umbraroze
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Rose here. Also @umbraroze for non-kbin stuff.
- Comment on reasonable 9 months ago:
If musk pulled the same kinda shit, he’d be mocked for it too
Yes, it is funny how more people are not calling out the Electric Car Jesus for swooping around in private jets and single-handedly undoing any positive effect his customers can have...
- Submitted 10 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on I'm a sucker for big tree 10 months ago:
In middle of a couple of worldbuilding projects. Haven't really had much good ideas for the fantasy project lately.
Ah HA! Maybe I'll do some mild subversion of expectations.
Maybe one of the most famous sites in this world, where people come to visit from far and wide, has a tiny old withered tree.
...I mean, there could be a lot of legitimate logical reasons why this site could me important. Maybe the tree has a really fascinating story behind it.
Heck, there's probably many such places on our world too! Can think of at least one from the top of my mind.
I should write this down.Last year I felt really crappy as far as my writing projects go, but in the last few months, if there's one thing I've learned it's that even smallest ideas can sometimes break the writer's block. Keep writing them down!
- Comment on What's your favorite game you played this year? (Doesn't have to be released this year ) 10 months ago:
Vampire Survivors completely drew me in this year.
A couple of years ago, I was having dreams of designing train lines in Cities Skylines. A couple of days ago I was having a dream of weapon combos in Vampire Survivors. That's how you spot a good and influential game.
- Comment on Toshiba exec claims hard drives are 7X cheaper than SSDs and will continually evolve for large datacenters 11 months ago:
And that there is the real crime. It's a real shame no one's making a tape drive at the consumer market price point. Tapes are a hell of a lot more convenient for backups and archival than the giant weird pile of storage formats we've seen over years.
- Comment on SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker 11 months ago:
Turtles are such underrated creatures and most people don't realise how important they are to computer science. Turtle robots! Turtle graphics! Not to even mention the very concept of shell access! And yes, turtles are probably very happy that Secure Shell was invented.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Personal homepages. What we used to call 'em in the nineties.
- Comment on Please defederate from threads.net 11 months ago:
When I last looked at the defederations of some Mastodon servers, everyone was already blocking Threads. This was a year ago. Instances running Lemmy and Kbin and like should probably do the same.
- Comment on What would be Gorn's callsign? wrong answers only 11 months ago:
Sssss, tail number SSS-55555
- Comment on Duo out here teaching me the essentials 11 months ago:
There are a lot of people who go "I tried to learn X through Duolingo and failed". Sure, that's probably true, because staring at the app is not how language learning works. Much like 100 years ago, people would have said you can't learn a language by reading a single book.
Duolingo is great for basics of the language, vocabulary and constant daily lessons. But you always need more. There's a whole language sphere out there. People actually using the language and whatnot.
I started studying French through Duolingo and about 6 months later I was like "I really need a grammar book and a dictionary, dammit". Year in, I was like "I should try reading news in French and maybe try a book."
- Comment on Rust's static linter is called "Clippy" for a reason. 11 months ago:
Yeah, the thing is, "a monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors" is kind of a meme among non-Haskell developers. Personally, I think Haskell is a very interesting language. The mathematical jargon, however, is impenetrable, and this particular expression is kind of the poster child. I'mma go look at Erlang if I want my functional language fix without making my head hurt, thank ye very much.
- Comment on Rust's static linter is called "Clippy" for a reason. 11 months ago:
It's a thing! Sadly it won't rewrite Haskell codebases for you, though.
- Submitted 11 months ago to programmer_humor@programming.dev | 8 comments
- Comment on xkcd #2866: Snow 11 months ago:
I'm from Finland. This is how it usually goes in the winter:
During the 2 hours of daylight we get at this latitude:
- Ooooooh this is pretty
- Bet I can get some nice photographs
- ...or I would, if the sky wasn't overcast goddamn it
Other times:
- Rummaging through the closet for wool socks and more clothing
- Put on the headphones, hit the metal music collection on my Nokia, and face the Darkness with a grim stare
- Would hit the beer, but not in this economy
- Comment on Elon Musk launches profane attack on X advertisers 11 months ago:
You know, at this point, any sensible company will take a single look at Musk's tantrums and decide that advertising on Twitter is a massive legal liability they cannot afford. Not only is their public image in danger because the content is so badly moderated and offensive content is allowed, but Musk threatens to sue them if they even consider terminating their existing campaigns. Heck, this is to say nothing about the impersonators. The only way for brands to stay safe is to get the hell out and just state that they have no official presence on Twitter. Staying on Twitter is just a disaster waiting to happen.
- Comment on Chad Pacific 11 months ago:
In Finnish language we already have the kinda rare expression "rapakon takana" ("behind the mud puddle") about stuff that's happening in America.
- Comment on Same. 11 months ago:
Well of course it has a picture of his parents fighting (???) in it. Dude's a severely messed up right-winger.
- Comment on Let's all be thankful. 11 months ago:
Newspaper Nerds appreciation day! ...Maybe. The dude's political signalling was fucking all over the place.
- Comment on Google to weaken ad blockers on Chrome in a push for security 11 months ago:
I was about to comment on this, but my Android phone spontaneously rebooted.
Anyway. Before I was so rudely interrupted, I was about to say: Firefox. It is a thing. An awesome thing.
- Comment on can a hacker hack my accounts remotely?? 1 year ago:
Depends on the type of account, but here are some of the common methods of how this might happen:
- The attacker could be straight up guessing the password. (One possible way to mitigate this: the website can go "wow, 10 failed login attempts from that source. I'm going to ignore all attempts from there for 24 hours.")
- The attacker could be using previously exposed passwords. (One possible way to mitigate this: The websites should immediately require password reset for all users when that kind of data breach happens. For users: never use same password for multiple different services, certainly never reuse a compromised password even if it's for a different service. Also: haveibeenpwned.com)
- The attacker, currently using the same network, could hijack the session. (This was a really huge problem back in the day. In this day and age, websites should be using HTTPS, which limits this very much. Still possible if the site doesn't use HTTPS, and through some other vectors, e.g. malware or hijacked network hardware).
Also: Malware is a really scary big problem in that they're rarely targeting you specifically. Why do that, when they can million people at the same time and sift through that stolen data for most valuable stuff, right?
- Comment on Best VS Code theme 1 year ago:
I was about to say "this reminds me of the Hot Dog Stand".
...but someone actually made Hot Dog Stand. Shit.
Look, I'm a Linux nerd, and there are very few things that scare me. Linux Kernel programmers, maybe - you don't meddle with them unless the hour is truly dire and we form a delegation to seek their aid after a complex debate as the world burns around us and we climb their mountain together. ...And the other thing that scares me are some particular brands of Microsoft ultra fans, for thereover lies madness like we have not seen before.
- Comment on thisIsGoingToBeASeriousDebate 1 year ago:
Oh you fancy PC people and your fancy
syscallinstruction.I still don't know why I could remember
jsr $ab1e. I didn't even write that much assembly. - Comment on It would really tie your ready room together, captain. 1 year ago:
The indoors aesthetics of sci-fi spaceships are really a topic that has not been studied enough. I loved it when Mass Effect series went full hard into captain's quarters customisation and I was like "ooh! aah!"
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- Comment on Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 with listeners migrated to YouTube Music 1 year ago:
Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024
Welp, another Google service that was too beautiful for this world.
Time to move my subscriptions to other podcatcher then. [taking a quick look at various migration options] Hmmm. What to write on Google Podcasts gravestone? "Here lies Google Podcasts. It never supported OPML."
with listeners migrated to YouTube Music
Damn. I migrated my Google Play Music purchases to YouTube Music and to this day I have no idea where they actually went. If I hadn't downloaded the local MP3 copies with the terrible joke of a client software they had, I'd have been screwed. Went back to just buying music on iTunes.
- Comment on French agency says the iPhone 12 emits too much radiation, tells Apple to withdraw it 1 year ago:
That's right! However, remember that bananas have potassium-40 in it, which is radioactive. Not much, though. So be very very mildly careful around bananaphones! /old joke
- Comment on recommendations for selfhosted photo backup solution: folders vs albums? 1 year ago:
Well, Google Photos shouldn't be considered a "backup" solution to begin with. Never mind that both Google and Apple scan the content in their respective services, but there's just no guarantee that they don't modify the data on cloud. "Oooh guys, we just invented a revolutionary new photo compression algorithm! Also hosting data is kinda expensive! So pay up if you want your originals." ...and there's occasional reports that these services just straight up corrupted some old files while no one was looking at them. Good going.
I just treat my Android phone like any other camera I own and use. Copy the files from phone to PC and from there to my NAS, and I use ACDSee's DAM functionality.
- Comment on Some people just wake up and choose violence 1 year ago:
In Ruby, the convention is usually that things are duck-typed (the actual types of your inputs don't matter as long as they implement whatever you're expecting of them, if not, we throw an exception). Type hinting could be possible, but it basically runs contrary to the idea.
Now, Ruby on Rails developers are expecting some kind of magic conversion happening at the interfaces. For example, ActiveRecord maps the database datatypes to Ruby classes and will perform automated conversions on, say, date/time values. But from the developer perspective it doesn't generally matter how this conversion actually happens, as long as there's something between the layers to do the thing.
- Comment on Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985 1 year ago:
Olivetti, from Italy, was pretty famous in Europe as a typewriter manufacturer. So it wasn't much of a surprise my father's first PC (and the first PC compatible I could use) was Olivetti PCS 386SX, circa 1992.
Turns out Olivetti is surprisingly important in computer history too. Olivetti made Programma 101, which was the first programmable desk computer/calculator, way back in 1965. If NASA bought a bunch of these, I guess it was serious shit.
- Comment on Cost of a 128KB computer with floppies in 1985 1 year ago:
There was some commercial for the Commodore 64 which basically lambasted the IBM PC for being twice as expensive while having the the same 64K memory.
I was, like, "yeah, but nobody ever bought the 64K model of IBM PC. That would have been just ridiculously limited, right? Right? Everyone got memory expansions, surely?"
Well, 64K was the stock configuration, so I'm sure those memory expansions sold like hotcakes. There was even the option for freaking 16K memory. (Now, I'm sure next to nobody bought that.) Even option to getting no floppy drives, because you could always put your glorious BASIC programs on a cassette tape. Like a caveman. (This also sounds like a rare option.)
