PHP?

Like what?

And no one ever tried to restore it.

Happened to me as well, after a year I learned incremental DB backups were wrongly offset by GMT diff, so we were losing hours every time. Fun.

Luckily we never needed them.

And now we have Postgres with WAL archiving and I sleep so much better.

No, but it already supports multiple versions of software.

Though I would argue that many systems have dependency cache that should be replicable, specially when you build everything locally, you can pinpoint specific commits, not just versions that may be removed from repos.

But my comment was meant as a reference to building everything locally, as in I know what that’s like.

Sweating hard in Gentoo

No Drake pls

It’s not that far from the tree

Best I can do is tie your pension to it.

It’s absolutely maddening that this is the current state of affairs.

We know we drove off the cliff, we know we need to do everything we can to mitigate the fall, and yet we keep acting like nothing is happening.

Stop the economy, put everything into housing and feeding people, while building renewables and research into other measures.

Instead we will cut our leg after shooting the foot. Without even thinking about slowing down. Fuck me.

This is the second time I saw this suggestion in the wild, and I from now on I will label every such comment as lubing us up before someone actually does this.

I believe it was this one link

There is a bigger one, with more networking terms, but I can’t find it right now :|

I have no idea what kind of software this even is, so possibly could be better to use Facebook for all I care.

You can build community everywhere, and I have no idea why are people acting like Discord is the best place for it.

What? What specifically are you responding to?

None of this made any sense in this context. Are you replying to the correct post?

First of all, public forums are a thing, they work flawlessly and provide information to people without needing to sign in, which is my top issue with Discord. And why I actually want FOSS.

Among other things, some I already mentioned, Discord isn’t even all that big, you can say Facebook has 3 bil users, let’s all go there.

But the meme is about people who can’t escape, avoiding Discord is not only possible, but specifically for support advisable, and I would argue that it’s not even that hard.

I personally have used Discord about three times before I just selfhosted Jitsi. Never understood why people want to use it so much. For chat I use Matrix since 2018.

Then don’t brag about being 100% FOSS supporter…

Also 150M people may use it, 8 billion people can’t index it or do an advanced search, so fuck them.

The entire internet is built on open-source technologies, as you probably know. That doesn’t make the internet as a whole an open-source thing. Transport technologies are open, a lot of hardware and software around it is not, and that’s still talking about the infrastructure, not what is actually running on top of all that.

It’s like saying Windows is open-source because they use curl. And Microsoft is as open to open-source code as long as they can train their LLM on it and sell it to you. Sure they provide money and developers to some projects, but Windows, Office, Azure will most likely never be actually open to code investigations, forget free.

while yes, there are many BETTER alternatives already disponible

OS X refers to those parts of the distribution which aren’t open-source

From your own quote

5.3 was a big leap for PHP. It became actually very good at that point.

I learned it when it was on 4 and boy oh boy was that something.

But nowadays, with 8, it works great, tooling is fantastic. I just kinda wish the documentation, which is absolutely top notch for 90% of the language, was this good for the rest 10%.

I want to play around with Fibers, but I just don’t get the info I want to.

pthreads were so out of date in docs it was shameful.

But the language is good, typing is coming along nicely, and basically the only thing I want PHP to do is to call Postgres and encode the output to json. Works like a charm.