Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

Hannibalistique said:
Aren't they virulently anti-transphobic (I remember something about them going above and beyond)? Plus didn't Lunduke the grifting jew use to work for SUSE?
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Honestly idk, I just remembered that it is a very distinct distro - they wired all system configuration through a program written in ruby. Last time I heard about them their pastbin clone was used to share child porn.
 
Three-letter Agency said:
You could always switch to the other terminal Matrix client (iamb), which skips the middleman and is just directly made by a troon.
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It has threads so it's already more featured than gomuks. Rust? Never mind.
Vesperus said:
Speaking of AI, and backtracking to the "rebuilding technology after Ragnarok" side-quest from a few pages ago, I see Dave Plumber has shoved AI onto a PDP-11.
No word yet on if it can run Crysis.
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I almost fell out of my seat when he said "today, you get to watch how the sausage is really made"
 
I've seen the grub conversation on twitter too, and I think whenever someone has these very passionate opinions about software they're usually very retarded.

GRUB LE BAD

...okay? Not everything has to be perfect. If the software does its job why care about some dumb shit or try to convince people of the opposite? Why should someone who never had any issues change their shit just because of some arbitrary metric, like in this case "having patches"?
 
0gh said:
I've seen the grub conversation on twitter too, and I think whenever someone has these very passionate opinions about software they're usually very retarded.

GRUB LE BAD

...okay? Not everything has to be perfect. If the software does its job why care about some dumb shit or try to convince people of the opposite? Why should someone who never had any issues change their shit just because of some arbitrary metric, like in this case "having patches"?
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I feel this about systemd
 
Dante Alighieri said:
I feel this about systemd
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It's fine. Systemd is objectively good group of software. You get timers, journal, systemd-boot, run0 and so much more.

Like even for Artixbros a few years ago, their only real argument against it was "it is bloat". Now half of them have moved to better distros while the other half is blindly obeying their master Jewduke.
 
if systemd didn't try to do everything and wasn't a vehicle for redhat (etc) then it'd be a lot more palatable. i'm reminded of that time a user found a command to have systemd clear the /tmp dir and when they tried using it it just wiped out their home directory instead. it's just so pointless, whether it was bugged or not it shouldn't have been there in the first place. poettering is a massive faggot.

found the issue: as if to prove my point, the first reply is a smug asshole comment by an @systemd member and if you check their profile, they work at microsoft! their tone changes noticeably when poettering enters the issue. makes you think.

systemd-resolved sucks dick too.
 
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Subtle Foreshadowing said:
It's fine. Systemd is objectively good group of software. You get timers, journal, systemd-boot, run0 and so much more.

Like even for Artixbros a few years ago, their only real argument against it was "it is bloat". Now half of them have moved to better distros while the other half is blindly obeying their master Jewduke.
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I used to have your perspective, but after using it for a long time (since arch switched) + having shipped it on consumer devices, I've come to realize it is actually pretty bad for what it tries to solve.

It is fairly buggy and hard to debug, especially if you touch on any edge cases, the only reason people tend to have few problems with it is because the problems it solves for most people is trivial (it used to be a single line in a config file on arch, with an in hindsight remarkably solid shell script launching stuff).

https://blog.darknedgy.net/technology/2015/10/11/0/ I think outlines some of the issues in a more theoretically solid (or whatever) form.
 
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skunt said:
if systemd didn't try to do everything and wasn't a vehicle for redhat (etc) then it'd be a lot more palatable. i'm reminded of that time a user found a command to have systemd clear the /tmp dir and when they tried using it it just wiped out their home directory instead. it's just so pointless, whether it was bugged or not it shouldn't have been there in the first place. poettering is a massive faggot.

found the issue: as if to prove my point, the first reply is a smug asshole comment by an @systemd member and if you check their profile, they work at microsoft! their tone changes noticeably when poettering enters the issue. makes you think.

systemd-resolved sucks dick too.
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Yeah this is fucking gay, but it doesn't really affect idk service configurations, mounts, timers. I have mounts that need to be mounted before docker starts up. To do that I added 1 line to the mount config, super easy. Mount isn't up? Docker just doesn't start.

I'm a fan of scripts myself, I love s6 for containers for example, but to orchestrate that in s6 would require much more effort than just adding 1 line to the systemd mount config.

Those specific parts work great and are super easy once you do a few of them. This doesn't make systemd a 10/10. Does it do a lot of things retardedly? Yes, but we can at least be objective about the parts it does well.
 
skunt said:
if systemd didn't try to do everything and wasn't a vehicle for redhat (etc) then it'd be a lot more palatable. i'm reminded of that time a user found a command to have systemd clear the /tmp dir and when they tried using it it just wiped out their home directory instead. it's just so pointless, whether it was bugged or not it shouldn't have been there in the first place. poettering is a massive faggot.

found the issue: as if to prove my point, the first reply is a smug asshole comment by an @systemd member and if you check their profile, they work at microsoft! their tone changes noticeably when poettering enters the issue. makes you think.

systemd-resolved sucks dick too.
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systemd-tmpfiles growing to operate on non-temporary files is what's wrong with systemd in a nutshell.
 
Subtle Foreshadowing said:
It's fine. Systemd is objectively good group of software. You get timers, journal, systemd-boot, run0 and so much more.
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It's really not. The amount of times simple bugs from it have entirely destroyed peoples systems or data makes a good example of this. Not only that, but most of these services are useless and only exist because systemd wants to control everything. Literally just had a friend move from systemd because systemd-boot refused to boot his system.
Subtle Foreshadowing said:
Like even for Artixbros a few years ago, their only real argument against it was "it is bloat". Now half of them have moved to better distros while the other half is blindly obeying their master Jewduke.
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Not only is this so incredibly untrue, but I don't know a single Artix user who has jumped ship. I do know plenty who have switched to Artix. Systemd has had genuine reasons against it for decades, with the entire shift towards systemd around 2011 having a vocal number of users against it, eventually spawning Devuan among other anti-systemd distros.
 
https://github.com/DigitalPublishingToolkit/epubtrailer.py - found a group from Amsterdam University that do a lot of publishing software. Cool python script they made to make animated GIFs out of .epubs for digital marketing.
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Epub Trailer produces a book trailer as animated gif from epub files.

usage: epubtrailer.py [-h] [-o OUTPUT] [--width WIDTH] [--height HEIGHT]
[--duration DURATION]
epub

Make a trailer from an epub

positional arguments:
epub epub file

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
output file
--width WIDTH Width (default: 720)
--height HEIGHT Width (default: 576)
--duration DURATION Base slide duration (Default: 0.25 secs)
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If you're a programmer, watch out!
Over 9000 Roblox grooming victims are now entering the mainstream programming sphere:
Roblox's extended Lua has now got a standalone runtime and this thing is fucking crazy. It even has mainline support for generating executables.
 
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