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Testing

Edit: LGTM

I think his dude would be better er served by radicle. He can host his seed node, people can push their branches into namespaces in the bare git repositories there, they can request that those branches be merged into a branch in his namespace, they can create tickets that are all stored in the git repositories, comments on patches/merge requests/etc. are also in git, he can add trusted contributors, and so on.

People don't have to create an account. Just a public key pair on their machine and they are off to the races.

I don't know his email, but somebody could mail him and make him aware of radicle.

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Vivaldi? The closed source browser? How do you know it shares nothing?

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EU commission should be urging Europeans to ditch US products and services 🤷

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Matrix and Revolt do exist. Revolt being the "spiritual" successor of Discord.

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Nope. I'd report and block them. Looks like spam to me.

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Falsehoods US programmers believe about languages

The US-centric, anglo-saxon centric worldview strikes again 😮‍💨 For those us that speak multiple languages, many of these are revelations...

Also, if they are, it's best to add examples, otherwise these are just random claims without any sources to back them up.

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The interview process being broken doesn't mean the job is broken/useless. It's shitty IMO that Columbia university wants to take "disciplinary action" for exposing useless interviewing practices. It would've been better to tell Roy about ethics and say "If you want to do this kind of stuff, that's fine, but here's the way to do it. In fact you can continue doing this at our university and make a career out of it. Let's talk."

And Amazon's reaction is also dumb (as expected). They should instead be hiring this dude to improve their interviewing practices by letting him build internal tooling to try and defeat the interviewing process. Of course they won't do this because there is a certain prestige in getting a FAANG job. Keeping recruiting costs low but interest high with a high rejection rate is the goal for recruiting.

I'm not quite sure there's a winner in this triangle, except those outside it: this might force companies to change their recruitment practices. My guess is that there will be a lot of resistance first and more money will be spent on "fraud detection" than actual improvements. It will be a cat and mouse game with probably the companies losing, but at least some C-suite bastard will get rich selling the fraud detection solution 🤷

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I wasn't being very serious about nix. IMO, it's quite the time investment due to its poor documentation and it has a lot of gotcha's if you aren't on NixOS e.g one example is that it's great for terminal applications, but horrendous for GUI applications as it'll be hit or miss. Again, this is if you're not on NixOS. So, it can feel like an "all or nothing" approach.

If you have the time and will, then it can be very rewarding. But if you just "want something that works ™ " side by side in your current system, personally, I wouldn't recommend it - unless it's hidden by some other tool like devenv (which is a great tool for reproducible developer environments).

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Adopt nix and you will be able to ignore it forever! 😉

Seriously though, as others have said, use whatever fits you best. I avoided snaps and flatpaks due to the increased size requirements. So many things were duplicated for no apparent benefit (to me). However, with their introduction of permissions and portals, it does seem like a safer option. Although, we're in a phase right now where not everything is flatpakked and applications trying to talk to each other is a pain (keepassxc unable to talk to flatpak firefox librewolf, chromium, etc.).

Now that I use nix, I have a whole bunch of other problems, but at least getting packages is quite low on the list.

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Guys, stop using github. Put your stuff on gitlab or codeberg (clearnet or on I2P), or even put it on radicle (which can also be hosted on TOR or I2P). They'll have a much harder time taking down stuff on alternatives and it'll be nearly impossible on hidden services.

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Thanks for writing this up👍 Very reasonable guidelines.

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OK, thanks. I'll wait until the move has been made off of Github before trying to contribute.

Thanks for the project so far!

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@nutomic@lemmy.ml @dessalines@lemmy.ml was (is?) there a mirror somewhere else?

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The answer to "how do I contribute without github" being "use github", isn't really that helpful, if you know what I mean 😉

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"I had to reinstall" in 3... 2... 1...

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As one Google Play Store customer said: "No consent given, install could not be paused or stopped. I watched it install itself on my phone on January 22, 2025 (couldn't pause or cancel it) AND it did all of that over mobile network (my settings are to never download or install anything unless I'm on Wi-Fi). Description tells you nothing. Permissions are for virtually EVERYTHING."

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However, some have reported that SafetyCore reinstalled itself during system updates or through Google Play Services, even after uninstalling the service. If this happens, you'll need to uninstall SafetyCore again, which is annoying.

I've said that this is possible multiple times and people have straight up to me "you don't understand how android security works - this is impossible". Well, here we are...

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So the migration to Rust is finally complete! What an effort, wow. Congrats to the devs.

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There's nothing really wrong with substack. People just like to shit on anything that doesn't pass whatever purity test they happen to use.

This is big problem in left-wing communities. They just can't get along and demand purity in anything they do - except themselves. Left wingers will happily and harshly defend their use of whatever capitalist product they themselves use with a bunch of excuses that fan make your head spin. Apple users a great example thereof. They will disparage so many other products and companies but somehow Apple is their baby and immune to criticism.

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The eternal problem of open source: people will happily pay for proprietary software and services, complain that open source isn't ready. Then when it is, they will not donate a single cent to continue development but instead create passive aggressive posts and issues demanding features or shitting on the project.

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