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notepalfon Dang is going to have 65,535 karma points soon

Just keep adding karma

notepalfon New F-Droid repository format for faster and smaller updates

I believe the whole repo is also used to check available app updates

notepalfon KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop

> it's indeed time to let the system package management(apt,rpm,etc) just manage a solid BASE system

It totally is! Why does a distro maintainer need to pack every known application into the OS and make sure it works? This kind of work does not scale.

notepalfon Mercedes-Benz previews its operating system MB.OS

At my previous job we used docker swarm for a cluster of a dozen machines. Does not have all the fancy features of k8s but gets the job done to automate deployments

notepalfon Blender moves from Phabricator to Gitea

Did they consider moving to gitlab?

notepalfon Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU

> We certainly need decentralized systems

Matrix and XMPP exists, what should we do to make this more popular?

notepalfon Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users (2015)

building on top of established technologies (XMPP) helps

notepalfon Xbrowsersync – open-source Bookmark Synching

Reminds me of xmarks

notepalfon Duck typing is safe (2020)

The major argument is that "if it's wrong, nothing bad will happen, because it will break in runtime". Isn't it better to break before things are in production, like at compile time?

notepalfon Lucene: The Good Parts (2015)

Solr is a great tool, we use it at my job to index documents and never had any problem with it. We choosed it over elasticsearch because it seems simpler to setup and administer.

notepalfon The Big TDD Misunderstanding

Why is 100% coverage stupid? I agree that there could be configuration or data classes that does not make sense to test, so these could be ignored by the coverage tool. Is it still stupid to aim for 100% coverage in the rest of the relevant not-ignored code?

notepalfon A Manifesto for the Metaverse

This reminds me of https://janusvr.com/ , a way of creating 3D spaces using a markup language and collaboratively browsing an immersive internet

notepalfon Telegram is about to be blocked here in Brazil

I don't use XMPP since the Google talk era, how are the available servers nowadays? Does they support federation, meaning that users from different servers can talk to each other?

notepalfon Telegram is about to be blocked here in Brazil

That's why decentralized chat protocols like matrix are needed

notepalfon The Future of Kubernetes

k8s is very powerfull tough complex speccialy if you manage the cluster yourself. Docker swarm is a simpler alternative that provides all the features required by the majority of use cases.

notepalfon Gains I'm seeing from my second brain tool

For a simple note taking app I recommend https://simplenote.com/