Before you know it, it will be over a decade post-Windows like me. This week I have been trying to get a Linux phone to a satisfactory state to leave the mobile duopoly behind…

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Eventually you will find you want a mail provider that just supports IMAP / POP without some paid middleman application just to use you email with certain clients else me stuck on the slow web UI. Luckily there are alternatives.

Is https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id no longer working?

Luckily most casts are just an RSS feed so you do not need an special tooling. It is a real shame many are putting their content behind walls like Spotify.

I love that the contribute is just a mailto link. I want to see more of this & less “join the Discord chatroom & create a Microsoft GitHub account today”

That is anonymity, not privacy.

MS GitHub doesn’t do anything the others can’t besides the social media features which do not need to be so prominent. If you must, it can be one of multiple code mirrors but should not be the exclusive one, or even the primary option.

Matrix is ass. You cannot reasonably scale an eventual consistency model without centralization & it will be a wasteful network like many of the blockchain projects. We already have had IRC & XMPP MUCs for ages that run on toasters & did not need to be reinvented. Chat has its place tho to help steer folks into asking the right questions, but such questions once formed need to be triaged as bugfixes, issues, FAQs, or forum posts to benefit everyone on the discussion.

I will continue to kick & scream at every project that thinks free software is the way to go with their software, but not good enough for the tooling around their project. Fuck Discord. Fuck MS GitHub.

Not if we want sustainable chat. It runs like a blockchain under the hood & duplicates so much data.

It is way too expensive/wasteful to run as both a client & a server by its architecture.

Broke first bone as an adult playing Pokémon Go on release night

Wat. You are saying you can’t package Python application on a system level? That means the language’s package managament is broken. Nix unlike most package managers can do a reasonable job juggling multiple version of packages at the same time & stuff still breaks, & more frequently than anything in any other language other than Haskell.

There was also the SolarWind attack, Colorama, JarkaStealer, Cobo, pywx, Dropbox, PyTorch 2023. Zero-days galore.

Krita is free—as in freedom & beer.

Meant to be glue but is used in all sorts of places it probably shouldn’t. The way libraries are handled & pinned leads to lots of breakage—a couple applications I have overlays to disable testing since stuff gets merged into Nixpkgs with failing tests so frequently that I is better to just turn it off & deal with failures at runtime.

The ultralytics thing was massive last month https://snyk.io/blog/ultralytics-ai-pwn-request-supply-chain-attack/. These have been coming with regularity—even worse than npm.

I would at least agree Lua is a better place to start—at least for a dynamic scripting language. It is not a complicated language & it even supports tail recursion which you can’t say about far too many languages.

Community still locked to proprietary MS GitHub + Discord?

Yes, you can do the fundamentals & professional design work in these applications—there is no reason to be spending money just to “get into” graphic arts. Hugin + Darktable are great for photography too.

Something more diffuse & with perhaps a warm tint instead of cool would have been softer. You could probably touch it in post, but the pits on the surface cause an unsettling shiny contrast to me.

It is slow. Syntax & community idioms suck. The package ecosystem is a giant mess—constant dependency breakage, many supply-side attacks, quality is all over the place with many packages with failing tests or build that isn’t reproducible—& can largely be an effect of too many places saying this is the first language you should learn first. When it comes to running Python software on my machine, it always is the buggiest, breaks the most shipping new software, & uses more resources than other things.

When I used to program in it, I thought Python was so versatile that it was the 2nd best language at everything. I learned more languages & thought it was 3rd best… then 4th… then realized it isn’t good at anything. The only reason it has things going for it is all the effort put into the big C libraries powering the math, AI, etc. libraries.

D) what is AMD support like or is the Python fan boys still focusing on Nvidia exclusively?