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@incre_ment

those who won't learn from history are doomed to repeat it

those who do learn from history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it and go "seriously? not this shit again??"

@incre_ment yeah, I think there is a lot of room to improve the process still with regard to that kind of thing; it's really easy to get wrong in ways that are annoying to debug (as a fedi problem but also as a broader user-empowerment problem for oss in general)

but (and you probably do understand this already) comparing a PDS to a full fedi node isn't really a 1:1 comparison because the PDS is useless on its own and will only ever be accessed thru the centralized index, which is run by engineers who are accountable to shareholders

it seems like their claims of decentralization keep coming back to the theoretical possibility that someone else could run an index, but it sounds like that is very far away from reality right now

@incre_ment for example on my recent setup of gotosocial, most of the work was "stuff you would need to do for any service you stand up" like starting a VPS and adding DNS; outside that it's maybe 10 minutes work to install and configure it

I did pleroma/akkoma a few years ago and it was more work but not that much more; still much, much simpler than installing masto

@incre_ment I don't know, but my understanding is that Mastodon is very nearly the worst case scenario of complexity and cost setting up a fedi server out of all the options

@srol the european equivalent of asking for spicy thai food and getting medium-mild

@apLundell it probably means you wear camo and have a comically large knife in your belt while you write code

@thisismissem disappointing but not surprising

I hope potential contributors can see this pattern and focus efforts on other fedi servers that are more welcoming and take safety features more seriously; fedi has to be more than mastodon for it to survive

@apLundell submitted for your consideration: the parking at large commercial airports

@mwl I like "ublock origin hard mode" for this personally: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode

it's especially nice when you have a key binding for "relax blocking mode"

(medium mode is also pretty reasonable; I think it's a little more lax with static resources)

@mwl like blocking 100% of JS for all sites that aren't in an allowlist? I'd say that's useful but a little extreme

blocking in a more nuanced way using ublock origin? absolutely indispensible

I'll also throw in a vote for defaulting to blocking 3rd-party scripts; it occasionally causes trouble but it's not too bad

@gdorn I was just looking at JVM Luas a couple weeks ago and somehow I missed Kahlua... wow, targeting J2ME huh? that is wild

I can see how it would be frustrating to work in an environment where you're tied to the host language's class hierarchy whether you like it or not; all my experience has been a lot more greenfield where that hasn't been an issue

hopefully you get some chances in the future to try Lua in a more productive context and don't hold this experience against it =)

@srol favs in gmail, the prophecy has finally come to pass

@srol on the one hand I agree but on the other hand, people who still haven't seen Star Wars do kinda have a mysterious quality about them

@akkartik yeah, this post was originally written like a year ago (iirc when more of cheeto benito's indictments were landing) so it's not a perfect fit but you know; reduce reuse recycle

@bamfic I have been attaching star trek gifs to nearly every PR I've done at work in the past 3 years FWIW

(but mostly just for decorative purposes, not used as a form of communication)

@bamfic shaka, when the walls fell

@srol I just saw someone walk by wearing the same uniform you had on!

(they waved at me which confused me at first because I don't know them but then I realized it's because I am wearing TOS command gold)

@rgegriff is it still steam-only? I'm eagerly waiting for it to be available elsewhere

@gdorn I wrote a blog post describing 5 different ways to use methods in Fennel (which all applies equally to Lua) if you're looking for some examples of alternatives

https://technomancy.us/197

@gdorn tbh I see this as a benefit because it means that you're not stuck using inheritance; you can finally be free and just use functions

it's like they said about early lisp, "you can learn it in a day, but if you know Fortran it will take three days"