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  • What does a programmer need?

    • a text editor or IDE
    • language specific tool chains for building, running and testing your code

    This doesn’t seem to be something a distro can solve beyond making it possible to install this stuff.

    Maybe the closest is nixos, because it allows a lot of flexibility in setting up different development environments that are fully reproducible. Gentoo is also close, as it allows the same but in a different way (without the extent of reproducible guarantees).



  • matcha_addicttoLinux@lemmy.mlA word about systemd
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    26 days ago

    Two questions:

    • do you admit that, comparing only its functionalities as an init system, systemd provides no benefits over alternatives?
    • what non-init functionalities does systemd provide, which are necessary and beats competition from other software that provides those features?

    Sure, the alternative init systems don’t provide non init functionalities, but other software probably does.


  • matcha_addicttoLinux@lemmy.mlA word about systemd
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    26 days ago

    Not how I understood it. Rather, there are alternatives that have potential to be better than systemd, but systemd has the unfair advantage of receiving the funding and manpower.

    If alternatives had equal manpower, they may have had better success than systemd.


  • Don’t entirely discount a project only because it is funded by the US government. Do take that as a big yellow flag, but not auto reject. Better to just asses the project for what it is with caution.

    I find it much more likely that the US government has a huge interest in giving the public access to secure communication software that would be unbreakable by surveillance from a typical government. Why? Because those are the governments that are enemies of the US, and where the US is interested in regime change. And the existence of this software is much more influential towards regime change in those countries, rather than being threat to the US.

    In fact, these softwares are barely a threat to the US. The US has no issue with them existing because they have such a powerful hold on their state.














  • matcha_addicttoFediverse@lemmy.worldMbin instances
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    1 month ago

    Is there a still a concern for self hosters of public instances regarding CSAM content? And if so, any guidance on how to mitigate it?

    I am very interested in self hosting, but I am worried of its legal repercussions, especially since I am an immigrant in the country where I live and afraid to get in any legal trouble.