Re: In the news

From	Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net>
Newsgroups	comp.infosystems.gemini
Subject	Re: In the news
Date	2022-01-31 15:56 +0000
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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Jeremy Brubaker wrote:
> On 2022-01-31, Dan Purgert wrote:
>>
>> rtr wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Funnily enough, I was reading a lot about IPFS a few days ago because I
>>> thought it's a neat protocol with all the fancy modern web crap that
>>> they've pulled in their website. But then I came across this guy's blog:
>>>
>>> https://fiatjaf.com/d5031e5b.html
>>>
>>> Which promptly killed all of my enthusiasm with IPFS. It seems like a
>>> half-baked protocol that sounds neat in theory but is quite bad in
>>> practice. I don't want my files having anything to do with something
>>> like that.
>>
>> Heh, I get that feeling from a fair number of "modern" things.  It's
>> almost as if all the new frameworks and such that make programming
>> easier also make it easier to just make a horrible mess.
>
> Terraform, Packer, Ansible, etc. These just happen to be the /modern/
> things I'm using at work lately. They are all useful but all seem to be
> not quite as good as they could be.
>
> I haven't set up a gemini capsule of my own yet, but reading this group
> I'm getting more interesting in doing so. Modern is not bad in and of
> itself, but neither is old bad just because it's old.
>

I meant the general trend of implementations (regardless of language)
that are multiple layers of abstraction, resulting in any number of
half-baked interdependencies that break everything once some
"lower-level" package that everyone depends on goes away for whatever
reason.


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            Re: In the news rtr <rtr@haraya.invalid> - 2022-02-01 10:12 +0800
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