onlinepersona @ onlinepersona @programming.dev

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I see the "just create an account" and "just login" crowd have joined the discussion. Some people will defend a monopolist no matter what. If github introduced ID checks à la Google or required a Microsoft account to login, they'd just shrug and go "create a Microsoft account then, stop bitching". They don't realise they are being boiled and don't care. Consoomer behaviour.

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What? I have never seen a rate limiting screen on codeberg. Ever. If I click too much on github I get rate limited. It happens so frequently, I use https://sourcegraph.com/search when I have to navigate a repository's code.

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Mozilla is just a mouthpiece nowadays. Google money goes in, bullshit comes out. They are only around to accept Google money and to do so, they don't have to actually compete, they just have to be bigger than the alternatives.

If they self hosted a git forge, that would mean paying less money to some "thought leader" and we all know they can't have that!

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What are you talking about? Are you saying sealed sender is a lie? If so, I want some proof.

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There is a lot of FUD here. It's just like anti-vaxxers claiming vaccines make you autistic or have microchips in them: they don't understand what they're talking about, have different threat models, and are paranoid.

Messages are private on signal and they cannot be connected to you through sealed sender. There have been multiple audits and even government requests for information which have returned only the phone number and last connection time.

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Nothing "derailing" us. Not everyone has the same threat model. The messages are private and that's what's most important. Signal can only provide phone number and last connection time to the feds. If that's too much information for you, then you're not the target group and have a different threat model.

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Are you seeing spam on signal? Do you even know why spam is possible on phone networks and what the difference is between phone networks and the internet?

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Yep! I've tried and it doest work. Either it's because I have mixed unit types (service mount service service and another case is service path service serviceX2), or I really just forgot something.

At this point I have to build a simplified version of my services with echo's and shit to be able to debug, because otherwise I'll just drop it and return whenever I find the motivation again.

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I am days into trying to figure out how why systemd just won't start services after another service has successfully been run. I want service A to run, finish successfully and then service B to start. I've tries requires, wants, after and their reverse. I've tries paths with PathChanged and other things I've forgotten now. Either service B won't start because it's not WantedBy some target, but if I add that then it simply ignores the After, Requires, and Wants, and PathChanged to start anyway when the target has started.

It's maddening. Why are there so many conditions that express nearly the same thing but do so in such subtle ways that only testing will expose what it truly is, and sometimes not even that helps because obviously something else is missing but it won't say what. And AI of course has no fucking clue how to help.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

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If it's on peertube, I might follow it. On YouTube, even if I watched it, it'd be through yt-dlp and thus no views for you (at least not officially).

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You did not watch the video, I see. Because if you had, you'd know what they are trying to accomplish. He says it 3 minutes into the video. Probably shorter than it took you to type out that uninformed comment.

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That framework laptop tho 💦💦💦

Edit: the comments on here really show that 1) people just read headlines and 2) many people cannot think for themselves and will just quote or regurgitate from whichever text they were indoctrinated without second thought. The "but it's not free as in freedom" and "it's not opensource because it's not OSI" comments show up on every single post about this topic. It's like people referring to the bible and screaming "blasphemy" when someone says something that doesn't fit. Or like people losing their minds because a non-white actor is "not canon".

I wish people had to answer multiple choice questions before being allowed to comment. Maybe it would make them actually think instead of just spew their religious bile all over the comment section.

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I've been thinking about using business source license for my projects. Fuck MAGAF and other companies for taking advantage of opensource devs, making billions and not wanting to contribute back or even support the dev.

Once the Post-Open license is finalised, there's a good chance it'll become my default instead of AGPL or BSL.

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How does one get a job like this? This is great! I want to get a job in a school or university and infect it with linux. "Guys, look! It's cheaper and we can set it up then pay for support which still makes it cheaper and students can learn how to use it on their computers too, since it's freely available to them!"

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What is this? It jumps in explaining features and details about other stuff, but doesn't explain the basic goal. There are also no screenshots except of some table. It's not clear how to use this thing.

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Understandable. It's a pity Google is so embedded in our systems. You can still get a fairphone though. It also comes with regular android. I've read in multiple places not to get the official fairphone case. You might have to check why that is.

The good thing about the fairphone is that it has the highest reparability raring of any current phone out there. You can swap put the screen, battery, and other components very easily when things go haywire.

And of course it's one of the very few companies on this world that tries to give a shit about slavery in the supply chain.

I know somebody's going to day "get a pixel and put grapheneOS, it's the most secure phone in the planet". I don't know if the Swedish apps dependent on google services will work, but if you do decide to go google hardware, you can try and get it secondhand.

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Fairphone with eOS if you want to get away from Google even more. No google services but access to f-droid and the play store with anonymous accounts.

Or, get a second-hand phone and flash it with eOS or lineage OS.

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So there are more than 9000 apps that take screenshots because somehow that's in the permissions list that neither Apple nor Google check when they claim to provide security - especially Apple when they claim that locking you in is better for you.

There are news reports of people getting add before babies were born simply because of what people were buying. Sometimes the people didn't know they were pregnant themselves! That's how embedded they are in our lives and people go "well, nothing to hide, right?" and don't even flinch. Imagine being sent to jail because an SD agency detected you were pregnant but aborted it and you live in an antiabortion state.

"Nothing to hide"

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Very likely that the people involved in the deal were corrupt. It wouldn't surprise anybody if they got a nice sum deposited into an offshore account, a free house, expensive art, or whatever else is used to hide corruption.

Unfortunately the opensource community is heavily disorganised. We don't have a group to represent us, market opensource, push for its use in public office, fight for compensation for maintainers and developers, and so much more. A concerted effort could possibly accelerate adoption and make it possible for more people to earn a living from opensource, not just the lucky few who can do it in their free time and transition to a paid/funded position.

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