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  • Louis Rossmann

    Wait what?!

    There’s three points next to his name:

    • “Worked with” someone who has some links to right side politics to get funding for a right to repair non profit.
      • Unless there’s more info somewhere, I don’t see this being overly bad since he’s all about trying to change laws for the better, and just by virtue of doing that you will need to at least interact with the slimy part of politics.
    • Anti-trans: which can be paraphrased as “I think transgender women are men but I’m willing to overlook it if we have common cause”
      • So identity denying. This looks more like he doesn’t have enough information than a case of far right conspiracy trans are pedos shit. Seeing how he’s changed his mind about things in the past when presented with new information, and knowing how deep he goes into rabbit holes (especially when it comes to rights) when he finds them, I see this as unfortunate, but potentially redeemable.
    • Louis has been a regular poster on the hate and harassment website Kiwi Farms, posting there from 2023 to the present under the username “larossmann”.
      • I don’t have enough information on this to have a proper opinion. This looks like something that warrants further investigation…




  • Before:

    • Gnome 2 was great
    • Gnome 3 was terrible
    • KDE 4 was terrible

    Today: KDE.

    Why not Gnome:

    • It’s missing basic features.
    • General new users startup is:
      • searching online to try and fix things
      • 50% chance of it working.
      • 50% chance of it not working because the fix doesn’t work on your version of gnome and having to find another fix
    • Common recommendation for missing features (to use extensions) is a non-starter since the extensions break after every update, so every update you need to go back through the general new users startup steps above.

    Why KDE:

    • It has all the basic features by default, and a bunch of extra stuff.
    • General new user process is:
      • looking through settings and changing the 2-3 they care about
      • looking through features, trying them out to see which ones you want to use, turning on/off the 2-3 you care about
      • Never needing to look through or remember the other settings, because your computer is already set up for you.

    Future:

    • Gnome: more of the same, likely basic features missing until specific people are removed (could be 5-10 years, then another few years of catching up).
    • KDE: Will continue making updates and consolidating similar features where it makes sense.
    • Cosmic: Will continue sanding off rough edges and fill in last remaining missing features. Will probably surpass Gnome for 90% of user’s needs in a year. Will probably be trading blows with KDE in 3 years and will surpass them if KDE ever makes any missteps.

  • Deno has always made more sense than Bun, but all the social media influences jumped on the new thing.

    I use Deno over node on new projects purely for the security model, and the fact that their standard library means I don’t need a spaghetti nest of dependencies.

    Deno shares one minor annoying thing with node. The features of both slowly change over time in such a way that I need to use a specific version of Deno/Node for each project. The node community solved this with NVM. Deno has it build into the cli with deno upgrade v<semver goes here>. The annoying thing is that it downloads a Deno binary every time instead of switching to a cached one. Great if you’re online, but if you’re on a laptop on the move it’s annoying.

    But knowing Deno, they’ll just build in that runtime caching in a year or so, they already do it for dependencies between projects.