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Beej Jorgensen

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Instructor, author, developer. Creator of Beej's Guides.

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  • Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions

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  • It depends on how much separation you need. If you want different bookmarks, history, or settings per, then I believe you need profiles to make that happen.

  • How exactly does one get better at programming?

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  • IMHO, the top way to get better is to code a lot in a space you're unfamiliar with. And make it a substantial project, not just some little toy thing. If you want to learn mobile dev, choose an app you want to clone, and start working on it. It will be slow and painstaking going, but you'll learn a ton.

    When you're stuck, don't AI. Use standard search because you'll learn more that way.

    And understand that people who are skilled in the art have been learning for years. Don't let that dissuade you. Just take it one step at a time and someday you'll have been learning for years, too. ✋🖐️🖖🤘

  • Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

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  • Apparently if they get flagged as underage when they aren't.

    Yet another example of how requiring ID is a shit idea.

  • Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

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  • I couldn't get Netflix to play at high resolution on my old Roku because of some DRM crap. And I was a legit customer! Once again, piracy would have provided a superior experience.

  • Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

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  • I have a Kobo and it does OK. Nothing special.

  • Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

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  • I will never, ever purchase a book I can't remove the DRM from.

    And there are people out there who are absolutely fanatical about book preservation. They will photograph every single page and run it through OCR and recreate an ebook just so it gets preserved. DRM is absolutely pointless and stupid.

  • TikTok’s Algorithm to Be Secured by Oracle in Trump-Backed Deal

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  • It's not desirable to have a foreign government in control of TikTok. But it's far, far less desirable to have your own government in control of TikTok.

  • Internet Archive’s big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

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  • Keep the donations coming. IA is worth a million times more to humanity than all of these publishers combined.

  • Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator

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  • Hero. There's only one gas station I use that has ads and I'll try it there for sure. I deliberately avoid screened pumps.

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  • I have seen no evidence that we as a species in general will be able to harness LLMs for good.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • Way back in the day I was making $500 a month with AdSense ads on my sites. And then one month I started making $250 a month. I hadn't changed anything. It's a risky thing to rely on.

  • Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • My buddy graduated and took a gap year. That year happened to be the dot com crash. So he kept backpacking for another year then started looking for work. 😁

  • Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates

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  • This isn't the first time this has happened, though.

  • AI Can't Help You Write Well

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  • "Average" is the key word here, for sure. Our goal as humans is to be better than the AI. If you're not such a good writer, average is a step up. But maybe we should all try to level up, instead.

  • Ignoring lemmyhate, are programmers really using AI to be more efficient?

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  • I'm pretty sure every time you use AI for programming your brain atrophies a little, even if you're just looking something up. There's value in the struggle.

    So they can definitely speed you up, but be careful how you use it. There's no value in a programmer who can only blindly recite LLM output.

    There's a balance to be struck in there somewhere, and I'm still figuring it out.

  • A Tech Rule That Will ‘Future-Proof’ Your Kids

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  • If I wanted to raise superhumans, I'd simply not give them smartphones until they turned 18.

  • YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround

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  • Additionally, I'm not paying that evil company a dime. All the people I follow on YT get way more money from me on Patreon.

  • Apple CEO Tim Cook gives 24-karat gold gift to Donald Trump

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  • "He is an halibut." --Monty Python 😁

  • Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing AI "superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means.

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  • Will AI finally replace CEOs?