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wayward vagabond from homestuck: we should improve technology somewhat. well dweller: xkcd 927 “standards”
I love how both FB messenger and Google talk/chat/whatever were compatible for 3 months, thanks to a fucking standard, before they both “improved somewhat” to be incompatible.
All hail XMPP!
A bad standard adds to the pile.
A good standard crushes the pile.
Example: Git and Linux.
Proof: what are the other source management softwares? (Don’t mention Mercurial, that’s cheating).
Also for Linux, it’s down to the license and history. Linux isn’t a bad investment because all commits directly to the kernel are given freely to all. And it’s not Unix. It doesn’t have the stain of AT&T and their sue happy ways. Also Linux dominates all computer markets except for user desktops. Servers, phones, application specific utilities, etc.
Fossil, GNU Bazaar, SVN, as well as some other lesser known ones
I actually miss SVN. It had a lot of issues, yes, but the cognitive barrier was so much smaller. When I have a merge error in git, I basically just delete my repo and make a new one…
SVN, and whatever that thing Microsoft was doing once
Also, CVS, cvsup, both of which I’ve used in my early Linux years.
And fossil – which is the revision control system sqlite uses and I kind of like :)
It is also the version control system that uses sqlite which is pretty cool as far as disk space and resiliency are concerned esp. as compared to Git.
I don’t however like that it prides itself on not having any history rewriting features because I am kind of a fan of those. I like keeping embarrassing mistakes like a typo’d commit message or missing file out of my permanent commit history.
Why is the alt text calling the peasant “Wayward Vagabond from homestuck?” I mean that’s fucking hilarious but why
I usually check alt text before shamelessly stealing it, but you caught me there! Here’s the source: https://wetdry.world/@boxy/111455959207468101
This meme should be the new standard format to resist standard proliferation!
I know that XKCD comic in particular but I don’t get what’s going on with the image it’s been superimposed on to or what it has to do with it.
The original image has something along the lines of “I hate this system” and the smug guy in the well is saying “Ah, and yet you participate in said system!” as a gotcha. I think the purpose in this one is just carrying over the smugness with which people post the XKCD when any new possible technological standard is proposed (whether or not it has any merits)
Aaah ok. Needs the previous exposure to both images.
It’s become a meme where a poor soul wants some thing, and the kid pops out of the well with a trite rebuttal.
In this case, the trite rebuttal is a cartoon about technological standards.
I like the idea of having a regulated, living, backwards compatible standard. Which seems to be what USB-C is now, for phones. The EU has soon to be active regulation that will make it a requirement for many things. Yet, it’s not a single, set in stone standard, but one that’s constantly being expanded (eg, version 3.2 and PD).
Of course, the regulation has to also be living. Eg, at some point, maybe there’ll be a strong enough reason to allow another standard (by no means do I think USB-C will always make sense). And the regulation has to very carefully choose the standard.
That way we get the benefits of standardization (from actually everyone using the same format), but we aren’t unreasonably crippling ourselves to do it.
I’m just saying we should kill crypto
A very Cool and Popular opinion to have right now
thank u its my opinion too
