>Flatpack is a weird extra layer on top of Linux

My brother in christ, systemd, x11 and even GNU are weird extra layers on top of Linux. Linux is just the kernel. This is exactly what "redefining Linux so it's never responsible for 99% you need to put on top of Linux to have a functional modern OS" is about.

See, that's why calling it "linux" instead of "gnu/linux" confuses people and generates confused comments such as yours :)

I explicitly acknowledged that in the other half of the sentence you partially quoted.

I also explained why I thought it was not really right to focus on the deficiencies of Flatpack… so, I’m not sure what the point in repeating that would be. In conclusion,

> Linux is […] exactly what […] you need

I agree!

I'm not saying AI is going to replace programmers, but it's been almost a century already and we still don't have a decent note taking app or even a todo list app and that's like the first app you learn to make. Maybe humanity just kind of sucks at this whole application development thing.

I use cherrytree currently, by the way.

There are hundreds of decent note taking apps and todo apps. The issue is that almost no one has the exact same needs or workflow for either of those things. I’ve given up on suggesting those things to people and sticking with “whichever one you use is the best”. So the best you’ll ever do is a decent one //for you// but it’s possible that definition may not work for anyone else.

>We need open source platforms more than ever, not closed platforms behind logins

No. Not really, no. We have like 20 open source platforms already. Nobody uses most of them. The ones that people do use are extremely boring compared to any closed platform because they were created for the worst possible use of social media: letting people post their opinions online. For the average user they often lack highly requested features like making profiles private because the open source platforms decided to be decentralized as well adding enormous complexity to them. That also comes with privacy issues like making all your likes public.

People could just use Tumblr if they wanted. Text posts of any length, add as many images as you want anywhere in the post you want, share music, videos, reblog other's posts. But people don't go to Tumblr.

You could create the perfect platform but people still wouldn't use it because they are too addicted to drama, arguing online, and doomscrolling to calmly scroll through a curated catalog of music that someone spend 3 years publishing on their blog.

This comment was down voted but it's right. We don't need more open source platforms - we need more successful open (source code doesn't matter) platforms.

Actual businesspeople are pretty ruthless in getting people to using their product. Open source people aren't, by nature (except for Lennart Poettering).

Also open source people tend to make software instead of services. Mastodon isn't a Twitter clone - it's software you can install on a server to make your own Twitter clone. Mastodon is software and Twitter is a service. mastodon.social is a Twitter clone. The only exceptions to this are highly P2P softwares like Bitcoin, where the software and the service merge into one.

I agree with the sentiment completely. From link directories to search engines, and now with AI, and from reblogging to recommendation algorithms, I think what is being lost is the ability to "browse" the web. To look at a list of things that may not interest you. Because sometimes among those things you do find something that piques your interest.

Yeah, this is obviously nonsensical.

If the constructor is "default" then why do you need to explicit set it? Yeah, I know some objects don't have constructors, but it would make more sense if you had to explicit delete the default constructor, or the keyword "trivial" was used instead of default.

Idk what other language has this "default" keyword. Seems unnecessary.

I'm not very good with C++, so one time I tried to use RAII to do all sorts of neat GUI things, like freeze property events and ref count uses of files to know when to freed them from memory.

Essentially instead of doing

    object.freeze();
    object.setProperties(...);
    object.thaw();

I tried to do

    {
        Freezer freezer(object);
        object.setProperties(...);
    }

EVERY time I need a start/end matching function I used RAII instead because it looked neat. I tried to make "with" from Python in C++.

The problem is that exceptions thrown in a destructor can't be caught, which made this coding style practically impossible to use. Thawing the properties meant dispatching property change events, which meant that event handlers all around the app would be executed inside a destructor unaware that they were being executed inside a destructor. If any of these threw an exception, the whole thing crashed. In hindsight dispatching these events from a setter instead of from the main event loop also creates all sorts of trouble.

The closest equivalent to `with` from Python would be a higher-order function defined such that it can accept a lambda (i.e. it needs to be a template). Then you'd write something like:

   object.batchEvents([&]{
     object.setProperties(...);
   });

(for bonus points, pass object reference as argument to the lambda)

If you really want bug reports just make it a single form without the need to create an account. Github, Gitlab, etc., is a wall for 99% of web browser users.

God help the poor sod having to sort through that pile of submitted garbage.

99% of browser users shouldn't file bug reports. I'd rather wait for a high-quality report than drown in low-quality reports.

I'm not sure we can actually support 8 billion people's food production and distribution logistics without CPU's anymore.

Whatever makes us forget CPUs will make there be less than 8 billion people I'm sure.

Yep. The hard way.

You don’t think we could do it with human computers?

As long as the algorithmic complexity of food logistics is O(n) or better with respect to population size, I guess.

No, but that's hardly the same as suggesting humanity would die off. We'd adapt, just at a much smaller scale.

>the OTP is directly in the response

I forgot my password.

Type your username:

Your password is hunter2.

Vibes.

Many-many moons ago I saw a forum website that would tell

"Sorry, you can't use password qwerty123. This password is already used by user SweetLemon13115"