Tom Rini @trini@society.oftrolls.com

And looking at how much stupid bullshit is there in Electron, this is basically akin to running a virtual machine with a separate operating system just to run one small piece of Javascript. This is not what is called cross-platform.

It reminds me of "Linux" versions of proprietary programs of mid-2000s. Don't sweat it, just slap Wine on it, and ship it for Linux. I used to get angry at stuff like this. But Wine at least didn't hog as much resources as Electron.

Some people think and even more people say that Electron is being bashed because it's cross-platform, and this is supposed to rob the FOSS Unix ecosystem of its users because there will be no reason to use it then.

Not true!

FOSS has always been OK with cross-platfom development, as far as I can remember. Moreover, it always has been FOSS' schtick: almost all significant Linux apps could be compiled for Windows - GIMP, Pidgin, Mozilla, just to name a few. We don't hoard our programs, cross-platformism is encouraged.

No. Electron gets bashed for whole different reason.

And not because it's lazy. Being lazy is a good thing in most cases.

Electron gets bashed because it's lazy AND bad. Because it assumes that everyone is rich enough to have the latest and greatest gear, that memory and CPU are cheap, and they are cheap everywhere, so they can be wasted on bullshit. Because it thinks that optimization is not necessary. Because it's careless with the users' resources.

Electron apps are not really apps, they are just web pages with rudimentary heavy-weight browsers included.

If you are about your users' well-being, please, don't use Electron in your project. Using more than 300 MB of RAM and slowing down the whole system just to edit a small text file or send a chat message is a sin.

Thank you.

Alright you fuckers. Let's do this

Hot Coffee v. Iced Coffee (for non-poll-havers this is a poll, I will screenshot results regularly)

Please boost for maximum civic engagement

[ ] hot coffee
[ ] iced coffee

Gmail at its best.
https://public-inbox.org/git/CAHk-=whP1stFZNAaJiMi5eZ9rj0MRt20Y_yHVczZPH+O01d+sA@mail.gmail.com/

Just in case someone needs..
Many families (like mine) do have family members with disabilities.. we've each been working in isolation (example: https://github.com/nmenon/masimo-datacapture https://github.com/nmenon/3DPrints https://www.thingiverse.com/nmenon/designs) -> However, there is a maker community around this: ATMakers (http://atmakers.org/) , and a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/ATMakers. This is where families and makers are connecting and doing lots of technical solutions sharing, 3d-printing, coding, etc.

#atmakers

The "Ultimate" tag might be a bit much, but it's at least closer to a usable ARM workstation!

Solidrun's Clearfog NXP LX2160A based mini-ITX board with 16 Cortex-A72 cores is closer to being a real thing you can buy for $500-750.

https://www.cnx-software.com/2019/03/29/clearfog-itx-workstation-ultimate-arm-developer-platform/

Strong Bad on Birdsite: For April Fool's day this year, I wish Bubs would feed all my sbemails into his discount neural network and see what kinda insane, eyeball-covered gold it would spit out."

Me: as it turns out, i have access to a discount neural net

http://aiweirdness.com/post/183868402192/discount-strong-bad-emails

modern programming is less about not reinventing the wheel and more about using a sports car to move firewood across the yard

pictured: modern computing

“FreeBSD Mastery: Jails” ebook escaping!

https://mwl.io/archives/4139

For the Monday morning crowd:

"FreeBSD Mastery: Jails" ebook has escaped. https://mwl.io/nonfiction/os#fmjail

Print and other ebook sites later this week, as the databases churn.