Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:

This is the truth. I'm a contrarian kind of guy, so when the world
goes git, I go fossil. ;) Jokes aside, I like the concept of one
binary and how it works for my own personal use case.

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I went fossil when I had to teach a class.  I thought git was more
complicated than fossil.  But it turns out that fossil was seen as
crazily complicated by nearly all students (anyway).  I think fossil is
just fine, though I confess I prefer the file system over a database.

This is very interesting! What was it that the student thought was crazy
complicated compared with git?
I have taught classes with git (basics) and at the end of the day, regardless of
if you use git or fossil, it just requires a few simple commands to get started
at the basic level (we were not discussing rebasing and huge software projects).