Posts by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #A7JjOOjQsVEukupAB6 by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2021-05-16T12:15:16Z
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@be If you want a success/horror story... We used to have wiki.vyos.net that few people ever contributed to.When we migrated it to static pages hosted on GitHub, there was a huge influx of contributors, and being able to do it through the forge they use for other things all the time was an important factor.Network effect is real. For small projects, choosing not to make use of it can be self-destructive. Until federated git takes off, mirroring to GitHub is mandatory I fear.
(DIR) Post #A7JjOPTs5qO14wYFYu by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2021-05-16T12:18:51Z
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@be For a small project, that difference is often between "no one at all" and "at least a couple of people".Again from my own experience: you can contribute to Soupault via the SourceHut mailing list or via GitHub pull requests. In two years I received six pull requests on GitHub and zero (0) patches through the mailing list.
(DIR) Post #A7JjOQDbLoxxMlwlqC by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2021-05-16T12:25:12Z
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@be I can make an official Codeberg mirror and see. However, every time you choose to use something niche because you believe it's better, you are reducing the number of potential contributors.Soupault is written in a minority language (OCaml). There are five (5) projects tagged "ocaml" on Codeberg now. Five!Philosophically, of course I'd like GitHub not to be the de facto standard forge. In reality, things are the way they are.
(DIR) Post #A8TGUtsacOmjkZTjhQ by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2021-06-20T08:11:01Z
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@josemanuel @ehashman @njoseph I was piss-poor when I started with open source, and I was doing it in whatever free time I had because I was passionate about it. That experience allowed me to finally start getting freelance work and eventually make my open-source projects my main source of income.I didn't grow up in the first world, BTW.I agree with the point you want to make, but the privilege narrative is incredibly simplified to the point of being bullshit.
(DIR) Post #A8ke4MwBy6U0eSQvD6 by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2021-06-28T17:23:02Z
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@erkin The latter—depends on whether it's "the Internet" or an internet.
(DIR) Post #A9AMLwdxilO5FX5zaC by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2021-07-11T03:09:13Z
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@wolf480pl @njoseph From my observation, people small town governments and farmer cooperatives tend to avoid minority software like a plague. Even very popular free software like Libre Office is a very tough sell.I mostly agree with the premise, but we need to somehow change people's mentality first.
(DIR) Post #A9BMULaZ3NZ85fTNL6 by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2021-07-11T14:45:26Z
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@wolf480pl @njoseph Generally, yes, but they often want to go for a proprietary solution in a weird belief that the big vendor will actually fix their issues and never discontinue the product.It's a complex issue of course.What's clear is that it is time for a new generation of free software advocacy in any case.
(DIR) Post #ABkd2gRxvGtbVkDziC by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2021-09-26T10:47:20Z
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(DIR) Post #AD0szOoiRFaPF3SPOS by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2021-11-03T04:56:11Z
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@wolf480pl @splatt9990 I don't think a "why" comment that isn't a rant is a logical possibility.Non-rant-inducing why's are usually as self-evident as well-implemented "how's". ;)
(DIR) Post #AD122ECNGzpYlWwmC8 by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2021-11-03T06:37:33Z
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@wolf480pl @splatt9990 It's a borderline why/how case. I definitely do have a few of those in my code...
(DIR) Post #ADJnhPVLWvtkfQXoeG by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2021-11-12T01:10:15Z
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@fribbledom Are you absolutely sure that you aren't a bear in the current life, too? ;)
(DIR) Post #AGIRY2smytuuyAAWVk by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2022-02-09T09:49:47Z
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@wolf480pl I thought he only mirrors his posts there.
(DIR) Post #AGdrlFwsGQd8SYYFiC by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2022-02-19T17:52:28Z
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@kzimmermann @lightweight I have nothing against Mint users, but I prefer Fedora. Fresh software, fresh kernels, and you don't really need to use GNOME3—I use the MATE spin. `dnf system-upgrade` has just worked for me flawlessly for over five years.It's nothing like the "break everything every release" distro it (arguably) once was.
(DIR) Post #AGsa2MzXq49noQIuy8 by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2022-02-25T06:45:42Z
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@fribbledom Please note that media can't post anything but relaying the "official news", and even _calling_ for anti-war protests can lead to arrest. If you don't hear anything but support for the war, it's because everything else is silenced.
(DIR) Post #AHoE0X7ybFImlXAdZA by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2022-03-26T15:40:39Z
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@strypey It's always possible that your idea of the audience is wrong, though. From a personal perspective: I put the "post-processor" mode in the soupault website generator because I thought it will help Web 1.0 hand-written website enthusiasts automate menial tasks and still have unlimited creativity.I was wrong: most of them they seem to be anti-automation neo-luddites.What people do use that feature for is fixing and improving output of documentation generators.
(DIR) Post #AILTrk6Jcm16ZHYETY by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2022-04-11T16:44:07Z
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@koakuma @256 "SGI forsakes IRIX", 1999, colorized. ;)
(DIR) Post #AJD9J8Y10dRBMcj2Ia by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2022-05-07T13:53:32Z
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@fribbledom The TOML standard demands that invalid unicode characters inside comments must cause parse errors.When I wrote a TOML library, I wish I could just make it ignore all the comments.
(DIR) Post #AJDB2cWgUq0NKHM4Q4 by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2022-05-07T14:12:05Z
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@shironeko @fribbledom Disallowing invalid unicode characters inside comments does nothing to prevent that attack though—the attack works because the involved characters are valid and have special meanings.
(DIR) Post #AJjgrlV6ChWDZ9CNpw by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2022-05-23T06:54:59Z
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@liberachat One thing I'm wondering about is that Libera now has ~50k users, while Freenode had >70k at the time of its downfall.Did 20k people leave give up on IRC after those events, or those were forgotten bots, ghost irssi/weechat sessions, etc.?In any case, I migrated to Libera back in that May and I'm grateful to you for maintaining it!
(DIR) Post #AMBi7DeSgN6SzsKFqC by dmbaturin@mastodon.social
2022-08-04T15:04:21Z
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@newt @256 Did ViewSonic ever produce its own LCD displays even?