obbeel

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[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 22 hours ago

I appreciate the honesty.

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 4 days ago

Anyway, more access to the open source packages can't be bad.

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 4 days ago

I think it said it's deprecated or something? I'm not sure, I just know I had problems downloading packages before.

I don't think it was setup.py . I think I tried to download it directly through pip install xx==0.4.0 or something (the version was required by the program) and it said the package doesn't exist.

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 5 points 4 days ago

Planck units are the smallest packets of something, which is called quanta. Planck discovered he could get more accurate measurements if he separated the energy from radiation in small packages, which proved useful for other theories later.

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 5 days ago

But do Appimages make the dependencies code available? They pack everything into one working program, but what about the packages?

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I couldn't download it even if I wanted to. That's what I mean. It returns a message saying it isn't supported.

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

And the UK have tested their laser weapons this year and took out a drone with them last month.

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 0 points 5 days ago (5 children)

If prior versions were not support by pip anymore, so yes, if it were removed. There are cases of packages not being supported by the platforms, aren't there? I've run into cases where the package was fully deprecated and not useable or downloadable anymore.

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

What do you mean?

I just find that if pip did not support that version anymore, the software would be lost. As that is covered by making executables, as I mentioned them. But what if I wanted to have access to the libraries that were used in the program? That wouldn't be possible. Because all we get in the source code is the dependency fetching, not the dependencies themselves.

It would be good to have an alternative where you get all that you need to compile the code again, not depending on fetching them from websites that might not even have them anymore.

This mentality of ephemeral code just adheres to the way big tech would like to do things, with programmed obsolescence.

An alternative to that way of doing things would be nice and would make sure we get access to the same working open source program in 30 or 40 years.

 

Today I had to downgrade fastapi from 0.114.0 to 0.112.4 to make a software work. And it just hit me - what if pip didn't support 0.112.4 anymore? We would lose a good piece of software just because of that.

Of course, we can "freeze" the packages into an executable that will run for as long as the OS supports it. Which is a lot longer. But the executable is closed source. We can't see the code that is run from an executable.

Therefore, there is a need for an alternative to which we still have access to the packages even after the program is built. That would make it safely unnecessary for pip to store all versions of all packages forever more.

Any ideas?

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 6 days ago

I don't know about where you live, but here the drug lords owns some territory. And within that territory, they take political actions like closing the nearby churches, for example. I think selling actual medication could serve their purpose very well. They already sell smartphones for a low price to the local people ($15).

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I think you can link bluesky to your personal domain. I'm not sure how it works.

[–] obbeel@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't want to make Mastodon propaganda, but Mastodon talks around technology are much better than Twitter ever was.

 

Last week I posted about the magic qualities of quantum systems in Computer Science. Now I bring an example article that makes use of it.

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