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I like those two comments giving context on what has happened 10 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46118243 (parent and child comment).

Is that an issue? There’s only one reasonable implementation of Typst too, and both AsciiDoc and Typst are fully supported by Pandoc, which supports a wide selection of writers (output formats).

The solution is to use any other better-defined languages with a cheat sheet like [1].

If you’re used to CommonMark features, this is all you need.

[1]: https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/asciidoc-vs-mar...


This comment might be of interest to help you understand what Tailscale does that WireGuard cannot: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47064875

I would phrase that as what Tailscale does that is more convenient than wg. If you “barely know what a subnet is” go for it. wg is easy as pie though, and just don’t maintain 90 tunnels… You don’t need a full mesh. An extra hop or two, especially within a lan, won’t hurt.

I would recommend WireGuard as well, I primarily use it with Tailscale as backup. WG is straightforward to set up, and with LLM the knowledge gap is now nothing if you have trouble with it

The slow enshittification of every product touched by LLMs these last few years (ESPECIALLY by Microsoft, who goes all-in) kind of “disproves” your point.

Reliable agent-coded development only seems to work for small codebases. (And it’s amazing in Ruby for some reasons.)


A couple of pretty good reasons (except the one about lexicons IMHO), but I don’t think it’s reasonable to believe the maker of a 15th standard was “right” about not using the previous 14s. As far as I understand, all the use cases described in OP’s article can be fulfilled with ActivityPub.

I’d love to see an article showing use cases in both AtProto and ActivityPub and showing why AtProto is the superior choice.

(To me, the hype for AT protocol vs. ActivityPub feels like the hype for DevEnv vs. Nix – I’m slightly upset that the latter isn’t taking off because the former decides to do its own thing and not contribute to the base projects. I’d love to be convinced wrong!)


Wide C2S and ActivityPods support would address most of what led to the creation of AT. Lacking that, they made AT.

The rest is revealed in the developer community. AT and AP followed similar timelines for the first year or so, then diverged.

The main thing I heard from AP devs is that it's hard even before dealing with Mastodon quirks for any meaningful connection to the AP network. AP's early developer energy looks like AT's now, except AT's has been sustained for years and is only growing.

AP hasn't even managed a second conference, and that's where all the big AT stuff started at its first one. For example: Streamplace was new and awkward to use last year. This year, it was the official streaming platform with three simultaneous streams and had integration with the official ticketing system. I can't even list all the AT platforms people used to coordinate, trade info, etc during the conference. None of them had to deal with a clunky API since it's all JSON in a standard format on your PDS through a standard interface.

VODs are coming soon: https://bsky.app/profile/iame.li/post/3miahg7vlgs2w


Nix is definitely taking off though ;)

I added something similar. Claude eventually ran a `rm -rf *´ on my own project. When I asked why it did that, it recognized it messed up and offered a very bad “apology”: “the irony of not following your safety instructions isn’t lost on me”.

Nowadays I only run Claude in Plan mode, so it doesn’t ask me for permissions any more.


Didn’t your ISP provide you with free FTP storage? The French ones did, at least.


Maybe decades ago. My current one doesn't.


I just checked, I’m not using the feature but my current ISP still offers it: https://assistance.free.fr/articles/631 (10 GB FTP storage tied to the ISP-specific e-mail address).

Having looked it up, mine makes it an add-on service for 1,045円/month + 5,500円 set-up fee, at which point you might as well use a dedicated VPS service (which is probably what's actually going on behind the scenes anyway).

Using a regular mutable system and Nix on top using Home Manager for example.


I know it doesn’t answer your question, but: AsciiDoc. All major forges support it and it has the same features as all the other Markdown flavors combined.


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