FarceOfWill
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- Comment on Github scam investigation: Thousands of "mods" and "cracks" stealing your data 1 day ago:
There have been cases of crypto miners embedded but once discovered they’re nuked so quick it’s hard to get more than rumours.
C# modding is the most likely vector (rimworld, cities skylines, unity stuff) but Skyrim skse mods are raw code too. All can be misused.
Usually lua mods have a sandbox so they’re safe. Eg.factorio. and, um, more but my mind has gone blank.
- Comment on The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers 3 days ago:
Subsidise orchards like we do open farm land?
(I am not good enough at this law to know if orchards get the farming subsidies, happy to be informed by Lemmy people)
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 1 week ago:
Despite my drive-by shitposts in the rest of this thread I want to make a serious point here.
There’s a large part of software engineering that thinks languages are chosen based on the problem, as a tool for a job.
They aren’t. They’re chosen based on the team, on how well the team knows and can use the tool. On how many people can be hired with the knowledge of the tool to work immediately.
Sometimes, even if the team knows C well, there can be a problem so different it’s worth using another tool. say python for some testing scripts on a C project.
But rust and C are too similar for this to apply. If you want rust to be used for the kernel you have to push for it to be more well known and used, so more Devs come into teams already knowing it well. Anyone agreeing to work on a team using rust is making a career decision that will be stay on their CV forver and you need them to feel good about this, that it will give them more opportunity in future.
It’ll take 20+ years because that’s how long legacy code is often maintained for and we already have 20+ years of future legacy code for C teams to deal with. We’re all making more future legacy C code than future legacy rust code too.
I’m trapped in C++ so I’m doomed but good luck C and Rust coders.
- Comment on Linux royalty backs adoption of Rust for kernel code 1 week ago:
C++ is a semi automatic shotgun with 200 barrels point in all directions.
- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 1 week ago:
Junior Dev’s could never code, yes including us
- Comment on US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit 2 weeks ago:
In a brief statement, the UK government said it had not been able to add its name to it because of concerns about national security and “global governance.”
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8edn0n58gwo
No idea if thats a real reason or not.
- Comment on Microplastics in tea bags 1 month ago:
Not clicking but if this is the one from a while ago its specifically about plastic glteabags. And, like, obviously.
If you stir with a plastic spoon you’ll have even more
- Comment on I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone 1 month ago:
The comments here show the real problem, adverts dont have to say why they’ve been selected.
All online ads should have to say which filters they matched to advertise to you. The advertising in most cases now is centralised into Google or Facebook, this is absolutely technically possible.
- Comment on Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped 2 months ago:
Our stalwart guardians of the land right there, we make them work so hard for their tax free inheritance
- Comment on Study finds young people more likely to spend Christmas alone 2 months ago:
Alone with a mobile and 4 separate communications apps with dozens of chats
- Comment on AI company trolls San Francisco with billboards saying “stop hiring humans” 2 months ago:
This doesn’t sound like a great company.
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 2 months ago:
No I agree, it’s mostly useful to fertilize the plants elsewhere in the garden.
But it seems everyone here is thinking of lawns and I realise late my concept of a garden is utterly alien to what most people actually do. No lawns for me!
- Comment on Dyk, Bobby? 2 months ago:
I don’t have my books handy, but while they take a lot back this varies by species and the fallen leaves can have a lot of N and P in some cases.
Though I’ve always seen them shredded and used for making compost anyway rather than leaving them on the ground. Too easy to get rot that way. And you really want to spread them around the rest of the garden if you’ve planted trees that do drop N in the leaves
- Comment on rollin' deep 3 months ago:
Ankles and knees are a complete con. I want my money back evolution.
- Comment on Tough news for protesting farmers: Labour doesn’t actually need their votes 3 months ago:
Pissing off farmers is more likely to gainn support in rural communities than lose it.
- Comment on How a post on Reddit accidentally kickstarted the revival of Angus Steakhouse 3 months ago:
The customers they have are getting absolutely rinsed
- Comment on ‘Do not pet’: Why are robot dogs patrolling Mar-A-Lago? 3 months ago:
If you don’t get jokes it can’t be helped but try not to interrupt the rest of us.
- Comment on On Mushrooms 3 months ago:
The fungus grows
- Comment on FTC to launch investigation into Microsoft’s cloud business 3 months ago:
Seems a little conincidental all of this and the story about MS locking the us gov into azure come out as soon as trump wins
- Comment on More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI. 3 months ago:
I wonder if “code” means pull requests and they have a load of automated ones to update versions of external and internal libraries
- Comment on 'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' 4 months ago:
I agree but I can see why someone might not want to invite the people they feel ruined their home back to have another go.
- Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 5 months ago:
Til I use “well actually” too much. I will edit, thank you for the constructive help with my shitpost
- Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 5 months ago:
Jesus Fried Chicken Christ
- Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 5 months ago:
Do bombs explode? Or is it the explosives inside of them that are exploding?
- Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 5 months ago:
Did it really need quotes?
Please don’t “well actually” this - Comment on The reason we don’t see exploding battery attacks more often is not because it’s technically hard, it’s because the erosion of public trust in everyday things isn’t worth it. 5 months ago:
Jfc Christ Lemmy.
Every single comment misunderstanding the point. The batteries are exploding because there’s explosives in them. This does make them exploding batteries. The explode because they are partially made with explosives. Please don’t well actually this.
No this is not a description of something Israel did, it’s a hypothetical way to do a similar attack to show how within reach of idiot terrorists it is.
Raising the idea of doing this so everyone is thinking about it is extremely bad for us all. Thanks Israel.
- Comment on ‘Side job, self-employed, high-paid’: behind the AI slop flooding TikTok and Facebook. 5 months ago:
404 broke this with investigate journalism. Account needed to read, to prevent ai scraping.
- Comment on Fears for patient safety as GPs use ChatGPT to diagnose and treat illness 5 months ago:
You can build excellent expert systems that will definitely help a do tor remember all the illnesses, know what questions to ask to narrow things down or double check it’s not something weird, and provide options for treatment.
These exist and are good
Chargpt isn’t an expert system and doctors using it like one need a serious warning from the BMC and would eventually need to be struck off, same as using ouija boards or bones to diagnose illnesses.
- Comment on Manchester rioter's mum who went on £1,200 Ibiza trip must pay compensation amounting to cost of her holiday 5 months ago:
It’s just a total coincidence the costs are the same then? Weird story
- Comment on That's a big burger 5 months ago:
What is that? A car for ants?