amju_wolf
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- Comment on Lemmy devs are considering making all votes public - have your say 4 months ago:
It leads to an even bigger echo chamber, people with unpopular opinions will get ostracized not just for their comments, but even for their voting. There’s a reason why any real democracy has secret votes.
- Comment on Bridgy Fed, a bridge between the Fediverse and other protocols such as BlueSky, is using an opt-out model and that raises a lot of discussion 10 months ago:
They also assert that Bluesky doesn’t federate (it currently doesn’t, but the protocol is designed for federation!) when it’s clear that it now does.
I’m not surprised about the skepticism there though. These are just promises, and we all know that a for-profit entity will happily sacrifice any promies if it means they make more money that way. Also depending on how exactly that federation will work it might be practically useless as well.
- Comment on How I reduced the size of my very first published docker image by 40% - A lesson in dockerizing shell scripts 11 months ago:
This is cool but it’ll be a nightmare to update.
Also, chances are that if you use Alpine the person using your image already has the base layer downloaded, so your image might actually be “bigger” for most people.
- Comment on GitLab users warned of flaw that allows file overwrite — so update now 11 months ago:
Yep, exactly my thoughts. Unfortunately very few developers really think (about related but not completely adjacent code) when they implement stuff (and that’s when they are even “allowed to” by the task requirements) and even fewer have true knowledge of security and common pitfalls and whatnot to avoid such issues.
And even when you have those you still need good practices and code reviews where the rest of the slip ups is caught.
- Comment on GitLab users warned of flaw that allows file overwrite — so update now 11 months ago:
Ehh their engineering simply seems to be subpar. I’ve read some of the Cages and I’d they followed best practices the issues should’ve never happened. It doesn’t inspire confidence.
- Comment on Instances in the free fediverses should consider "transitive defederation" from instances that federate with Meta 11 months ago:
Why not judge these instances on their own merit though? If what you say becomes true and is so problematic and rampant that it needs addressing, you can block that instance. But doing so preemptively seems petty and counterproductive at best.
What if there is an instance that selectively reposts from Threads only decent, thoughtful discussions?
Oh and as a side note; if you’re worried about stuff getting more mainstream, toxic and polarized that’s kinda inevitable if you want more people using the fediverse, that’s just how it is when lots of differently thinking people are in one place.
- Comment on PSA - Lemmy dropped 0.19, your instance may have some downtime 1 year ago:
At least if you break something it’s just you who you have to deal with.
- Comment on Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub 1 year ago:
Well then you aren’t probably taking advantage of most of the stuff AWS offers and is actually really good for. Which isn’t really criticism, but then I wouldn’t really call it cloud? It’s more like just infrastructure as a service.
- Comment on If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? 1 year ago:
Oh I didn’t even mean that; just the (possible, shorthand/unreadable) syntax alone, weird typing, etc. seem like it’d be hard to work with.
It’s also funny because “allowing clusterfucks” is a huge reason why PHP was so hated; when you took care to write it properly it wasn’t bad even in the early days.
- Comment on I rent a vps to run fediverse instances. Here's what I've found 1 year ago:
Anyone knows why Mastodon is so disk space hungry? Seems kinda stupid.
- Comment on If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? 1 year ago:
…so you have not, in fact, used PHP in the past decade or so. Thanks for letting us know.
- Comment on Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub 1 year ago:
With AWS especially there is a shitton of proprietary stuff. Most of the friction is in knowledge however; the cloud environments differ, are configured differently, have different limitations and caveats, etc. Someone who has only ever worked with AWS will have to learn a lot of things anew if they switch. Hell there’s a reason why “AWS engineer” is a dedicated role in some companies.
Now, if you only manually set up some VMs and configure them like you would a regular server then sure, it’s easy to migrate. But when you are missing 99% of the features of the cloud environment are you actually using it?
- Comment on Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub 1 year ago:
When you use a cloud solution (and especially one with a vendor lock in like Amazon) then yeah, you are fucked there too and I’d question why you did it in the first place.
If you have your own infrastructure - be it a server at home or whatever - then you can always just move it elsewhere, get some other ISP, whatever. There is no lock-in. Inconvenience, sure, but you can migrate elsewhere. That’s just not true about all the other things mentioned, or the friction would be much higher.
- Comment on If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? 1 year ago:
Ruby seems like a clusterfuck for anyone who doesn’t work on a project alone, change my mind.
- Comment on If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? 1 year ago:
You got it backwards there. PHP was pretty bad (mostly because it was easy to pick up so novice and shitty programmers used it a lot), but got insanely better, and it absolutely stood the test of time - most of modern web still uses it and it isn’t going anywhere. There are also few languages that would have such a robust ecosystem where you could whip up a solid, complete app in a few hours. JS comes close but its ecosystem is a clusterfuck. Everything else has poor third party support - be it libraries, connectors to various services or just simply best practices (for web).
- Comment on If you had to choose one programming language that you had to use for the rest of your life, what would it be? 1 year ago:
Have you used modern PHP with its ecosystem and frameworks? It’s actually really solid, and really good at what it aims to do.
- Comment on Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub 1 year ago:
Or, you know, Gitea or such.
- Comment on Mozilla will move Firefox development from Mercurial to Microsoft’s GitHub 1 year ago:
Because while you do have control (and “copies”) of the source code repository, that’s not really true for the ecosystem around it - tickets, pull requests, …
If Microsoft decided to fuck you over you’d have a hard time migrating the “community” around that source code somewhere else.
Obviously depends on what features you are using, but for example losing all tickets would be problematic for any projects.
- Comment on Lemmy posts are starting to pop up on search results for Google (+ other search engines) 1 year ago:
Didn’t know that’s the case, that’s neat though it doesn’t solve the redirect back to your home instance.
It’ll also probably lead to centralization because if you’re more likely to find a particular instance through search and decide to join Lemmy you’re probably going to do so on that instance.
- Comment on Lemmy posts are starting to pop up on search results for Google (+ other search engines) 1 year ago:
The point of random GUIDs is that there are so many that it’s effectively impossible to generate duplicates just by random chance. They’d be perfect for this.
The initial instance picks it, and then the federated instances use it.
- Comment on Lemmy posts are starting to pop up on search results for Google (+ other search engines) 1 year ago:
Yes, this would be possible (and not too hard technically either). But all instances would have to agree to link this instance as canonical.
You’d also want to add a feature where you can set you home instance where this canonical instance would redirect you (perhaps even automatically). Home Assistant does something like that.
What pisses me most about Lemmy is that each instance has its own post IDs which means that crosslinking and switching instances based purely on URLs is impossible.
IMO posts should have random GUIDs for IDs; that would help a ton with these kinds of issues. It’d then be trivial for Google to detect same content (if they wish) this way
- Comment on Pawoo, a Japanese Mastadon instance on the Fediverse notoriously bad about moderating CSAM, has been taken down. 1 year ago:
I mean it’s more accurate and unambiguous. Definitely preferable overall IMO.
- Comment on Tips on how to get clients as a freelancer? 1 year ago:
How do you network with zero or close to zero initial “connections”?
Sure it’s easy to get jobs when you already have a dozen happy clients who recommend you to others. But how do you start initially? Through friends and their connections?
- Comment on I love Kotlin 1 year ago:
I mean that has been their business model for some time now, just like with most other software nowadays. But unlike most other software their prices are extremely reasonable; when you buy it consecutively for years you get progressive discounts. I actually *need * only one editor but I pay for them all because the cost of the full package is just slightly higher and their IDEs are amazing. A few times a year I use one of the “other” editors for personal projects and such.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
But you can still deal with that respectably, or just not comment at all if you can’t do it in a representative way.