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Personally I really liked darcs, always felt more natural and intuitive to me.

Though fortunately was compatible and natively convertible to git and made the git takeover mostly smoothless.

At the time it felt that github and the rapid tooling and integrations developed in response cemented git's rise and downfall of everything else including darcs.


I recommend a one-time Fox-it PDF pro purchase. While they too are getting into subscriptions they still make a one-time purchase available.

Haven't found any significant deficiencies, nice tool overall.


In a perfect world... Unfortunately with each update of Rocket.chat and Mattermost they've begun to limit or cripple the self-hosted, open-source, non-paid versions.

At some point the community will likely need to create on-going forks to maintain the nice features we take for granted today. For example, I'm working on alternative Mattermost SSO compatible out of the box with the latest open-source version. Mattermost self-hosted, with an alternative (non-paid per user) SSO is good for 99% of use cases, but then again, they'll start to see that and cripple away bit by bit.

I've recently heard good things about Campfire Once, may ultimately be better option compared to rundle everywhere.

Though Mattermost really is nice... sigh.. can't have nice things.


No need to build your own android app for rocket.chat. They have their own apps that work well with your own self-hosted instances out of the box.

Mattermost previously had some weird thing in regards to your own app for native app notifications, but haven't seen the issue in the most recent versions.


Really gross. Honestly, has America always been this corrupt or the last 20 years really hitting its stride?

As if the DOD doesn't have enough funds, they have to pull new taxpayers funds for this clearly wasteful program.

Some super secretive, non-collaborative, non-competitive, bureaucratic run foundry will surely be worse over the long run.

Sounds like DoD wants their own foundry but won't even reach into their existing bloated budget to do it. Shameful. Would be a bad idea even if it was from their budget but less terrible than the current situation.


How do you think Silicon Valley was originally funded in the 1950s?


Links to the CFPB's very useful collection of the corresponding data. Definitely does shed quite the light on the large disparity between credit unions and everyone else rate-wise.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/credit-card-da...


There used to be paid options. They sent a notice a couple years ago saying it was going completely free, but with that support has subsided. For example their mobile app is no longer compatible with latest versions of Android.


Todoist (https://todoist.com) for me :). Though wish it also had Notes, or other persistent non-task based storage as one can sometimes close out an item that was meant to be informational/lookup (such as family info, or other persistent notes). That issue aside it's still my instant go-to for adding tasks, reviewing what's next, and generally seeing how far behind I am on all my goals :)).

There are some nice self-hosted open-source alternatives/copycats (https://alternativeto.net/software/todoist/), but I've been too lazy the last few years to try and the price is generally reasonable enough that I haven't been too motivated.


Sorry to tell you but git won out over darcs back in the very beginning.

I loved darcs, unfortunately everyone else got on the git bandwagon. Fortunately darcs has built in conversion to git so all is not lost!

Unfortunately though you do lose some of the pleasantry of darcs but such is life...


Still surprises me that tactics like these are legal. There shouldn't be a concept of fine print... The whole notion is ripe for abuse.

Same with elder scams. Too many potential avenues for scams via contracts.


It's probably not a valid contract, assuming a fair hearing. The scammers would not sue the victim here, most likely. They get their money from these schemes purely through fear and anxiety and vague legal threats. A simple, pay us what we tricked you into signing or we'll sue you, often gets an impaired or naive victim to pay up even though they owe nothing legally or morally and the threat is empty.


This is where dot-matrix printers shine: they destroy the fine print.


This is a delightful nerd joke that I have decided to steal


These scams often aren't. They rely on a certain % of people to give in without a fight.


are they legal? ianal, but surely that kind of contract doesn't hold up legally


the concept of fine print, i believe, is to provide more detail on terms you already agreed to. Like "what happens if the delivery is late"

It is not to introduce entirely new terms, like "actually you have to pay for this"


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