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Re: A website for debloated open source alternatives

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Post by minitech »

moron4hire wrote: post #10
sam_lowry_ wrote: post #6

suckless.org?

"Use /* */ for comments, not //." I find stuff like this hilarious. No software project has ever failed, or even slow down one iota, because of the comment style. This is just someone's personal "ick" masquerading as "coding standards." EDIT: I think it has actually been becoming a dad of two boys that has absolutely killed my patience for this kind of thing. A lot of it is so similar to how my children argue with ea…

Combined with “do not mix declarations and code”, this could be a strict C89 compatibility thing (not that I think that these standards are a good idea either, even with that less arbitrary justification).

Re: A website for debloated open source alternatives

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Post by varun_ch »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #68

FWIW, this site is fast, works perfectly with a text-only browser, e.g., links (1.4MB static binary), elinks, or without a (bloated?) browser, e.g., retrieve all the pages, catenate and read as a single HTML file or convert it to, e.g., SQL, CSV or a plain text file All the /p/ URLs are in the sitemap, all the site's pages can be retrieved over a single TCP connection https://debloat.dev/sitemap.xml This, i.e., retri…

Also, the website seems to be largely ‘vibe coded’, at least given by the written copy and the style. If you ask Claude to use 1990s/2000s web design and HTML it’ll do something like this.

Re: A website for debloated open source alternatives

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Post by hackernud3s »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #34
hiitsmyaccount wrote: post #23

Not able to access the site on Firefox "Error Code: SSL_ERROR_INTERNAL_ERROR_ALERT"

Same, it's not just you. I'm wondering if this is an exotic symptom of the site running out of capacity.

That's exotic to you?

Re: A website for debloated open source alternatives

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Post by Dwedit »

moron4hire wrote: post #10
sam_lowry_ wrote: post #6

suckless.org?

"Use /* */ for comments, not //." I find stuff like this hilarious. No software project has ever failed, or even slow down one iota, because of the comment style. This is just someone's personal "ick" masquerading as "coding standards." EDIT: I think it has actually been becoming a dad of two boys that has absolutely killed my patience for this kind of thing. A lot of it is so similar to how my children argue with ea…

I've worked with C compilers that refused the // style before.

Re: A website for debloated open source alternatives

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Post by KennyBlanken »

hackernud3s wrote: post #94
JoshTriplett wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, it's not just you. I'm wondering if this is an exotic symptom of the site running out of capacity.

That's exotic to you?

Yes? That SSL error is not remotely common when a site is hugged to death?
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