Notices by Etam (etam@im-in.space)

@Polychrome
"Lennart pushed most of the major distros to switch to systemd" - this is not true. He may have pushed it into RedHat (and by extent Fedora), but other distros adopted it by themselves. And for very obvious reason: it solved a lot of problems that Sys V init had and added a lot of new features. It's simply a superior technology.

@rysiek
Kto nie miał poczty na wupetce, niech pierwszy rzuci kamień.

@rysiek
I got so spoiled by Rust, that anytime I have to touch some Python code, my brain constantly repeats "this would be so much easier in Rust" and I'm super annoyed.

@rysiek Wydaje mi się, że lepszym tłumaczeniem "enshittification" jest "nagównienie".

@rysiek Have you considered the carbon footprint of you posting your toot?

Are editor wars still a thing?

#vim #emacs

@notjustbikes While Poland is way behind in having cities done right, we're slowly getting there.

In Warsaw a lot of new bike lanes are being built and cars are pushed away from city centre.

Recently the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology published a 304 pages document "A city for people": https://www.gov.pl/web/rozwoj-technologia/miasto-dla-ludzi . The first image, on page 18, says: Ask a question differently. (bottom part) XX century. How many cars can go through the street? (top part) XXI century. How many people can go through the street?

@rysiek Here's an interesting view on whether ChatGPT "understands": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP5zGh2fui0