Valodim

You say that as if it wasn't true for anything human programmers ever produced

Simple to do when you don't care about e2e and clients can just show data they receive to the user with little logic of their own. It is a world of difference in complexity.

Those nice things are what you get when you're fine having all your data (messages, images, files) forever in plaintext on servers owned by some Russian rich guy.

Pray there will never be a telegram.zip torrent.

Thanks!

I'm curious, do you do version control, sync, or work with AI agents? If so, how does that work (for you)?

Even if it was something people wanted, and it wasn't clear that it was even before the advent of CC, abandoning the mainline product for years was a terrible move.

Hopefully they at least got something out of it for themselves from that VC money.

It pains me to say, but it's probably too little, too late. Logseq remained a buggy mess, is now on an unmaintained (thus insecure) version of electron.

And now after several years of complete stagnation, the supposed improvement is a database format to fix their technical issues, so I can no longer keep all my data as markdown files? At a time when half the edits are done by Claude and tracked with jujustu, this is just not useful for me.

All I wanted was the original vision, but with less bugs and more quality of life features.

Did you just paste your marketing copy into a hn comment?

I kind of understand for i18n, but not for most other things

Please buy a license if you are happy with the project :) it's free, but you can still buy a license for a small amount of what you saved

Their business model is basically donations, it's not a for-profit operation. Maybe if you consider yourself less of a customer and more the beneficiary of a community effort, it'll be easier to "get"

Unfortunately, X did not win out. We did not get the promised future where one can ssh -X into a remote machine, run gnome-control-center, and a settings window pops up and I can configure my remote computer.

Personally I'm glad that's the case. Configuring servers via gui is an abomination, and I hope it stays in the windows world.

We slaughter animals millions by the day in an industrialized fashion. I'm sure they'll feel much better that even singular instances of sexual harassment are officially not ok on paper.

In my experience, networking also helps sidestep a lot of that stuff.

I'll happily pay the new prices, if they actually have the servers available. Cheap pricing is nice, but not that useful when in practice you can't actually buy most of the time.

It's kind of amazing how many comments even here seem to implicitly or explicitly agree that the "optimal" number is more than zero.

Personally, I rather enjoy not having my kids shot at school.

Try kagi :)

Counter point: If it had been onsite, there would be a full layer of social sensibilities and grace from the colleagues you work with every day, helping you out.

Conversely, it is much easier, on several levels, to support and guide someone you spend your whole day and go to lunch with.

"Microsoft won't get very far as a business if [they do what they've been doing for decades]"

Story doesn't check out.

Sounds like you're just not the target audience, then. Not every product has to have an ads-based or freemium business model.

I honestly can't tell if this is sarcasm

This sounds promising, but the examples don't show what a report actually looks like? What information does this actually show?

Because "put in all knowledge of chemistry that we have, except this specific recipe" isn't how knowledge works

Short version: Werner Koch personally hates some people involved with the RFC9580 standardization, and cannot emotionally bear working with anything even loosely associated. He also struggled accepting anyone's opinion but his own while editor of the draft back then.

Search for "asking the editor to step down" to find the moment when the working group decided he was more trouble than it's worth (and GnuPG's support was obviously worth a lot in the openpgp community).

Rfc9580 is not a proposal anymore, it's a published RFC.

(I suppose strictly speaking it's still a "proposed standard" vs "internet standard", but so is basically everything else)

People keep mentioning ladybird like it'll be a serious contender as a daily driver in the next 10 years. While I do think they're doing impressive work for a tech demo, they are a couple hundred person years behind on an incredibly big piece of software. how could they possibly catch up?

You don't think golang's http library is a good idea? I would have thought everyone is happy we have it

I also did that with git, but it's no comparison in ergonomics. For instance, "move this hunk two commits up" is a task that makes many git users sweat. With jj it's barely something that registers as a task.

This was probably near the breaking point before, it just needed an idiot to catalyze.

If you read that as "we'll break the law for you", it's a you problem.

That's a lot of words reiterating how intensely important the matter is. I agree, it is. But your suggestions are either doing nothing out of caution, vast fragmentation, or too small numbers to really see the effects at scale.

Mostly it's a question of middle ground for an acceptable scale of decision, but "only change something if we know for a fact it's purely beneficial" is not a realistic plan no matter how intensely important the matter is. At some point decisions have to be made.

This is one of the things that becomes harder and more entrenched the worse those decisions are democratically legitimated. I think it's not unlikely that the difference in expectations between us boils down to a general different level of trust in authority.