dandi8 @ dandi8 @fedia.io

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Isn't the entire point of federation to be able to do what you're describing?

First part of the article sounds like what I'd expect.

The second part makes me wonder if this research was sponsored by some company which provides "Prompt Engineering" training.

I'm sorry, the drug can extend women's lifespan and improve their health, and what we're choosing to focus on is their... fertility?

Joplin itself is AGPL. Unfortunately, Joplin Server is under "JOPLIN SERVER PERSONAL USE LICENSE".

While I really like Joplin, I'm thinking of making the switch to something fully open source.

Hopefully this will enrage the users enough to go and actually vote against Trump.

I don't think source-available licenses have any chance of outcompeting open source, or at least I hope developers won't let them.

Open source thrives on contributions. The moment you restrict what I can do with the software I'm supposed to contribute to is the moment I ask myself: "am I being asked to work for free, solely for the benefit of someone else?".

The incentive to contribute completely disappears (at least to me) when I'm asked to do it for a project which "belongs to someone in particular".

While that sucks, it's only some games, and AFAIK they only rely on Gog Galaxy for the multiplayer features sometimes, and maybe achievements.

I'm also still holding out hope they'll come out with a Linux version of GOG Galaxy. For now, for my single player gaming purposes, running the games using Lutris (or Heroic, which I've heard is even better for this) is good enough for my Linux gaming needs.

I think GOG gets better and better as a place to buy games.

I'm a die-hard fan just for the DRM-free offline installers they provide, but the game selection has been consistently getting wider, to the point where many AAA games release on GOG on day one.

The deals are also generally nice.

Can't easily download offline installers, though.

They refused to pull out of Russia when it invaded Ukraine, though, so they're shitty in other ways.

About 30 PLN for a standard seat in Poland, but that's not really going to tell the whole story without looking at things like the median income, average prices of other goods etc.

For some reference, that's the price for a month of standard Netflix over here.

American cinema prices are not the only cinema prices.

I mean, the logical leap is about the same, so I'd say it's a good way to show the former is not really an argument...

The coalition is a mix of left (Lewica), center (Donald Tusk's KO) and center-right (Polska 2050, PSL).

KO generally voted for the bill, it was PSL who voted overwhelmingly against it, which, together with PIS, made it so that the bill didn't pass.

There's good reasons to hate Tusk, and I share a lot of them, but this one isn't it. With the cards he was dealt, there wasn't much he could've done.

Does this really make it any less worthy of criticism, though...?

I also have the Pro version, and I like it, with caveats.

First of all, the LEDs are waaay too bright. I had to change their brightness levels in the firmware, which was not the easiest as IIRC the code for that was not the best documented.

On the flipside, making changes to the firmware, compiling and uploading it to the keyboard is quite easy.

Secondly, the Bluetooth can be a bit buggy. Not only can the keyboard randomly refuse to connect (for which the fix is a button combo to forget the connection), the two halves themselves sometimes have trouble connecting.

Thankfully, that's a rare occurrence, even if still quite annoying.

The keyboard itself, however, is still quite comfortable for my tiny hands, is very customizable in terms of what key does what, and you can connect it directly to your PC via cable.

The last one also has a caveat, though, as there's currently no way for the two halves to talk via cable (though I think some people are working on that, at least for the pro version).

I needed something good for work, and I mostly got it. I'm planning to stick with this keyboard until it dies.

Oh, and I like that you can adjust the tenting, though I always use the highest setting.

Interesting! Out of curiosity, what is the source? Is there a breakdown per role?

It's no more a risk than throwing more developers at it when they're not needed.

“Too many devs“ can, and often is, a significant bottleneck in and of itself. The codebase may simply not be big enough to fit more.

Besides, I still don't see what all those additional engineers would actually be doing. "Responding to incidents" presupposes a large number of incidents. In other words, the assumption is that the application will be buggy, or insecure enough, that 30 engineers will not be enough to apply the duct tape. I stand by the claim that an application adhering to modern standards and practices will not have as many bugs or security breaches, and therefore 30 engineers sounds like a completely reasonable amount.

I have no idea why you're even bringing up OT. We're not talking about PLCs or scientific equipment here, we're talking about glorified web apps.

Web apps that need to be secure and highly available, for sure, but web apps all the same. It's mainly just a messenger app, after all.

So cool that you got to work with teams of devs that where able to do that.

Just because, as I assume from this quote, you weren't able to work with teams like that, does not mean that there are no teams like that, or that Telegram doesn't operate that way. Following modern practices, complex projects can be successfully done by relatively small teams. Yes, a lot of projects are not run that way, but that just means that it's all the more a valid point of pride for Telegram.

I have never, in my decade as a software dev, seen a role dedicated to "making sure unit tests stay functional, meet standards and fixing them". That is the developer's job, and the job of the code review.

The tests must be up to standards and functional before the functionality they're testing gets merged into main. Otherwise, yes, you may actually need hundreds of engineers just to keep your application somewhat functional.

Finally, 30 engineers can be a vast breadth of knowledge.