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@Suiseiseki i just looked it up at wikipedia and did a quick search if hplip is a thing on trisquel. i might have missed stuff :)

@blacklight
> Ugly interfaces that were just thin layers above the code

thin layers of code are good and if i buy a tool i go by use not looks.

> barely any README (let alone wikis, or any form of easily accessible and structured documentation),

i think i found everything i need in the sourcehut wiki

> How are we supposed to build the foundations of tomorrow's FLOSS if we use tools that look even more outdated than Craigslist?

if "tomorrows floss" means "blindly imitating ideas of big tech" then it's exactly what i don't want to do.

> How are we supposed to have any credibility when we tell people "stop using Github, try Sourcehut instead"?

if setting up the mail workflow is too much for people, maybe being a developer isn't for them.

> How do we expect to create user engagement?

by building functionally better tools, not by looking better. looking better is a fight that can't be won.

> How do we expect somebody who's not a developer to use software that doesn't even come with an easily accessible documentation?

i don't see what isn't easily accessible here: man.sr.ht/

also you are missing one point with sourcehut: drew started as single person. the success of sourcehut gave me hope that a single person can still do relevant work. additionaly drew is a big proponent of free software as in :gnu: . i think that the whole rebranding as "open source" is part of a push by big tech for people to use permissive licensing, as part of an EEE strategy. sourcehut is AGPL which is the exact opposite of this trend.

@blacklight@social.platypush.tech idk, I greatly prefer the interface of #Sourcehut compared to its competitors. It's simple and effective, and ridiculously fast. The tools like the CI system on Sourcehut is also vastly superiour to #GitLab's in my opinion.

Besides, if you want to use a more hip/bloated/slow interface and still be FLOSS, there's stuff like
#gitea.

This is a wild and hopeful story: grad students at Northeastern successfully pushed back against invasive digital surveillance in their workplace, through solidarity, fearlessness, and the bright light of publicity. It's a tale of hand-to-hand, victorious combat with the "shitty technology adoption curve."

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@fluffy @mangeurdenuage well, i have my hp for a few years now. back then the cheapest new was around double the price for just a printer and not printer/scanner combo. i did specifically buy an old hp networked laser printer to have minimal fuckups and it has done fine so far :)

just looked it up, the hplip stuff i meant is licensed "GPLv2 MIT BSD", so it isn't a blob and might be in trisquel

@mangeurdenuage @fluffy you can get pretty nice refurbished hp laser printers for <150€. those are also old enough to not use drm toner shit. might need hp printer blobs though.

how to synchronize a thread and fix race conditions 

@scathach reminds me of sleepsort :)

@virilemame @alyx @furgar diaper free works. it at least greatly reduces the amount of diapers you need to either wash or throw away.

> someone in comment section ranting about how the english have been nothing but pirates and thieves from day one

we had a small continent for housing our criminals and you are just now finding this out

@Elfie @Terry it's made against unguided cheap ballistic rockets. it's against guerrilla troops with self made rocket artillery, not for wars. it seems to work okish in this role in israel.

inside-it.ch/bruce-schneier-ma

e-voting ist mathematisch zeigbar unmöglich so wie es bis jetzt analog gemacht wurde.

Nur Idioten denken sie wüsten es besser.

die versionshistorie enthält auch perlen! hab gelernt das "cancel culture" ein rechtsidiologischer kampfbegriff ist. ✌️

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