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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal
« Last post by Tuxman on July 15, 2018, 04:33 PM »
Are you implying they're silly because "it's DVCS, they can just move elsewhere"?
-f0dder (July 15, 2018, 04:20 PM)

I am implying that the hostname of the upstream DVCS repository does not matter to anyone who even remotely understands his shiny plaything.

In that case, please keep in mind that the repository hosting is the smallest part of what GitHub offers - it's all the stuff built on top and around that makes it worthwhile.
-f0dder (July 15, 2018, 04:20 PM)

Like what? The issue tracker? Indeed, it is a rather dumb idea to sacrifice yourself to voluntary vendor lock-in - but that's not Microsoft's fault at all. As if Microsoft would endanger your precious bug reports...

Same goes for the JVM world and the main maven repository, the node.js hipsters and npm, et cetera.
-f0dder (July 15, 2018, 04:20 PM)

Agree.

Is there any language/ecosystem that has a nice package repository without a single point of failure?
-f0dder (July 15, 2018, 04:20 PM)

Every centralized repository is a single point of failure. IMO, the sanest approach is C's: You'll just get your headers/libs from your OS vendor.
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General Software Discussion / Re: How secure is a private WordPress post from public view?
« Last post by Tuxman on July 07, 2018, 07:15 AM »
Plug-ins are able to lower the security of private posts. If you are unsure, don't install them.
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks
« Last post by Tuxman on June 29, 2018, 03:03 PM »
I uploaded a Chrome version to the Web Store. I'll update the website once Google is blind enough to accept it.  :D

edit:
https://chrome.googl...gfjfbjjobmegihhaacfi
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ACDSee Photo Software on offer until 23d May
« Last post by Tuxman on June 18, 2018, 05:39 PM »
Or I was just not paying for the shareware.  ;D
Some Wikipedia research told me that it was later called "ACDSee Classic" (ACDSee32). Well, memories...  :-[
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ACDSee Photo Software on offer until 23d May
« Last post by Tuxman on June 17, 2018, 05:20 PM »
Wait, what was I using then? Illegal software?  :huh:
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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2019 Announcement
« Last post by Tuxman on June 17, 2018, 07:25 AM »
Does software already posted in January count?  8)
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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: micro Tool contribution that list all connected Drives
« Last post by Tuxman on June 16, 2018, 06:17 PM »
you have a few months to wait until its open.
-mouser (June 13, 2018, 02:31 AM)

Ha!
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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2019 Announcement
« Last post by Tuxman on June 16, 2018, 06:16 PM »
:(
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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2019 Announcement
« Last post by Tuxman on June 16, 2018, 04:49 PM »
Ah, this time of the year again...
I'm prepared. But I'll wait for the NANY template to be updated for 2019 before I start posting.

(I even consider to just wait until December, maybe I'll have more potential entries then.)
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks
« Last post by Tuxman on June 16, 2018, 01:31 PM »
Ha, nice. So I'll have to release an official Chrome version by Autumn.  :-[
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks
« Last post by Tuxman on June 16, 2018, 10:01 AM »
Wait. What? Why?
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks
« Last post by Tuxman on June 15, 2018, 05:20 PM »
No need to hurry!
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N.A.N.Y. 2018 / Re: NANY 2018 Release (preliminary alpha-or-so): ymarks
« Last post by Tuxman on June 15, 2018, 04:27 PM »
The spirit of open etc.:
I got a pull request, fixing all known problems with both the Firefox and the Chrome versions. Ha!
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Notepad logging for (Vim and) GNU Emacs
« Last post by Tuxman on June 07, 2018, 04:54 AM »
Finally: package-install <RET> logpad <RET>
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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal
« Last post by Tuxman on June 06, 2018, 02:53 AM »
Which is so much better.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal
« Last post by Tuxman on June 06, 2018, 02:47 AM »
Gitlab runs on Microsoft Azure.
https://twitter.com/.../1004087778760646656
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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Mini review: The Acme editor on Debian on Windows
« Last post by Tuxman on June 05, 2018, 04:51 AM »
For those who can't get enough:
acme2k can be installed over your existing acme and it comes with configurable colors and fonts (and more keybindings).

 :D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal
« Last post by Tuxman on June 05, 2018, 12:57 AM »
Also, many projects and even programming languages (talking to you, Go!) natively integrate GitHub as their package repository. That means that not only the official source would be gone for a while - large parts of the software world wouldn't even compile anymore. That's a bad sign.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal
« Last post by Tuxman on June 04, 2018, 06:57 PM »
My definition of monopoly is a large company (which GitHub undoubtedly is) which has a large enough market share in its specific niche (which GitHub undoubtedly has) that using a different product has a severe impact on your own success.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal
« Last post by Tuxman on June 04, 2018, 02:46 PM »
What is your definition of monopolies?

What would happen if GitHub would close in thirty minutes and why?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal
« Last post by Tuxman on June 04, 2018, 01:56 PM »
I'm pretty sure that GitHub has - by 2018 - driven past Sourceforge in terms of commits (or even: repositories) per year. Which platform is able to beat its market share?

(Although I wonder why most people ignore the fact that they are mad about their preferred "DVCS" hoster being bought... Git's target audience does not seem to be the brightest of all.)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal
« Last post by Tuxman on June 04, 2018, 01:45 PM »
A monopolist buys another monopolist. Hilarity ensues.
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General Software Discussion / Listary 6
« Last post by Tuxman on June 03, 2018, 06:39 PM »
I totally missed that:

Listary 6 will be a complete rewrite and is about to be released "soon" (in a programmer's definition of "soon").
http://discussion.li...-as-of-may-2018/4184
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DC Member Programs and Projects / Notepad logging for (Vim and) GNU Emacs
« Last post by Tuxman on June 01, 2018, 06:38 AM »
Did you know that Windows Notepad can make a journal for you?

A couple of years ago, I wrote a Vim script to simulate this behavior.

Today, I ported it to GNU Emacs (will probably be released in the MELPA repositories soon).

Enjoy.
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ACDSee Photo Software on offer until 23d May
« Last post by Tuxman on May 21, 2018, 08:24 AM »
I remember having used ACDSee as my image viewer in the ... 90s? Looks like they killed their free version some time in the past two decades though.
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