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- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 3 weeks ago:
Source? Really dislike all these unsubstantiated claims everywhere.
- Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86] 1 month ago:
Early 1900s doesn’t mean 1900-1909. It usually means the early century (1900-1950). If they were born in 1945 then had a child when they were 30, that child would be 50.
Also, they might just mean that their mentality is like that of the early 1900s, not that their parents are necessarily that old.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 month ago:
Both of those work on induction perfectly well.
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 1 month ago:
I hate this mentality. There are things that are legit concerns and then there are things which aren’t. Please don’t use the same logic for taking up smoking.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 month ago:
Ecosia is building a custom search engine index, ETA summer 2025
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 1 month ago:
Instances are stores (think Amazon or Etsy). Products are posts. Sellers are users.
Stores aren’t protected from being defederated. You can still search Google or whatever, still visit the site and buy stuff. It just will not be a unified search, just like how anything else works with ActivityPub.
The good stores would be run by admins who don’t have an incentive to defederate from others. Stores don’t make money or take a cut from sellers anyway. The sellers aren’t in charge of the instance, just like an Etsy seller can’t do anything about the fact that they have competitors on Etsy.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 1 month ago:
I think it makes sense. It would allow a decentralized unified search across all stores. With Lemmy I can search posts as long as the instance is federated. With this I could find products.
- Comment on Rust is Eating JavaScript 2 months ago:
I’d say Rust is definitely mainstream. Obviously not the level of JS or Python, but it’s being used all over the place. All major FAANG companies, the Linux kernel, JS runtimes, web browsers, Signal…
IMO GC has nothing to do with high or low level. It’s just incidental that there’s a correlation. In GC you usually don’t need to think about manually allocating or deallocating memory or truly understand what pointers are (in some ways anyway). In C / C++ you do.
In Rust you almost never manually allocate or deallocate, and you have both very high and low level APIs.
I’d say Rust is both high and low level. It just depends what you use it for.
As for books, maybe you’d like trying Rustlings instead.
- Comment on Rust is Eating JavaScript 2 months ago:
- Rust is the best language for writing WASM in, so you can write Rust and run it in the browser without transpiling to JS.
- Rust isn’t just about speed or GC pauses. Its type system is amazing and allows you to encode things that you cannot in any other mainstream language.
- It’s so incredibly well designed, it fewla like that clip from Ricky and Morty where Morty feels what standing on a truly even plane feels like then has a panic attack when he leaves. Rust rethought everything from scratch, and isn’t just some new syntax or fancy compiler tricks. No null, no exceptions, no inheritance, new typing capabilities, etc.
- Comment on Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain 2 months ago:
That’s the American Revolution.
- Comment on Apple is once again advertising on X after more than a year 2 months ago:
Not sure, I’ve been looking at Graphene myself but haven’t used it. Just passing on what I’ve seen.
- Comment on Apple is once again advertising on X after more than a year 2 months ago:
Custom ROMs are all different. Some suck, some don’t. I’ve heard very good things about Graphene. You can even install it from the web in a couple clicks.
- Comment on Apple is once again advertising on X after more than a year 2 months ago:
Google Pixel + GrapheneOS
- Comment on Apple is once again advertising on X after more than a year 2 months ago:
Because they, a company that markets itself as free thinking, are supporting a platform run by a Nazi.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
If you want to buy the app
GrayJay is free, just FYI
- Comment on Ghost blog adding activitypub 2 months ago:
You can do that but only under paid accounts.
- Comment on Ghost blog adding activitypub 2 months ago:
What’s insecure about them?
- Comment on YSK in the U.S., you can buy produce directly from black farmers and they will ship it to you. It can cost less than your supermarket and will piss off people in power. 2 months ago:
It doesn’t matter what their definition of racism is. “Fuck white people” is racist.
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 5 months ago:
What you’re doing is called “making shit up”. If you have a problem with their talking point then address it, but don’t make shit up about who they are or why they’re saying what they’re saying.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 5 months ago:
Isn’t Signal E2E encrypted? How would it be able to decrypt them?
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 5 months ago:
But then what’s the benefit to Signal? Just that it’s decentralized?
- Comment on IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines 5 months ago:
I wonder if someone could invent a new open source machine of some sure along with a tool to fix that, and that tool just happens to also be able to fix the McDonald’s ice cream machines?
- Comment on Hypothetical: Can a person "citizen's arrest" themself? And if so, how (and why) would that even work? 5 months ago:
If you citizens arrested yourself then the criminal would also be holding the arrester hostage.
- Comment on Has "Self-Driving" devolved? 5 months ago:
Probably, because it’s simpler. Driving on a highway is way less complex of a task than driving in cities.
- Comment on Loops by Pixelfed • Launching in a week 6 months ago:
Big creators make a ton of money from their videos. I’m fine with the Fediverse adding ads, or creators doing sponsorships. We need a separation of concerns. Fediverse is removing centralized corporate control.
We need a way to get good content creators money on the Fediverse.
- Comment on Loops by Pixelfed • Launching in a week 6 months ago:
IMO a very small amount of storage should be free but after that the user needs to pay. It’s the right thing to do for hosts and for the environment. If content creators need massive amounts of video then that will incentivize them to make money on it.
The only people left out are small, niche channels that have quality or important content but don’t make much money. Maybe they could be cut special deals by the hosts / donors.