baod_rate

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[–] baod_rate@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago

Check the recent discussion on lobste.rs if you’re interested in the exact details.

For those coming from the future: https://lobste.rs/s/aa7ske/anubis_now_supports_non_js_challenges

[–] baod_rate@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

FWIW, I was hesitant about obsidian for the same reasons. I would've preferred an open source editor and a syntax like asciidoc. But the fact that everything is markdown and it being such a common standard does make obsidian being closed source more palatable[^1]. And tbh, for note-taking/"second brain" purposes, a relatively constrained format like markdown is pretty suitable. I wouldn't want it for technical writing but it serves the purpose for quick and dirty tasks like quickly jotting down notes[^2]. And any other markdown language wouldn't have the same amount of tooling (e.g. org-mode is underspecified and essentially emacs-only unless you see stick to a specific subset of features)

[^1]: see the creator's blog post: "File Over App" [^2]: in an ideal world a more sane/context-free syntax like Djot would have been nice

[–] baod_rate@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I understand the definition of "Freedom" as laid out by e.g. the FSF. I was explaining why your argumentation is not convincing unless the audience already agrees that complicity in genocide is an acceptable tradeoff to software freedoms. I'm saying you could make a more convincing argument by just not making that comparison in the first place. Unless your point was "perhaps we should reconsider whether Open Source is Good".

[–] baod_rate@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This assumes the audience will agree that genocide is an acceptable tradeoff for software freedoms.

[–] baod_rate@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I don't know if "freedom to modify source code" and "committing a genocide" are morally comparable. This seems to undermine your point. I would have picked a different analogy