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- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 2 days ago:
- Comment on What Ever Happened to Netscape? 4 weeks ago:
Didn’t the refactored netscape eventually evolve into Firefox though? Not disputing the poster child status or the fact that it’s a terrible business decision, but the project did not really go stale I think?
- Comment on Wording change and clarification for purchasing Immich · Discussion #11313 3 months ago:
Is immich in a usable state yet? I was looking for a self-hosted image service a while back, but eventually I just went with pigallery2 mostly due to the extremely simple file storage (just point to a folder and you’re good to go), but I do miss being able to manage images/albums from the website and having a more mobile friendly version. I kind of avoided immich due to the repo saying it’s under very active development (#scary).
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video won't offer Dolby Vision and Atmos on its ad-supported plan | The company is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to charge $3 more for ad-free viewing. 9 months ago:
Back in the day, before streaming was a thing, there were lots of people saying that they’d gladly pay for content if it was served to them in a convenient way. But why would you pay for a worse experience (at that time physical media, often at lower quality, and lower availability) when you can get a better one for free?
Along came streaming. Lo and behold, piracy decreased. Where the fuck do you even go to pirate music anymore? All the big sites have shut down. Video piracy is kinda still going strong, probably mostly due to bullshit concerning exclusives, but it’s way less than it used to be.
Its their platform, they can do whatever they want with it I guess, but this trend is definitely gonna be a big boost to piracy.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
It’s fairly new I think. I ran into it first time a week or two ago when going into a test account I haven’t used for a while.
Shame really, having at least two users is very useful when building bots. Testing user-specific interactions and such.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
IMO Discord is the best platform for this right now, which is unfortunate. The little I’ve tried Matrix has not been very impressive (single chatrooms, slow, bad self-hosting experience IMO), IRC is a bit better (though very dated in many regards, esp. user management) but still doesn’t have the categories/channels that make discord nice. And most other chats are proprietary with discord just being the best one.
Which one would you like them to use?
- Comment on Elizabeth Holmes barred from federal health programs for 90 years 9 months ago:
Could be difficult. Name is a bit stained.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 10 months ago:
Why not?
- Comment on Why docker 10 months ago:
the biggest selling point for me is that I’ll have a mounted folder or two, a shell script for creating the container, and then if I want to move the service to a new computer I just move these files/folders and run the script. it’s awesome. the initial setup is also a lot easier because all dependencies and stuff are bundled with the app.
in short, it’s basically the exe-file of the server world
runs everything as root (not many well built images with proper useranagement it seems)
that’s true I guess, but for the most part shit’s stuck inside the container anyway so how much does it really matter?
you cannot really know which stuff is in the images: you must trust who built it
you kinda can, reading a Dockerfile is pretty much like reading a very basic shell script for the most part. regardless, I do trust most creators of images I use. most of the images I have running are either created by the people who made the app, or official docker images. if I trust them enough to run their apps, why wouldn’t I trust their images?
lots of mess in the system (mounts, fake networks, rules…)
that’s sort of the point, isn’t it? stuff is isolated
- Comment on Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk? 11 months ago:
I think Twitter is going down, may or may not go bankrupt but I think it will lose relevance. Wonder if it will be replaced. Lots of people (myself included) kinda assume that bluesky, mastodon or some other twitter-like service will take over. But Twitter is not really necessary, so I don’t think it’s a given that something will take its place.
- Comment on Firefox is giving Android users a sneak peek at its open extensions 11 months ago:
Right before the Mozilla buyout, Fakespot added a clause to their TOS giving them the right to give user data to Mozilla.
There’s one possible interpretation of that, which would be my guess, that this was somehow necessary as part of the purchase. Before purchasing a company the company being purchased has to show the buyer what their assets are and give them a fair and accurate representation of what the company is. It’s possible that this clause was necessary in order to enable this.
- Comment on What is your favourite font for code ? 1 year ago:
Yeah I guess you’re right. Probably just seen the Source Code Pro one so many times that I stopped being annoyed with it.
Should try exposing myself to the Jetbrains Mono font until I get used to that instead, then I won’t have to fiddle with that part of the IDE settings.
- Comment on What is your favourite font for code ? 1 year ago:
I use SauceCode Pro (variant of SourceCode Pro with nerdfonts stuff). I’ve given up on changing it because everytime I do I find stuff that’s “non-standard” in the fonts I test and it bugs the hell out of me.
@signs are the absolute worst offenders, which is weird because they have a very uniform look everywhere that’s not a specialized “programming” monospace font. - Comment on X is reportedly selling inactive usernames for $50,000 — The move is the platform’s latest attempt to raise revenue 1 year ago:
I think the DVD division finally shut down a few weeks ago. Read about it in the same breath that I learned it still existed.
- Comment on Spotify re-invented the radio 1 year ago:
This is probably the first time I’ve seen anyone argue that paying Google is the more ethical choice. Fuck that company with all of my heart, I literally pay for both email and search just to use their services as little as possible, and will be caught dead before I start paying for YouTube.
- Comment on None of Your Photos Are Real 1 year ago:
This is what happens when you think you have a story, but it turns out you don’t. Image editing apps exist and are getting easier to use, big whoop?
I for sure thought this was gonna be about “AI cameras”. Seems all phones nowadays have some kind of software to make the camera seem less shitty, but nope, it’s about people making a choice to edit their photos.
- Comment on German anti-racism body leaves X over 'rise in hate speech' 1 year ago:
Not by a long shot […]
Right, I concede. The neighboring countries did accept way more. Germany is still accepted significantly more than the vast majority of countries (though it bears mention that Germany is also quite a massive country, for example Sweden’s number of refugees seem small in comparison but is fairly close in refugees per capita).
- Comment on German anti-racism body leaves X over 'rise in hate speech' 1 year ago:
Doesn’t Germany have the strongest anti-racism laws in the world since the end of Nazi Germany? And also the country accepting the most immigrants during the refugee crisis (and among the top counting per capita I think)?
- Comment on I love Kotlin 1 year ago:
Yes, but at the end there should be a single all lowercase “i love gradle”
- Comment on I love Kotlin 1 year ago:
Gradle is fantastic, but there is this mantra you have to chant while tinkering with it:
I hate Gradle, I hate Gradle, I hate Gradle, I hate Gradle, I hate Gradle
But once you get it to do whatever you want it’s way more powerful than Maven, since it’s actual code. Also you will never get me to voluntarily define my project structure in XML.
- Comment on D or d come on 1 year ago:
If a directory has multiple words in it I usually do kebab case: i-like-mine-in-a-way-i-can-read-them-properly. Both easier to read and type than pascal case.
For more complex filenames I use a combination of kebab-case and snake_case, where the underscore separates portions of the file name and kebab-case the parts of those portions. E.g.
movie-title_release-date-or-year_technical-specifications.mp4 - Comment on D or d come on 1 year ago:
I don’t think most people use oh-my-zsh. It’s very popular, and a lot of people use it, but I think most is a stretch.
Either way, it’s just a set of plugins and configs so of course you can get it to work on any setup. Just saying that it’s not inherent to zsh, and you can probably get similar behavior in most shells with a similar config.
- Comment on D or d come on 1 year ago:
I remember having that when I used OhMyZsh, but after going back to a more bespoke config it doesn’t work anymore. Also tried using zsh as a different user to ignore my own configs, that doesn’t work either.
tldr, it’s not default zsh behavior.
- Comment on D or d come on 1 year ago:
Reasonable and sane behavior of
cd. Just get into the habit of always using lower case names for files and directories, that’s how our forefathers did it. - Comment on The summer is over, schools are back, and the data is in: ChatGPT is mainly a tool for cheating on homework. 1 year ago:
Prompt better. I use it extensively and the code I get is usually a good start. But it can’t do anything.