towerful

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[–] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago

These are my kinda commits!

https://github.com/wslyvh/paperweight/commit/7be2ac0ea204e7631249db7dcc3a149da69d54e7

This looks really useful, and certainly something I'm going to investigate and probably use. Cheers!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 11 hours ago

Yes but the problem is that people keep submitting the same bug again and again and again. Some bugs exist because they haven't been spotted, but there's a heckton of bugs that are known about, but no-one has been able to put forward a fix for them yet. Overloading people with duplicate reports just means that they have less time and brainspace available to spend on fixing bugs.

Duplicates don't add anything to the conversation

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Yeh, I realise now I misinterpreted an article I read

[–] towerful@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

Ah, ok. I must've misinterpreted an article I was reading then. Thanks for the clarification!

[–] towerful@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Pretty sure they wrote the AGPL licence

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

I was always proud of the UK government having (a majority of) good online services that are easy to use. And that they were open source.
It's what governments should do. It is providing for their citizens in 2 different ways: accessible services & open source.

It's bullshit that they are drawing back from that

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

I'll add that it works on a system of delegation.
So there are authoritative servers (which own a part of a domain) which can then have actual records or delegate to other authoritative servers.

So the authoritative server for "com" (yes, as in .com, com is technically a valid domain name) will delegate google.com to a DNS server (likely one owned by Google). And then Google will have DNS records for mail.google.com and so on.

So looking up mail.google.com, technically you ask com DNS for the mail.google.com. It won't have an actual record, but will essentially say "go talk to this DNS server to get google.com records". So your computer asks this new DNS server for mail.google.com and it might have an answer, or it might have delegated the mail.google.com somewhere else.

What your computer most likely is using, however, is a recursive DNS service. You ask it for mail.google.com and it will "walk the tree" to finally return the IP address.
And then it will cache the results (for com google.com and mail.google.com) so the next queries are significantly faster.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 14 points 3 days ago

I suggest permanent nationalisation

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

IMO, the drama was satisfactorily resolved to the benefit of the game & community.
And yeh, it's EA. If you want a complete game, wait for final release.
If you are jonesing for a subnautica fix, this has the 1st chapter of content

[–] towerful@programming.dev 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Client -> Reverse Proxy -> Upstream Server

It's quite rare these days for a client (eg web browser, video game, phone app... anything that needs an internet connection, really) to directly connect to the server that is actually serving the request.

It often goes through a reverse proxy which can direct the request to the "best" server (reverse proxies can have multiple upstream servers, either as a cluster that can share the load all dealing with the same service, as a bunch of different services, or both).

This has a lot of benefits for service admins (at the cost of mild complexity), and has near-zero cost for clients.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Plasma 7 is being renamed Desktop For Plasma365 2027 edition.
Everything is electron apps. Native apps are ran as web assembly inside an electron app.
There will be no UI, only a shitty AI chatbox that is always suggesting results from askjeeves (and takes 5 seconds before it suggests anything from your local machine).
Oh, and it's a monthly licence now.
And it's actually just a laggy local UI of the actual desktop that is ran in the cloud on a container with 512mb ram and 1 CPU.

Oh wait, this isn't microslop.
Good things on Linux (generally) stay the same or get better, not different so "line goes up".
I think I'm still getting over the windows PTSD

[–] towerful@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

I read it as "pick up support for the FOSS projects" as opposed to user IT support.
So, contributing to the FOSS.
Even sponsorship would be awesome, in a "we can't do the tech stuff, but here is 10% of what we saved" kinda way

 

(not sure where to post this...)

I had an idea there might be a TUI lib for typescript. A duckduckgo search came up with an article that described exactly what I wanted!
So of course I immediately searched for this fabled tui lib. A quick search didn't reveal anything, and npm can't seem to find it either! https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=Tui
Navigating directly to the npm package page reveals a 10 year old got repo with no actual code... (https://github.com/basarat/tui)

What the scuff is this world coming to?!
This seems to absolutely align with my experience of using LLMs

(Also accepting suggestions for typescript TUI libs that actually exist!)

 

I've been here a while, and I appreciate the community and the defed/hiding list.
I also know programming.dev contributes to upstream Lemmy repos.

I saw another post about another instances funding.
Which reminded me....

Is programming.dev on track for funding?
Need some more donations?
Is there a runway?

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