When two devices write to the same field, the update with the latest timestamp wins.
I'm confused. That update is not conflict free. It resolved the conflict by deciding one of the two wins, without resolving the underlying difference (add and subsctract must be combined/summed up).
Most systems ask developers to write manual conflict resolution code, but that’s error-prone and hard to maintain.
In my eyes, we resolved the difficulty by ignoring correctness.
When calling others not on the app? No way that is acceptable under law without the other party's consent.
On the topic of "let's not have a Sourceforge again",
Sourceforge was great back in the day, and I'm not aware we had good alternatives back then. Sourceforge gave us a well known, trustworthy home for FOSS. You know where to look for FOSS, you can discover FOSS, you can host your own FOSS for free.
Should we have diversified back then? To what? At what cost?
When Sourceforge eventually became problematic, by chance, most active projects switched away. I did too. Thanks to FOSS and control of your own projects, that's possible.
Today, we have a number of alternatives. Not more than a few, if you count established hosted platforms, more if you count self-hosted and self-hosting.
I made my point about discoverability etc in my original comment. Trustworthiness of the hoster/provider is another. Decentralization to individuals has risks as well, including disappearance (my first Lemmy instance feddit.de, which was big, broke and disappeared), lack of security updates, or introduction of bugs and security issues through customizations or hosting setup. There's a middle ground with bigger platforms, of course.
When Sourceforge became bad, I migrated away. If and when GitHub becomes bad, it'll be fairly simple to move away from that as well. Until then, I find it to have the best UI/UX (although I have some criticisms) and offerings, as well as closeness of FOSS projects and community and other projects as well (positive network effect).
Alternative for github: codeberg.org
only for ~~public~~ FOSS
Ladybird is currently in heavy development. We are targeting a first Alpha release for early adopters in 2026.
I never had these issues they speak of.
I certainly don't want to send email patches because I value the centralized nature of a big platform and clear, established workflows and UI.
Disconnected decentralization adding barriers is a shit idea.
Huge platforms like Github have some risk and concerns involved, but as long as it does well, and the network effect of a platform is a net positive, I don't think adding decentralization barriers and differentiation barriers and disconnects is a good idea.
There's reasons why people don't switch besides network effect and inertia. I certainly haven't ever felt like sourcehut were approachable.
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https://github.com/Srylax/awesome-shai-hulud
A curated list of Shai-Hulud'd repositories
lol
Rick Rolls
yeah okaay, of course there's those as well
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4.31% "I don't use [any version control]"
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Well… yeah
Scroll to the second paragraph, get a subscribe popover. So annoying. I haven't even read any reasonable amount of content yet.