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You wouldn't really notice a difference using this, except your general autocompletes would get worse, and very complex sql might get more correct (I break datagrip's parser occasionally)
Dulwich[1] is a pure-python Git implementation that's been around for many years, meant to be used as a library. I used it a long time ago to make a git-backed wiki. There's also libgit2 which is exactly what it sounds like and it has mature Go bindings[2]. I'm sure there are more implementations.
[1]: https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich [2]: https://github.com/libgit2/git2go
Ultimately, it uses an irrelevant % of resources on a dedicated box used for other projects, so it's not a financial or even operational burden. One of my favorite things about IRC is that if all you want to do is a JOIN a channel and PRIVMSG some people, the same code I wrote a decade ago works fine today. The project went almost 6 years without requiring a single code change from me, other than accepting 3rd party feature PRs.
I may have missed something last time I looked at it, but Discord was making it harder to react to all messages and wanted to force you to only use slash commands. The whole discord.py saga - https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/4a2f62751b9600a31a0d3c7810028....
You're totally right that you need a bot to have open logs online, I'm just trying to point out that a huge number of open source projects (CPython, FreeBSD, Haiku, Quotebrowser, random NASA weather balloons, thousands of others) already use a common bot so it's not that hard of a problem. The bigger problem is political, in that most IRC network discourage logging, and many communities are outright hostile to it.
Notifico discards PRIVMSG's immediately and the rest of its logs after a couple of hours normally, but in its last decade of operating it's seen more than 2 billion messages to give you an idea of how much has to get indexed.
Also, writing your own bot for IRC is trivial, and has no TOS, complicated APIs, OAuth flows, or other barriers to entry. Can absolutely do the same for Discord but they've already been making changes to make it more difficult to log or export your data.
I've run https://n.tkte.ch/ for the last decade and it's bots are currently connected to over 200 unique, active IRC servers. Still very much alive!
Utah has less people than my city, and produces 0.9% of the national GDP. Anyone attempting to do business there at any scale also quickly realizes that it is not a secular state government and you'll have to bribe/work around the Mormon church.
- Purchase a stand-alone license, getting well-performing and feature-complete native clients with several options for vault sync that are under my control.
- Upgrade to 1Password 8, a version that sounds great, but has quietly removed local sync unless you checked forum and blog posts before buying.
- Watch the clients go from being native to Electron and losing many, many features. Get forced into using the web app for simple things like seeing history.
- Watch browser integrations get progressively worse (check out the reviews on the Firefox extension, oh boy)
- Even if you've been using 1password 7 (the version you paid a good chunk of change on for, in 1Password's own words, a life-time license), you won't be able to use it with browsers at all soon https://support.1password.com/kb/202303/.
- Get popups and unwanted opt-out integration with social media logins, when I've gone out of my way to purge garbage like "login with google" from my internet experience.
- Get unwanted opt-out telemetry forced on you, which regardless of their assurance will eventually leak PII like it always does. People make mistakes, c'est la vie. I would have no issue with opt-in telemetry.
I think this is it for me. Forced telemetry is a small thing, but it's just one of many poor decisions. I'm sure it's a smart business decision and their investors will be happy finding more and more ways to extract value out of users. I just want a simple password manager, so after a decade this is it for my family and myself.
They're just typically not used with such precision because of the sheer amount of false positives they'd generate and how little concern there typically is about something so small.
There was one bug in a KDE application, KDE connect, where it would crash when loading contacts from the phone. But it's open source, so I just fixed it, https://tkte.ch/articles/2021/09/06/KDE-Connect.html.
I'm not disagreeing with the parent post. I'm sure they've encountered lots of bugs. I'm just trying to show that your milage may vary, and for many users KDE just works.
From a personal standpoint, I would like to see Cloudflare (among others) smashed into a neutral backbone provider and all its product offerings spun off, ala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System. It's dangerous for one company to control so much of the internet's infrastructure and it's causing massive problems (like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32912075). Tailscale should remain independent.
We've been able to do this with existing VPNs for a long, long time, but tailscale is by far the most painless offering I've ever used and I migrated away from OpenVPN completely.
You can also manually pin to cores in Linux and some platforms support manual management. When I'm traveling with my Pinebook pro I turn off the big cores which makes the battery last for days (when not watching video).