namark @namark@qoto.org
Joined Jan 2020
@iron_bug @yourhero just fork it, if your problem is that you can't keep up, harp on about that as much as you want, but that has nothing to do with FOSS, open source, or whatever else buzzword you decide to attach to it. The opposite actually, you're so caught up in your fight against the eviiiil corporations, that you will even argue against FOSS principles, in favor of whatever your cause is.
@iron_bug oh noo, I can't build a skyscraper from scratch, I have no choice in where I live, omg, I'm a corporate slave!
@iron_bug oh please enlighten me wtf is "open source development" and what's it's basis? Cause I think I never heard buzzword more generic and meaningless...
@iron_bug yeah sure, your galaxy brain can contain everything, and you should be the sole authority in the new world order you establish. The notions you present are primitive, the leetness of your coding skillz doesn't matter.
@iron_bug foss is worse than proprieatary, we finally got there guys, every time, without fail
Now I understand, my eyes are finally open, a monolith can only grow!
@iron_bug fixong a misplaced reply:
is gnome proprietary now or something? you are not talking about open source but your own primitive notion of perfect world. Corporation invest in FOSS not to take over with some evil intent and control the minds of the developers through magical power of money, that makes no sense, they do it to create a level playing field when one of their competitors gets too far ahead. It's a result of a competition in free market, being a naturally superior way to do R&D, it allows them join forces to gain ground on a given monopolist. When most corporations in the world are face with a choice - either microsoft takes over the world or nobody takes over the world, they obviously choose the latter. This is how gcc, linux, bsd and many other large open source projects came to be.
What GPL does is make sure that once they leveled the field it stays level forever for everyone, they can't hide any cards up their sleeves from that point on. It doesn't in any way ensure that you can single handedly build a skyscraper that will be in every aspect exactly what you like it to be. There will always be other people involved, you will have to work with those other people and find a common ground, and if what they want is not what you want you'll have to deal with it, nothing to do with open source vs proprietary software.
@iron_bug woops replied to the wrong thing, meant to reply to this
https://qoto.org/web/statuses/106718878704512980
@iron_bug is gnome proprietary now or something? you are not talking about open source but your own primitive notion of perfect world. Corporation invest in FOSS not to take over with some evil intent and control the minds of the developers through magical power of money, that makes no sense, they do it to create a level playing field when one of their competitors gets too far ahead. It's a result of a competition in free market, being a naturally superior way to do R&D, it allows them join forces to gain ground on a given monopolist. When most corporations in the world are face with a choice - either microsoft takes over the world or nobody takes over the world, they obviously choose the latter. This is how gcc, linux, bsd and many other large open source projects came to be.
What GPL does is make sure that once they leveled the field it stays level forever for everyone, they can't hide any cards up their sleeves from that point on. It doesn't in any way ensure that you can single handedly build a skyscraper that will be in every aspect exactly what you like it to be. There will always be other people involved, you will have to work with those other people and find a common ground, and if what they want is not what you want you'll have to deal with it, nothing to do with open source vs proprietary software.
another note: so stupid to ever expect something like this to work, I mean a file is a file, it's not like it's a stream or something, and everything is a file, so it's not like there are any alternatives or something... sheesh grow a brain me...
@mew27
>I'm hard coded for unit_t and even with that barely useful, but I'm going to pretend to be generic and smort!
@louiscouture there are infinitely many such equations that would not converge to anything, so if you just pick even a bajilion of them at random you will never get one that does the thing you want. If it was that easy all problems would be solved by now, by just trying out some random formulas.
The process is clearly not picked at random, one condition is meant to increase the number while the other decrease it, so you gotta explain why n/2 always wins at the end and gets you down to 1, instead of 3n+1 flinging you off to infinity.
@b6hydra yes that's my point and the part I think you were missing in trying to make some sort of objective sense of it all in practical terms. I'm not bothered by any of it, I went with mastodon cause I like the elephant. You seemed to be bothered by the existence of diaspora, and I believe I answered your question directly. It's not a thought experiment, it's the reality of software industry today, and the only defeatism would be the pretense that any of it is somehow objectively or practically sensible.
@b6hydra how does you being able to interact with the userbase of diaspora make the userbase of diaspora irrelevant?
You can also interact with people through email and host a website, nothing has "much practical effect", it's all marketing and pop culture. Diaspora was "the facebook clone" and that's why it exists, not because it's practical, mastodon is "the tweeter clone" and that's why it exits. Even with a common "protocol" the interop is patchy and requires special consideration in many cases. With activity pub alone you can't even discover all the users/posts from another mastodon instance let alone other types of servers. And at the end of the day you still need an email to sign up to all of these fads.
@mew27 The naming convention is terrible for the value categories, there is a better categorization with a W shaped graph, but I can't quite find it right now...
This case though is pretty simple, lvalue is so your run of the mill variables (or function parameters), and a temporary is just a temporary, that's going to be destroyed before the next "statement". According to the language standard it's an insta-dangling reference and is forbidden. Like this:
int& x = 1;
@b6hydra you are missing the absolute state of software industry. All you need is to succeed is marketing, nothing is fit for any purpose, other than the purpose made up for you by said marketing. Diaspora made a name for itself as a facebook clone before friendica did. Not making it as a pop culture splash could be the reason why friendica supports every protocol it can get it's hands on.
note to self: do not download and upload a file at the same time
next is Stardust - absolutely bonkers backwards directory and include structure, but otherwise minimum language level issues. I aint got the micro to kill it with 4 workers, mainly cause probes are OP, so gotta continue working on the UI, but feels like if you can properly body block the building probes you can just kill them one by one, just like with Stormhammer.
