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Codeberg and Gitlab exist though. The problem is the inertia. Tons of repositories in GitHub from way before MS acquired them, which makes most people use GitHub, which makes most software projects choose GitHub.

Heck, GH Stars are used as a vanity metric for a lot of projects.


> Codeberg and Gitlab exist though.

Soooo...

Let me preface this by saying this is an old (so things are different) anecdote (which is not the singular of data), but...

a) I had never heard of codeberg.

b) My company used an on-prem gitlab instance, and it sucked donkey dicks.

For example, the equivalent of just putting a statically generated site into github pages required running a fucking production pipe.

You should make the easy things easy and the hard things possible. Making the easy things hard is an immediate red flag.

> The problem is the inertia.

Oh, don't worry about that. Github is working diligently to fix that problem. The question is, are the alternatives worthwhile?


You sound pleasant.

Codeberg only serves a small subset of what Github does.

Pitching them as a no-brain replacement and advising people to move all their personal repos over is abusive towards Codeberg.

For community-facing FLOSS it is good. For other uses you need to look elsewhere. Forgejo, which is what Codeberg ises, is easy to self-host and other providers exist.

https://sr.ht is more open and has paid options.


Just gonna chime in here to mention I am one of the users who has NOT been here since Classic mac or any sort of olden days (I mean, I was born in 2001; there are people who have used BBEdit longer than I have been alive).

My first experience with BBEdit was around 2020, and I have had a copy of it ever since on a Mac for light editing. My main dev home is JetBrains IDEs, but I find VS Code too heavy for quick text edits. That, and Shell Worksheets are enough of a game changer that it justifies the whole price.


I just attended a talk at Northeastern (Boston) on Verus, it's genuinely amazing. I have been using it on my own Rust codebases for a while, and it has made me think deeper about the structure and semantics of Rust code.


I love (read, hate) the trend of using Serif fonts and marketing material that pull on nostalgic vibes. Surely, AI has been revolutionary in its own regard, for better or worse. But, the more they go into 80/90s style advertising, the more the allure of it dies.

Also this "system" just seems vulnerable af.


Could it just be a new trend? There are just two options in this case (serifs or no), so I’d expect it to flip back and forth sometimes.

The broader trend is pulling back a bit on “minimalism,” right? I think we hit peak (or valley?) minimalism already so I guess there’s only one way to go.


I do agree with you, there is a reverse in the minimalism trends (which I am incredibly happy to see).

However, in my opinion this specific typeface and aesthetic is been taken up by AI companies to harken back to the likes of the 1984 Macintosh ads and such...in an attempt to try and convey that "$(AI_PRODUCT) is just as revolutionary as the first desktop PCs".


It does seem especially similar to old Mac ad fonts


I think you're right. AI is being sold on promises of maximalism, in a way.

Build everything, do anything, give AI all your data and thoughts and system access and it will give you the world!

I'm not surprised our own "roaring" 20s is seeing this shift.


Serifs are so back and I'm so excited.


The specific font here is clearly meant to reference the marketing for the original Macintosh.


CompSci grad in the US as well, it is genuinely a sea of either Macs or ThinkPads with $INSERT_FAV_LINUX_DISTRO here, and even then 66% of that are Macs.


The "cloud" is most likely running Linux so it's UNIX-like. Everything old is new again!!


This is actually fun to observe!! Kudos :)


https://skushagra.com - My blog "Declarative" where I write about systems programming, compilers, and low-level optimization.


The collections of threads, statements, and accusations on both sides are some of the most unhinged things I have seen in a while, and I don't think any of this helps anyone. :')


this all reads like a bunch of nerds with difficulties assessing on where to draw the line. Is it really that hard to figure out that neither registering a domain to meme a person, nor going on a spazz-posting spree and messaging folks over etsy DMs is considered normal, adjusted behavior??


Merry Christmas everyone. I made a little something on AArch64 Assembly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46385623


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