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That post aged like wine.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 29 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is supposed to be from 2018? It looks like a 14 year old's Geocities page from 2001.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the page does go back to 2002, maybe its the origininal design

I like it!

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 32 points 1 month ago

I love that he's like "I co founded Netscape and Mozilla, now I run a dance club and pizzeria".

Dude's living the dream.

[–] haulyard@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

“I came up with the name Mozilla.”

“HTML in your email is probably my fault”

Legend

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 month ago

Yeah, jwz is no joke.

[–] AllYourSmurf@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

It’s jwz. I’d say he’s earned it.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is it I’ve never seen this? Loving MICROS~1

Is there anything better than DOS jokes???

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Time to move my lazy ass and finally do that migration I've been putting off.

What alternatives are you guys recommending? I've heard good things of Codeberg so far.

[–] somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The best alternative is to selfhost forgejo (codeberg's backend) which is libre unlike gitea. If you don't have the hardware to selfhost, you can use codeberg itself.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

It depends on whether Git is a requirement. If it’s not, the infrastructure requirements for Forgejo are still higher than Darcshub or Fossil. If you’d like to have Git with a decent web interface, but you don’t absolutely need pull requests or whatever, Stagit is another lovely option.

[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Git is distributed by design, so I lean into that. I self-host, and use codeberg, and still collaborate with people who won't leave github. Forgejo has built in pull or push mirrors that make it very easy, but you can also set multiple remotes in your local git repo.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah migrating Git is as easy as it gets in my opinion :) Add remote, push, tada.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Migrating Fossil: scp my-repo.fossil ssh://new/repos/ - tada

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, sure. scp -r source target works with git too. And pretty much everything if you have/want filesystem as your access point.

Appreciate learning about fossil, but switching all my stuff to a different VCS entirely is overkill, and I can't see it doing anything easier, simpler or better than git. Especially if I want to make it easy for others to depend on my stuff.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago

I don’t want to convert anyone. :-) Just because you suggested it can’t be easier. I warmly recommend anyone to try it though.

[–] magikmw@piefed.social 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope I wont get brigaded, but of hosted options I like Gitlab. They are fairly transparent as a company, and I've used their community edition for work and private projects for nearly a decade.

Not just hosting, I like their CI/CD and devops features too.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gitlab-the-company isn’t really much different from GitHub-the-company, to be honest.

[–] magikmw@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

One is owned by Microsoft, the other is still effectively independent. Idk if I'd call it not much different.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I self host forgejo for my personal projects

I have not moved my open source stuff off gh.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

I use Fossil (a DVCS that’s not Git-based) for most of my code. The main reason is that self-hosting (and keeping backups of) it is incredibly easy: One Fossil repository is one file. For those who absolutely require Git interaction for any reason, one-way mirrors are perfectly possible.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did something happen recently that triggered this being posted now?

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago

like a $10,000 bottle of Champaine

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The guy who put a timebomb in his software because Debian shipped an older version.

Probably a gas to collaborate with.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I was curious and just checked -Trixie dropped with a 1-year-ish old version. Curious if they ever update it.