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Penguincoder

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Bit-breaker working in cybersecurity/IT. Only languages I know are English and Programming ones.

Sometimes I write things about technology.

If I told you the SHA256 for this sentence starts with ‘c, 5, four, a, and a’, would you believe me?

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Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac (9to5mac.com)

“I think the existing, altruistic, free version of Reddit will continue to exist and grow and thrive just the way it has,” Huffman said. “But now we will unlock the door for new use cases, new types of subreddits that can be built that may have exclusive content or private areas, things of that nature.”

Penguincoder ,

He has no idea what that word means. The word he is looking for rhymes with needy.

Penguincoder ,

I find a lot of good content on Reddit, but its different now as opposed to the early days. The good content used to be on Reddit. Now its not, its on one of 6 other sites, and Reddit is just the ad service they’re posting on. I am sick of the in joke comments and inane comments like “this”. I want discussion.

Reddit no longer has that.

Penguincoder ,

I recommend Aegis as well. Does what it needs without shadiness going on.

Penguincoder ,

Of course they did. There was money to be made. Who cares if its pennies, they got their pennies.

Penguincoder ,

Bullshit.

Penguincoder ,

GoogLOL

Penguincoder ,

Good analysis, I agree and understand.

Penguincoder ,

Yep. And you could even be ‘extra’ and do cool effects with compiz et all. Fancy got noticed by others.

Penguincoder ,

Instead of outsourcing to other countries, most of those jobs have been literally outsourced to robots.

Good, those are exactly the types of jobs that should be automated by robots. Not AI generated art and creative.

Penguincoder ,

Go-dAmn Sachs is wrong often, but in this I think they’re on point. Learned from the Crypto insanity.

What email client are you guys using?

I just can’t find a decent email client that looks like it’s from the last 20 years. Geary and Evolution both appear to be pretty modern but something about using Gmail with a Yubikey just doesn’t work and neither of them will connect to my account. Both on Fedora and OpenSUSE. Thunderbird works but it’s so old fashioned...

Penguincoder ,

Old school here, I use mutt. :P on android I use FairEmail and really like it.

Penguincoder ,

The older, but not the oldest one… Gen-X.

Penguincoder ,

it can’t really be that bad.

LoL; you say that… But

Penguincoder OP ,

stop referring to the “what color is your function”

I am not sure what you mean.

Penguincoder ,

they only attack people

Ironic.

Attack the problem, not the person. Yet here we are. YEET.

Penguincoder ,

Java and gradle build is way easier (IMO) than trying to wrangle the dep and build steps of everything react/node/rust based.

Penguincoder ,

Horizon Zero Dawn is amazing, gameplay and story.

Penguincoder ,

Usenet here. 4 paid indexers and the Usenet sub. Still cost less in a year than cable or streaming services cost in a month. Get everything I want and look for easily.

Penguincoder ,

Amazing list, thanks for sharing.

Penguincoder ,

Seconded. Weechat and Gomuks for matrix chat.

A personal argument for a benefit of gaming

I grew up hearing all the talking heads (media), religious groups and parents strongly criticizing video games. You’ve, probably, heard some of this. For example, video games involving any type of violence causing people to become more violent, etc. As far as I know, the academic community has failed to produce any negative...

Penguincoder ,

Ouch… I am happy you were able to share such a defining moment of happiness with your kiddo.

this game. One of his most recent meltdowns

I try to help my kids understand it’s a game for fun. If you’re no longer having fun, you stop playing.

What to include in a backup? (Ubuntu)

Hi! A friend just recommended the backup tool that comes with Ubuntu. I took a look at it and was wondering what you guys include and exclude from the backups. I just installed wire guard VPN and but the config file in the etc/wireguard folder, where it belongs. I would have to include this folder as well if I want to keep my...

Penguincoder ,

An OS can be restored. Backup your data, so /home for sure and maybe any custom configs for /etc, like your wireguard configs. So anything you specifically edited/added for /etc directory.

Penguincoder ,

Always has been…

Penguincoder ,

at least Spotify won’t make any money from it.

And the artists still won’t. So given in either case, the artist don’t make squat; using Spotify is easier. So, use spotify.

Penguincoder ,

When the suggestion is to pirate it, so spotify doesn’t get any money I don’t see how your follow-up comment matters. In either case of piracy, OR using spotify, the artist still doesn’t make money. Problem is that piracy comes with a lot more hoops and headaches.

Of course, buying the artist CD or songs directly is much preferable to either.

Penguincoder ,

That query by itself in a vacuum is fine. Combined with many other triggers on the DB, and then federating that out before actually deleting from the local DB… well that is what creates all sorts of headaches.

Penguincoder ,

Beehaw isn’t the only instance of Lemmy, nor the only instance in the Fediverse. Sure, the feature being added to Lemmy now, won’t benefit Beehaw. But it would still benefit others. Refusing to work on the features that Beehaw wants out of spite, will definitely hurt other instances too.

Not my circus, not my monkeys

Penguincoder ,

No.

Penguincoder ,

What a bad day to have eyeballs.

Penguincoder , (edited )

where there’s a tree of people you’ve invited.

And that is how you get singular point of view echo chamber.

Penguincoder ,

And so enshrined is that final nail in the enshitiffication coffin that was Reddit. I give it 3mo before Spez leaves Reddit to focus on [whatever].

Penguincoder ,

Username checks out…

Penguincoder ,

F-k I’m old…

Penguincoder ,

Btop is pretty. Htop tells me what I want to know. I prefer htop and it’s my goto.

Penguincoder ,

There is a stark difference between closing an issue and actually resolving the problem. You’re right; lots of those issues are closed. The identified problems remain and don’t go away merely because you close an software repo issue on it.

Penguincoder ,

Hubzilla and the zot protocol are a really promising alternative to ActivityPub, just not as much traction.

Penguincoder ,

the Fediverse may not be for you. You’re probably better off over some place else,

Just going to leave this here. Pretty sure this user knows about the fediverse quite a bit more than you’re assuming.

Penguincoder ,

When we talk about Open Source, we’re not just talking about code. We’re talking about a way of approaching software, of designing it, developing it, distributing it, spreading it, making it something that benefits everyone. So being a developer in this context means thinking of software as a common good and then contributing means making it better and if by better we mean more useful, more accessible, more secure, more powerful, more stable and easier to use, then it’s clear that we are not just talking about writing code.

opensource.net/right-way-contribute-open-source/

Penguincoder ,

mistakes happen

Mistakes happen, typically once or twice; and are learned from and not repeated. Habits are recurring. These things are a Lemmy Developer habit.

There is a fundamental lack of confidence amongst a majority of Lemmy instance admins towards the lead developers of Lemmy.

This is your opinion and I doubt it is as widespread as you think.

+1 user to their opinion.

no specific feature requests that would have helped in this regard,

Really?. Does this relate? Not related, not a feature request. I mean there probably wasn’t a specific feature request for the exact specific matter at hand. But plenty of noise and discussion around something needing to help address the problem.

Why do you consider it petty?

Look at your responses to instance admins on your platform and Github. And then ask yourself that question again. You sorely need some self-reflection.

I personally got kicked out of and banned on everything Lemmy Matrix related for daring to challenge you and and Dessalines. You are petty AF.

From the linked comment:

never even bothered to open an issue about it.

From the parent comment:

not did he attempt to contribute with a pull request.

READ the rest of the post. Literally the first damn thing YOU quoted from it.

And lastly, from you:

  • I wouldnt expect that this ever becomes useful for production.
  • I dont see how Sublinks can be any faster when it has only volunteer contributors.
  • It would take at least multiple years to catch up with the current features of Lemmy.

Really showcasing what Gabe said in his post, eh ?

Penguincoder ,

Entitlement in open source is a real thing

Goes both ways, from/by developers and from/by users.

demands on so few people, entitled to their free labor while contributing nothing back, is a terrible thing to do to a person.

Demands:

  • They’ve never opened a single issue or PR.
  • no specific feature requests t
  • never opened any issue for the features he wanted
  • not[sic] did he attempt to contribute with a pull request
  • switch to a different platform, …

And the entitlement is pretty damn strong from your side too. It’s an open source project that is your baby; I get it. What makes you entitled to other people doing everything except the actual code portion, for YOU? If it gets to the point of needing an ‘RFC’ to contribute code to Lemmy or even request a change…

Well, good luck. Why should people do your work that you get paid to do (as said often by yourself and Nutomic), when they aren’t getting paid a cent?? That is the epitome of entitled. You want free work, but you don’t want to give your work for free

Penguincoder ,

It is absolutely impossible for 2-4 devs to please everyone in a codebase used by […] people […] You cannot make everyone happy.

I agree, you are correct.

Check out our github profiles if you think we aren’t doing work. This is easily verifiable.

Not what I said. You are paid for your work on Lemmy, right?? I didn’t say you weren’t doing any work. You’re being obtuse and putting words in my mouth.

Good job entirely dismissing everything my comment said without actually responding to anything in it.

Penguincoder ,

because the small number of developers can’t keep pace with issues.

Maybe there’d be plenty more devs if it wasn’t written in a new, up and coming, difficult language to understand let alone master. Maybe there’d be more code contributions if existing ones weren’t closed because you don’t see this being an issue. Maybe there’d be more developers if you’d let there be.

Penguincoder ,

Yet this comes across as criticizing their project for what they’ve always said it was, while using said project to do so. Just a bit boggling.

No I’m criticising the Developers complaint that there’s only a few active developers for Lemmy, and the rest of you freeloaders don’t contribute and code.

The number of people who understand Rust, can code in it, know of Lemmy and want to contribute is very few. There would be More developers contributing to Lemmy if it weren’t written in Rust.

Penguincoder ,

You have never made any code contributions […] I doubt that you donate any money.

What a horrible take on being an open source community. If this is what you want for Lemmy instances or admin to become “worth it” to you, change your license; or your change your attitude. You keep bringing up that Lemmy is open source as your argument, but really not understanding how open source works, or the culture of such.

Stop using my Software says the developer of an open source/source available software.

Penguincoder ,

Thanks for the insight and well thought out response. I’ll think on it.

Penguincoder ,

beehaw.org/comment/884681

It doesnt really matter what you want. The software is open source so anyone can use the software freely.

Penguincoder ,

You’re not, paid, for, your efforts? Seems to be a misleading statement.

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