syhol

The radio caroline of git hosting

The word "open" has lost all meaning

> What exactly do you want?

1. I want it to be easy for developers to publish their own packages. 2. I want it to be easy for users to install these developer-published packages.

> Are you saying they're not "professional"?

I regret using the word professional, I was replying to the claim GP made:

> Packaging it for a distro is someone else's job

Well I (as a developer) want to publish my own software without waiting and hoping someone else will do it for me.

> Somebody has to do the work.

Yes, I (the developer) want to do the work. The whole point of the article is that its painful to do today. I'm interested in how we make the packaging work easier so the developers can do it.

> [...] So third parties

the whole 3rd/1st party question is whether a developer can publish their own package. In most cases they technically can (taps, PRs, flathub, Debian registries, so on) but run into lots of issues along the way.

This isn't a good dichotomy though. Either "Build it from source" or "Wait for a professional 3rd party to package it for you".

The idea that your OS distro needs to explicitly support and package every software you could ever want to use seems crazy to me.

Both users and authors want the same thing: low-effort, high-quality distribution of software.

Personally I put my support behind flatpak for GUI, mise for CLI/TUI, but it's not a perfect solution and I occasionally bail out to homebrew/linuxbrew.

OLED screens are famous for having great contrast, especially deep blacks. The website is in the style of a 90's geocities website with garish colours and some absolute black #000000 backgrounds.

Most people would have seen those websites on shitty low contrast CRT monitors, so seeing them again today with a modern OLED is a very different experience.

Or get the best of both worlds, use a monorepo with microservices.

I'm very excited by this idea. I feel like email/chat is ripe for reinvention.

I don't agree with "Domain control as a fallback", as the author said "a domain is not owned, it is rented" and I want to normalise the idea that if you lose your private key, you need to start again. I hate that we keep giving so much authority to domains, it's such a big weakness. The author even left the key rotation chain out of the initial implementation.

I still think root/signer keys or sigchains are decent options.

Looks very good and I'm excited to try it out properly. It's a shame about the name considering a lot of self-hosters will be using BentoPDF. But thats one of two hard things in Computer Science.

It's an exciting time for binface. The anti-reform vote may be strong enough that we end up with an MP from Sigma IX. Wild.

We love/help/replace you

To UK oldies it probably reminds them of the sitcom Open All Hours with Ronnie Barker.

> So far

Someone's optimistic

Great topic and message. But the AI-generated writing really gets under my skin. It's not painful. Not unclear. Just really annoying.