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  • mesa@piefed.socialOPtoTechnology@piefed.socialWhale Fall
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    4 days ago

    Can you still see twitter posts without logging in? That was one of the biggest changes that sucked a number of years ago. I remember starting to see Nitter or something back then.

    I hate how posts on the internet are literally just screenshots of peoples hot takes…without any context and you have to guess where it came from. I feel like its related somehow.


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    I thought it was interesting too. The specific examples he gives (twitter/wordpress/etc…) are what ive been feeling lately too.

    Many BIG platforms are starting to not work well at the things they are designed for and some people (the tinkerers/makers/creators and many more) are looking around. Seeing whats available.









  • OK I found out after I got home for lunch.

    Its just a script that reaches out to my old mac mini that does the build in a VM. New VM each time. It was good enough for my purposes. The windows runner for Xamarin worked without issues in .net with windows runners. So just two physical boxes I would spin up on the fly. I thought it was more but that was it. I stopped using it a while back and just use linux for builds now since thats mostly my day job. I stopped doing other env work a bit ago.

    Hope that helps!





  • Theres a LOT of people talking about “dark patterns” that dont read the code. Its frustrating.

    I like what piefed does. I dont like the discourse and FUD over things that dont exist. Its a FREE service thats also open source…seriously.

    I feel like people are used to complaining to multi-billion dollar agencies in order to get things working. Instead of opening up the code and diving in. And then fixing or forking the issue out.

    I have another popular git project and there are people (the main creators of Laravel in this case) that think the library should not exist. But its still being downloaded in the millions. Once a project is big enough, theres always some supposive controversy just because it exists.

    So in a way, congrats @[email protected] ! You made it!









  • Excellent point.

    I remember there was a LOT of docs that stated be careful what you post back when I was younger.

    Something that has come up over the years that I dont see a lot of people talking about.

    Just because your post/content is protected in your place of residence/country/state/city/etc… doesn’t mean its protected everywhere . When GitHub takes down projects because it violates some supposed law, it doesn’t need to check all the countries, it just needs to get the request from one in order to remove it. And all the forks. If you ever travel, you never know what laws you accidentally run afoul of with the internet being as public as it is.

    Or in some cases…abortion rights depending on the state you are currently in. And then if you ever move…they may come after you and prosecute. It fucking sucks.

    Being anonymous helps keep you safe. In more ways than one.