One post that I read somewhere else on fedi was in the lines of, you can’t reasonably think French are cowards, they made snails into fine cuisine.

This, worded in far more technical terms than I had understood back at the time, is one of the reasons why I’ve always opposed the idea of “merging” communities in the Fediverse. Merging views is fine, but merging the communities themselves and all that this means (focus, themes, memberships, rules, censorships, timezones…) is just Not.

I hear Snikket makes it really easy to host XMPP (aka Jabber).

Debian Sid!

It really looks like every programmer wannabe is trying to bumrush a Discord codeslop for free internet fame points these days!

Yeah, but if I’m paid for my time that’s only my time, being miserable requires extra payment.

Eh, we don’t owe politeness to our oppressors.

If I’m being given the Tuxedo, I’m gonna make that look spiffy every day.

That said, Windows is in no way a Tuxedo.

I use it at my “catch other people’s emails” account, tho so far I haven’t been quick enough on the draw to do cool stuff like slurping account creation tokens, goodie delivieries or stuff like that.

I was told by an Electron user that the Framework itself isn’t bad.

They ate the kool-aid and are propagandizing their ponzi scheme now.

Electron is so bad by itself there’s at least one whole alternative, “Tauri” or something, that has ended up in the construction of a whole “alternatives” ecosystem.

Phew!

So someone took their time to write a piece of JS that said “If the user hasn’t focused both fields at least once, no login”. Literally why? Extra code that does nothing useful.

If anything, 30 seconds in Greasemonkey should fix that one (either blocking the function that is doing it, or manually firing click events on the fields).

Wasn’t passkeys basically “passwords, but Google has control of them”?

Even if the “has an optional AI assistant” was not a thing, the repo includes an AGENTS.md file, which is also listed in the criteria, and more than qualifies it as slopware.

A whole domain? Hopefully this doesn’t cost them much. I’m guessing until then copies of the repo on notabug and/or codeberg that one can cross-check ought suffice.

It might be, but for some people that might, understandably, be already bad enough, a line in the sand if you will.

I’m reminded of this statement about LLMs and the kind of people who use them in the first place. It’s an early indicator that quality (and sovereignty) of the software is going to go the incline down.

Damn it!!! 😵

Quick! Someone add it to Open Slopware!

Truly an actor of all time. Sometimes I think Oscars and Emmys and all that shit should be able to be granted retroactively (hellooooo, “you broke your little ships” scene).

Yup, they do! It’s on the list of 101 SDF things I should be using but somehow amn’t.

I wonder how many forks outside of Github there would be going for this repo by end of tomorrow…