Absolutely, I didn't mean my comment as excuse or justification. I personally don't want any sponsored people on the board. Defense contractor or otherwise.
I'm still trying to disentangle the "stirring up drama" part though.
jeffhykin
joined 2 years ago
Edit: turns out this story goes way beyond Jon, all of Nix is in flux right now. My personal experience is kind of irrelevant.
Edit edit: just read this: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-foundation-board-giving-power-to-the-community/44552
Original Post:
As a first-hand account; Jon has been the nicest of all the maintainers I've had interactions with ( ~7), probably followed by Ryan Mulligan. The only reason I remember Jon's name (I usually just recognize maintainers by their profile pictures) is because a couple years ago, as part of this thread I was reading this github issue with a really rude/attacking user. I remember reading Jon's response and thinking "This is one of the most patient FOSS devs on all of Github".
However, take ^that as-is, because I am not up to date on anything recent. I just wanted to provide the small bit of insight I do have.
Here's some of my interactions for those who like to judge for themselves:
I mean, manual approval technically does work. I kinda wanted something that would scale.
While I'm really glad to hear about it, I think it would work great for DDOS detection, I don't know that it works for preventing spam accounts. I'm pretty sure puppeteer with GPT4 could check that box no problem.
PoW sure, but like what's the tool name. Rolling my own PoW sounds not-smart. I've messed with metamask a bit but last I check isn't real practical for mobile.
[TOTP] Simple to setup / create, doesn't depend on 3rd party ...
Actually I'm worried its a bit TOO easy to create. I don't need a bulletproof/airtight system but what's stopping highschooler from installing bluestacks, downloading the AUTH app, and then handling 10,000 TOTP requests for different bot accounts.
The one thing I use it for is lesspass (if you've heard of it then see the note at the bottom). It is a site that hashes content (site, username, password) to, somewhat problematically, generate a new password deterministicly.
I downloaded the HTML, verified they're not doing anything shady, and then put the HTML file on IPFS so that 1. I could self-host and always get it even if their site was down, but also 2. Know that they didn't update the site and suddenly start harvesting peoples master passwords.
The bigger usecase for IPFS though would be for something like Nix with people being able to share precompiled binaries through IPFS (which is in the works). IPFS more of a foundation tool, not an end-user tool.
Side note: while lesspass doesnt live up to the hype, but it can be useful... I mean useful if you don't really use it as intended.
I think once you get down to the size of vehicles like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2oD1ZHNMFE then they become naturally modular/replaceable. At least in the same way that bikes are. I don't think people really create "modular" bikes they are just naturally swappable. Of course standards are helpful, and I think there is a total lack of standards for golfcart sized enclosed vehicles.
Its quite a bit more, but I wouldn't blame you for making the comparison.
Side note: unless you're a dev really trying to get in on bleeding edge stuff, ignore the hype. The IPFS team is doing great, but there's a lot of work left to do.
The torrent TLDR is; theres a lot of quality-of-life things missing from torrents (if they were going to be loaded like webpages) and it turns out fixing some of those quality of life things requires solving some pretty hard technical challenges, even if they don't feel much different to the end user. Things like decentelized discovery, content address hashing (best thing since sliced bread), merkel trees for de-duplication, and change detection.
The "front page" of most instances are not interesting to average people or to professionals (e.g. local gov that wants to go open source, like those switching to Mastodon).
Part is lemmy's hot-sort is basically broken as a ranking, another part is bad language filters, another part is that major communities here (fediverse, Linux memes, star trek memes, science memes, etc) are off-putting to out-of-group people because of so many in-group jokes. Its a hard fix.
Just commenting here to ping you that I found a new major alternative! I've edited the comment but TLDR; search ".NET Avalonia" and see what you think