[–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm not opposed to package managers. If anything I want them to be easier to work with, particularly when it comes to keeping mulriple versions of a peice of software. Just tryna understand what ELF lacks and what can be done about it.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I should preface this by saying i never used xcancel and assumed it was one of those sites that let you browse twitter without communicating directly with their servers. Sorry for wasting your time if that's entirely off base.

    Instead of a single website, build an application where users can scrape and share posts/profiles/feeds with each other. You can minimize load on a given user by distributing requests to all users who have the content and are willing to share. That way, it's harder for them to break whatever you're reading twitter for since they have to go after more people who may not even be in a jurisdiction their lawyers can influence. Like torrenting, but for social media instead of ... linux distributions.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    As someone who's never written go professionally and never contributed code that needed a nil check to open source, I have a rule whereby I never return nil pointers (other than slices) unless i'm returning a non-nil error and vis versa. Is that enough? I did read through the article but I didn't feel like it reached a clearer conclusion than "you can avoid checking by having standards" and I assume that what I've been doing is missing something.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    This is ultimately incorrect. Using Linux just means i'm willing to risk breaking my bootloader. Linux doesn't stop me from running wine to perpetuate my dependence on closed source software. It doesn't even prevent forgetting aliases that aren't immediately broken and wondering why none of my services work anymore. I'm better than those people because my time isn't a commodity.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Weird situation. Naively, i get why someone as short sighted as musk would do this, but I don't get why people who hate him enough to use this platform are willing to substantiate potential demand like this. Maybe it's time to go peer to peer?

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    Currently setting up a wayland environment. Coming from xfce4 and cinnamon before that. I'm currently setting up a window manager for keybindings (i know about river-classic, but seem to have chosen the masochist's path for this excursion). would appreciate any advice you have about setting up the window manager. I've previous experience with writing a cinnamon inspired dynamic tiler, will that help here? would also appreciate tips on choosing things like toolbars, launchers, and setting themes. We're still in gtk territory, right?

    Thanks for any time you spend on this thread! Maybe I can re rewrite this, or compile a new thread with your advices.

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