@ttyS1 I might relax more if rolled out wireguard more i guess
@laurencet ah I see. Nice profile pic btw ;)
@fthevenet I still haven’t written a line of Rust ;)
@fthevenet I don’t remember there being as much hype, no. The anti-mono thing was driven by misguided concern about patents iirc. People developing with mono lost enthusiasm as a result. Some pretty cool apps bit rotted, and (imho) the Linux desktop (gnome in particular) was set back years. For Rust, I get that the mania is annoying. But frankly eg oppositional comments on LWN articles (which is what prompted my toot) are as bad or worse: https://lwn.net/Articles/986540/
This looks fun https://botsin.space/@lobsters/113013054129752524
@laurencet for personal use-scale stuff?
Folks running container services for personal use: how do you keep track of security issues, updates, etc?
@pwaring I’ve seen a lot of the knee-jerk stuff, and it’s escalated beyond reactions to articles about rust, to articles adjacent to rust (like a recent uv one on LWN). I can appreciate people getting tired of the “rewrite the world” attitude, but I’m not sure that frustration should be externalised.
@fraggle cheers! :)
@fthevenet yes that’s the one
@spitfire @Migueldeicaza same. Weird uri. I wonder what the host service is
I’m seeing more and more backlash to Rust (recently an ugly LWN comment thread on an article about uv, a python tool that only happens to be written in Rust) and I’m finding it alarming. Trying to think of another technology that suffered some backlash like that and the closest I can think of is the misguided anti-mono stuff at the turn of the century.
I’ve been reading about HTMX to try and not completely lose touch with tech (even if it’s far from what I do) whilst off ill. I’m loving what I’ve learned about it so far!
@neauoire there’s a great, if frightening, novel by Chris Beckett “America City” which extrapolates the repercussions of northwards migratory pressure from the US on Canada. I recommend it
@mdione I can’t say they’re perfect but Kitty and Alacritty at least behave similarly on Linux to MacOS.
@joostruis it’s got me thinking about what my very first experiences of the open source world were, coming from Windows in the late 90s. I’ve been toying with writing up a blog post, aiming not to be a memory-lane piece, but trying to compare the context for me then with the context for new folks now. So much has changed.
@joostruis I know what you mean about efficiencies. The seeming-wasted-effort has been a feature (or a bug) of FOSS for decades; see also GTK and Qt. It’s a nuanced issue deeply tied up with people’s idea of what the freedom of free software means, and the trend towards “opinionated” software. There’s no one right answer I fear. I’m sad that some opinionated ideas got baked into wayland (e.g. client side decorations) which makes complete adoption that much harder.
@joostruis Who's ideal world? Personally, I can't see myself moving (due to fundamental designed-in problems with Wayland) so long as I have a choice.