Recovering skooma addict.
Using a regex on html is like eating wild mushrooms that you found in the woods. There are times where it’s appropriate and safe, other times where it’s completely insane and possibly deadly, and it takes considerable experience to know how to tell the difference.
It does not require compromising your free software ideals
By which of course I mean what I think of as free software ideals, which I’ve come to understand in large part through the teachings of Richard Stallman even though I’m not personally such an idealist as he is. He Sometimes he even goes so far as to recommend people to services with non-free software on the server side, so long as it requires only free software on systems that the user controls. Your standards may differ. But anyway, if you had to quit fedi because someone set up a fediverse/telegram bridge I think it would not be a practical way to live. Where you draw the line is of course up to you, but I wouldn’t expect many people to follow you that far from the usual FOSS positions.
I don’t think even RMS himself would refuse to participate in something on the grounds that Telegram users are also able to do so. It does not require compromising your free software ideals. By all means point out to them that you believe them to be doing something wrong, but the method you’ve chosen to try and get them to change their ways seems very likely to be ineffective and also counterproductive. It does further divide the community, even if others have already done even worse.
It looks like you are more of an xmpp advocate than a free software advocate. If you want to join a matrix room and it’s too burdensome to do so through your xmpp client, then use a matrix client for that. Without some much better reasons for doing so, setting up a competing xmpp room is not a reasonable alternative.
Sometimes I wonder what happened to all the food co-ops that used to be around, but since I’m in Canada it’s probably just the same thing that happened to all the small independent grocers: They got squeezed out by the monopoly and monopsony power of the tight little cartel that now controls the whole market.
I’d say it’s pretty obvious that other things being equal, it’s generally better to run things cooperatively, just like it’s stupidly obvious once you stop to think about it that free software is the right way to go. But it’s not the only consideration, it’s no guarantee of success, and the forces opposing it are strong.
Spending time driving garbage trucks monthly in the local waste management Co-op is not going to fly well.
Why not? I’m a member of a local co-op that does exactly that sort of thing. It’s not actually garbage collection but close enough in every way in which it might be relevant here. Members (basically everyone who lives in the area and wants their trash collected) pay a fee. That goes to covering all costs, including hiring one direct employee for the one job (driving the truck) that can’t be filled by volunteers (who handle management, accounting, et cetera.) There is no government bureaucracy involved except in setting basic regulations that the co-op legally needs to observe. No taxation is required. There are no profits. Nobody gets rich off of the arrangement. Anyone can opt out if they’re capable of finding other alternatives, but nobody does because that would be crazy. The co-op has reliably done a good job for decades.
It’s great. I suspect that replacing all municipal services (including e.g. “last mile” telecoms) with co-ops like this would make things better for everyone.
Not really. Now they’re old and controversial.
It’s the marketing department that should really be worried.
“The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it’s all learned.” — traditional 20th-century folk wisdom.
Calling 1048576 bytes an “American megabyte” might be technically wrong, but it’s still slightly less goofy-looking than the more conventional “MiB” notation. I wish you good luck in making it the new standard.
Super-advanced java devs like me do it like try{} catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("something went wrong"); e.printStackTrace(); }
Great idea, they just requested one minor change: Make the slider circular so users can “dial” the number like everyone is used to.
It is opt-out
Yeah, you are doing it wrong. As I am guessing you already know, even if you haven’t fully admitted it to yourself yet. All telemetry should be opt-in.
C was a nice idea but I guess it just didn’t work out as well as everyone hoped. Ah well, back to BCPL then.
That’s not quite how I learned it…
99 bugs in the code that I wrote, 99 bugs in the code; do one real quick, mark it as fixed, 100 bugs in the code that I wrote.
It can be done with simple regex of the kind proposed in various answers there iff the html is known to be limited to the subset of html where that sort of thing can easily be made to work. The question does not tell us whether or not that is the case, so everyone is free to make their own assumptions and argue as if they know what’s going on.