None. The project was ultimately cancelled for unrelated reasons.

I had lengthy discussions about that because two companies conventions collided.

We talked literally hours about the benefits of build numbers, branch specific identifiers and so on.

I find it really weird that something as simple as the basic functionality of nextcloud seemingly can’t be implemented in a stable and lightweight manner.

Nextcloud always seems one update away from self destruction and it prepares for that by hoarding all the resources it can get. It never feels fast or responsive. I just want a way to share files between my machines.

There are other solutions, I know, but they’re all terrible in their own way.

The German feddit (and reddit) space has bursts of memes. A while ago it was stupid puns using sturgeons or eels. Currently it’s pizza.

These intense meme storms (Stahlmemegewitter) last for a few days and then blow over.

Again, that’s not what obfuscation means.

Also, what exactly is the difference between cat and journalctl? You can’t read a text file without a program either.

Of course, raw text files are more common, but what you’re drawing up here is a mixture of old man yells at cloud and tin foil hat territory.

So literally every program on your machine is obfuscated. Linux kernel? Obfuscated. Wayland? Obfuscated. And even VIM: obfuscated.

You’re creating problems where there are none.

Are you really sure, you’re using “obfuscation” right? Because that implies that someone intentionally makes something harder to read to hide something. That’s not the case here. Nothing is hidden, it’s all there, the formats are well defined and easy to read.

I think you are either trolling or you fundamentally don’t understand, what you’re talking about.

Nothing is obfuscated. You can download each and every code file, audit it, and build the binaries from exactly that code. You can even compare the binaries to the ones provided by major distros thanks to reproducible builds.

Just because you don’t understand code, doesn’t mean it’s obfuscated. Following that logic, even a loaf of bread is “obfuscated” because you don’t understand sour dough.

Epochs aren’t that simple either.

First of all, local time can be relevant, so you have to store timezone information somewhere anyway.

Epochs are also somewhat iffy in regards to leap years or seconds.

And finally: write me an SQL to retrieve all entries submitted in 2022 using just epochs.

Timezones are annoying as fuck, don’t get me wrong, but simply ignoring them isn’t a solution either.

I had a client whose clock was just a few milliseconds behind the server’s, but due to timezone crap one hour in the past. And the signature was valid for one hour.

If the network just happened to be too congested, the validation failed. The next request went through just fine. Took us forever to find out.

That’s what’s really confusing me: why add an expensive feature, that obviously doesn’t work and even in the best case adds only minor improvements?

I mean, it’s not another option like with Bing. It’s the default. Every stupid little search will take up AI resources. For what? Market cap?

I could see those as an option for rural areas without much traffic. A full train might not be economical, but a small pod is. It could transport people to the closest proper train station where they can hop off.

But that would mean you’d have to maintain a ton of tracks for a handful of people.

Wait, you push to main directly? That’s not exactly what “trunk based” means.

If cloning a repo is an issue, you’re using CI wrong. --shallow has it’s purpose.

Anyway, in my project a complete CI run including local integration tests takes about an hour. We could cut that down by running things in parallel, but we never bothered to add more runners.

I would say, if your tests hold you back, you might want to reconsider testing. Staged testing is an option, or just reevaluate whether you really need all those test cases. Many integration tests are not really testing that much, because 95% of them overlap.

Have you considered something like tailscale?

And how many buyers actually care about that?

I’m pretty sure, nowadays institutional buyers define the market. Tons of regular people don’t even have laptops (or desktops for that matter) anymore.

What really baffles me is how bad we (as an industry) are at actually using engineering to leverage these frameworks.

It seems to me, like 90% of the regular, boring business software falls into a handful of categories, where in each category the same problems get solved again and again and again. Frameworks do help, but by far not as much as I’d expect.

Just think about how much software is essentially form>validation>transformation>persistence>messaging. It’s always the same, yet if you’d want to write one of these apps, you’d start with a rather bare bones Spring Boot/Quarkus app and maybe a React frontend, that doesn’t have any connection to the backend, so you have to manually plug them into each other.

And what is the result? Either you have to check the sources if they really mean what the agent says they do, or you don’t check them meaning the whole thing is useless since they might come up with garbage anyway.

I think you’re arguing on a different level than I am. I’m not interested in mitigations or workarounds. That’s fine for a specific use case, but I’m talking about the usage in principle. You inherently cannot trust an AI. It does hallucinate. And unless we get the “shroominess” down to an extremely low level, we can’t trust the system with anything important. It will always be just a small tool that needs professional supervision.

See, again, nitpicky details, even though we both know exactly what was meant.

Oh, I’m terribly sorry that I didn’t use the exact wording that the semantic overlord required for his incantations.

Let’s recap, you only read the title, which by definition does not contain all the information, you wrote an extremely arrogant and absolutely not helpful comment, if challenged you answer with even more arrogance, and your only defense is nitpicky semantics, which even if taken at face value, do not change the value of your comment at all.

You are not helping anyone. No, not even others.