This could actually a pretty big deal

1. The Eclipse foundation has been making alternatives to VS Code’s “killer apps” (Docker, Python, Go, C++, SSH, Live share, etc). AKA the closed source ones exclusive to VS Code offical that make all VS Code forks a huge downgrade. The Eclipse foundation is also running the extension store that powers VS Codium.
2. “why not just use VS Codium?” (With the killer extensions made by Eclipse)
   • VS Codium is great, but because of manpower limits, they always have to be “downstream” of VS Code. They can’t rewrite any of the core systems.
   • As someone who contributes to VS Code, and loves VS Codium, many issues I have with VS Code have been open on github for +5 years, with hundreds of comments and thumbs-ups. We can’t even sort the file explorer view by last-edited and folders-first (but we can do folders-first alphabetical). Thats been open since 2020.
   • Theia looks like it could finally be the hard fork I’ve been waiting for. A hackable editor, trying to be open source, where all my extensions work, and the community can actually make a PR, get it merged, and extensions are not excessively sandboxed.
   • Will it be that? Only time will tell, but the Eclipse foundation has a pretty good record. They’re definitely prepared for long term support.

Finally :D thank you so much!

So basically VOIP is “cheating” because its not actually handled by the network directly, the phone company pays for always-online servers, and phone(s) reach out to those server every time they change networks, in order for servers to be able to route calls to them.

Which also means! it is possible to do the same thing for computers, but it requires having

1. A static IP
2. An always online server
3. The device needs a daemon that tries to connect to an always online server, and authenticates itself
4. That server needs to manually reroute traffic (through a VPN or some other means) from the static IP address to the device, wherever it might be

Which also explains why general network providers wouldn’t want to create the infrastructure. Even if universal addresses were given to each device, which simplifies DHCP and address-leasing, and shortens time it takes to handshake with the network, all of that is less of a cost than the infrastructure needed track of devices as they change networks. (And that’s on top of ISP’s being slow to change from the legacy approach of local networks and desktops).

^ which is more the conversation I wanted to have but didnt really get with this post.

Thats a sizable edit!

Yeah 😅 I didnt want it to be this complicated of a question, but I didnt see how else to explain that current addressing systems don’t meet the same need as a phone number.

I can get VOIP calls behind a NAT without cell service. I’m asking how is that possible. Is the router somehow part of the same AP as cell service?

Cell phones don’t get a new phone number every time they switch cell towers, so why do laptops.

Its not like I can write down the IP address of my friends laptop so I can send it a message once he gets to a new city. Right?

I’m shocked this answer has so many upvotes. No, a MAC address is not close to a phone number. No two people have the same phone number, and I can’t just edit my phone number to be someone else’s number.

• “two network interfaces connected to two different networks can share the same MAC address”
• “Many network interfaces, however, support changing their MAC addresses”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC_address

Just commenting here to ping you that I found a new major alternative! I’ve edited the comment but TLDR; search “.NET Avalonia” and see what you think

The “front page” of most instances are not interesting to average people or to professionals (e.g. local gov that wants to go open source, like those switching to Mastodon).

Part is lemmy’s hot-sort is basically broken as a ranking, another part is bad language filters, another part is that major communities here (fediverse, Linux memes, star trek memes, science memes, etc) are off-putting with in-group jokes. Its a hard fix.

Same haha.

I’ve already started it twice for lemmy, but didn’t put in heavy effort yet. I’ve got a wrapper for nix that helps with common issues, but its on the messy side.

There are so many small GUI apps I want to make but I refuse until I can get Tauri to build an appimage and macos app within nix. It was more than a year ago since I put a lot of effort on that though. If you’ve got any tips/pointers or examples for tauri I’d be happy to hear them.

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This is a bit like asking “how do you cook meat for a lot of people?” Not only does number-of-people and kind-of-meat matter a great deal, but even with that info, there’s a million different valid answers and an entire sub-field-ish of science on how to do it.

Based on what little info there is, I’m going to guess that A B testing with groups of experimental features enabled would be best for your case.

Sadly it still causes system instability even if you NEVER need the feature.

You might not need numpy at all, but Pandas needs numpy and Opencv needs numpy. Sometimes pandas needs one version and Opencv needs a different version. Well… python only allows one global verison of numpy, so pandas and opencv fight over which one they want installed, and the looser is forced to use a numpy they were not designed/tested for. Upgrading pandas might also upgrade numpy and break opencv. That causes system instability.

Stable systems like cargo coupld upgrade pandas, have pandas use numpy 1.29 without touching/breaking opencv (opencv would still importing/using using numpy 1.19 or whatever). That stability is only possible if the system is capable of having two versions of the same dependency at the same time.

I feel like they missed the most important point in their abstract and top of their conclusion; why is urban agricultural producing more carbon. The TLDR conclusion is “urban garden = bad”. But if done correctly, theres no way a rainwater compost local vegetable using handmade wooden tools burns more carbon than air-freight across the Atlantic.

Its not till much later that they say “If our UA sites sourced all their materials from urban waste, all three forms of UA would be carbon-competitive with conventional agriculture”

And FYI to OP, if you can’t install two versions of the same library at the same time (ex: numpy 1.25 and numpy 1.19) then the answer to “has its dependencies under control?” is generally “no”.

• Deno (successor to NodeJS) is “yes” by default, and has very very few exceptions
• Rust can by default, and has few but notable/relevant exceptions
• Python (without venv) cannot (even with venv, each project can be different, but 1 project still can’t reliably have two versions of numpy)
• NodeJS can, but it was kind of an afterthought, and it has tons modules that are notable exceptions

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The more reliable/reproducible the container is the more pain/effort it is to setup. If you don’t need reliability, then you don’t need containers.

• If you want unbeatable reliability, use nix.
• If you want better-than-nothing use venv/anaconda envs (one or the other, not both)
• If you want the most reliability-per-effort and don’t care about performance, use distrobox

Fair, I did miss that requirement

It is a sad story. Keeping it in legendary meme status is the best way to remember it IMO.

Temple OS

A mattress with per-side heat controls. Unplug it, set your side to super hot, then use a timer socket to make it turn on when you want to wake up.

For standard notes, its got an auto-export plaintext file option on desktop. Were you wanting two-way editing of plaintext? (e.g. Auto export and import)