Zangoose
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- Comment on Three Mile Island nuclear plant set for restart on Microsoft AI power deal 1 month ago:
Given that it was running until 2019 when it closed because it wasn’t profitable enough, I think it’s probably fine
- Comment on Mozilla is going to shut down their Mastodon instance 1 month ago:
Kagi is no better than Mozilla though. They even bought a T-shirt factory lol d-shoot.net/kagi.html
- Comment on Why did the Lemmy instances stopped upgrading the version they use? 2 months ago:
Pretty sure they’re talking about the devs, not the users
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Steve Jobs was bad enough that his daughter wrote a whole book about how bad of a person he was several years after he died…
- Comment on Private voting has been added to PieFed 2 months ago:
Not familiar with how piefed handles it specifically but aren’t posts/comments self-upvoted by default?
You could probably figure it out pretty easily just by looking at a user’s posts, no?
(This is unless piefed makes it so the main actor up votes their own posts, and the anonymous actor upvotes others’ posts, but then it would still be possible to do analysis on others’ comments to get a pretty accurate guess)
- Comment on Current best lemmy clients 2 months ago:
Try Raccoon, the UI feels very similar to what I remember from liftoff, imo it’s worth trying. It’s still a little bit beta and I’ve run into formatting issues a few times but the UI is so much better than Jerboa’s and has a lot of nice features (like linking cross-posts within the app) that Jerboa doesn’t.
- Comment on Current best lemmy clients 2 months ago:
I normally just use Jerboa but I’ve been trying Raccoon recently and it’s been really good. It’s definitely still beta and some formatting doesn’t work but each update has made it significantly better so it’s definitely worth checking out because the UI is the best of any of the apps I’ve tried imo
- Comment on Current best lemmy clients 2 months ago:
Jerboa is by dessalines, the same dev as Lemmy and the admin of lemmy.ml so it’s basically just all of the drama inherited from that.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Honestly at this point threads federation probably won’t even be able to get the first 2 E’s because it’s opt-in on the Threads side. Most Threads users don’t know what ActivityPub is and aren’t going to go digging through settings to turn it on. Aside from the POTUS Threads account I legitimately haven’t found a threads account I’d remotely care about that bothered to turn it on, even among some of the more tech-oriented ones
- Comment on Is there a Mastodon app (for Android) that allows for anonymous browsing? 3 months ago:
I think the question was meant in terms of Mastodon, not the connected web browser. I.e. are there any apps that let you look at Mastodon posts without signing into Mastodon? Something like Jerboa’s anonymous mode.
- Comment on There is no fix for Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen CPUs — any damage is permanent 3 months ago:
Apparently (from another comment on a thread about arm from a few weeks ago) consumer GPU bioses contain some x86 instructions that get run on the CPU, so getting full support for ARM isn’t as simple as swapping the cards over to a new motherboard. There are ways to hack around it (some people got AMD GPUs booting on a raspberry pi 5 using its PCIe lanes with a bunch of adapters) but it is pretty unreliable.
- Comment on Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw 4 months ago:
If he was counting his money in $100 bills it would still take him about 40 years
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
Anything that touches the internet can be scraped. Mastodon DMs aren’t encrypted, and public posts are obviously public. There’s nothing stopping someone from using the API or any web crawler to harvest data on mastodon users anyway.
Not arguing for/against threads, tbh I don’t even use mastodon much because I don’t really like the idea of microblogging to begin with
- Comment on the myth of type safety 11 months ago:
Exactly this. I’d rather use TypeScript than regular JS, but I enjoy using almost any other statically-typed language more (except maybe C++) because TS has the potential to be just as bad as JS for codebases where it isn’t being used correctly (this is true for other languages as well but it’s usually a lot more obvious).
Not that it isn’t possible to have good typescript code, but rather that code becomes a lot harder to maintain because of problems that could’ve been prevented at a language level (truthy/falsey logic, ‘any’ type being allowed by default rather than ‘unknown,’ etc)
- Comment on the myth of type safety 11 months ago:
In theory I’m a fan of the inferred but static typing systems that most modern languages use (kotlin, rust, TS, etc.) where most local variable types can be inferred and only return types/object fields/parameters need explicit types.
I just despise typescript because it feels more like someone put a bandaid over JavaScript and all of its oddities instead of making a properly fleshed out language, and allowing the option for an ‘any’ type to be used freely by default emphasizes that.
- Comment on the myth of type safety 11 months ago:
If I had the willpower or time to go through a multi-thousand line (not including the html templates) legacy Angular 6 codebase where almost every property is typed ‘any’ then I assure you I would have, it’s driving me insane 🙃, also why I prefer backend
- Submitted 11 months ago to programmer_humor@programming.dev | 19 comments
