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On caring for user data: NeoVim caused Vim undo files to be deleted

384 points · 346 comments · jandeboevrie

hyperlinerapp · 1790523658 · focus · HN ↗
It’s Open source.
Some people just want to keep looking at the gift horse in the mouth.
1. jeltz · 1790526039 · focus · HN ↗
  As an open source developer I hate this attitude. If you do not care about the users why are you even releasing the software?
  1. hyperlinerapp · 1790526584 · focus · HN ↗
    It’s a free country.
    Chris2048 · 1790529473 · focus · HN ↗
    Which one?
    hyperlinerapp · 1790543104 · focus · HN ↗
    All the ones where you can build open source (excluding the ones where you elected governments that send police to your house for Facebook posts or where governments welcome “asylum seekers” that try to blow up your military bases and never “connect the dots”)
    [1] <a href="https://x.com/TalkTV/status/2104152494636986371/video/1?s=46" rel="nofollow">https://x.com/TalkTV/status/2104152494636986371/video/1?s=46

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