It would be one thing if the side projects made money. But they don't.

If they aren't making money either way, I'd prefer they focused on the core product.

Or charge for an actually useful feature like Firefox sync which is currently free.

Mozilla's 2023 subscription and advertising revenue was $65 million.

Does any browser with measurable market share not provide Firefox Sync's features without payment?

I'm not paying company monthly fee to sync 50KB's worth of data and I think you find not many other people would

You can be the customer, or you can be the product. Seems like you choose to be the product.

A major reason agentic LLMs are so promising right now is because they just Figure It Out (sometimes).

Either the AI can figure it out, and it doesn't matter if there is a standardized protocol. Or the AI can't figure it out, and then it's probably a bad AI in the first place (not very I).

The difference between those two possibilities is a chasm far too wide to be bridged by the simple addition of a new protocol.

I think that‘s a bit shortsighted.

Having A2A is much more efficient and less error prone. Why would I want to spend tons of token on an AI „figuring it out“, if I can have the same effect for less using A2A? we can even train the LLMs with A2A in mind, further increasing stability and decreasing cost.

A human can also figure everything out, but if I come across a well engineered REST API with standard oauth2 , I am productive within 5 minutes.

Is this meaningfully more portable than #!bash though?

In a sibling thread someone pointed out that #!bash doesn't actually work if you're calling it from bash, and appears to only work with zsh.

I just tried it and they were absolutely right, so `#!/usr/bin/env bash` is definitely more portable in that it consistently works.

This mechanism doesn't do a PATH lookup: #!bash would only work if bash was located in your current working directory.

> They poll worse than the most unpopular presidents

I would expect this to be the case generally since congress is at all times 99.5% people who you have no say in electing/recalling.

I happen to live in one of the few districts in CA that has a republican representative. I was looking forward to voting him out but then CA got gerrymandered and now we'll likely have a Democrat representative next term.

I didn't like our republican representative but it seems kinda shitty that the folks who did like him and voted for him suddenly didn't get a say in who their representative ought to be. I mean, sure they probably voted No on 50 but most of the yes votes came from outside of our district.

Edit: I strongly hate gerrymandering but I also acknowledge the need for the democrats to play dirty because the Republicans are, and "being the better person" doesn't seem to be a viable political strategy anymore.

The voters did get a say in California which at least had the process require a referendum.

The other states that have done mid cycle gerrymandering just forced it on their population.

Yeah, that's true, never thought of it that way. The way CA did it is certainly better, but I think it's still solving the wrong problem though — political power should not be able to be swayed by politicians moving borders around, with or without a vote. Redistricting is important because every district should have equal population, but they should be drawn by independent committees (and in many states they are, just for "some reason" a bunch of states decided to do it with a partisan spin).

Perhaps you should give Nix a try :)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but you'd still have to compile it from source on nix, no?

On my relatively powerful workstation, Erlang/BEAM takes about 7 minutes to compile.

We're working around this currently by having a fat devcontainer image, pre-built with Erlang inside (from source) by our CI. It chews through CI minutes unavoidably due to how docker layer caching works.

It would be awesome to just download and unpack a tarball, regardless of which distro you're using.

Nix is centered around the local Nix store and binary caching.

As long as the specific version of Erlang you’re using is present in either your Nix store or the global cache for your OS and arch (at cache.nixos.org), you should not need to compile anything.

And if you rely on custom builds, you can just setup your own binary cache. This is similar to remote caching in Bazel.

Some more details on Nix caching here: https://zero-to-nix.com/concepts/caching/

We do exactly this at my dayjob - we have (multiple) very specific combinations of (erlang, elixir, hex, rebar3) that we use which are pinned to exactly the versions we need. We have a private Nix cache so we only have to build them once.

https://www.cachix.org/ simplifies running a custom cache. Well worth the money, IMO.

That said, learning nix and setting up a nix cache is still a lot of work. Docker buildx might offer you some more knobs to cache portions of your build in a finer-grained manner without having to take the nix plunge.

Nix is enormously complicated, kind of unstable and not well documented.

I get that if you've gone through the pain of learning it you get a system with some very nice properties. But casually suggesting "maybe try nix" is a bit like telling someone who wants to listen to Mozart "maybe try playing a piano".

How is it unstable? It's one of the most reliable pieces of software I have used honestly.

In any case 'nix-shell -p erlang|elixir' does not seem too complicated to me.

Flakes is still experimental despite being very widely used.

Flakes is also more stable than many "stable" projects. Flakes is more stable than Python 3, for example.

OP is already trying to do something pretty un-casual:

> If you want to control the exact version that's being used across your team (via `asdf` or similar), this practically means you'll end up compiling the BEAM over and over...

So I think it is perfectly appropriate to suggest a sharp tool.

Zig being able to (cross)compile C and C++ feels very similar to how UV functions as a drop in replacement for pip/pip-tools. Seems like a fantastic way to gain traction in already established projects.

I love Zig. Never tried to write it though =).

I just use a it as cross-compiler for my Nim[0] programs.

[0] - https://nim-lang.org

Strangler fig

This is referring to the Strangler Fig design pattern, which is relevant: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/pattern...

If that works for you, great. But I for one like to listen to music when I'm out and about and don't have access to an NFS mount.

Jellyfin and a domain name with a dynamic DNS update will do that for you, no problem.

In the house: NFS read-only for desktops and laptops; Owntone to send music to Wiim Mini or stereo receivers (Yamaha, Denon, Marantz, Onkyo -- all of them are compatible).

Outside the house, JellyAmp on phones.

512gb mSD card in a cheap android phone + VLC app works wonders.

So a TB drive drive doesn't work for you?

it doesn't they can get lost or stolen easily

just copy it to an sd card

1. What if I add new music? I have to update every SD card.

2. What if I want more music than is easily carried on an SD card? I have literal TBs of music.

Yeah, disappearing songs (or content in general) is the part that I HATE about streaming. I'm happy to pay for the service, but unhappy to have content yanked at any moment. Especially with songs I used to love, it's like having part of my identity erased against my will.

If anyone has any tips on how to "back up" a Spotify account (and systematically detect yanked content) I would love to hear them.

I was intrigued and went looking, I can't find any info on a vm send command.

Edit: I think it's 'vm migrate'

https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vm&sektion=8&manpa...

I have a Steam Deck. Haven't booted it up in months. It convinced me that I could game on Linux, now I game on my Desktop.

Similar thing happened to me. I borrowed steamdeck, realized that i don't like handhelds but i liked gaming on Linux. So i bought a laptop that replaced my macbook for work but it games better than steamdeck.

I use my Steam Deck as a game console, connected to my beamer and with 4x PS5 controllers. Works great for that with the Steam game mode. But yes it's been a long time since I played anything on the big screen.