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popcar2

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  • Thoughts on codecademy site?

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  • Something people don't mention in the comments is that codeacademy is only really for learning the very basics of programming. It's great if you're just getting started and have no idea how to program, but once you start getting into more intermediate territory these gamified services lose their appeal.

    Codeacademy is cool if you're looking for a crash course into programming essentials, but if you really want to get into it I'd recommend buying a course.

  • A new era of Stack Overflow.

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  • Boy oh boy, what a post. Somehow they managed to make it less clear than ever what they even want to do with the platform, here are my favorite highlights:

    With the use of AI now ubiquitous and ‘AI slop’ rapidly replacing the content we see online, this trust gap is where we think Stack Overflow can play a role. Our renewed vision and purpose moving forward is to be the world’s most vital source for technologists. By providing a trusted human intelligence layer in the age of AI, we believe we can serve technologists with our mission to cultivate community, power learning, and unlock growth.

    That's some advanced corpo-speak, doubling down on AI but also acknowledging that people don't like AI-generated answers and providing a "human intelligence layer" to "unlock growth". Did an AI write this? Lol.

    As AI becomes more pervasive, the efficacy of AI systems will increasingly depend on access to verifiable and accurate knowledge. That will extend to job opportunities too as people look for guidance on exciting career prospects, and this is why we aim to Unlock growth for those who come to Stack Overflow or use our products.

    I can feel the growth unlocking the more of this I read.

    Knowledge Ingestion converts high-value content from tools like SharePoint, Confluence, Google Drive, and others into structured, trusted knowledge inside a Stack Internal instance. It’s designed to eliminate silos, accelerate onboarding, and scale institutional wisdom.

    I wasn't sure I wanted to ingest knowledge, but now that I can eliminate all these silos, I'm sure that my team can finally gain some institutional wisdom. Also I'm having a stroke. Help-

  • With Version 9.0 Release, ONLYOFFICE Becomes an Even Better Choice for Linux Users

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  • From their new page on AI. God, who asked for this? How much time and money did they waste integrating these useless AI tools? I was optimistic that they mentioned OCR but the more I look into it the worse it gets, nobody wants to generate AI images in their text editor. I don't want a chatbot to tell me facts about butterflies in my presentation tool. Wtf? I'm not usually this upset about random AI integrations but this is the exact thing Microsoft would do and why people would choose onlyoffice instead.

    Edit: Well, the good news is that this AI garbage seems to be a plugin that's not included by default, so they at least have some sense in them.

  • The elusive goal of Unix – or Linux – is simplicity

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  • I forgot about this, but AFAIK you're still better off with fstab to give yourself all permissions for everything to work properly.

  • The elusive goal of Unix – or Linux – is simplicity

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  • I was just adjusting my fstab today... Genuinely blows my mind how far Linux has come and I still have to delve into hard to read text files to open my damn drive when I boot my computer.

  • List of tutorials to learn videogame development

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  • I work in the industry. You're pretty much right. I wouldn't recommend people to get into the field unless you're SUPER into making games and are okay with working way harder than others. That said, other tech jobs are also suffering right now, layoffs are way more common than they used to be throughout the entire field feels very competitive.

  • [Open question] Why are so many rust opensource projects MIT licensed?

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  • MIT is the de-facto license that says "Do what you want with the software, just give me credit. Also, I don't owe you anything".

    It lets people do basically anything with it but protects you from:

    • People who would steal your project and claim they were the original creators (your name and copyright info is filled in the license which they have to include and mention)
    • Any sort of liability or warranty - people can't blame you for any damage done by your software

  • Anubis - Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers

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  • Do you mean it works reliably well in letting users through, or in blocking AI?

    Both, check out this article talking about it: The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites From a DDoS Attack

    Looking at the statistics really shows how dire things have gotten with AI crawlers. The before and after is crazy. There are some other blog posts also mentioning they get maybe 1000x less requests per hour after deploying Anubis.

  • Anubis - Weighs the soul of incoming HTTP requests to stop AI crawlers

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  • Been seeing this more and more lately. It's a shame we need such a nuclear solution, but it works reliably well. It takes a second or two to be redirected to the site you're visiting.

  • FUTO License, an alternative to Closed Source

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  • Asahi Lina: For personal reasons, I no longer feel safe working on Linux GPU drivers or the Linux graphics ecosystem. I've paused work on Apple GPU drivers indefinitely.

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  • The project is for making unofficial drivers for Apple's chips, which very few people are trying to do. Without Asahi, you can't run Linux on Macbooks.

  • My Thoughts on the Zen Browser

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  • It doesn't do anything by default, you have to go to settings > zen mods > click the settings icon next to the mod name.

    If you set the options and nothing happened then I'm not sure, it worked for me instantly when toggling stuff off.

  • My Thoughts on the Zen Browser

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  • I've started using more Zen Mods recently too, the most important one I would say is Zen Context Menu - which lets you de-clutter the options when you right click anything. There are way too many options being shown when you right clicked the sidebar, but it's a lot nicer to use now.

  • Finding coding gigs nowadays

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  • but every job also says 100+ applicants

    Most of them are spam or people testing their luck even though they're underqualified since applying to jobs is usually just a click nowadays. Don't worry too much about it.

  • To people making shitty guides/tutorials.

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  • I get people that make tutorials for "content" even if they suck at their job, but I CANNOT get over video tutorials where someone gets completely lost and doesn't cut it out of the video.

    Anyways we'll go here-oh there's an error. Uhm. Maybe we can do this? That didn't work. Maybe that? Hang on, maybe it's in preferences? Oh, it's in tools, no, wait, oh I just wrote the name wrong

    Would it kill you to edit that out and stop wasting my time?!

  • KDE's recently adopted animation program Glaxnimate releases version 0.6.0 Beta.

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  • I wonder if they're going to change the name to include a K in it like their other apps? Kanimator has a good ring to it.

  • What do you use for notes?

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  • I use Joplin. It's fairly simple and very comparable to Evernote if you've ever used that, but it's perfect for my needs.

    I used LogSeq before, it's very similar to Obsidian, the big difference being that it's open source. It's got a ton of features and the built-in whiteboard is actually really good, but I found it a bit overkill for my simple note taking.

    • Logseq also makes each line start with a bulleted list which quickly made me go insane

  • What do you use for writing HTML by hand?

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  • I appreciate the rundown! I started getting used to Emmet now, it's certainly more friendly than it looks. I think this is what I was looking for.

    The short-hand for CSS in Emmet is also pretty neat, but It'll take some time to get used to it. w75p m10 turns into width: 75%; margin:10px

  • Evolving GitHub Issues (public preview)

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  • I saw this in my repos and still don't understand why subissues exist. I feel like this overcomplicates things, a checklist inside of an issue has the same effect. If you're going to assign sub-issues to different people, shouldn't they be just separate issues?

    Anyways you can click on your profile in the top right --> feature previews --> disable new issue experience to turn it off for now.