mrmaplebar

Record time speedrun from "I'm putting my foot down in favor of AI" to "at least 1/3 of patches are flat out wrong or harmful", eh?

Of course he does. He's a billionaire pedophile and a corporate vulture, and that's exactly who the Republican Party serves.

Internet trolls and edge lords: too angry to live and let live, too cowardly to lash out in person.

I'm something of an existentialist at heart, so I truly believe that life is what we make it. Nothing more and nothing less.

There are real problems and challenges in the world. Good and evil both exist. Some days you will be happy and at peace and other days you will be consumed by pain and sorrow.

All of these things are part of life, and the universe itself is ambivalent to us.

Figure out what your philosophy on life is and live.

While I think there's some merit to the idea of talking about the fediverse on corporate legacy social media platforms, I think the best and most effective thing we can do is put in extra effort to engage with the fediverse itself, making posts and comments, building up new communities, and so on.

Reddit is no doubt getting worse and more closed off all the time. They treat their users like shit, or at least, like a resource to be harvested for profit.

But at the same time, Reddit users will sit around complaining about the platform until the cows come up, but when it comes time to do anything about it (like, for example, go check out the fediverse...) they don't ever take any action. And this problem isn't unique to Reddit either, people just love to complain about X on X, complain about Facebook on Facebook, complain about Tiktok on Tiktok, etc. It's hard to tell how much of that is just performative internet shit vs genuine addiction to their particular algorithm of choice, but in my view it's a real problem...

In other words, the question is "where we should be spending our energy?"

Should we be spending it on Reddit, trying to convince a bunch of people (who frankly range from ambivalent to straight-up addicted) that Reddit sucks? Or should we spend it here on the fediverse building the communities from the ground up?

The right loves censorship.

I don't know if I'm alone in this, but I really don't like the basic ergonomics of taking photos with my phone. To me there's no comparison to the weight and layout of a dedicated camera.

Ok top of that, I like to fiddle with settings and focus manually, and I don't want my images to be automatically filtered through AI or scraped by Google.

I can certainly agree that a big part of photography is being in the right place at the right time and using whatever camera you have to take the photo. And I know that the phone cameras these days are pretty good and more than enough for the casual user, but I like a dedicated camera, even a cheap and old one, if only for the experience of taking photos that way.

The problem in itself is that Lemmy means that you host a whole bunch of communities. Thats to much power concentrated in one place.
It should be that everyone hosts one community and all communities can talk to each other.

It's a trade-off between accessibility and power. On platforms like Reddit, power is totally concentrated within the corporation that controls the service, but they allow any old dunce without any technical skills to make a subreddit, making it very accessible to the average person.

On the flip side, if every community was its own server, the power hierarchy would be much more flat, but the ability to make a community would be reserved mainly for people with sysadmin skills and money. It also would make discoverability and community more difficult to maintain.

In other words, I think the Threadiverse strikes a nice balance. It's certainly not perfect, but there's no right answer.

Borrowed money, creative accounting, stolen data.

Can it shut the fuck up and move the fuck away from me?

How does one code by themself?

You really don't! I'll explain:

1. Just like there's no shame to drawing with a reference image (in fact, it's a necessary part of practicing and improving), there's also no shame in referring to documentation, cheat sheets, and things like variable hints and function signature auto-completion to speed up the process of writing code.

The primary skill involved with programming is logic--understanding what you want to do and having some idea of how you want to do it, step by step. From there, the secondary skill is optimization--figuring out ways to do all of this stuff faster and more efficiently in terms of RAM and processing time. If you can remember how things should be written off the top of your head, fine... But memorizing the names of variables and the signature of functions inside of some object is not only not that important, it's arguably a huge waste of time.

Make sure you understand computers enough to begin to develop a sense of logic around basic things like conditionals, loops, objects, etc. Put some thought into how you can cleverly design your program so that it's easy to write and maintain. But remember that it's perfectly ok to USE DOCUMENTATION!

2. Most of the code you work with is code that someone else wrote.

If you want to learn baking, it's smart to start with something simple, like a cake mix that comes in a box. (You add some eggs and some milk, or whatever, pop it in the oven and wait.) You don't start your own farm or milk your own cows. You start by combining and utilizing ingredients and instructions that other people have organized for you.

Programming is the same. Whether you're making something high level (like a game or application) or something lower level (like a driver or an embedded system program), you're almost certainly going to be most effective by learning to use other people's libraries or APIs.

There are thousands of libraries out there that help do basically anything you might want to do, for any programming language or platform that you want to use. What to display a GUI window with some buttons and scrollbars? There are multiple libraries for that. Want to load a song file and play back audio? There are multiple libraries for that too. Basically every programming language that I'm aware of has a "standard library" of some sort with a bunch of basic, expected functionality that most programmers may need, and you should take a little bit of time to familiarize yourself with that (not memorizing, but understanding). But for more niche functionality that's specific to what you want to do, you might have to seek out a specific library that someone else made.

You don't usually just learn a programming language and start writing every function from scratch. Rather, you're also going to want to do a little research into your languages standard library, as well as some other useful libraries relating to whatever program you're trying to make.

In other words, real programming isn't something that happens in a vacuum. You will be constantly using other people's code, you'll be getting help from your compiling and basic auto-completion from your IDE, and you'll be constantly looking up documentation to learn/remember how things are supposed to work.

Hmmm, sounds like it's almost time to go on Amazon and sell some "I bought SPCX before I knew Elon was crazy" bumper stickers.

For those keeping score at home, Trump has been very publicly claiming that the 2020 election was rigged since November 5th, 2020.

In fact, he even said before the election "if I lose it's rigged".

No offense to OP for sharing the story but... Who fucking cares?

At best it'll be his usual rambling and incoherent televised campaign speech that we've heard 8000 times before, and at worst he'll unilaterally declare war or Canada or some shit.

Americans are too stupid to know that they need it and too corrupt to do anything about it.

They love to fearmonger about falling behind China and the rest of the world, but clearly not when it comes to transportation, urban development, healthcare, etc.

"Trump says" = downvote

The problem with renaming environment variables is that you don't always control the environment.

Some anticheat games, yeah.

The vast majority of games, including most multiplayer games (and many with anticheat) work just fine on Linux today thanks to Proton, and even MacOSX is starting to catch up with GameHub.

For the few games that don't work right now, I can easily imagine someone filling the gap with a Windows dual boot partition (or even just a PS5).

I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say that Linux is closer to being what we need it to be today than Windows is. Windows has a lot of work to do, and even then it'll never be quite as open or computer geek-friendly as Linux. I don't see a good path forward for Windows, especially as casual users more deeper and deeper into mobile ecosystems.

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