It should be noted that this isn't an exaggeration. For a long time they actually had in the sidebar on lemmy.ml that it was the main Marxist instance. I'd link an archive but the site's design makes every one I can find pull the new info.

I mean is this really a reason to not use something? Just because you don't agree with the views of the people running it?

Not at all but is a very strong reason not to collaborate.

Can't work with someone who is radicalized, they tend to take criticism as attacks and will attack back, sometimes preemptively if they get paranoid and start seeing ghosts.

In those cases only use it if you can maintain it and fork it. Because you can't trust that someone with so extreme political views will not remove the software because they don't agree with whatever downstream group using it.

> they tend to take criticism as attacks

Makes sense, but it might as well not be the case.

True, but from experience with family and former friends it's a prevalent trend with radicals (left, right, religious). It's not something I'd look forward to.

I guess it depends in exactly what they believe and how they think it should be achieved, since I've met people who were extreme in their positions, but capable of accepting others and staunch critics of their side.

Thinking about it, I guess the main difference with these two guys was that they didn't preach and were old as hell. Probably age earned wisdom, who knows.

Yes, because you're giving them more power to disseminate their views and later suppress yours if they so choose. In this case it's a bit different, since it's a federated model, so you can just run your own node, but I'd rather not support the work of people with extremist views.

If they're unwilling to work with people who disagree with them politically?

With federated services, then at very least the people making the technical decisions around the protocols should try to be politically neutral.

The cost of the actual implementation being under the control of political idealogues is less, since forking doesn't impact the API - but it's still not desireable.

Well it depends, right. If their views are just their views then no, not really. But if they outright tell people they want nothing to do with them unless they think exactly alike, yeah, why would you want to contribute to that? When I say they're Marxists, I mean they're not shy in saying what they think of you if you're not one. These are not weekend "what Mao did was wrong" socialists man, they don't want to hang around you either.

I never said you shouldn't? I was only backing up the other commentor's claim since many people might think he's being hyperbolic rather than them overtly spelling it out on their site.

Would you want to be associated with people who openly and unironically praised Hitler?

Pretend for a moment it's a Nazi-espousing group. That's how some are seeing this group even though they swing the opposite direction into Marxism.

This may be a weird recommendation but the steam deck may be something to consider if your docks have a usb c connector.

It's nearly as powerful as my desktop, and I can't find any laptops/portaPCs with similar specs at that pricepoint.

I kinda think that the Steam Deck and the other new handheld gaming PCs are the new incarnation of the netbook. Powerful enough to be useful, with a usable screen, you just need a mouse and keyboard to do basic tasks. Plug in a monitor, you're all set.

This is my intended use-case too.

They probably use the user's social graph. Taking all those precautions won't help if the new account just rejoins the same servers and talks to the same people as the banned account.

How do you manage passwords for things outside of the browser?

On iOS, opening up saved passwords just uses firefox's password manager. On the desktop, I just open up firefox's password page. It's always running anyway.

It works just like another password app.

Sorry for being obtuse, but FF only allows me to put in a website to save passwords. How would I use this for an extra-browser application (steam for example)?

just put "steam" in the url?

So, in earnest, I don't see what the parent comment said that deserves them to be called an asshole. I actually see you calling them an asshole as much more rude than anything they said.

I figure there's some social implication that I'm missing. Would you mind breaking down the thought process for your reply?

Not GP, but the "as well" in that comment could be seen to imply that GP is a mediocre engineer, and OP is as well.

That sentence is grammatically incorrect. But even if meaning this, calling him an a-hole is a bit harsh, especially for HN.

I feel like an outcast after reading all the comments here. I've never really had issues using git. I didn't realize so many people had trouble with it.

That's what I was thinking. I barely understand how git works but I've never had issues neither. Could be because people don't have a good workflow.

Mine is as simple as:

- git pull -r (to pull & automatically rebase commits from the common branch)

- git checkout -b (to create my own feature/debug branch from the common branch)

- git add -A/commit -m/push (to add, commit and push… I usually let my IDE handle that part)

- git rebase (to rebase commits from the common branch)

- git reset (to squash all the "WIP" and "fix" commits on my feature/debug branch. I then do 1 or 2 clean commits and push -f)

- finally I do a merge request, or directly git cherry-pick the commits to the original branch if nobody else works on the project

I've been doing this for years and it just works.

Meanwhile, I refer to Git Flight Rules (https://github.com/k88hudson/git-flight-rules) on a weekly basis. Especially the branches section - somehow I'm checking in or pulling from the wrong branch, or branching from the wrong parent, and cleaning up is so tedious/annoying. I'm gonna check out this "git undo" command in the article.

> I've used reddit for 10 years.

I believe that's why you think that. I feel that reddit started to go downhill after 2011, which was 10 years ago. So if that's when you joined you wouldn't have experienced what it was like before to feel that way.

I mean, the site hasn't been unchanged over that history. I've left many subreddits as they became memed-out messes.

Overall, I find that there are plenty of subreddits with focused discussion and decent moderation.

I'd be interested in what you refer to as the entirety of the site going "downhill". You haven't really given me much to reply to in this comment.

It's because SMS works without data.

I doubt that most of the people that complain about SMS live in rural areas. It seems to be more of a US thing. The country is so large that unless you live in a city you just won't be able to get data reliably. This leaves SMS as the only form of phone communication that isn't a voice call.

Agree, SMS just work, everywhere and always, with every mobile phone.

Kallithea[0] has support for both. You might want to test it out and see if it's a good fit for your setup. I enjoyed working with it when when I used it.

[0]https://kallithea-scm.org/

What point are you trying to make?

Throwing around the n-word makes him a bigot, not right-wing.

He's also embraced some of the deepest of right-wing craziness, Q, and was often parroting right-wing talking points with bonus homo- and trans-phobic tweets salted around.