Gitlab = Big Tech? Dude, you have got to be kidding me.
Financially, the year was also marked by record performance. We delivered over $245 billion in annual revenue, up 16 percent year-over-year, and over $109 billion in operating income, up 24 percent.
Fiscal Year 2024 Highlights:
- Total revenue of $579.9 million
Yeah, they can build on top of I2P. There’s no need to rewrite all that stuff. They could’ve written something that glues everything together and reuse the existing nodes instead of creating yet another network.
Also, I2P has implementations in Java (main implementation) and C++ (i2pd). A rust implementation would be great news.
Yeah, there are alternatives. Matrix, Zulip for chatting and the entire fediverse for forums and micro-blogging. But they chose big-tech corp #321 and big-tech corp #123 👍
At least they’re on Gitlab. I’ll give them that.
They are rewriting so much stuff. Why the media player? Are VLC and mpv not enough? Text editor, file manager, screenshot tool, terminal, … couldn’t that all have gone into other stuff?
I don’t understand why they would rebuild TOR and IPFS. Why not build this into I2P or something?
Oof. Well, they have to make money somehow. And probably there were people abusing the site. It wouldn’t surprise me for example if many did not cache the subtitles but had them on demand for videos.
People refused to vote for education and instead voted in their own self-interest. This is the result.
Lemmy drama? Why post it in this community?
Oh boy… windows. I can’t help you there, but hopefully somebody else can.
No matching distribution found for libtorrent
This tells me that windows is not supported (or distributed by that python package).
I’m afraid you might have to follow the guide and build it yourself. Or opt to use WSL. That might get rid of your headaches, but I’m a linux user, so no experience with WSL on my side.
They both use YAML, but I find the Gitlab doc to be better. If you don’t want YAML, you can try Dagger.IO which forces you to write code and can be run in any CI. Haven’t used it yet though as it requires a change in thinking that I haven’t managed yet.
Tell a normal gamer to install bazzite. I bet you the majority will stop at “put the installer on a USB stick” or any other step in the installation. From getting the PC to boot from the USB stick, figuring out MBR vs UEFI, or “install $distro” or “install $distro (OEM)”, partitioning, or whatever other technical stuff pops up. Most people want it to Just Work ™ . Nothing more, nothing less.
I am increasingly disheartened by the obsession over “Desktop SteamOS”. People don’t want Linux or even “a desktop computer”
My guess is that people how the installation will be made easy enough for noobs that they aren’t even aware they’re installing an OS, or it will be the default on devices. The latter is much much stronger than forcing some poor sod to deal with installing an OS and Valve also makes money in the process, which they can hopefully dump into Linux.
My hope is that the linux community wises up and learns about the power of defaults + not estranging noobs. The elitist “oh eternal september” and “but muh terminal” users can get fucked. Linux needs more people, not less.
Could you provide more information? What are the commands you are entering? Which system are you on? Is there a page with instructions you followed?
Mozilla doing Mozilla things. The web really needs a real alternative to Google that isn’t funded by it.
Fucking… Goddammit Gitlab!
Understandable and agreed. Having a steam console to hook up to the TV is probably what most people would buy and find easiest to use. They did try it a decade ago, but it was too early.
Big tech
I don’t know what Gitlab is, but if you look at the “smaller big tech companies” list, Adobe is the smallest on there with 17 billion in revenue as of 2022, which is ~34x that of Gitlab today. It’s probably on the larger end of medium sized companies, but that’s very fluid.
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