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Rikj000

@ Rikj000 @discuss.tchncs.de

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Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!

  • Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

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  • Oh misread my bad,not much experience with PostgreSQL

  • Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source

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  • Yeah,I did a speed test comparison between Oracle MySQL and MariaDB MySQL,MariaDB is about 10 times faster.

    FYI: When Oracle bought MySQL a lot of developers left and created MariaDB, so the brains behind the project moved, and in the meantime Oracle did a great job of fucking things up.

  • How many of you actually do sports betting with FanDuel and DraftKings?

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  • You're right,gambling is to screw you out of your money.I'd recommend to steer clear of it.

    Also the prediction market stuff,it's the latest new gambling hype thing,since they can use loopholes to bypass gambling laws.

  • Rule 6?

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  • I wish more communities implemented this rule.

  • Running Python on Debian - is not so easy?

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  • You'll run into that on many distros,not only Debian, since most of the distros use a specific python version for OS packages, its recommended to leave the python for your OS unchanged.

    But VirtualBox is not a good idea either.

    Instead use a venv (virtual environment),which is the python way to develop/run under different python versions.

    https://docs.python.org/3/library/venv.html

  • technical debt

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  • By not accepting your time estimate,requesting your reasoning why it takes that long, you explaining you calculated time in for refactoring, then rejecting your idea and granting you only time to implement the new thing, without granting time for refactoring.

    And dw, my project manager is a pretty chill friend and fellow senior developer, who is reasonable and helps me with calculating in time for refactoring whenever possible/nessecary.

    It's only higher up, CEOs/management, who seek to cut corners, with rocks for brains, who don't see that in the long run such practices are bad for business.

    Which sadly is the case for most IT businesses. But at least in my workplace the project manager is not a rat & on the side of the developers.

  • technical debt

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  • Just increase your time estimate,calculate in the time needed to refactor,but don't tell them you're gonna refactor.

    Works out most of the time.Only when they ask why the estimate is so long, then you explain your reasoning behind it, and then they might reply with your statement and block your refactoring idea.

    However, getting time to refactor most of the time, is aleady way better then never being allowed to do so.

  • Is Firefox tolerable to use on a pi 5 or 500+?

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  • I'd find it odd if a RPi4 can't smoothly run a browser :o

    You can use btop, to monitor if you have a bottleneck on your CPU or RAM, if Swap memory gets used, things will slow down, if your CPU is clocking @ 100%, same thing but not much you can do about that besides perhaps weeding out unnessecary processes that consume a lot, if there are any.

    In case your RAM is @ 100%, you could:

    • Use LibreWolf instead of FireFox,it's an open source privacy focussed fork,which removes some of the FireFox bloaty stuff, which reduces RAM usage.
    • Use uBlock Origin, to block advertisements, which will reduce RAM usage and increase page load speeds
    • Use NoScript, to block JavaScript trackers, to further reduce RAM usage and increase page load speedd, beware, will block all JS by default, so sites will break, but can be manually fixed by re-enabling only the nessecary JS components on a site
    • Switch to DietPi, a very light weight RAM/CPU friendly distro for SBCs like RPis, I've used it only headless (without GUI) but it only used 50Mb of RAM out of the box last time I monitorred it, which is impressively low.

  • What old movies hold up because of a lack of special effects or because clever use of effects?

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  • Alien,the original 1979 one.

    Imo it really aged well,recently rewatched it and was amazed by how good the special effects looked, especially for that time.

    It's also a really good movie,scores 8.5/10 on IMDB,kept me on the tip of my chair for the full 2 houra.

  • CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use

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  • Booo, I gladly paid,now I'm forced into becoming the product,through data collection..

  • Vibe Coding is not an excuse for low-quality work

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  • Vibe Coding: To generate AI slop code without understanding, nor manually reviewing/altering said generated slop.

    It literally means, produce low-quality work.

  • Is there an Android app for LibreWolf? (eom)

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  • The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.

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  • I lately have a saying:"If it's not FOSS, it's not worth your time"

  • Finding coding gigs nowadays

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  • Perhaps Monero bounties has something?https://bounties.monero.social/

    You can get paid in XMR for helping the community build tools that help the ecosystem.

  • How to Browse Facebook Marketplace without a login account?

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  • And by continuing to use it,it will stay that way.

    Just don't, plenty of other 2nd hand sites out there, with plenty of products available.

  • Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet

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  • OP I appreciate the reasoning.But I'd advise against it,and would recommend users to delete their Facebook account asap.

    Why? 4-5 years ago I already noticed the "illusion of free speech" on Facebook.

    The platform is a data farm,but I'm a data privacy advocate,so I regularly posted data privacy articles/tools.

    Which went against the best interest of Facebook, so they simply held back that content from nearly everyone's feed, resulting in it getting nearly zero attention.

    But if I posted a dumb meme,it would get a lot of attention.

    I've asked around to friends back in the day who where scrolling online if they saw my data privacy posts, none did.

    So staying on the platform to advertise things that go against Facebooks best interest, will likely not yield good results.

    However deleting your account,is a great conversation starter that can easily be directed into WOM (Word of Mouth) marketing, to teach your friends and family about Fediverse tools.

  • The rise of ethical social media: can open-source alternatives challenge the tech giants? | The Optimist Daily

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  • Yes Fediverse software can challenge the tech giants,but we can and must expect them to fight against it as soon as it gets on their radar!

    They'll likely will attempt to do so by:

    • Censorship: Keeping it out of the feeds/search results of their users.
    • Propaganda: Putting it in a bad spotlight (e.g. marking it as security risks on their own platforms).
    • Direct Attacks: E.g. DDoS attacks and/or bot user networks spreading bad content on the Fediverse platforms.

    We should already try to harness ourselves against the direct attacks.And help with spreading Fediverse software through WOM (Word-Of-Mouth) marketing,since the tech giants certainly will not help it spread themselves.

    The Fediverse is one of the few sparks of hope I have remaining lately,let us ignite these sparks together into something bright!

  • Fun Fact!: no matter in which order you read it, you can still understand this meme.

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  • Lately these lyrics come to mind ever more often:

    White Americans, what?Nothing better to do.Why don't you kick yourself out?You're an immigrant too.

    Song: The White Stripes - Icky Thump

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Happy socially enforced consumerism day everyone!

  • GitHub launches a free version of its Copilot

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  • You're very welcome! :)

  • Ask Experienced Devs @programming.dev
    Rikj000 @discuss.tchncs.de

    Blocking Copilot + AI feed bloat on Github?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Am I the only one getting agitated by the word AI?