What do you mean by that? Centralization of the internet? And an uptake in capitalism, to a degree that it’s now a handful of companies and providers who do the lion’s share of everything? Sure, that’s been happening since 2010 or so, plus minus a few years.
It’s not one huge server, though. They’ll have datacenters all across the globe.

Yeah, I skipped the more ambiguous ones. Netflix, Amazon, Youtube etc will distribute their content via the web. So they’re kinda webservers. Though the infrastructure which feeds in cable TV aren’t. It’s complicated.

Server is a general term. Webservers are a subset. We have video camera surveillance servers, telephone servers, internal document servers, web servers. They’re all servers. And webservers are one variant of it.

Lmao. First, everyone is right. Go is serious. An Zig as well. And a bit niche.

Furthermore: Yes. Unless you like learning curves as steep as a brick wall… You should probably start with something beginner friendly.

And you should get some kind of book to learn it. That’s easier and faster than poking around and learning things in random order.

As an adult, just skip the programming languages made for children. And skip the crazy ones like PHP. Go for something that is both useful and doesn’t come with 5 bazillion things to learn at once, and as many exceptions to those rules.

I don’t think we have any support community for WSL. You could try one of the Windows ones. https://lemmyverse.net/communities?query=Windows

Or !techsupport@lemmy.world but seems you already found that one.

Googling specific error messages might also help.

I feel this article is a bit outdated. Unless you put it into an AGENTS.md file… Contribution has changed a bit since 2018. The coding agents won’t abide by those standards for issues and merge requests 😅 The users and contributors, should, though. And double-check, reproduce and understand what their agents do, before sending anything in.

We’re mixing up two things here. There’s valid criticism. And there’s the people who want to unleash some social-media style shitstorm. The latter show up in large groups and add some unsubstantiated comments, lots of emojis and drown any kind of conversation. But that doesn’t really take away from the valid criticism. For example a maintainer shouldn’t tag a version and release it, when it’s not ready to be released. That’s the 101 of software development. You can expect as much. Because the “bleeding” thing isn’t really how it works. Once there’s a new minor release tagged by the devs, it’s supposed to be picked up by the distro maintainers and get into any distro’s repositories. Doesn’t matter if it’s Arch unstable or Debian stable. They don’t want bugs and security vulnerabilities in their distro, either. Especially not when it’s 6(!) CVEs! And the Debian dev’s in fact reacted to this. And they even backported stuff to oldstable so the people who run the rock-stable stuff from 3 years ago get the patches! So it really doesn’t matter… Run a bleeding edge distro, or a stable one and don’t update it for 2 years, you’ll be affected by this both ways.

I was talking about “Yundera”.

Is this a casaOS fork you need to sign up for, to get it installed? …Why?

I mean you probably want to use Git to solve some kind of problem in your life. The usual use-case is to manage software projects. It’s also good at managing text files of any kind. Whatever you like. A HTML file is text, too. It’s a bit less good with images and other binary formats. But you can use it to manage them as well.

As a beginner, I’d start with small things. And not in a real code repository. Copy a few text files into a directory, and then commit them into version control. Modify them. See how the workflow is. Check if you can go back 2 versions and find out what changed. Do a branch and edit stuff there, then get it into the main branch. See if you can cause a merge conflict and handle it.

If you can do all of that on random placeholder textfiles, you can move on. But we’d need to know which programming languages and software you like to give recommendations.

Thanks. Yeah, I’ve never looked into code quality of many tools I use on a regular basis. So far, rsync has served me well. I’ve been using it at work, at home, for larger amounts of data… Without major hiccups. And we kinda need something like this. It’s a bit of a shame how many essential software projects at the foundation of many things struggle being maintained. My distro has openrsync in the repository. Seems just that that software project is also a one-man-show.

(Btw, Firefox Translate for the win, I don’t really need a big LLM to translate stuff.)

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Swapfile.html

Interesting. I’ve been waiting for some context to this. Btw Brodie Robertson made a Youtube video yesterday, scrolling through the issue tracker and untangling some of the drama. Here’s the link for people who like to consume their Linux news in video form: https://youtube.com/watch?v=FLCfRs6nKW8

How about you have a look at some public instances, scroll through some content, watch a few videos and see which one you like better from a user perspective? I mean technically, they both work. Setup of an instance is just done once, and I guess uploading videos has about the same complexity… So it’s down to what interface you like, and where you’d find your audience.

I feel we need Karma minimums. Or a membership role system which slowly unlocks permissions for new users. Like on Discord.

Uh. I kinda dislike all these closed-source additional moderating systems flange-mounted to the Fediverse. I think in the long-term, we should come up with a good system with good effectiveness, plus (/despite of) transparency, and share it amongst the entire Fediverse.

Can we …like… add a bit more context to posts here? Is it entirely vibe coded or does it work? What’s with Pewdiepie? Did anyone try it?

Thanks. Yeah, I remember Sam Altman said they want to build a datacenter each week… But that’s 52 a year, not thousands 😅 I somehow got confused with the scales. And sure, we’re not an internet hub (that’d be Frankfurt), but I think we have some facilities that probably qualify as a data center close to where I live. Some internet servers, businesses, an IT/Healthcare/Accounting company. I don’t think the universities qualify as data centers, but they’ll have some high performance compute clusters as well, plus a few rows of racks filled with servers to do their daily business…

China has 4x the population of the USA, they manage to seriously compete with them on AI and they have 10x less fewer datacenters? And even less than Germany, where we just got rid of our Telefax machines a few years ago?