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It's grammatically incorrect and annoying.

As I mentioned, personally I request versioned tags. That's the level of specificity that I desire to prevent surprise breaking changes. There is nothing to preclude you from requesting a hash if you want, it works just as well.

Typically I am installing images from large, established projects whose release practices I can trust to not re-use an old version tag and slip in a breaking change. It's technically possible, but why would they do that? Unless they've been hijacked, then it becomes about security posture which I see as a separate discussion to this one about breaking changes.

Someone like the author, or maybe yourself, may not trust their software repository and want a hash like Nix's lockfile, which is totally fine. My point is that you can do that just fine with container images, so the author's statement is not the complete picture.

> container image [...] no guarantee the same thing works six months down the line when reinstalling, unless we wrote down which exact container image we downloaded

Then you should write down the exact image you downloaded. Images are tagged and hashed, you're guaranteed to download the same thing again if you ask for it.

I always explicitly request a version tag for every container image I configure in my system. If I want to upgrade, it's obvious what I'm going from and to, so I can check the changelog for breaking changes.

Are people seriously running :latest everywhere? No wonder the author thinks it's not stable.

Not in the UK. I've been in one of the many rooms where they count the votes, it's all human powered. If one wanted to rig the counting, there are an awful lot of people to pay off.

I do think those of us who were long skeptical of Deno are owed a small "I told you so".

Fundamentally, there is a big sect of the JavaScript ecosystem / culture that is hype-driven and has extreme churn. Jumping to every new framework and runtime without thought for the long-term, or any regard for historical patterns.

This stuff keeps happening. Somehow I'd love to get through to the perpetuators of the JS hype treadmill that they're only hurting themselves and making themselves look foolish when the churn inevitably hurts them and the wider ecosystem.

But maybe they jumped to the next shiny thing after Deno before Demo's demise was announced, and they'll learn nothing.

Well, yes. You don't find something if you don't look. The LLMs did the looking before the humans did, so they found the vulnerabilities.

It's definitely worthwhile to point out that LLMs have changed the economics of looking; we can now look in far more places far more quickly than we could before. But the above points were that the vulnerability itself happened to be an easy one that didn't intrinsically require an LLM.

Some of the information on there is useful, but I'd say that alternativeto.net is an almost perfect example of a bloaty & hostile website. OP's website is much more pleasant.

What is the 90%?

I've been seeing this pattern so frequently of obvious simple things like XDG being ignored. Cynically, I think it's the result of I experienced people suddenly being able to make tools. They never learned all these standards, so if an LLM spews out a junky solution, they're none-the-wiser. Now we have a proliferation of software making mistakes on solved problems, as people are not slowing down to learn how things should be.

It's an interesting new type of brag. It roughly means: "I want you to know how advanced I am at using LLMs, and how AI-first I am. So here is how little time I spent, to prove that I am using LLMs as much as possible, demonstrating that I am ahead of the curve on this new trend"

What is interesting about them?

Very untrue. Go somewhere with low light pollution and you'll see them in the dead of night. I was out in rural Australia and used a satellite tracker app to confirm what I was seeing - they are very distinctive and definitely visible.

They are not overwhelming, mind you, but I did notice them immediately. They stood out enough that I wondered what they were and started researching, that alone says something about the prevalence.

Edit: An LLM tells me that this is partly unique to how far South Australia is and the positioning of the sun in Australia's Summer. But I lack the physics knowledge to confirm that.

I eat a quarter of a tube of toothpaste per day. Other than the weight loss, hair loss and reduction in bowel control, I have not noticed any negative side effects. Helps keep my insides clean.

This sounds like a problem with Material UI being undisciplined with API compatibility, rather than a problem with the broader approach itself.

I didn't, it came with the system