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Yes, they dismissed Gitlab in part because of the self-hosted argument: "I know I can download GitLab and set it up on my own server. However, I’m a software developer, not a sysadmin. I want to spend my time developing software, not putting out fires and paying AWS bills for the rest of time."

Yet they ended up choosing a self-hosted option, Gitea, because it was recommended by an acquaintance and they set up a couple lightsail servers on AWS to run it.

It's totally fine for the author to share their preferences; they're just exhibiting the internal inconsistencies and irrational behavior we're probably all guilty of at one point or another.

In the last five years, my experience with Firefox has always been far superior in terms of performance than when using Chrome. I just can't bring myself to justify using a Google product for something as important as browsing. I guess it's ideological, but I just want Firefox to succeed.

From the article: "The GPU can be seen by Windows, but Nvidia only publishes Arm drivers for Linux, not Windows. So in device manager you just see a Basic Display Adapter, and it can't really do anything."

Never thought I'd live in a world where drivers are published for Linux first. This is great.

This is great and very user-friendly. As a quick & dirty alternative for people using the command line, you can easily send files by using netcat.

To quickly copy file from one machine to another.

  # on target machine
  $ nc -l PORT > file

  # on source machine
  $ cat file | nc HOST PORT

To quickly copy an entire folder:

  # on target machine
  $ nc -l PORT | tar xf -

  # on source machine
  $ tar cf - FOLDER | nc HOST PORT

As mentionned by two other people in the comments, this is spreading false propaganda against AGPL which only serves the interest of internet-based companies that want to benefit from FOSS code without having to share their own creations[1]: "Google wants to be able to incorporate FOSS software into their products and sell it to users without the obligation to release their derivative works."

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html

Github does that and it always makes it very difficult to understand when something was actually done/committed.

Awesome project! Where is the realtime/live data coming from? Is it approximated via timetables or is something else going on?

Medium.com articles are now mostly behind paywalls and I tried loading the URL via the web.archive.org but it keeps being redirected and impossible to view. I wonder if this was a cleverly hidden way to obsolete the archiving of such web pages by Medium.

It doesn't seem to load/work on Firefox 115.0.2 (Mac OS) for me.

Facebook deserves credit for its systematic and consistent complete disregard of user privacy; for deflecting responsibility and pointing fingers at governments and legislation that prevent it from doing whatever it wants; and for pitting users and governments against each other as if they were the culprit.

Facebook deserves credit for always doing the wrong thing.

At this point, if a product even remotely or indirectly touches the company, it's a no-go for me.

This reminds me of the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategies Microsoft used extensively with Linux and open source software in the 90s. From [1]: "a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found that was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences in order to strongly disadvantage its competitors."

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extingu...

My guess is that they are an open source alternative to mem.ai. It looks super polished & well designed.

I recommend having a look at Macpine [1] which allows you to run lightweight alpine VMs on MacOS with easy port forwarding, file sharing; you can also easily run docker inside of it and use docker context to target it.

[1] https://github.com/beringresearch/macpine

The link to your repo is returning a 404 now, whereas I could see it just a min ago.

His writing is subtle and nuanced which is ironically probably why it lacks what you appear to be seeking, the "cliff notes", ai-summarized version of the article.

I think your comment was valuable in that it suggested the work being done on antitrust by Lina Khan. For those who are interested, I would also recommend reading the excellent Matt Stoller on Substack [1] who does a weekly analysis on antitrust regulation, monopolies, and more.

[1] https://mattstoller.substack.com/

As mentioned in the other comments, the multi account container extension is more generic and is also one of the reasons I prefer to use Firefox. Chrome is unlikely to reproduce the feature anytime soon.

I just spent 5min looking for usage of the word "heaviosity", which appealingly sounds and seems likes a real word, but in fact doesn't seem to be one. Perhaps the author used a seemingly deep, but incorrect, word as a way to poke fun at literary critics. Perhaps the word doesn't exist and the author just made a mistake. Or, perhaps the word is used by certain groups of of people, but it hasn't shown up on the web.

Except you can never trust Facebook to care for user's metadata in a privacy-preserving way, which, to me at least, seems like a security risk. While the actual messages are encrypted, everything else (i.e the metadata such as your contacts, your connections, etc.) is not and is probably used/mined by Facebook. Why anyone would trust that company to do the right thing at this point is beyond me.

I find that substack has a lot of good authors on the topics that are relevant/interesting to me (e.g. economics). You can search here [1] to discover authors. If you find an author on substack interesting, you can then see a list of their recommendations down on their homepage (e.g. [2]). If you follow this process enough times and subscribe to a few authors, you'll get a list of curated content in your inbox each week.

[1] https://substack.com/discover

[2] https://www.apricitas.io/

The author's behavior is, to some extent, an attempt at anti-conformity by traveling in a way that he believes most people don't do (i.e. by staying close to locals, staying longer than a few days, avoiding popular places to experience authenticity). I think most people would in theory like to travel that way. Places that feel authentic draw people and become popular, which eventually makes those places feel less "authentic". That's the paradox. If everyone traveled and behaved like the author, then, in time, there would be less "authentic" places to discover.

This shows a blank page on Firefox mobile with uBlock.

I assume the author means "no [system-level] external dependencies except Python 3.10+ [in order to install the software]". Python then installs the required application-level dependencies.

A meme is necessarily a joke but a joke is not necessarily a meme. A meme often, but not always, has a visual component to it. A meme is a cultural phenomenon. It is shared virally and evolves in the process.

EDIT: After reading the Wikipedia page like the two people that replied to me, it is now clear to me that a meme is not necessarily a joke.

The point of the article is that it isn't clear and that it seems like the company has been caught red-handed in the past. What should anyone believe the company in the first place? It implies that it should be looked into more thoroughly, which I completely agree with.

You're right. And the implicit thesis is not even clear. It also doesn't consider alternative decentralized currencies/networks to support why Bitcoin would be better. This reads like a lobby piece.

The author seems to argue that the Bitcoin hard cap (i.e. the 21M limit) is as inalienable as a law of nature. But it's not. Even if it's in the code itself, it's made by humans who can build consensus around a change in the future. The decentralized nature of Bitcoin might help prevent or delay this, but if there are sufficient incentives for a majority of miners/contributors, changes to rules could occur.

It's of course understandstable that the founding team would take the exit. The fact that they have the strongest & most technologically advanced product, loved universally by designers and software engineers alike, only makes it more devastating.

What an absolute nightmare and what a slap in the face from the team at Figma if this goes through. Selling out doesn't begin to describe it.

I remember seeing my mom add small quantities of ketchup in certain stews and other sauce-based dishes. To me, ketchup has the perfect balance of flavors and helps create umami. Even well-known chefs use it sparingly to improve their creations [1].

- [1] https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/aug/20/why-is-...