My god, what if its on google’s chopping block next?

In the old days hamachi used to be all the rage to VLAN with your friends with pirated copies of games. Wonder how hamachi is doing nowadays.

There’s a free tier, which means the dream is same but there are billboards all around the parking lot

how does it work?

Dont fridges come with those pre-installed? What kind of janky ass plugs have you been getting your resident-evil-biovirus-storage-mist-generating fridges from?

Not just paywall their porn, also force linking:

1. Payment method and thus Identity to reddit account

2. Identity to whatever degenerate shit you like to get off to.

Yeah, on the recycling table maybe. Garbage idea, boooooo

You mean for programming documentation?

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for linking!

Also, this exact post, down to the word structure, shows up in these and similar communities every once in a while. I’m convinced this is a dark pattern marketing scheme - pretending to be a good faith user in these communities while secretly pushing this app as the prime directive.

This is probably the third or fourth time I’m seeing this post.

I’ve been looking at this for some time now and I’m still as confused as I was in the beginning.

Cryptomator is free and about as easy as encryption comes.

Like Shia Labeouf from that song.

Actual Cannibal Richard Stallman!

I appreciate the effort you took to type the reply out. Thank you, this will help me a ton.

I have more questions but I don’t want to waste your time by sending you questions that came out stream of consciousness style.

If you would be willing to share, I’d like to know what kind of disability you have. DMs are fine, and even more it’s 100% alright if you don’t want to share at all.

I dont think that the stars comparison is very fair. One is a complex version control and product infrastructure system that intermediate users or experts in the domain get familiar with. The other is a coding tutorial series that literally everyone and their dog forks or saves when they start out on learning programming - every college student, every high schooler that has a CS 100, etc. etc.

Also, is there any point to being discovered by the legion of new users and learners on github? What about discovery by people that actually have the inclination and expertise, and have shown the willingness to commit to a smaller user-base because it’s FOSS?

Not trying to disprove or devalue your perspective, just trying to point out that the masses might be wrong to choose the popular option to help get “discovered”.

How do we break out of this path of trying to get big enough to break custom, and once you’re big enough not having the guts to test wide sweeping changes?

Bravo for the great summary and expanding on the article. I’d like to subscribe to everything you write.

Agree on the VScode comments. Some of the scummiest business maneuvering from Microsoft. The terrifying part is its slowly becoming so ingrained that its going to take a long time and a lot of directed effort to undo the damage.

Agree on the consultancy angle - this is woefully becoming more and more commonplace as true from-scratch engineering dies on the wayside. Do you think this can be mitigated by, say, college courses that concentrate on the base form of the programming domain? Maybe web development with backend hosted on a machine in the classroom, with a registered domain on an external registrar instead of the usual localhost bullshit, and students responsible for routing etc? Like an emulation of the old days when you started learning web dev on your home computer and stayed with it until you were pretty much a journeyman engineer?

Going after the wrong dude my friend, this guy is a friend of the FOSS movement.

As for you, its alright to keep all your project codebases on github or gitlab etc. I think the article is majorly talking about large scale codebases that aim to replace existing closed source functionalities. Either way, if you plan and wish to implement a large project that you think will have many contributors, perhaps you could consider codeberg and similar open source devops projects to host and run your new project on, from the start. That way you won’t have any migration pains. If it doesn’t end up working out, hey, thats also a useful report for others who might be thinking about doing the same.

I don’t think that’s the point that the article was trying to make.

Quantity becomes a problem only if its hard to find things you’re looking for. It’s not like you have to sift through hundreds of projects to find what you need, you just search for it and it pops up. I don’t think quantity is a big deal here.