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Oh man that description immediately made me think of a government IT job a friend used to work in

> Every Mastodon instance is slow beyond reason and it’s still confusing to regular users in terms of how it works.

I'll concede the confusing part but all the major Mastodon servers I interact with regularly are pretty quick so I'm not sure where that part comes from.

> not sending the client other players' positions until absolutely necessary (either the client can see the other player, or there's a movement the client could make that would reveal the other player before receiving the next packet)

I think the problem with this is sounds like footsteps or weapons being fired that need to be positional.

Which makes me wonder if you could get away with mixing these sounds server-side and then streaming them to the client to avoid sending positions. Probably infeasible in practice due to latency and game server performance, but fun to think about.

Here's a video of what one of those shops looks like by an Indonesian diplomat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRYJ9u0sEE4

Debian is just about the worst Linux distribution to recommend for desktop use for newcomers to the ecosystem.

+1 for INWX. Reliable, reasonably cheap and domains is actually their core business rather than just something tacked on.

I switched from an iPad to a Surface Go 3 running Fedora a while ago and it really transformed my tablet use. I mostly just watched Youtube videos and did some light browsing on my iPad, but never really any serious work. Occcasionally I would ssh into other machines using apps like Blink, but even with the external keyboard the UX just feels ... off. Same for other apps that have IDE-like environments. They work, but they're never really great to use.

I was skeptical about getting a Linux tablet because of the worse battery life and less polished overall experience, but having a desktop Firefox with all add-ons, my text editor of choice, and the ability to open a terminal and run whatever I want really more than makes up for it (Plus GNOME is a pretty good tablet experience out of the box these days as long as you broadly stick to their 'official' apps).

Seems to load fine for me right now

They did try. There's the Societas Europaea, a standardized type of corporation largely governed by EU law. It's primarily used by large multinational companies (Think BASF, SAP, Airbus): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societas_Europaea

That was part of a push to introduce standardized EU-wide legal forms for other types of businesses as well, but the process stalled and never really went anywhere after that.

In my experience MySQL is still commonly used in the PHP world, but everything else is mostly Postgres

Except for the 'OneSignal' startup ones. I always think they're posts related to Signal (the messaging app) for a bit.

For me, it's two things:

* Whenever I come across an interesting project hosted on Github (On Hacker News, Mastodon or some such place), I usually star it. Then when I'm later looking for a library or piece of software I usually search my Github stars first for a nice pre-filtered list of options.

I know I could also use a bookmark manager to keep track of interesting non-Github projects, but that's way too high-friction and so in practice I usually forget about them.

* There's also the social feed on the homepage where you can see which repositories your friends have starred/contributed to. I don't personally use this super often but frequently I star some repository and then notice a bunch of my friends starred it shortly after, presumably because they saw it in their feed.

Important limitation if you click through to the "Getting ready for Web Distribution in the EU" page:

> To be eligible for Web Distribution, you must [...] be a member of good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more, and have an app that had more than one million first annual installs on iOS in the EU in the prior calendar year.

> Keep the politics out of this please

Apart from how nonsensical it is to want to "keep politics" out of inherently political discussions: Your last comments on hacker news were about US trade policy, Navalny's treatment by Russia and the development of fringe political groups in the EU.

I was just about to write that. No crypto scam nonsense in the same datacenter sounds like a plus to me.

(On a more serious note, I imagine the reason Hetzner does not want crypto-related stuff is for the same reasons most hosting companies are not very fond of porn-related sites: High rates of fraud, charge-backs and other potential legal liability).

> I’m glad there’s finally some cases setting precedent for the GPL.

There's been a few before: https://gpl-violations.org/news/

Spotify does not allow you to subscribe in their iOS app. You have to do that in a browser and then log in. That way Apple does not get a cut.

One thing I miss from Google is a reliable built-in calculator. I know I could just use some other calculator app but the habit of just typing stuff into my address bar is hard to shake.

Kagi also has a calculator, but for a lot of queries it gives questionable results, for example for `210/8` it returns `105/4`. Technically correct, sure, but almost never what I want.

The owner probably noticed but didn't care. Presumably the only reason they still had it was because they were legally required to so they could keep operating on FM.

And I doubt the FCC is constantly monitoring any random AM station if nobody complains.

> Also, the C++ community is a lot more tolerant.

Yeah the biggest turnoff for me with Rust isn't even the language anymore, but the community surrounding it.

I realize it's mostly a vocal minority and the vast majority of Rust people, including the ones I know personally, are very nice. But boy are there some obnoxious Rust evangelists out there.

Which so far they've accomplished by not being decentralized at all, which is of course convenient.

> has created their own programming language

For me, that's part of the problem. I'm sure Swift is a nice enough language based on what I've seen. But I'm not going to invest a substantial amount of time learning a language that is realistically only ever going to be useful to target one platform by a single company.

* and the EU, and Antarctica (.aq)

I think that prompt is for something different.

> I also would expect that Github eventually will also offer mercurial repos.

How come? That seems highly unlikely to me, especially when you consider that one of their larger competitors (Bitbucket) had Mercurial support for a long time and then removed it.

Because not everything needs to be a peer-reviewed scientific publication, sometimes just reading people's opinion on stuff is enlightening too, especially if they have expertise in a field.

It may not be 100% accurate all the time, but it can still give you food for thought.

I've regularly attended C3 since back when it was still in Berlin and I'm not sure growing the event every year is desirable. Don't get me wrong, I sympathize with the goal of making it more accessible to everyone and I know the "ticket lottery" is miserable, especially if you don't end up getting one.

But the overall vibe of the event definitely changed for the worse (imho) with the move to Leipzig simply because the venue there is mostly focused on trade fairs and thus just so much more wide-open with everything much further apart. In Hamburg you'd constantly run across people you know in the hallways due to the compact horizontal layout, and the overall atmosphere was just a bit cozier. It was still a great event in Leizpig, but for me at least it really didn't compare to the previous iterations in Hamburg.

It's definitely a difficult trade-off to make and I'm glad I'm not the one making these decisions.

Yeah it's really irritating when American companies (or bands) put an Umlaut in their name but then just pronounce it like the regular letter.

Trending posts in Mastodon need to be reviewed by the admin. That message generally means the admin just never bothered to do that (common on single-user instances).

But yes, the server is also not very popular (Because it was just set up as a joke after twitter was renamed).

I'm writing a hobby kernel/operating system and one of the things that surprised me was how simple ext2 is. It really isn't much different from fat32 in many ways, just a bit more flexible and designed in a more future-proof way.

Obviously ext2 is a very outdated filesystem by today's standards, but considering ext3 and ext4 are essentially just some extensions slapped onto ext2, I still didn't expect it.

Another thing I found really impressive was just how resilient e2fsck is. During early development of my ext2 code I frequently mangled the file system in a myriad of weird ways, but no matter how much I broke things, e2fsck was almost always able to restore the file system into a reasonable state.

(For the curious, there is some excellent documentation on the ext2 file system at https://www.nongnu.org/ext2-doc/ext2.html that I mostly used for my implementation of it. Sadly no such thing seems to really exist for ext3/ext4).