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Github has decided that people aren't copiloting hard enough (github.blog)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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will this sure is gonna go well :sarcmark:

it almost feels like when Google+ got shoved into every google product because someone had a bee in their bonnet

flipside, I guess, is that we'll soon (at scale!) get to start seeing just how far those ideas can and can't scale

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

that actually seems fantastic and at least somewhat amenable to the establishment of a web UI (akin to how torrent trackers extract metadata about torrents, but more focused on the content of the repo). is it a nightmare to make a nix package for?

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    It's not a nightmare, but I've yet to succeed. npm2nix and node2nix struggle. napalm puts up a good effort, but doesn't quite work either. The biggest sticking point right now is that cjb used a custom DHT implementation with some patches, and I've gotta integrate that somehow.

    I will be overjoyed if somebody else writes a working Nix flake. I've tried three times so far, and I bet it'll take five total.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I might give gittorrent a closer look as soon as some of my time frees up. packaging complex node stuff for Nix is always a bit of a pain, but it’s a pain I’m now very familiar with

    e:

    A method for registering friendly usernames on Bitcoin's blockchain, so that a written username can be used to find a user instead of an ugly hex string.

    ugh I hate this part, but hopefully there’s a way to do something like what Mastodon and Lemmy do for external identity verification

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