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Some rsync-like binary diff could work with mounted big files syncing chunks across networks, but I am not sure if that works well when more than one mount of the remote file exists. Not sure if dropbox is a good tool for that.
Please update, if I am wrong - I am interested in mounting encrypted remote files from more than one devices!
Cryptomator is a strange example of how GUI-centric developers seem to be unaware of how important it is to make software usable on the command line.
Also it is a good example of how using Java produces unexpected limitations and complications.
I lost two days fiddling around with several simple use cases without good results - what an experience switching to gocryptfs and getting everything I need up in a few minutes because it just falls out naturally.
It is an interesting lesson about software usability to compare cryptomator vs gocryptfs.
How can an understanding of fundamental values be so wrong?
We need to start educating our children not to be proud of destroying the planet.
Also you definitely need rate limiting out of the box, not as some beta plugin that needs to be fiddled in manually.
Also streaming is something that needs really good testing with high loads.
K8s is important for many people, too.
Of course it is not easy to find someone willing to test on a high traffic site when there are well established alternatives since many years and no actual problem needs to be solved.
"Easy configuration" is not very important for admins of high traffic sites. Not easy to find what could be the selling point for Caddy, but it should deliver one or two special things more.
To explain it clearly so you can better understand: you need to make ANY data submission OPT-IN, not OPT-OUT. That means that you need to ask users for consent before sending any data.
I strongly recommend doing this for a product that is in touch with any user data. For a product that would take such a central role in any infra your comments on this issue here are devastating - when you demonstrate ignorance for European data laws, how can any admin trust you with your product? Total self-destruct.
If it is: there is no way you can compare Kdenlive with Resolve - I guess as a hobby videographer you just can not see the huge differences. Kdenlive might be OK for some occasional hobby editing, but Resolve is a professional tool for people that depend on delivering perfect results quickly.
BTW I was not able to use Kdenlive one single time without crashing in the middle of the project and leaving me with only lots of time wasted. Do not use it for serious (money) work!
As somebody who likes to use Linux privately I can tell you that Resolve works best (and most cost effective) on M1 Macs. I tried to use it on Linux but I was wasting so much time fixing this and that (gfx card drivers horror stories) and still not getting the real thing, it was much cheaper to buy a M1 Mac and enjoy pro software on a system that is mobile, quiet and more powerful than my old-school video editing workstation.
I really like the slickness of caddy, but I do not understand how a web server without rate limiting can be used for anything serious, you will need that for any website with some exposure.
Not sure if anything else is missing in comparison to nginx, I stopped research at this first very important point. I think streaming would be my next item on the list of things that you might realize nginx is not that bad at...
They pretend to release a whole distro while in fact they are only caring for a narrow set of packages and break other functionality of the same underlying distro. This is bad.
If you distribute a whole distro it is expected that everything works, like it is the case with Debian or Ubuntu. It might produce a bad image of Linux as perceived by new users when they realize that many things of this distro do not work at all. This is not the quality delivered by other Linux distros, so it is doing a bad job in representing Linux.
At least they should explain that on their website, e.g. "We deliver something we call a distro but this is not the same thing as you get from other people that deliver distros, we are only actively supporting one special desktop environment, but other things might not work as experienced with other distributions. We decided anyway to pretend we are releasing a whole Linux distro because..." (reason should be explained.)
I hope this was better explained. I still totally respect the work they put into it and I am thankful that a company is doing this at all, but they are distributing their software in a bad way.
Of course all kind of automated tools or services that helps to keep an instance clean would be very useful. Imagine "Fediverse Cleanup Service" where you can subscribe to "NSFW", "CP", "Right", "Left", "Spam", "Whatever" block lists.
Also big social networks could share their blacklists (as a service?) - selling ads and cleanup services will give them a good position in a world of decentralized platforms.
Does exist already a YC startup that does all this work?
I can not decide which alternative to use because there are so many differences and I lost interest in researching all the details, so it would be great if somebody with knowledge would like to write about that and provide an overview.
As a user I would like to see a tool without censorship, but where I can ignore posters I do not like, where I still can find everybody, but also have private encrypted conversations with my peer groups and nobody is trying to profile me based on my interests. Ads would be ok, but no tracking (use tags for targeting, not user data).
PopOS devs take the work of Ubuntu, add their 0.1% but break a lot of things that work good in [X|K]Ubuntu - that is not helpful for the OS ecosystem. They distribute a broken distro that only works within a very narrow default configuration. Not OK.
This again leads to the conclusion that they did not understand what a distro is about. Of course you want to support all the packages / desktops that come with a distro, not just your preferred set of packages. In fact they are actively destroying other parts of the distro with that.
Instead they should just offer a PPA repo with their modifications / addons - but much better would be if they just fed their changes to upstream instead of pretending to release a whole distro when in fact they just release some packages and maintaining the whole thing is way too much for them.
That leaves a bad taste. It is not clear why they need to release their additions and modifications in such a way, but for me as a new Linux user it was one of the most interesting revelations that I could (un-) install several desktop environments without any problems, this was a huge learning motivation.
So unfortunately this POPOS thing must be declared as a "false" attempt on how to distribute software for Linux. I still would recommend Ubuntu for newcomers, but teach them that several problems that might come up still exist - that is the price for software freedom you have to pay. Still snaps are not a real problem for many users and I understand why they exist, but personally find them horrible, too.