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bignose

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  • Deja Vu

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  • I'd love to. Sadly, when I do leave JavaScript alone, too many web sites that should work fine just break.

  • Deja Vu

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  • Web applications need JavaScript.

    Web sites do not; the static web technologies allow basically any styling, and browsing any content your browser can handle, and HTML forms work fine. In any case, many people who need to access the web site can't run modern JavaScript. So it should work without that.

    There may be special dynamic enhancements that require JavaScript, but the site should so its core job flawlessly, without any JavaScript.

  • Apprehension

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  • Not just you. For more than a quarter century, we've known that if a paragraph's text lines sprawl across a wide screen, it's more difficult for most people to read. (And the same is true if the lines are too short. There's an optimal range.)

    https://jamesmattison.co.uk/method/why-line-length-matters-for-legibility/

    For this reason, it's good for a website's style rules to limit how wide (measured in characters) a column of text can get, regardless of how much screen there is to expand into.

  • Do you like to have music while coding/studying? If so, what genres?

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  • Most of the music I enjoy listening to, has good singing and/or lyrics that I want to hear. But this is exactly what I don't need while attempting to concentrate on another task!

    When I need to focus on something, the music needs to be motivating, blocking out any ambient noise, but not distracting. I find trance and other techno to be best for this.

  • borrow checker?

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  • OpenAI joins The Rust Foundation as a Platinun member and donates funds to support Rust maintenance

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  • Platinun

  • DontBreakDebian - Debian Wiki

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  • Please put in the effort to write (in the post) a synposis of what you're linking to, and why you think it's worth visiting, before we go there.

  • Is there any use in learning an "easy" programming language?

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  • Why would anyone make a hard programming language?

    INTERCAL has entered the chat:

    INTERCAL's main advantage over other programming languages is its strict simplicity. It has few capabilities, and thus there are few restrictions to be kept in mind. […]

  • If you had/have enough disposable income, what would drive you to donate to opensource software?

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  • I donate to a number of free-software projects via https://liberapay.com/ which lets me control the individual donation amounts and frequencies, and pay from a single account that I top up periodically.

    When approached about allowing me to donate to them via Liberapay, I've had several people respond positively and set up their end of the deal. It often just takes a friendly conversation.

  • Rsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMs

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  • No. If an established dev leans on LLMs for coding and shovels it into the main branch, they have abdicated their responsibility and trashed their reputation. We get to point that out

    without any obligation to do their work for them.

  • Rsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMs

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  • Either we get him more resources or we STFU about the retired dev using AI. We can’t have it both ways.

    Of course we can do both. I don't have those resources to grant

    and I get to point out that Tridge, despite his well earned reputation from the huge contribution of creating rsync and bringing it to the point where it's effectively complete as an essential piece of internet infrastructure, was massively arrogant in abdicating his responsibility by shovelling LLM slop into that same piece of infrastructure.

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  • A child of five would understand this. Fetch me a child of five.

    —Groucho Marx

  • Passkeys

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  • Passkeys are a potentially good technology, that is frequently implemented in an insecure and user-hostile way.

    Good: a standard way for authentication that can be implemented in common on client and server, such that the user doesn't need to know a secret.

    Bad: Most OS and platform vendors breathlessly implemented this standard using their proprietary APIs and making it practically infeasible (read: impossible for typical end-users, therefore they won't, therefore insecure) to attempt syncing your passkeys outside their walled garden.

    It is entirely feasible to implement passkeys in a way that users are in control and can freely move between devices and operating systems. But many implementations make that impossible, while still calling their implementation “passkey”.

    So, we need to reject any implementation which puts any barrier to the user freely migrating and syncing all their devices regardless of platform.

  • agile

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  • Of course, that works only when everyone's in the same room. I don't have a good replacement for teams that connect remotely.

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  • Yet another way that the good ideas from Agile got crushed to meaninglessness by Business Idiocy.

    The whole point of the “stand up meeting” is, by forcing everyone to stand together, to encourage everyone to keep it brief and to the point, so it benefits everyone without sucking their time.

  • agile

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  • Screenshotting a text post on the Fediverse, to post an opaque image on the Fediverse.

    The post was right there to be shared.

  • Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

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  • We shouldn’t even be in this situation, where just politely asking someone’s computer to delete files is effective.

    Exactly, it's a problem only for those who have knowingly handed their development environment over to obey commands from an untrusted source.

    If you're the one holding the syringe to your own vein and pushing the plunger, but you didn't think to ask what's inside first? That's no one else's fault.

    This is a well targeted sabotage of a system that's causing untold damage. Of course it's going to annoy and surprise the people using the system it's targeted to.

  • Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

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  • It ensures that the agent does a good job

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  • Without this, we wouldn't be sure the agent does a good job!

  • Technology @lemmy.world
    bignose @programming.dev

    SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean?

    www.kqed.org /news/12049420/sf-based-internet-archive-is-now-a-federal-depository-library-what-does-that-mean
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    bignose @programming.dev

    Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals

    www.theregister.com /2025/07/22/whofi_wifi_identifier
  • Technology @lemmy.world
    bignose @programming.dev

    When tech hardware becomes paperweights

    basic.bearblog.dev /when-tech-hardware-becomes-paperweights/