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1337shadow commented on FOSDEM: Open-Source Is Political – Resist Organize Protect ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSD... · Posted by u/obeleh

snvzz · 10 days ago

We need to firmly reject these cancerous elements which try to poison open source with politics.

It will led to even more damage if left to fester.

1337shadow · 10 days ago

Yes, it's cost freenode and many more scissions, X.org going crazy, discussing rolling back 1.5 years of commits just to eliminate a contributor from history, it's ridiculous.

There's always one side that wants to impose their ideology to the other. And it's always the same side.

1337shadow commented on FOSDEM: Open-Source Is Political – Resist Organize Protect ftp.belnet.be/mirror/FOSD... · Posted by u/obeleh

wiml · 10 days ago

Open source, free software, the hacker ethos itself, have all been political from their very inception. And they've always been "liberal", in the broadest sense of that word, spanning libertarianism to neoliberalism to latte liberals to left-liberals to fully automated luxury gay space communism. But it's all political.

1337shadow · 10 days ago

> Open source, free software, the hacker ethos itself, have all been political from their very inception

Prove it.

> But it's all political

It's not, it's technical.

1337shadow commented on Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor github.com/YaLTeR/niri... · Posted by u/atlintots

hagbard_c · 4 months ago

I've been running Xmonad for about 16 years and, having read the description and watched the video think I will keep on doing so. It looks to me like the cognitive load of the horizontally scrolling strip is higher than that of the paged approach used by e.g. Xmonad just like it is a lot harder to locate a specific section in a vertically scrolling unpaged ream of text than in a paged book. Especially on pages with many windows - 10 terminals on page 1 is more or less standard, 2 large ones stacked in the middle flanked by 4 smaller ones on each side - I keep track of which terminal goes where based on (among others) location. This works because all 10 of them are visible at the same time, it would not work if the display only shows one or two of them at a time. Am I missing something or is this WM/compositor more suitable to smaller displays which can not show all that many windows at the same time?

Of course I also use X11 so this thing would not work for me anyway.

1337shadow · 4 months ago

Well it does look beautiful but I don't think I can go back to anything that's un-paged neither, after 17 years of dwm. Also, just watched a bit of an XMonad demo which reminded me how much I love the simplicity of dwm's tiling workflow based on having a master window per page (dwm's tag) because it completely removed the burden of window management for me with barely any configuration, I wonder how I'd do without it ... Probably going to try XMonad just to feel the difference, maybe I'll like it.

1337shadow commented on Show HN: Pogocache – Fast caching software github.com/tidwall/pogoca... · Posted by u/tidwall

tidwall · 7 months ago

Not intending to make pogocache into a sql database. I prefer keeping it a cache. More so exploring ways to work with existing databases such as sqlite, duckdb, postgres. Kinda like providing proxy-ish operations that transparently cache sql reads.

1337shadow · 7 months ago

Reminds me of this dope lib https://pythonhosted.org/johnny-cache/

1337shadow commented on I analyzed chord progressions in 680k songs cantgetmuchhigher.com/p/i... · Posted by u/jnord

1337shadow · 10 months ago

Aren't Ultimate Guitar chord progressions user contributed? They often simplify the actual chords in their tabs.