Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)M

MajorHavoc

@ MajorHavoc @programming.dev

Posts
6
Comments
1083
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • What are some good alternatives to android these days?

    Jump

  • Great point about bank apps.

    Thankfully I never got in the habit of tap to pay with my phone.

    The amount of data that bank apps want to slurp up in the name of "security" makes me uncomfortable, anyway.

    I just bank via web browser, today.

  • What are some good alternatives to android these days?

    Jump

  • Nothing is perfect.

    But every alternate Android ROM I have tried has given me a dramatic speed boost over what shipped with the phone.

    I guess there are other definitions of "good", haha.

    For me good==fast, and GrapheneOS is the most responsive phone OS I have used, and therefore the best.

  • What are some good alternatives to android these days?

    Jump

  • As a fellow former CyanogenMod user, I run GrapheneOS. I like that it gives me the most control over my hardware, of any of the Android variants I have tried.

    Edit: I buy phones specifically looking for GrapheneOS support, now. But for non-pixel phones, I have found LineageOS to be fine.

  • What are some good alternatives to android these days?

    Jump

  • CyanogenMod was for iPods and iPhone, and released in 2009, so if we round a smidge, 20 years.

  • What does marriage mean to you?

    Jump

  • Yes. And then sign another authorization for each other topic - another for disposal of my property if I die, one for my funeral preferences, one to pick up my prescriptions, and hope I don't forget any.

    Or, courthouse, one time, 15 minutes, and done.

    A marriage license acts like a super convenient combination of othet legal documents.

  • Klingons must have been absolutely riddled with STDs in their history

    Jump

  • If we allow Discovery as evidence, Klingon technology has been in steep decline for centuries, only recently falling to as primitive as 24th century Federation technology.

    It's possible that Kligons had better medical treatments available in the 21st century than in the 24th.

  • What does marriage mean to you?

    Jump

  • The point, to me, is using the government to tell hospitals what to do. I don't want my parents making big decisions for me - I want the family I chose, my spouse, to do that.

  • What does marriage mean to you?

    Jump

  • Marriage is how I tell the state, and everyone, who my chosen family is.

  • Unless patented, are we not in a situation in which all publicly accessible code can be laundered through LLMs? If I find a source available code, I can just launder it?

    Jump

  • Sure!

    But I don't expect it to change much.

    I could already do that, by hand as well.

    It's a bit like how there's so many different superheroes who are obviously just off-brand SuperMan or off-brand Captain America.

    Minor changes to avoid intellectual property law and branding has always been an option.

    And I suppose all of these are easier now with the remixing slop-o-trons.

    But they weren't terribly difficult, or particularly uncommon, even before.

  • Learning Lua on Android: Index

    Jump

  • Why learn Lua?

    Lua is quite popular for writing games and mods forn games.

    Also, and I can't emphasize enough how much this means to me, personally: it's not Java.

  • 100% straight

    Jump

  • Replace One Word In A Star Trek Quote With Sausage

    Jump

  • Separate the Sausage Section

    Mr Worf, please take commnd of the Battle Sausage.

  • Programming peaked

    Jump

  • Great write up!

    Of course, I never stopped editing my code in vi so I missed some of the editor frustrations.

  • Parents, have you ever said something hurtful to your child that you "didn't mean to say"?

    Jump

  • I have shared that frustration, trying to find that balance.

    I try to get some basic wisdom through to them to help prevent something horrible happening later, but I don't want to cause them pain now, either.

    I have taken to asking them to take my hand in theirs, when I think they aren't listening.

    The younger kid appreciates the connection. The older kid practices their active listening skills to make me leave them alone sooner.

  • The year is 2026, you find out 90% of the fediverse are acually bots, but you have severe social anxiety. Do you continue using the fediverse regardless, or try going outside?

    Jump

  • "We can't all be robots, Truman. Because if we were all lying to you, I would be. I'm not a Robot, Truman."

    Paraphrased from Noah Emmerich's fantastic delivery in "The Truman Show".

  • Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language

    Jump

  • "Everything printed by Tabloid is automatically capitalized, and an exclamation point is added. Why would you want anything else?"

    Finally an opinionated programming language with the right priorities.

  • Ideas for computer challenges for a 7yo

    Jump

  • Damn. I love this community. Lemmy goes hard.

    "My kid can read now."

    "It's never too early to teach them regular expressions."

    Edit: To be clear, I agree. It's just great to be among like minded folks, here.

  • Ideas for computer challenges for a 7yo

    Jump

  • You can make an image of the / drive so it's easier to restore if they break the system.

    That's good advice. I always meant to do that with computers my kids access.

    Although I haven't ever had my kids break a Linux Mint install. I set them up as non-sudo users and that was enough.

    Of course, they grew older and have sudo now, so I should actually think about taking a drive image, now.

  • Ideas for computer challenges for a 7yo

    Jump

  • Teach them to launch Vim, and they can spend their remaining computer use time using Vim.

    Unless they figure out how to exit vim, then please have them come teach me how.

    Sorry. I will see myself out.

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    MajorHavoc @programming.dev

    Pluralistic: Enshittification isn’t caused by venture capital (20 Jan 2025)

    pluralistic.net /2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    MajorHavoc @programming.dev

    Cory Doctorow proposes that Canada break ranks with international IP law enforcement

    pluralistic.net /2025/01/15/beauty-eh/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    MajorHavoc @programming.dev

    OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

    pivot-to-ai.com /2024/11/14/openai-google-anthropic-admit-they-cant-scale-up-their-chatbots-any-further/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    MajorHavoc @programming.dev

    Pluralistic: Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification (07 Nov 2024)

    pluralistic.net /2024/11/07/usurpers-helpmeets/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    MajorHavoc @programming.dev

    The Cult of Microsoft

    www.wheresyoured.at /the-cult-of-microsoft/
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    MajorHavoc @programming.dev

    Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism as a material phenomenon (29 Oct 2024)

    pluralistic.net /2024/10/29/hobbesian-slop/