Doesn’t synapse need like, a server cluster to run? The self-hostable service is supposed to be something owo, I think.

Hopefully no one is asking developers to be virtuous (even tho, to be fair, if we are going to be asking that we should also expect the code to be wholly bugs-free!), but how many times they actually “keep their beliefs to themselves and focus on technical issues in the project”? On whichever side. It’s just not a thing that can reasonably be avoided all the time between humans.

But the reality of these times is that behaviour outside the field of programming is representative and/or predictive of behaviour in the field of programming, when it comes to literally working with other people. And this is not only about the act of commiting changes or filing PRs, it’s about the why of programming and the ways of delivery as well. Someone who strongly associates with barbaric beliefs is less likely to want to spend their spare time working in peace for all, and more likely to be wanting to work on software that at least in some way carries or represents those beliefs, for example in capturing and using user data, or in aiding systems used by the military to kill children of “non-citizens”. So being “absolutely” uncaring does not really make sense.

Nah, I chose DDG and got a better result, but thanks!

Good olde Conversations for Android, as well as Monocles. Can’t speak for ios, I am not paid enough to touch that dev crap (literally – they expect you to pay to even touch their dev crap).

What does “empathy in communication” have to do with a software project?

Not having read Stein’s work, I can only mostly guess it’s related to the emphasis on the “communication” part as it applis to effective communication of duties, milestones, failure modes and reactions in a project. Torvalds’s tirades for example were awesome and most of the time well-deserved for the idiot trying to accidentally the kernel, but are quite more of a bummer and a momentum-killer when looked at at a project-wide scope.

I’m all for empathy, don’t get me wrong, but ideally software projects are more focused on technical correctness than feels

(Not) sorry to say, that age has long sailed. Remote teambuilding, capitalism and AI have made it that we now need to actually care and be watchful why or how something is being made to work, on the technical sense. Just look at the situation with Mozilla or Signal (offering systems that can be described as free, but are being offered so in a rather adversarial manner).

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Good try, but I don’t read MBA hallucinations or AI slop.

Is this even true or just a myth? From what I know, law doesn’t actually mandate people to be jerkasses. Also at least in sane countries, you can’t trademark words that are in the dictionary like “hoard” or “hoarder”, since by definition they have prior art.

I don’t want AI slop from big corpo and you think I am gonna want AI slop that’s just as wasteful and harmful just because it’s “locally produced”? That’s Republican-ish crap line of thought.

It seems they don’t care.

Then get that in writing.

You don’t need years for a terminal, at least not for the stuff a normal user would have to expect to do with it (so eg.: not browsing files, that has good UIs already). But you should expect to have to learn something. We require people to learn and even certify their learning when they are to drive a car for example, and for computers we are not even askng 1/6th of that, even tho the last few decades show we maybe should.

You don’t need to do everything on the terminal – even today, you don’t have to. But you should not fear the terminal, the same way you should not fear a piano because you play a violin. Windows also has a terminal, there’s stuff that tells you to go there to enable some Powershel things, and no one complains.

Or with cooperatives. Cooperatives are a good alternative to corporations.

Just sell the car to a derby demolition show. We all win.

But Kagi is going to run on the webkit engine, right?

Added to my dictionary!

Regarding things like dockers and flatpaks, I mostly “solve” it by only running official images, or at least images from the same dev as the program, where possible.

But also IMO there’s little to no reason to fear when using things like flatpaks. Most exploits one hears of nowadays are of the kind “your attacker needs to get a shell into your machine in the first place” or in some cases evn “your attacker needs to connect to an instance of a specific program you are running, with a specific config”, so if you apply any decent opsec that’s already a v high barrier of entry.

And speaking of Debian, that does bring to mind the one beef I have with their packaging system: that when installing a package it starts the related services by default, without even giving you time to configure them.

“liver spots”? ESL here so there’s idioms I don’t grok.

I don’t.

Yeah, hot take, but basically there’s no point to me having to keep track of all that stuff and excessively worry about the dangers of modernity and sacrifice the spare time I have on watching update counter go brrrr of all things, when there’s entire peoples and agencies in charge of it.

I just run unattended-upgrades (on Debian), pin container image tags to only the major version number where available, run rebuild of containers twice a week, and go enjoy the data and media I built the containers and installed for software for.

The screw-ups keep mounting like they want to be Google.

They (and we)'ve got to admit, the solution is not going to come from within their (managerial) ranks.

At this point I’d be happy to offer my services as a BDFL for Mozilla, at but a small fraction of the wages of any of their C-suites.

And this is not about the kink. It’s about the shitters in the video.