Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-20 Thread Polarian
> Considering I do not drink or do drugs I think "Helping people too rapidly > from the perspective of a forum or mailing list lover" is not the worst habit > I could have(perhaps giving snide responses to people online is a worse > habit). The comment is not snide, it is the truth, if you feel

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-19 Thread Polarian
Personally, I do not believe instant messaging is what is for asking for help. A lot of people solely use instant messaging these days, companies like discord, whatsapp etc have all tried to make instant messaging the messing to end all others, but there is nothing "instant" about it anymore. I

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-19 Thread Polarian
Sourcehut is cool, especially their stance on open source collaboration. But the problem with them is that they have a high learning curve, you need to understand the git VCS in depth in order to be able to use sourcehut to the fullest, the reason platforms like github are used is because they t

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-19 Thread Polarian
This is not "harmless", for example a lot of dependency repositories contain analytics to track how often and who downloads the dependencies, if I am pulling dependencies I do not want to be tracked. Yes they can be useful, to understand what is no longer needed, or which is not being used at a

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-19 Thread Polarian
How about no analytics, that would be ideal!

Any way to compile with `-O2` or `-Ofast`?

2022-08-19 Thread Polarian
I would disagree with this, typescript is transpiled to javascript because they have similar levels of abstraction, and also they have pretty much the same syntax, one implements a type system, the other doesn't, that is the major difference between the two languages. Furthermore I disagree with

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-18 Thread Polarian
Funny enough I am not a part of any of the nim communities apart from the forums, I am relatively new to nim so I am more observing the ecosystem before dipping my feet in. hence how all my questions are based around centralisation and support for decentralisation, I do not want it to be like a

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-18 Thread Polarian
I would more than happily go back to email, I think it is clearly the superior way of collaboration. I think it is important to have a frontend to the mailing list though so that issues can be publically seen by others, but apart from that, you do not need all the bloat modern git platforms prov

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-18 Thread Polarian
Yes but people tend to just get lazy and use discord anyways, and what is the point if all the messages are being stored on discord servers anyways, you have to cut proprietary platforms out completely, just sticking a bridge in the middle changes nothing!

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-18 Thread Polarian
Heres is an idea, how about no analytics, that sounds better eh?

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-18 Thread Polarian
Still looks cool

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-18 Thread Polarian
Man it doesn't matter if it is self hosted, or on some cloud, it doesn't change the fact that you are not focused on privacy if you are storing analytical data based on your userbase. If you respect their privacy, you don't need to analyse your userbase!

Why is db_postgres so slow?

2022-08-18 Thread Polarian
You are free to write a postgres client fully in nim, the protocol is open, its probably a lot easier to have a full nim varient, instead of wrapping a library. It means you have more control instead of just adding nim bindings to a library, and you can design the infrastructure yourself (for ex

Any way to compile with `-O2` or `-Ofast`?

2022-08-15 Thread Polarian
I have already asked (and been provided a solution) to this question, see the post below:

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-15 Thread Polarian
This is quite cool, however it does seem very buggy at the moment, would be interesting to see where this project goes. The issue is that the nature of Gravatar is the idea of having a central place to store everyones account info so any site can use their profile pictures etc. Maybe an OpenID-

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-15 Thread Polarian
Bridges are not the best solution, yes they do allow people to use different platforms, but you got to remember discord is still storing the messages being sent, and the username sending them, it doesn't take a genius to realise that means discord still knows everything you are saying. There is

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-15 Thread Polarian
The analytics have to go man, asap! Its a quick and easy fix, fuck google and get rid of their integration, there everyone happy!

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-15 Thread Polarian
To be devils advocate here, cloudflare is the market leader in their field, they do provide the best support, however this does not mean there are not alternatives and them paths should have been thought about!

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-15 Thread Polarian
Yes well, this can be changed, it is not difficult to migrate the platform which the nim code repositories are hosted on, after all git was decentralised by design, if you really insist not using github there is always the option of mirroring the code to your own git repo and then cloning that,

Why is db_postgres so slow?

2022-08-15 Thread Polarian
Are you using postgres on the same server, or is it over a network. If it is over the network it could be that there is considerable latency, especially if you are accessing a postgres server over the internet (WAN) instead over LAN. The older libpg should not be a massive issue, but it depends

Nimble decentralisation?

2022-08-14 Thread Polarian
Thank you, I haven't used nimble that much so I was not sure if this was supported or not

Program not working on Windows 11

2022-08-14 Thread Polarian
language. Also final thing, linux kernel is open source, so as long as you stay away from proprietary software which supports linux, you will have your privacy :) Polarian

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-14 Thread Polarian
Also is the forums open source, if so, could I be linked to the git repository so I can check it out, I may implement this feature on my own if nobody else cares about it enough :) Thanks, Polarian

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-14 Thread Polarian
then have other alternatives like pulling it from a url (such as another cdn) or uploading it directly. It would be a lot nicer than currently relying on a privacy-invasive option! Thank you, Polarian

Nimble decentralisation?

2022-08-14 Thread Polarian
Is there any documentation on package indexes, and is it possible to have multiple package indexes? Thanks, Polarian

Alternative to gravatar for the forums?

2022-08-14 Thread Polarian
Thank you :) Polarian

Native compile option?

2022-08-14 Thread Polarian
Does nim use its own makefile configuration? or does it use the default configuration for make?

Native compile option?

2022-08-12 Thread Polarian
Sometimes -O3 may not be the best option though. O2 is the most common used flag because it provides a balance between compile times and also efficiency. Also O3 can in some cases be slower, like I said with vectorization, sometimes trying to optimise the code actually causes deoptimization. Mea

Native compile option?

2022-08-12 Thread Polarian
Also I forgot to say thank you to you both, so thank you :)

Native compile option?

2022-08-12 Thread Polarian
Maybe it might be a good idea for CFLAGS env variable to be used by default, when testing for some reason gcc was not picking up the CFLAGS when I used nim but it was when compiling a C file... any reason for this?

Native compile option?

2022-08-12 Thread Polarian
it planned to be added? Thank you, Polarian