Also, as someone pointed out in the comments on the video as well as here, you say
Stop being dependent on corporate systems
yet you're on discord and twitter. Why aren't you eschewing those services? Discord can be replaced by matrix, signal (which also has groups), zulip, maybe even rocket chat! Gitlab is fine, but you could also be using radicle (granted, 2 years ago they weren't anywhere close to their current functionality).
Yep, that's exactly what's happening here. And it just keeps happening. What's weird is they explicitly mention TOR and IPFS, then go on to just re-implement it. There's no mention of why.
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I don't know what Gitlab is, but if you look at the "smaller big tech companies" list, Adobe is the smallest on there with 17 billion in revenue as of 2022, which is ~34x that of Gitlab today. It's probably on the larger end of medium sized companies, but that's very fluid.
Gitlab = Big Tech? Dude, you have got to be kidding me.
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Yeah, they can build on top of I2P. There's no need to rewrite all that stuff. They could've written something that glues everything together and reuse the existing nodes instead of creating yet another network.
Also, I2P has implementations in Java (main implementation) and C++ (i2pd). A rust implementation would be great news.
Yeah, there are alternatives. Matrix, Zulip for chatting and the entire fediverse for forums and micro-blogging. But they chose big-tech corp #321 and big-tech corp #123 👍
They are rewriting so much stuff. Why the media player? Are VLC and mpv not enough? Text editor, file manager, screenshot tool, terminal, ... couldn't that all have gone into other stuff?
They both use YAML, but I find the Gitlab doc to be better. If you don't want YAML, you can try Dagger.IO which forces you to write code and can be run in any CI. Haven't used it yet though as it requires a change in thinking that I haven't managed yet.
Tell a normal gamer to install bazzite. I bet you the majority will stop at "put the installer on a USB stick" or any other step in the installation. From getting the PC to boot from the USB stick, figuring out MBR vs UEFI, or "install $distro" or "install $distro (OEM)", partitioning, or whatever other technical stuff pops up. Most people want it to Just Work ™ . Nothing more, nothing less.
I am increasingly disheartened by the obsession over “Desktop SteamOS”. People don’t want Linux or even “a desktop computer”
My guess is that people how the installation will be made easy enough for noobs that they aren't even aware they're installing an OS, or it will be the default on devices. The latter is much much stronger than forcing some poor sod to deal with installing an OS and Valve also makes money in the process, which they can hopefully dump into Linux.
My hope is that the linux community wises up and learns about the power of defaults + not estranging noobs. The elitist "oh eternal september" and "but muh terminal" users can get fucked. Linux needs more people, not less.
I don't know if they need more funding or contributors or something, but that has been on the roadmap for years now. I think all they can federate now are stars.
But I do hope that it'll arrive soon. Github needs a federated alternative and gitlab isn't going to give it to us. Radicle already has federation, but only within its network, so not exactly optimal.
@veilidnetwork@hackers.town I just watched the presentation on veilid and my question still stands: why rebuild TOR and IPFS?
Also, as someone pointed out in the comments on the video as well as here, you say
yet you're on discord and twitter. Why aren't you eschewing those services? Discord can be replaced by matrix, signal (which also has groups), zulip, maybe even rocket chat! Gitlab is fine, but you could also be using radicle (granted, 2 years ago they weren't anywhere close to their current functionality).
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