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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Here, the developer explained why development activity decreased:

    While it is true that due to private reasons I had to take a bit of a pause of developing FlorisBoard and some time passed with no progress at all, implementing a completely new statistical NLP (Natural Language Processing) provider, or in laymans terms the long-awaited word prediction and spell-checking implementation, is also a huge task which takes a lot of time and trial-error and development time.




  • I would assume that “market share” is related to the relative number of units sold/number of active subscriptions/fraction of total sales in terms in revenue, or some similar metric. I run a variety of different distributions on servers (bare metal, VMs and containers) and desktop computers. Do they all count equally? Without giving it more thought, I wouldn’t even know how to determine the market share of Ubuntu in my own home in a sensible way.

    With Windows, I can just count the number of active licenses. Oh wait, its zero.


  • This feels more like a hack than a suitable solution. Also, it does not work with static binaries.

    It would be nice to have better support for 464xlat clat on linux. Sure, there are implementations like clatd based on tayga (which, by the way, was last updated in 2011???) or jool (out-of-tree kernel module), but setting them up is rather cumbersome. On Android, I automatically get a v4-rmnet0 interface when I connect to an IPv6 only network (such as my mobile network), which provides a local IPv4 gateway for legacy applications and websites, that will automatically do nat64/clat. Prefix-discovery is done using DNS64.









  • I don’t see a future for reddit with the upcoming changes – at least not the part of reddit that I value. With the AMA it became clear (if it was not already) that reddit does not see a problem with this and the blackout will not change anything about this. To be honest, I think their plan might work, and they will end up with a profitable TikTok-clone a few years from now. But the community will be dead.

    Some time on the 12th (tomorrow), I will delete all my accounts, uninstall all apps, remove RES, and block reddit in my hosts file (for good measure). (To be honest, it feels quite exciting to experience the demise of a platform at this pace!)

    Reddit was at its best when it was a tiny fraction of its current size, so I feel confident that we can build great communities elsewhere. And the group of people that are mad at reddit is heterogeneous enough for this to actually work.