OmgItBurns

@OmgItBurns@discuss.online

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The most important aspect is motivation to improve and do cool shit. That can, also, be said about a lot of professions. The best thing you can do is to find what is most interesting to you and spend at least a few hours a week learning about it or engaging with it. It could be new features of a language you know, a programming methodology that is new to you, learning about/contributing to a FOSS project you like, or anything else.

  School and work will almost definitely force you to engage with the parts of development you don’t like, as well will give you an opportunity to engage with the parts of development you do like. It’s on you to keep yourself engaged and improving in your skills.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity AI is complaining their plagiarism bot machine cannot bypass Cloudflare's firewall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of the issue is that it does act more like a search engine crawler than a traditional user. A lot of sites rely on real human traffic for revenue (serving ads, requests to sign up for Patreon, using affiliate links, etc) that gets bypassed by these bots. Hell in some cases the people running the sites are just looking for interaction. So while there is a spike in traffic, and potentially cost, the people running these sites aren’t getting the benefit of that traffic.

  Basically these have the same issues as the summaries that Google does in their search results but, potentially, have much larger impact on the host’s bandwidth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s already here. I know someone who drank the Flavor-Aid and within the past year he’s starting using the T-slur and blamed Somalis when I offhandedly asked why traffic was so bad in a certain part of town (while there is a high Somali population here, the traffic problem is 100% poor city planning).

  So fucking weird hearing that come out of the mouth of the Commie artist I used to go to punk shows with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh man I forgot about those site! Back in the day my mom couldn’t afford to get me many new video games, so I’d download tons of demos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nerdcore is back⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah! I remember being at a show with mc chris, MC Lars, and Mega Ran when the 2016 election results were announced. They made a bad night bearable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rule 34 rule⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we start calling them Adobe Lovers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing wrong with examining potential issues for emerging technology before they become actual issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never thought I’d miss Ballmer, but here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m getting daily or near daily BSODs since switch back from Debian. I was okay with Vista and 8, and maybe I’m just getting crankier as I get older, but I definitely am not a fan of the current direction Windows is taking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dreamweaver is still used? I used it a bit back in the day when Macromedia was around and shortly after Adobe got a hold of it. How does it work with the modern web? Does it work well with modern programming languages or is it still just a WYSIWYG HTML editor?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda to glad I was able to move up my plans to build a new PC right when I heard we actually went through with the tariff plan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of me is wanting to put that new PC build I just started saving for on a credit card instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨- Buy Once Software⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand sentiment after seeing how a lot of tech companies are. The other side of it is this: Developers still have bills to pay. FOSS projects are great, especially if they’re done by a small team and have a supportive community, but there are only a limited number of developers who have a combination of knowledge, skill, free time, and financial capability to truly dedicate themselves to FOSS projects.

  If I could support myself by coding for FOSS projects, I would probably try (hell I just might not be aware of opportunities for this) but that isn’t the reality in front of me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going on Reddit today be like...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Black Hole is a fantastic movie (at least if memory serves, it’s been awhile) that nobody seems to have heard of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean fark.com is still kicking, last I checked. I feel like some of these old sites are the web equivalent of BIFL products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a bingo…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly it sounds like you might like some of the aspects of EVE Online