lemme_at_it
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- Comment on Hi, I want to start programming but dunno where to start and which language to learn 1 year ago:
Start with an idea of something you’d like to make.
Start with a simple idea.
The clearer you describe the idea,
the easier it will be to code it.
Learn Python. - Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
Bits of data, ie user accounts when viewed singularly or in small numbers are information. In the 100 000s to millions, they become intelligence.
- Comment on Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome 1 year ago:
Do they do the same if you download Firefox? I remember using IE exclusively to download FF immediately after installing XP, Win 7, 10 or whatever it was.
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
Or seek to implement those features in a free & open way; but the features have to necessitate the effort & if the features are not clarified then no effort, especially a distributed one can even begin to replicate them.
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
I was doing it more as a wishlist or an idea board to draw opinions from - for lack of source code. Whoever did this, was quite thoughtful about risks, including the biggest of all - the ‘bus factor’.
I really liked the “Connect For Lemmy” app when I joined up - it has some great features, some not on Jeboa. The dev even said he’d open the source if there was interest but I now use Jeboa on mobile exclusively because Connect is still closed as far as I know. I am FOSS or nothing, if I an help it - especially in communications apps. If the source fails to materialise then I will forget this too - even if I can admire the skill & thought required to pull this off. The fedi is young enough to be unburdened by over-bearing tech debt. There is no reason why it shouldn’t be influenced by good ideas early before it becomes too costly in time, effort & complexity, to undo them later. - Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
No but when he Googles himself - which I am sure he does daily, then he’ll know to stay within the confines of his X domain. We rule the internets, we’re just allowing him a corner. :) Seriously though, some young person might still look up to him as a space role-model without ever knowing that the guy is a waste of space.
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
That’s what he wanted everyone to believe - offering 420 jokes as a share price he was willing to pay. He was ready to pay anything & even said so in an interview - that X is not about money, it’s more than that. Though he complained about how much he paid for it, he got a bargain for the ability to centralise, control, monitor & distort the dissemination of knowledge, perception of culture, international wars, to prolong or incite culture wars, deciding which governments could use it as an emergency response tool, tracking millions of accounts; many of whom were in positions of influence ie politicians, law enforcement, judiciary, reporters, authors, financial types, companies of all sizes, government agencies, local councils & everything in between
I remember thinking what a bargain he got that ability for. How much would any comic level villain pay for this sort of ability? - Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
Reddit had no bluetick businesses, journalists, authors, government reps, entire countries used it for emergency news etc . . . he wanted to destroy those, not up his 420 meme game.
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
Their FAQ is an interesting read about their purpose-built protoco,l that I must admit sounds great - but whose source will only be disclosed when you’re already on board. “We will release the design and/or reference code to the public when the initial version is stabilized.”
- Comment on Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU 1 year ago:
Firefox’s ‘Play in VLC’ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-in-vlc/ is brilliant for this - it does entire playlists too. It works with smpalyer, which is even better player than VLC, IMO.
- Comment on X accused of illegally firing employee who criticized Elon’s return-to-work plan 1 year ago:
Elon chooses what to do. We choose if we want to lend credence to what he chooses to do.
- Comment on The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet 1 year ago:
Try Tab Suspender. With it you can open as many tabs as you care to, it will auto-suspend tabs unless you choose tabs not to suspend. This way you can open as many tabs in as many windows as you want, even suspend tabs all the in one window or many windows. One Tab is even better, it puts all open tabs into 1 tab as a long list, then you can open those as needed in new tabs or windows
- Comment on I've noticed that lemmy as a whole is much more leftist than reddit (outside of political servers of course) 1 year ago:
According to the truth social wiki, it is built using a heavily modified Mastadon backend. Which is how people conflate the 2
- Comment on Asking for Inspiration of Language Learning 1 year ago:
Join the library. Ask for recommendations on English classics. A good librarian always knows. Every so often get an audiobook as well as the paper version for reference or reinforcement of something that may be confusing - be it a sentence, a paragraph, a phrase, a word or a chapter. Optionally, allow yourself only 2 checkouts of the same book before moving on. (That is a total of 4 weeks at my library - yes I still have a library card). I find this creates a learning pace you can measure & therefore stick to. It helps to have a consistent & structured timeline or you’ll not progress, could slowly give up or simply forget words after long breaks between books. Read out loud the new/interesting/difficult words to yourself so you can hear the sound those words make. Then listen to how other people say those words. Online dictionaries can be of help with pronunciation. If you’re not confident to use a word or phrase, even if you’ve read it - you’ll soon forget it or not use it correctly. Confidence comes with familiarity; familiarity with practice.
- Comment on I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit. 1 year ago:
Do they even allow niceness over there?
- Comment on I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit. 1 year ago:
The Lemmy homepage could do a random “Community Focus” where one random community is pinned for a day or 2 - or something like that. Just so people notice some of the tinier communities. I joined many when I 1st signed up but now my feed is full, so I hardly look for new ones anymore.
- Comment on I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit. 1 year ago:
I recognise some of that, what was the name of that series again? - just so I can binge watch it again. It was relevant way before it’s time
- Comment on Apple says it will remove services such as FaceTime and iMessage from the UK rather than weaken security if new proposals are made law and acted upon. 1 year ago:
Bluetooth provides another attack vector for the convenience. There is already quite a list of known vulnerabilities. Yes, many of these get patched but as the open standard evolves, so do the hackers. You could turn it off entirely, plug in a cable & forget all that if all you wanted to do was use audio/video.