Tanoh
@Tanoh@lemmy.world
- Comment on Techrights — GitHub Won't Last Much Longer 6 days ago:
Having a single centralized source will always give those issues. It can go down either temporarily or permanently. It is all part of the conveniance/single-point-of-failure scale.
In the short run it going down will cause some issues, which can be mitigated by having local mirrors of critical repos. However, moving to another place should in theory be as easy as replacing github.com with gitlab, codeberg, your-local-git-server url, etc (and auth info of course)
Actually testing what will happen if github and/or other services are down and see how your product or build pipeline handles it, is a very good thing to do, but very rarely is it done. It can be easily accomplished by for example adding a drop rule in iptables. Testing for bad things never seems to happen though, and then when it really is a problem nothing works and everyone panics.
- Comment on Techrights — GitHub Won't Last Much Longer 1 week ago:
I dont like having 90%ish of all git repos all in one handbasket. Even if MS was benevolent, its not good to have all things in one place. A bad actor could take down all of GH and we would be screwed.
That is not how git works though. If github disappeared today it would be a lot of confusion, but the code exists everywhere it is checked out. The owner/maintainer (or anyone really) can just add a new remote and push it. If they use github specific features like issues, they would be lost though.
- Comment on Folk Emerging is a fascinating 4X strategy game about prehistoric nomads that ends where Civilization begins 2 weeks ago:
store.steampowered.com/app/…/Folk_Emerging/
Steam link, playtest only
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 2 weeks ago:
If you have physical access you have full access anyway
No, encrypt your drives.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 4 weeks ago:
It doesn’t really matter how you measure it, number of flights, duration, distance traveled, etc… No matter which, air travel is by far the safest option. The only other that comes anywhere near is trains. Going by car is bad (though motorcycle is even worse), but so many are afraid of flying that they instead takes the car. Which is among the worst things you could do from a safety point of view.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 4 weeks ago:
Humans are awful at accessing risk and chance, one of the reasons casinos and lotteries thrive.
Look at fear of flying for an example, all statistics say you are many many many times over more likely to get into a car accident on your way to the airport, than during the flight. Even when the ride to the airport is usually short and the flight very long. Yet people are afraid of flying, but not going by car. By percentage, there are of course those, rightly so, afraid of cars as well.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 4 weeks ago:
This is exactly what it was designed to solve before cryptobros turned it into a pump and dump scheme.
If you want to buy something from seller X that is between you and X and no one else. No goverment, payment processor or other third party can get a cut or stop it for any reason.
- Comment on The upcoming skate. from EA will be unsupported on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat 5 weeks ago:
Eh, you could make your own kernel module and require it being enabled for Linux as well. It would be a major undertaking though, and since the linux share is very small still it just isn’t worth it.
- Comment on I require nothing more 1 month ago:
Boink! Right into the pillar, again
- Comment on Anyone else going basic with their NAS? 2 months ago:
I open the series folder from the mounted network share and watch it in VLC.
Similar, but I have a RPI by the TV running LibreELEC and Kodi.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads Per Hour 2 months ago:
Just a matter of time until you can’t chose what to watch on the lowest tier, you have to follow their playlist of what you should watch.
And we have come full circle back to broadcast TV
- Comment on When an instance like lemm.ee shuts down, what happens to the posts and comments? 2 months ago:
Pretty naive to think someone isn’t doing it already, but as someone else said you don’t need to shutdown for it. Infact it is worse if you shut down as you don’t get new data.
- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 2 months ago:
I think that is just an effect of growing, or at least not shrinking and sticking around. There is ni point in spaming somewhere where there are no active users.
- Comment on How I use Pinchflat to avoid podcast ads 2 months ago:
It should be doable to so some audio analysis of the episodes. They “always” (I am sure some forget every now and then), have an outro and intro around the ad block. With a clearly defined jingle per podcast. You should be able to make a program that analyses the audio and listens for that block and cuts it out for you.
- Comment on Finished my 10" rack (for now) 3 months ago:
Nice rack!
That exact same phrase is used in a very different context in other communities!
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 3 months ago:
Personally I think mandatory voting is a bad idea. It will not make then suddenly care, they will just vote for lolrolfcopter party.
The US does a lot of bad things around voting, but it being on a workday is probably the biggest hurdle. Most other countries have it on a weekend or holiday. That means that most people can go vote and not have to chose between potentially getting fired and vote. Which, to no surprise mostly affects lower income voters.
Also combined with the witch hunt on mail in voting makes it very hard for lower income people to vote. Which is by design.
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 4 months ago:
Or even worse, password field doesn’t work with paste.
- Comment on Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up 4 months ago:
It says “could” not “will”, so they will just never implement that part.
- Comment on Just Because 5 months ago:
Missed to change the legend to “North Canada” or just simply “Canada”
- Comment on Rust is Eating JavaScript 6 months ago:
Has Golang fizzled? It has struck me as too primitive, but basically on the right track.
My biggest issue with Golang by far is the close tie to Google. They are not our friendly innovator, time and time again they make decisions that will help them earn more ad money, and nothing else. And they have a lobg history of releasing something and then never fix the issues with it, and then more or less abandon it.
Other than that there are afaik some other issues with go, I’m not an expert but from what I hear the GC is quite aggressive and you can’t tell it to run when you want. Doing something time sensitive? Well, bad luck. GC time!
- Comment on Here’s why some people still evade public transport fares – even when they’re 50 cents 6 months ago:
They could still have taps. I lived in another country that made bus fares free, but you still had to get a card and use it to tap on and off.