Daniel Quinn @ danielquinn @lemmy.ca

Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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I like Tilix, since it lets me split the terminal with a keyboard shortcut and easily switch between terminals too. I tried using GNOME terminal + tmux, but having to hit Ctrl+b before the command I wanted got tedious fast.

Upon a cursory read, it sounds like you host a server and then relay all of your data through their centrally controlled system all while also pushing your account data to them.

I'm not sure they understand what "federated" means. Or rather, they know, but they're hoping we don't care.

Aww! Thank you! It was fun ❤️

It's funny, before this, I was just going to buy a legit copy and play it on my Deck (I have a Switch, but prefer the Deck)

Now, fuck those guys. If I play at all, it'll be on a pirated copy.

There was a talk on exactly this at a FOSDEM years ago, and the verdict was that licence changes were prohibitively difficult if the project was openly developed because you need to acquire permission to change the licence from every contributor. This is why some projects (React for example) require the signing of a contract in advance of any PR merge that transfers the ownership of the contribution to "the project".

So, if Matrix is (a) developed openly, allowing contributions from anyone, and (b) doesn't require the signing of a bullshit CLA, I think it's fine.

Thanks! The crazy thing is that it's really not that complicated. I'd say the hardest work was in writing the docs :-). It's awesome to hear that people still use it and love it though.

Actually, I stepped away from the project 'cause I stopped using it altogether. I started the project to satisfy the British government with their ridiculous requirements for proof of my relationship with my wife so I could live here. Once I was settled though and didn't need to be able to bring up flight itineraries from 5 years ago, it stopped being something I needed.

Well that, and lemme tell you, maintaining a popular Free software project is HARD. Everyone has an idea of where stuff should go, but most of the contributions come in piecemeal, so you're left mostly acting as the one trying to wrangle different styles and architectures into something cohesive... while you're also holding down a day job. It was stressful to say the least, and with a kid on the way, something had to give.

But every once in a while I consider installing paperless-ngx just to see how it's come along, and how much has changed. I'm absolutely delighted that it's been running and growing in my absence, and from the screenshots alone, I see that a lot of the ideas people had when I was helming made it in in the end.

Ha! I wrote it! Well the original anyway. It's been forked a few times since I stepped away.

So yeah, I think it's pretty cool 😆

42,396 installs.... Holy shit.

Edit, from the article:

This “Exodus” application published in the Snap store was indeed a scam application. There is a genuine organisation that developed a real, seemingly ’legitimate’ cryptocurrency wallet application. This is not that.

Any chance that the FlatHub one is legit?

Ugh. I hadn't heard. I expected better, but the NDP have been a terrible disappointment in the last decade or so.

The goal is to erode privacy, and the pearl clutching about children is always the excuse. There are a lot of groups who want to eliminate privacy online: cops, copyright holders, and religious nuts to name a few. They're the ones driving this stuff.

My guess would be that it's because Flatpaks are easy. You have a handy GUI tool often pre installed that includes search and one-click install.

If you want something lower level, Arch users have the AUR, and others may actually do that horrifying curl https://... | sh pattern.

Nix pancakes on the other hand.... I have no idea how to use them and generally assume it's the thing NixOS uses. Since I don't use NixOS, I've never given them a second thought.

I would love for a feature like this to be built into pacman or yay. Like, if it was included in the output of pacman -Ss <package>, you could decide which thing to install based on this info.

Don't feel bad. That whole series was a disjointed mess.

I really don't get the fawning over PIC season 3. It was bad. I'd love to see more of Ryan in a new series, but only if they recruit writers on par with SNW and lose the phone numbers of those who did PIC.

Just in time for there to be no state left to recognise.

Nope. It's definitely not. The idea is just to make it safe(r) to share files within an organisation. The assumption is that for direct P2P sharing you'll want something simpler like Croc.

Not really. It's async in the sense that you can send a file now, and the server will hold it in an encrypted state until your recipient comes to collect it.

I was recently introduced to Croc which is great for point-to-point immediate shares. If you want something async, I wrote Korra some years ago. It might do the job for you.

Not OP, but I didn't know this was a thing, so thank you!