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- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
It’s usually the loud minority you hear, as with anything.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 8 months ago:
- Some guy with his head so far up his ass he would take pleasure mathematically describing the curve of his position while in there, 2024
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 8 months ago:
- Some guy with no clue what hes talking about, 2024
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 8 months ago:
Ah. Yikes.
- Comment on Apple is officially dropping iPhone support for web apps in the EU - The Verge 8 months ago:
I dont know much about mobile but cant you stick your pwa in some electron-like thing and distribute it as an app? i mean its still a pain of course
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 9 months ago:
Keep this garbage out of europe please. i see it popping up. I will absolutely refuse to tip a single goddamn soul at this point going forward.
- Comment on dotnet developer 9 months ago:
.NET is better than ever wdym
- Comment on What’s Usenet and how can I access it with modern hardware (phones/laptops)? 9 months ago:
It’s funny seeing this thread with it’s descriptions written as if describing the traditions of some long-gone ancient civilization.
- Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find 10 months ago:
Since when? last i checked you get one page with the most popular results for the query, and the rest is unrelated recommendations
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 10 months ago:
Free wouldnt work either. nobody would make any content. its just that they excessively exploit everything to grab every last penny.
- Comment on Why'd they stopped making tv shows as good as x-files? 10 months ago:
Well, you’re missing out. You want a show with an accurate portrayal of hacking and tech culture? Good luck, it doesnt exist. But at least this show tries to use legitimate tools and techniques used in the real world.
It’s also not what makes the show interesting though. I can understand if it’s not your thing but this scene should not be the deciding factor. - Comment on Why'd they stopped making tv shows as good as x-files? 10 months ago:
Mr Robot.
- Comment on Does the rest of the English speaking world generally understand what an American means when they say "soccer", or does it help to clarify by adding "football"? 10 months ago:
It’s ok, we know you guys are weird.
- Comment on Saying you're down to do something means the same thing as saying you're up for it. 11 months ago:
Because america does media gooder
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 11 months ago:
It’s quite easy to use once you get the hang of it. In most situations, it’s the prefered option because you can just have your docker container, choose where relevant files are allowing you to properly isolate your applications. Or on single purpose servers, it makes deployment of applications and maintaining dependencies significantly easier.
At the very least, it’s a great tool to add to your toolbox to use as needed. - Comment on Outliers 11 months ago:
This is indeed pulled out of the ass. The origin of the word ‘yeet’ is meme from vine. It did get added to several big boy dictionaries. There is speculation that the word was used regionally in the 2000s.
Now a bunch of people think it has some latin origin because it sounds convincing while a quick google search (or AI because, 2023) debunks the claim.
It is a fun word though, i enjoy using it. :3
- Comment on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox 11 months ago:
Yes, some guy having racist ideas somehow isnt as bad ad disrupting a lot of lives while taking a pay raise. There’s always a some degree of evil involved with anything at scale. pick the thing that screws you least.
- Comment on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox 11 months ago:
inb4 “they added an affilliate link to an exchange 5 years ago,”
- Comment on Offsite Backups with Slow-ish Upload? 1 year ago:
Hetzner storage server. like 24 dollars a month for 10tb
- Comment on How I accidentally wiped my server by having a typo in my Nextcloud docker config 1 year ago:
yeah thats what im taking away from this too… you dont just rm -rf shit in any application without some good ass verification from the user
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
im sorry but thats not reasonable for the average person. sponsorblock and ublock sure, but when you get to pihole there are a lot of barriers.
- Comment on Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven counts 1 year ago:
Nah, if it was a normal banker, sure. This is a crypto guy, cant have those guys roaming around
- Comment on Hi, I want to start programming but dunno where to start and which language to learn 1 year ago:
True, but my brain is too wired to VS2022/VSCode and i experienced slightly too much wonk whenever i try jetbrains stuff. I do think its is slightly worse in some ways but better in others. It is paid, but quite affordable. only downside is, when you inevitably move to other languages, youll have to get the jetbrains IDE for whichever language you want to use, whereas with VS, most keybinds and whatnot are transferrable to VScode. I do not enjoy VScode at all, but it is the best ide that covers all languages unfortunately. And what i’vs come to learn is that its much more productive to deal with it in exchange for the language support you get for literally everything in vscode.
- Comment on Hi, I want to start programming but dunno where to start and which language to learn 1 year ago:
Yes, i would also recommend C# as a starting point. It’s kind of a jack of all trades, master of some. But more importantly, it forces you to understand certain programming concepts you may not learn if you start with a language like Python or Javascript. Not knowing these concepts will cause problems as you get deeper into it.
And if you use Visual Studio 2022 on windows (not visual studio code), it will take away some of the initial pain points of setting up your environment and gets you straight to an executable program.
I couldn’t recommend it more as a first language.
- Comment on Microsoft develops ultra durable glass plates that can store several TBs of data for 10000 years 1 year ago:
This… well roughly. People here say muh file formats etc. But you’re really going for the maximum lifetime, if its uncompressed text, it wouldn’t be too hard to reverse engineer if future people figure out that there’s data on there at all. The harder part may be extracting the data at all. We could also include instructions on how certain file formats can be read.
It’s is is still a great long term archive storage, and more likely the data would be transfered to a better storage device within a few 100 years (if we’re talking about archiving the present for future archologists that is)
- Comment on Musk considers removing X platform from Europe over EU law - Insider 1 year ago:
Honestly, without these monopolies, yes it will suck for a bit but it would allow us to essentially rebuild the internet. It sounds exciting more than anything. If the EU blocks anything, thats a different story. The deal now is that companies are vaguely threatening to leave because they dont wanna deal with our laws.
- Comment on Musk considers removing X platform from Europe over EU law - Insider 1 year ago:
The bird died long ago. Time to bury it.
- Comment on So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off 1 year ago:
Okay, ill ask ChatGPT
- Comment on So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off 1 year ago:
They sure as hell are doing a good job of making me reliant on AI though. Soon I’ll probably be payinf 200$ a month because i cant remember how to do things without AI. I think thats the plan anyway.
- Comment on Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare" 1 year ago:
And theres the flaw, something every country can agree on. Thats not happening unfortunately. Even if we could force all countries to do a certain thing, theres varying levels of corruptions everywhere that would prevent something like that in the first place. The closest we’ve come so far is probably oil sanctions on russia.