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@mttaggart Trust me, I'd love to, but my company is embedded balls deep into Microslop's ecosystem that it won't get out until it's far too late. Worst of all, they force me to daily drive Windows 11 as a Linux engineer! I basically spend all of my time in WSL, interacting with Windows only when strictly necessary ahah

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deregon Mar 14

@nina_kali_nina Mine was `git rm *` on a newly created repository for one of my first uni weekly projects (I was trying to unstage some trash files and didn't know about `.gitignore`). By failing to specify `--cached`, it proceeded to delete my entire project. I wasn't too familiar with Git at the time, so I had not commited anything yet, and had to redo the entire thing from scratch 😖

deregon Feb 3

@humanhorseshoes @EUCommission Historically, I believe there have been trade agreements between the US and the EU which were particularly unilateral (favoring US companies) by basically allowing data transfers between the two regions under certain conditions
Except EU regulation is much more strict on those matters, so Big Tech has been exploiting the agreements to exfiltrate data and process it on their own terms
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93US_Privacy_Shield for an example of such an agreement

EU–US Privacy Shield - Wikipedia

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deregon Dec 19

@nixCraft 3. Deliver the quarterly release in December, knowing that your users won't consume it until at least January. In essence, push to prod with the bugs, but no one will see them until you're back ;)

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deregon Nov 3

@benpocalypse Yeah, the generalization is really a problem. So much software that just has `docker run foo:bar` as installation instructions, especially in the self-hosted community... the situation is clearly not ideal.

Although, there are a few use cases that actually make sense. Like cross-compiling and testing on that architecture without actually running a full VM, or ensuring reproducible builds by popping up containers. But installing software isn't one of those.

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deregon Oct 31

@nixCraft OCaml. I mean, the language is not obsolete, but I've never had to use it beyond school projects.

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deregon Oct 10

@vernissage Thank you for the all the work !

deregon Oct 3

Signal Oct 3

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/germany-chat-control.pdf

deregon Sep 29

F-Droid Sep 29

Broken links aside (fix incoming), #FDroid raises the case against the #Google developer forced registration once again.

We'll skip the small talk, go read, and better yet, spread this wide and far: https://f-droid.org/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html so people are made aware, actions can be taken and #Android is kept truly open!

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

For the past 15 years, F-Droid has provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world to find and install free and open source apps. When co...

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deregon Sep 25

@itsfoss "I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. [...]"