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1. gentoobro (gentoobro@shitpost.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 06:40:30 JST gentoobro

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   • Wolf480pl

   There are far too many needless dependencies these days. I swear, people have become allergic to actually writing code. It's especially bad in languages with standard or semi-standard package managers. Is a simple wrapper arounf print() too hard for you? Gotta pull in a "logging library" that itself has a few dozen deps. Fucking pad a string? npm install lpad.

   The needless deps make everything brittle.

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   • Wolf480pl (wolf480pl@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 27-Jul-2024 06:40:31 JST Wolf480pl

     I've said this before but

     Software freedom is not when the source code for the program you use is somewhere on github, has 5000 dependencies and doesn't build outside of CI

     Software freedom is when you have the source on your computer, modify it, build it, and run a modified version

     How much of the software you use on a daily basis would you be able to build from source? How many urls does that require fetching, and how many of these can stop working any time without prior notice?
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