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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • Deleting Files

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  • Some Windows apps do handle it properly. For example, if you have an archive open in 7-zip and try to delete it, Windows Explorer should correctly tell you that it's open in 7-Zip. I'm not sure why it doesn't work that way for all apps.

  • 2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for Submissions

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  • Definitely going to fill this out once I get some free time. What will the data be used for?

  • When in Rome...

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  • might be rolling in it in a couple years

    Doubtful given 70-90% of startups fail.

  • Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

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  • A lot of people either don't want to pay, or can't pay (eg people in developing nations with very low income). I agree that UBI would help, but we're a long way off from that being a standard thing in one country, let alone worldwide.

  • Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

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  • The only real alternatives to ads are either paying for the content, or having someone else pay for you. The latter is the case with something like PeerTube - someone else is covering the cost of the server and bandwidth without asking you for payment, and the creator doesn't get money from you just watching the video.

  • Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened

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  • Had what in videos?

  • Help Us Raise $200k to Free JavaScript from Oracle | Deno

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  • VBScript did catch on originally, though. When IE had over 90% market share, it was nearly as popular as JavaScript was. It only dropped in popularity when other browsers became more common. Back then, most scripting was just to enhance the page, and the page still had full functionality without it, so a lot of developers just didn't care about making it fancy for the 5-10% of other browsers.

    "AJAX" (XMLHttpRequest) was originally an IE-only, VBScript-only feature. It was originally implemented using ActiveX, which only VBScript supported originally.

  • Help Us Raise $200k to Free JavaScript from Oracle | Deno

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  • I'm hoping that more DOM and BOM APIs become accessible in WebAssembly without having to go through JavaScript. There's a few frameworks that let you build web apps in other languages (like Blazor for C#) but they still need some JavaScript to interop with the browser, and going through a translation layer (WASM to JS to browser) adds some overhead.

    Even visual basic for the web would make sense

    This is exactly what I did for a few years before switching to JavaScript: VBScript. It was pretty common back in the early 2000s when Internet Explorer had 90%+ market share. The few remaining Netscape users would just get a page without scripts. There's a lot of features missing in VBScript that exist in JavaScript though, even basic things like closures and first-class functions.

  • xkcd #3143: Question Mark

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  • Wow I've watched Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the past, but had never heard of this movie!

  • Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch

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  • Buying albums is great because you can host them on your own Plex server and use Plexamp.

    (or something like Jellyfin, but IMO Plexamp is still the best app available for streaming your own music collection)

  • Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch

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  • It's probably the most popular music streaming service at the moment.

  • My boss wants us to use AI

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  • My employer is trying to get people to use AI more, too.

    I'm skeptical of AI, but I'm finding it useful for menial tasks - things that you'd otherwise automate using an AST-based codemod tool (like jscodeshift, libcst codemod, etc), a hacky find/replace, or do by hand (boring, tedious work that I'd rather not do). Giving the AI system an example patch for something like migrating away from a legacy API, and saying "do this same thing across these 200 other files", can have pretty good results.

    In general, it seems like a good tool for things where the entire process is well-defined - the prompt and context provide all the info it needs - and I include example code in the context.

    I don't trust it for brand new code in a large existing codebase.. Even the best AI models still get a lot of things wrong.

  • My boss wants us to use AI

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  • Let me preface with a fuck microsoft.

    Yet you're praising copilot, and likely using an editor built and maintained by Microsoft (VS Code). I'm confused.

  • When people encounter Lisp syntax for the first time

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  • Thanks for the info. I haven't used BASIC in a very long time and can't remember much about the syntax. Must be over 20 years ago now. I switched from VB6 to C# when .NET Framework 2.0 was released.

  • When people encounter Lisp syntax for the first time

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  • of at least one dialect of BASIC that allowed subroutine calls to lack their parentheses

    Did sub calls normally have parentheses in BASIC?

  • Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO

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  • You could say the same about any social media site really.

    The whole point of social media is to communicate with other people. Facebook is the largest one, so if you want to contact a business or person, they're more likely to be on Facebook than any other site. Probably the main exception are younger people (and companies run by them), where they're more active on TikTok and Instagram.

  • Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO

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  • The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian

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  • I'm just using regular Firefox at the moment. I briefly tried Floorp but it felt a bit slow.

    Well, except at work where we're forced to use Chrome for security reasons. They rely on Chrome Enterprise as part of their endpoint security solution, which has features like preventing copying from sensitive/confidential work webapps then pasting onto non-work sites, and other features that big companies use.

  • The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian

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  • I completely forgot that Zen is Firefox-based. I've been avoiding some of these newer browsers because they're based on Chromium. I'll have to try it out!

  • 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using

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  • I'd say 9/10 aren't doing proper backups given most people don't actually do DR runs and verify whether they can fully recover from their backups. If you don't test your backups, you don't have backups!