jmnicolas

You won't find many historical examples of fascists being booted out by the people.

The only successful revolutions are piloted by a small elite with further interests that may not coincide with the people.

> because they use it?

My hunch is because they have a backdoor in it.

"Abusive" and "threatening" is "in the eye of the beholder".

a great many time consuming pleasantries

Oh the horror!

So we're gonna get access to Von Der Layen Pfizer sms right?

Were you offered to vote for Von Der Layen by the way?

I use graphene not for security but because it doesn't come with any Google surveillance stuff.

Let's be realistic if some 3 letters agency really want some data about me, there's not much I can do to counter that unless I'm ready to go to extreme lengths.

I'm thinking of building a long term living app (say an app that I will use the next 30 years).

It has to be a web app so I was thinking of going pure JS. With that requirements in mind would you recommend ember.js?

Meh. I don't get the love Lua gets on HN. At least version 5.1, I didn't try the others.

No first class support for OOP, you got to use tables instead.

No "continue" keyword to go to the next iteration of a loop. So you have to use some ugly elseif.

No try catch!

It's a dynamic language so everything goes. A function will return nil or a number or whatever you wish. A function can also returns any number of variables, so obviously some moron will abuse it: looking at you Blizzard intern (you must have been an intern right?) that thought returning 20 variables on the combat event log was a good idea. Ever heard of tables???

The LSP can't do miracles when there are almost no rules so auto-completion is more miss than hit, which is quite shocking in 2024. The IA is helpful sometimes but create subtle bugs some other times. A simple uncaught typo will create a hard to find bug (yesterday copilot auto-completed myObject.Id instead of myObject.id, there went 20 minutes of my life trying to find why some code that was running solidly for weeks was now failing silently).

So all in all, Lua is fine to write small imperative scripts of a few hundred loc. Anything bigger and more complex you should run away IMHO.

I never realized C# was such a well designed language until I tried Lua.

As a long time FF user (from v1) I just migrated to Brave for 2 reasons:

- I'm tired of FF sneakily pushing some telemetry / studies / "anonymous ads" whatever even though they already get bilions from Google

- Brave is better at dealing with gdpr popups and ads than FF + ublock

On the other hand, Brave is a joke at managing bookmarks.

I tried Librewolf last year but I had some problems with it (not sure what it was).

You're all going to buy it anyway, so why would they do anything differently?

For example a reader app where you can't host everything on the server. My ebooks collection is 1TB big, and my videos are something like 20TB.

I get your point, but I'm more on the side of "let those enthusiasts get shocked and see in a few years if this electricity thing is really worth it".

I eschew complexity wherever practical. There's so much complexity in modern life, especially for tech people.

Right now mutable Linux is absolutely fine for me, but I'd like to thank all the people that are alpha testing some of the tech I'll adopt later ;)

IMHO for personal workstations immutable distros are a solution in search of a problem.

In 3 years using Fedora (which hasn't a reputation for being a stable distro) I once had a bad kernel that prevented my Framework laptop from booting (solved by blacklisting said kernel). All my other Fedora machines were fine.

Why would I need an immutable distro if even Fedora is stable enough? Heck i could use Debian or a RHEL clone and never have to worry about stability.

> Sundhedsdatanettet

What a tongue twister for non danish speaking people :D

No computers connected to the internet in Swedish hospitals?

If there are, a bridge could be made willingly or not. OFC it's more secure than everything on the internet.