Most of the Web GUIs are designed for interaction/collaboration between multiple people, and are massive overkill for one person. Tools like gitk/git gui are more than enough to see what’s going on graphically.

If you want to install all the other stuff, that’s completely up to you, but a lot of people don’t seem to realise that the Web GUI stuff and command line are completely separate things, and you don’t have to install both of them.

If you don’t need the web gui stuff (and you shouldn’t for personal use) you can set up a git server using gitolite. Very easy to manage

You could look at the development practices parts of extreme programming.

Also remember software development is a craft to be mastered. It takes a lifetime of continuous improvement to get there.

“Let’s have a reasonable rational debate about whether certain groups should have the right to exist! If you’re a member of one of these groups, please be respectful to the people who say you should be exterminated!”

Every language starts out as beautiful, then it becomes popular, a whole lot of new features get wedged into it, and everyone who’s watched a 5 minute tutorial video starts coding in it.

I remember the days when Python, Java and even Perl were considered beautiful.

That is the exact opposite from my experience. Winodws has always been unstable, slow, and requires rebooting and reinstalling often. Linux is none of those things.

spez is a Musk fanboi. What a surprise.

Reddit’s clearly in a death spiral, but I’ve been wondering if was going to go thru an “alt right” phase. Guess we know now.

Brutal dictators.

The cops are moving in with tear gas and rubber bullets…

The reasons I’ve seen given is that it’s a huge instance and at one point only had 1 moderator. So when instance admins complained about a user there, they didn’t always get a response. I think they’ve got more moderators there now, but not sure if it’s solved the problem.

Some Mastodon admins are very concerned about protecting their users from abuse, and want to limit it as much as possible. And that might be 100% appropriate for their users… people who don’t like it should move to a different instance.

I was on an instance that limited mastodon.social, which means you don’t normally see posts from there, and anyone on there that wants to follow you needs permission. But if you follow people there, their posts will appear normally in your feed.

Because of its size, I think a lot of instances are hesitant to defederate completely… (but that’s part of the problem with having such a big instance). I think quite a few limit it though. Some instances list all instances they limit/block and might even have a reason why they do it, but some don’t seem to have any info about that at all.

I moved to an instance where it wasn’t limited. Haven’t noticed a huge difference, either in terms of increased activity or higher levels of abusive posts/bad behaviour.