated. As it stands it just seems to me you were moving the goalposts.

For clarity WFH when I say it means a type of remote work where you work from you home. You can set up as many straw mans as you want but this it what I've been discussing from the start.

Ultimately WFH is a matter of opinion. I don't like it, you do; and that's fine.

That's a definite false equivalence.

Did they specify what those security reasons were?

If I did I can't see it.

You'll have to forgive my ignorance for assuming we were talking WFH instead of remote working. I got confused when it stated work from home instead of remote working.

Either way "some companies" ain't mine, and I'm not being out of pocket for work.

Hang on, why would I rent office space, to WFH? I don't mean to be blunt but I this seems ridiculous.

> I'm not trying to tell you that liking the office is wrong but most of what you said here applies to WFH.

I'm not saying WFH didn't work for me so is doesn't work for everyone. For me though as soon as the novelty wore off I found it a bad experience. Certainly for me none of it applied.

If it works for you I'm happy for you. For me I like that clear separation where it's not easy to slip into working beyond your time.

I currently work somewhere where I can't WFH. And as a counterpoint to pretty much everyone here I prefer it. My last role I was able to WFH.

Reasons I prefer going into the office:

- when work is done, I leave, and it's done.

- not using my resources (electricity / broadband / etc) for work.

- easier interaction with colleagues.

I liked it at the start, and liked the flexibility, but after a while hated that my home was also my workplace. I also found it was too easy to do unpaid overtime from home. After a while my productivity fell.

Caveat is I live within cycle distance to work. I hate commuting too, and wouldn't do more than 30 minutes.

Wrong question.

Question should be: What are you replacing Chrome with?