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New comment by foxygen in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

foxygen — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:36:46 +0000

Who cares about Windows?

New comment by foxygen in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

foxygen — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:37:27 +0000

You are completely ignoring the impact that having billions of dollars at your disposal to spend on keeping users addicted to your platform can have. There is no way a free platform can compete with X/Instagram/TikTok, even if such platform had a better product(which they do btw). Just look at Whatsapp/iMessage, both are terrible apps, there are MANY better options, with way more features, and somehow they are still the most used messaging apps in the Western.

New comment by foxygen in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

foxygen — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:34:56 +0000

You know IRC isn't just one giant server serving every single user, right? Same for Mastodon. There were/are many different servers. Again, you are arguing against reality. IRCs/Forums have existed for decades, with hundreds of thousands of active users, with no problem whatsover. Scaling to billions is easy, since with more people using it, more people would be interested in hosting a server.

New comment by foxygen in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

foxygen — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:39:03 +0000

Moving the goalposts much? Of course there aren't any free services serving millions currently, how could they, when Facebook/X spends millions to make sure everyone stays on their platform? Which non tech savvy would want to move to a platform without all their friends? That's the gotcha with social networks, once you grow big enough, it is really hard for people to move off of it.

Still, funny how you ignored IRCs/forums that I mentioned. Those were used by MANY people, and could scale infinitely. You are literally arguing against something that has already happened.

New comment by foxygen in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

foxygen — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:03:14 +0000

Don't you realize that those with money are the ones who have the means to build a culture? How do you propose we compete with Jeffrey Epsteins who have a shit-ton of money to spend on pushing whatever narrative they want to? Just look around and see the "culture" we're in.

New comment by foxygen in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

foxygen — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 03:59:14 +0000

There are many Mastodon servers run by ordinary people simply because they want to. And before the shit-show the internet has become, there were many forums and IRC channels, absolutely free, and with 0 ads.

New comment by foxygen in "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"

foxygen — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:52:12 +0000

You can still have schema validation at the borders of the application(data in/out) without static typing.

I think there are many other factors that come into play when it comes to maintaniblity of large projects. I'd easily choose to maintain a large Elixir or Common Lisp codebase over a Java one, assuming they were all using the Best Practices™ of their respective languages.

There is research out there, and there is absolutely zero evidence that static typing catches more bugs than dynamic types. My experience is that immutability, functional programming, simplicity and testing pays a MUCH bigger role in maintainability than static typing.

Dynamic typing has trade-offs, and so does static typing, HUGE trade-offs by the way. But for some reason, no one seems to mention them... ever.

New comment by foxygen in "Backseat Software"

foxygen — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:37:36 +0000

It has no Pro version, and I believe their plan is to monetize it through an optional Sync service, which is fair, since it actually costs money to keep it running.

New comment by foxygen in "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"

foxygen — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:25:53 +0000

> dynamic types become more of liability as a project gets larger

Why?

New comment by foxygen in "Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow"

foxygen — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:43:02 +0000

Why?

New comment by foxygen in "Backseat Software"

foxygen — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:54:00 +0000

Add the East India Company's rule in India to the list, 40 million deaths on a conservative estimation.

New comment by foxygen in "Backseat Software"

foxygen — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:49:28 +0000

Check Logseq for an open source alternative to Obsidian: https://github.com/logseq/logseq

New comment by foxygen in "Claude's new constitution"

foxygen — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:53:25 +0000

> 1 Samuel said to Saul, “I am the one the Lord sent to anoint you king over his people Israel; so listen now to the message from the Lord. 2 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. 3 Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

New comment by foxygen in "Claude's new constitution"

foxygen — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:35:42 +0000

What I agree or disagree with the bible is irrelevant. He is claiming moral is objective, unchanging and comes from God. God allowed slavery at some point, as that bible passage shows. So his options are to admit that either slavery is moral, or morality is not objective/unchanging. That's the point I was trying to make.

New comment by foxygen in "Claude's new constitution"

foxygen — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:57:36 +0000

Good point. That wasn't my intention. I meant to steelman his argument, to show that even under those conditions, his argument makes absolute no sense.

New comment by foxygen in "Claude's new constitution"

foxygen — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:27:06 +0000

So it was a different kind of slavery. Still, God seemed okay with the idea that humans could be bought and sold, and said the fellow humans would then become your property. I can't see how that isn't the bible allowing slavery. And if the newer passages disallows it, does that mean God's moral changed over time?

New comment by foxygen in "Claude's new constitution"

foxygen — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:11:44 +0000

Since you said in another comment that the ten commandments would be a good starting point for moral absolutes, and that lying is sinful, I'm assuming you take your morals from God. I'd like to add that slavery seemed to be okay on Leviticus 25:44-46. Is the bible atrocious too, according to your own view?

New comment by foxygen in "Claude's new constitution"

foxygen — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:03:36 +0000

Why would it be a good starting point? And why only some of them? What is the process behind objectively finding out which ones are good and which ones are bad?

New comment by foxygen in "Claude's new constitution"

foxygen — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:01:04 +0000

Looks like someone just discovered philosophy... I wish the world were as simple as you seem to think it is.

New comment by foxygen in "Why users cannot create Issues directly"

foxygen — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:22:25 +0000

Let's not forget there are actual people behind open source projects. I think it is extremely rude to say those people should SERVE the users of their open source projects for free. The project "serve" the needs of the maintainers. If you as a user don't like something, that is entirely YOUR problem. Feel free to fork it and fix the bugs you think are worthy fixing.