Notices by 🌈ᚩ🌈 (bonifartius@noauthority.social)

@mr_penguin was the company exiting consumer market the one that did so because of the openai deal? because that deal was no deal but a "we think we gonna buy some stuff, maybe" and the manufacturer had the stock rating going through the floor after openai stated they're going to buy much less.

@icedquinn chinese stuff is usually quite good if you don't buy the absolutely cheapest garbage, yeah.

nintendo never had the fastest hardware, but they had reasonable build quality and creative ideas. n64 with the trident controller, wii with the motion stuff, etc.

whoever thought that having a store full of unity slop and mediocre 1st party titles was a good idea also comes up with 50$ pro controllers.

@icedquinn how much nintendo has deteriorated into just pressing out the last $ is actually sad. they always were a bit expensive but it never felt like milking, the future be damned. they came up with good creative hardware concepts and nice games, usually roughly worth the price.

now you have the switch rehash, a store full of shovelware and shit like this.

(they were always weird about piracy and regions, but that might be a japanese thing like with manga/anime?)

@icedquinn @mangeurdenuage pretty sure gdpr is not relevant for company use because you are a cog in the machine, not a private person there. only has to be signed off at hiring that you can't use company shit for private purposes.

only way around infinite business requirements is a bespoke chat. yet everyone uses teams and slack. something sunk cost fallacy. mattermost might be the most flexible stuff, but the code is horrible go written like java.

@icedquinn @mangeurdenuage i think matrix is an interesting idea but an exploratory prototype at best.

the distributed graph sync stuff might be nice for small-medium companies where you actually have a requirements for infinite log for accountability.

it's certainly shit for replacing IRC or XMPP, both are the complete opposite in functionality. matrix just doesn't scale.

@icedquinn never looked into wireguards protocol.

isn't bidirectional a bit silly anyway with only two parties involved? first one just states the whole set, the other one picks what's supported. no need to do haggling over it imo.

@icedquinn just a feeling but ircv3 gets it more right than xmpp gets it more right than matrix.

seems the old line based protocols have something going for them. maybe just ease of implementation for the basic layer?

@protos @RustyCrab @syzygy @vii @p @mischievoustomato registries worked for the perl and tex hippies because they were sane people interested in hacking.

"modern" devs are political first, hacking second and you can't escape this in the walled gardens they build. only way is to jump over the wall, and roam the wilderness, as well as one can.

@protos @RustyCrab @syzygy @vii @p @mischievoustomato still the default is centralized, but fine.

why should i use rust and not say, ocaml or pascal or something else which doesn't has bad vibes defining their stuff?

because it's "memory safe"? cargo uses libcurl and openssl iirc, and those two things are prime targets for a memory safe implementation.

see, you can use rust if you want, that's fine. i have zero interest in it, i rather learn the next fringe language.

@protos @RustyCrab @syzygy @vii @p @mischievoustomato big question is why would i use rust ❓starts with the ecosystem where you have a centralized package registry. you aren't politically correct enough? did something "wrong"? package name gets taken away by glowies, cf. left-pad fuckup.

go did take long to get their packaging stuff, there was some mild drama, but it resulted in getting things right 90%.

hell i'd rather use a language with NO official package management instead of a registry.

@djsumdog @PurpCat fossil is nice and VERY easy to self host if you can adapt to the fossil way of things (i like it).

@protos @RustyCrab @syzygy @vii @p @mischievoustomato no spec means the whole language is undefined which is pretty funny for something which markets as total safety, imo

@mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @syzygy @vii @p @protos at this point that's a bit like "you don't have to deal with the spanish inquisition"

@protos @RustyCrab @syzygy @vii @p @mischievoustomato i think whatever the language brings in positive aspects (not all that much imo) is more than negated by the cultist community.

i'm not up to date, does rust have a spec now or is it still just the one implementation? is bootstrapping done from C or does one need to download binaries?

@cjd @RustyCrab @syzygy @vii @p @mischievoustomato i remember this because when i was young i always tried to set up these java things which supposedly were the best thing ever, only to fail because something java happened.

maybe the worst damage of this advocacy thing is that people coming into computer stuff think the one-best-solution is the norm and good. took me years to undo that damage tbh.

@p @RustyCrab @syzygy @vii @mischievoustomato
that was a nice read!

> The best glues can stick to everything.

hehe

> They want other people to join the Tribe. If they meet someone who doesn’t like Perl, it’s an insult to the Tribe and a personal affront to them.

i don't even have any good argument against rust itself as i didn't even really look at it in the first place. sole reason for this is that from the get-go the rust people were insufferable, just like poettering.

@p @RustyCrab @syzygy @vii @ins0mniak @idiot @mischievoustomato but how can it be memory safe then? :)

@p @RustyCrab @syzygy @vii @mischievoustomato it's not my language of choice but i respect perl people. they usually just do their hacking and don't bother anyone, contrary to the rust evangelism strike force :)

@mischievoustomato @RustyCrab @syzygy @vii @p rust gives you crabs

@p @RustyCrab @syzygy @vii @mischievoustomato i wanted to give fish another try some time ago because it bears a certain (morbid) fascination for me.

> fish's core code has been ported from C++ to Rust

.. that's TOO morbid :)