I think spotify / discord / vscode (and derivatives) / slack are probably the most installed electron apps.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=nd&K=&outdated=&SB=v&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=nd&K=&outdated=&SB=p&SO=d&PP=50&submit=Go

A lot of pretty popular packages in those lists are electron apps, unfortunately

“On next week’s episode of whycombinator”

yeah a fresh windows 11 install has like 20 different control panels, all built at different times by different teams using different UI toolkits. It’s basically their philosophy to not unify anything but instead just keep bolting new things to different pieces of the OS, no matter how similar

yeah many linux systems will run fsck on mount as well if that same thing is detected, it’s not a windows specific thing

Well yeah, it’s built to run proton which is wine to emulate windows games. I’m talking about using it as a Linux machine outside of purely steam / windows games. Try to install megasync, for example

no, then he would have said snapcraft

Yeah SteamOS is celebrated for its contributions to gaming, but good luck running something that’s not in flathub

But also super far into cogdev because the largest investors in those efforts by far are the established tech giants that have been around for years, so they are directly supporting the biggest players getting bigger

That’s a closure

Sure thing, thanks for sharing!

https://xcancel.com/jtannady/status/1359602554448080900

Here’s the original that gives credit to funny joke maker and doesn’t burn your eyes with the reddit gas

True, I’m lucky to work for a company that was half founded by engineers who know the cost of compounding technical debt, which is almost never the case.

Sure, though having gone through an entire monorepo refactoring of like half a million lines to basically destroy the codebase and switch from vue 2 to vue 3 among other things, it’s also possible to build the new, better designed wall right behind the old one, test like hell against that wall, and then shift that wall in when it’s ready in a planned release, ready for the issues that come because that wall isn’t quite like the old wall

Depends on how you use your computer. Plenty of people would tell you that using a GUI file manager and cutting/moving files is inefficient on any platform as opposed to just using a terminal.

There are times where it’s nice to drag a file or group of files and have Finder show me the content of the destination folder before I decide to drop the files. But sure I could do that with 3 mouse clicks and 4 keyboard taps.

I think that terminal only or primarily terminal is valuable, a combination of mouse and keyboard with shortcuts is valuable, and also the ability to just use your mouse (especially helpful for accessibility) is also valuable, and they all should be supported.

https://techpp.com/2021/08/17/mac-spring-loaded-folders-guide/

I don’t think even a raspberry 2 would go down over a web scrap

Absolutely depends on what software the server is running, if there’s proper caching involved. If running some PoW is involved to scrape 1 page it shouldn’t be too much of an issue, as opposed to just blindly following and ingesting every link.

Additionally, you can choose “good bots” like the internet archive, and they’re currently working on a list of “good bots”

https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/blob/main/docs/docs/admin/policies.mdx

AI companies ingesting data nonstop to train their models doesn’t make for a open and free internet, and will likely lead to the opposite, where users no longer even browse the web but trust in AI responses that maybe be hallucinated.

Free software

users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

Open source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Source_Definition

6. No discrimination against fields of endeavor, like commercial use

You are removing the terms software and source. The code is freely available and to be open source should be usable for whatever purpose.

As an aside, it’s used by smaller sites frequently to prevent overwhelming scraping that could take down the site, which has become far more rampant recently due to AI bots

Lol yeah working in enterprise software for a long time, it’s more like:

1. Import what you think you need, let the CI do a security audit, and your senior engineers to berate you if you import a huge unnecessary library where you only need one thing
2. Tree shake everything during the CI build so really the only code that gets built for production is what is being used
3. Consistently audit imports for security flaws and address them immediately (again, a CI tool)
4. CI

Basically just have a really good set of teams working on CI in addition to the backend/frontend/ux/security/infrastructure/ whatever else teams you have