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Go isn't perfect, but $GOPATH isn't really used that much anymore. There's a bunch of stuff in ~/.config/ and ~/.cache/

Desktop operating systems don't have very good separation between programs. If some malware gets access, it will be looking for e.g. ssh keys and using a keylogger to get the passp…

Umm, what about machine readable JSON in .well-known instead of yet another txt in root

Looks like a Fiskars axe https://www.fiskars.com/en-us/collections/axes-and-wood-prep...

It is free market supply and demand. Clearly a stronger force than Moore's law.

Not credit card. Bank account. Webauthn/passkeys could also work for auth as they check the domain and can't be phished

So what happens when you write through the nil pointer?

If only https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPC_QR_code supported a sepa instant bit so that one could just show a qr code, scan it with whatever payer banking app and authorize the sepa…

SEPA instant already exists. I think it guarantees sub-10s transactions. Unfortunately it is not the default.

Oil free for electricity generation. The media in my country (Finland) also likes to brag about 90+% fossil-free electricity generation. But electricity is under half (30%?40%?) an…

Compare the cost and you will find the reason

Some will argue that it is Open Source. But Open Source came from commercial interests against Free Software. It's clearly not free software, since the user freedom is restricted. …

Stalebot closing is a problem. There's no problem with stalebot adding a stale label (but really, a filter with last update x time ago does the same). Adding filters so that develo…

I've heard various suggestions of only committing spec.md or change requests in the git repo and using that as source of truth. We have spent decades working on reproducible builds…

use gemini and ask it to summarize a youtube link

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

Teamspeak is using matrix under the hood

There are several independent clients and servers. None of them support all features, not even synapse/element. But most keep improving steadily.

There are other terminal clients.

Maybe put the git repos on radicle?

Room addresses/aliases (like #matrix:matrix.org) must point to a single room (in fact, they point to a room version, so when rooms are upgraded, addresses must be pointed towards t…

In my case matrix with bridges allows me to ignore many separate apps: whatsapp,telegram,slack,irc,...

nothing, but people these days expect more from chat