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"GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software - The Future Is Now
  • I can understand why it excites you. But I'm old enough to recognize that if you cede control of your offline tools like IDE to them, they will eventually exploit it to make money by ruining your day. I'm perfectly happy sacrificing a bit of convenience to protect myself against rent seeking in the future.

    Honestly in this day and age where everything runs inside containers, you should be able to do that in your home server. Distrobox proves it. Even a good alternative to vscode exists - theia by eclipse - that's designed to do exactly this.

  • A Wedding Puts India’s Gilded Age on Lavish Display
  • They got the Mumbai city police to restrict or outright block traffic on some busy streets during the week of the wedding celebrations. The police commissioner describes the event as a 'public event' in his order.

    Mumbai is the financial capital of India and its demography consists of one of the biggest metropolitan populations in the world, with everyone from the richest billionaire to the poorest of slum dwellers. The streets and trains are extremely busy and packed to their last square inch even on holidays. And then these filth block off these roads for a week!

    Needless to say, ordinary people and business owners are livid. But these scum have so much wealth and even an autocratic government as their servants that they don't care about what others think. It's an obscene display of wealth, corruption, undeserving power and an outright FU to the regular citizens.

  • "GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software - The Future Is Now
  • The same thing happens at Amazon. First they screwed up the product search by treating the user's query as a suggestion rather than as a requirement. Now reports are coming out saying that the search bar has been replaced by an AI prompt with very badly summarized and often wrong results.

  • "GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software - The Future Is Now
  • I don't even understand why people like GitHub so much, its source management sucks.

    I agree with this part.

    GitHub bringing everything into one platform is atypical and obviously done for the goal of centralization.

    Perhaps this is part of the answer to why people like github. Unlike you, most people love all-in-one tools. I once suggested a bunch of offline tools to use with git, with much better user experience than github. The other person was like, "Yeah, no! I don't want to learn that many tools".

    Look for ways to do things separately and you will find much better tools.

    The advantage of a centralized app is that all the services you mentioned are integrated well with each other. The distinct and often offline tools often have poor integration with each other. This is harder to achieve in such tools, compared to centralized hosts. The minimum you need to start with is a bunch of standards for all these tools to follow, so that interoperability is possible later.

  • Man detained in mental hospital after trying to set up Pakistan’s first gay club
  • The bad laws were in place even before Imran - so that isn't unexpected. However, only a democratic government affords any chance of revisiting it. Arguing that the situation is the same now is completely disingenuous.

  • Missing mother found dead inside 16-foot-long python after it swallowed her whole in Indonesia
  • More likely that the giant snake is in a coil around you and with every breath you exhale, you realize that you can't inhale back in. This goes on until you lose consciousness due to asphyxiation. You won't be awake or perhaps even alive by the time the snake decides to start swallowing you.

  • Indian PM Narendra Modi convinced to be 'emissary of God', questions his biological origins
  • Narcissists by nature are attracted to power - no surprises there. But remember that India is an electoral democracy. The people voted him into power. An appropriate comparison is that narcissists are like the flame and the voters are the moths. Voters are going to be burned by their choices (sooner than later) - they don't know it just yet. Just like the moths.

  • What convinced you to fully switched to Linux?
  • I switched nearly two decades ago after I used a freeware network monitor on Windows and realized that it was making dozens of silent TCP connections online. Some were to Microsoft, while others were to unknown third parties. Just imagine your personal machine doing this!

    Linux is actually easy to use these days. Installation is often easier than windows and hardware just works most of the time. Despite that, people have a habit of exaggerating the difficulties in using Linux or BSD. They very often feel like excuses to avoid checking it out.

  • Lift like China, bro 🇨🇳💪
  • Source: Western Media

    Which lie 105% of the time. The extra 5% is when they make random shit up and lie more to justify the random shit they made up.

    Compared to what? The obscure, unsubstantiated, suspicious and clearly pro-Chinese news sources referenced here by you and your buddies?