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From: rtr <rtr@haraya.invalid>
Subject: Re: In the news
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2022 10:12:57 +0800
Message-ID: <87fsp3cp1y.fsf@haraya.local.net>
Jeremy Brubaker <jbrubake.362@orionarts.invalid> writes:
On 2022-01-31, Dan Purgert wrote:
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> rtr wrote:
>> [...]
>> Funnily enough, I was reading a lot about IPFS a few days ago because I
>> thought it's a neat protocol with all the fancy modern web crap that
>> they've pulled in their website. But then I came across this guy's blog:
>>
>> https://fiatjaf.com/d5031e5b.html
>>
>> Which promptly killed all of my enthusiasm with IPFS. It seems like a
>> half-baked protocol that sounds neat in theory but is quite bad in
>> practice. I don't want my files having anything to do with something
>> like that.
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> Heh, I get that feeling from a fair number of "modern" things. It's
> almost as if all the new frameworks and such that make programming
> easier also make it easier to just make a horrible mess.
Terraform, Packer, Ansible, etc. These just happen to be the /modern/
things I'm using at work lately. They are all useful but all seem to be
not quite as good as they could be.
I haven't set up a gemini capsule of my own yet, but reading this group
I'm getting more interesting in doing so. Modern is not bad in and of
itself, but neither is old bad just because it's old.
You definitely should. I find gemini really accessible and so much so
that my http site is just a proxy of my gemini one.
I think ``modern'' things try to focus more on the outward facilities of
things rather than the innards. It seems accessible, yes, but don't ever
dare look behind the curtain. Because behind that curtain, is layers of
pain that you don't want to experience.
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In the news (by David <david@arch.invalid> on Sat, 29 Jan 2022 19:07:21 +0100)