toastboy79

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

it used to run pretty well on one, but the lead dev made significant changes making it a bitch to run without doing it "his way". What I ended having to do was change my nginx configuration so that I was using the one in his docker-compose directly as opposed to running my own that would point to his for mail related needs.

I forgot what exactly broke but when I reported that breakage I basically got told "tough shit, it works on my set up", I don't remember being demanding or impolite just reporting the issue and asking if he was aware of/had plans to fix it. Not too long after the product was acquired and I chalked it up to enshittification and shitty dev being a shitty dev.

TLDR; good luck and ymmv

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

That really helps explain the context for one of my favorite PHP bashes ever.

https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

It's a great read but it should be noted that the post was written in 2012 and considered under such a context.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

oh ipoac someday you will shine again

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

PHP is probably a fine language, my issue is I suffered dealing with so many shitty applications written in php when I was still coming up through the ranks of IT.

God the number of broken WordPress installs and shitty WordPress plugins.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (7 children)

I could see that, but I would also have to ask 'what exactly do we gain by having access to these tools when we aren't home?'

I used to try to do all of that but I started to realize, I spend too much time dealing with broken shit. Coming to the mindset of if I'm not home and it doesn't work then oh well has been one hell of a stress relief for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Hell yeah man, carry on then. Nice to meet someone who walks the walk while talking the talk

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Nifty!

Thank you for the history lesson I actually had no idea that's how that all went down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Mmm that's a pretty fair point. Even back then being the President that ended a war only got you so much political good will in the States. Not sure how it worked for Churchill.

I kinda wonder what if any good solutions there were for this. Doing the moral thing but losing your job doing it and potentially seeing the work you did undone by your successor would suck hella bad.

Well thank you for indulging my questions this has been really fun chatting with you!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I'm aware of this fact. thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (6 children)

It won't solve the problems of today but sometimes it can be interesting to see what people of today think for problems and crisises of yesterday. I was in model UN and that was a fairly frequent conference idea.

I also enjoy talking to people because it's easy for us to say "that's a colonialist action" and even though it's true the question becomes (for me) 'alright how could we have done better' and discussing that thought experiment

and I appreciate the call-out, I definitely didn't assume you were calling me one.

Maybe for a better question we ask "what could I have done as Winston Churchill or (I think it was) Truman." While they were singular people they did give the diplomats their marching orders when it came to the peace resolutions.

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