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Shame it’s Jujutsu & not something based on actual Patch Theory (patches are commutative). I think Patch Theory is one of the ways out of merge conflict hell.
toastal commented on Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first github.com/zedless-editor... · Posted by u/homebrewer
“Privacy focus” that states to “No reliance on proprietary cloud services” should not hypocritically lock their code & collaboration behind Microsoft’s GitHub.
toastal commented on I'm never going back to Matrix shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
I get (and share some of) the frustration, but have yet to find anything better.
XMPP and IRC are not it, for me. Neither give me a better experience nor are they easier for non-techies than matrix.
I also empathize with the people behind the project, as monetization is much more difficult for non-scumbag companies, among which I definitely count Discord, Slack and to a lesser degree Telegram.
As a user though, the speed of improvement has been less than satisfying. It has felt like matrix was just shy of fulfilling its promises for years now.
I still enjoy using it though and am hopeful for its future.
> XMPP [… is] not it
What. XMPP is much easier to work with since both servers & clients use an order of magnitude less resources (CPU, RAM, storage, bandwidth). This makes them easier to self-host & also get someone to actually launch & keep an app open if it isn’t spiking. There are handholdingest deployments like the server+client of Snikket. & if you want that web link to send someone that is skeptical of installing yet another chat application, Movim covers that angle with posts, & multi-user, multi-stream audio/voice calls (where you can use the home instance, or self-host it). But also there is clients/services for anything in between—& without a protocol that keeps as much metadata & skyrockets on costs trying to sync the entire history of every chat/attachment for all users (which inevitably leads to all that metadata synced to the mothership, Matrix.org).
toastal commented on The future is not self-hosted drewlyton.com/story/the-f... · Posted by u/drew_lytle
>There's no value to this website if we're talking to LLM's we can do that on our own
There's at least one value to LLM content: it always outputs correct grammar and punctuation. Unlike this human sentence of yours, which took me two attempts to parse because it's missing a necessary clause separator.
But on the substance of your comment, I (generally) agree.
Also it’s LLMs* … apostrophes don’t make words plural
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Linear types are an interesting idea.
I really liked the way that each transformation of the file was a separate File object, reminded me of functional style immutable data structures where each transformation returns a new structure.
ATS2 would give you all the FP + linear types + a proof system. No “capabilities” tho.
toastal commented on The Pain That Is GitHub Actions feldera.com/blog/the-pain... · Posted by u/qianli_cs
can you give more feedback about dagger? what is good/not good about it? I was going to start looking into it
For starts looking at their website, it looks like all collaboration is locked behind proprietary platforms… Discord, Twitter, LinkedIn, Microsoft GitHub.
toastal commented on The Pain That Is GitHub Actions feldera.com/blog/the-pain... · Posted by u/qianli_cs
I can’t believe Forgejo ever thought it was a good idea to try & copy this nonsense. Rather than trying to be some FOSS MS GitHub clone, why not pitch that they can do things better—such as not having YAML spaghetti for CI.
I hope Actions stays bad tho. We need more folks to get off proprietary code forges for their open source projects—& a better CI + a better review model (PRs are awful) are 2 very low-hanging fruit that would entice folks off of the platform not for the philosophical reasons such as not supporting US corporations or endangering contributor privacy by making them agree to Microsoft’s ToS, but for technical superiority on the platform itself.