For my money: yes, you should use an IDE or something like one, but not because you're "missing out" - rather, because a plain text editor will limit your progress.

There are (still!) people around who think it's some sort of badge of honour to only use text editors, but in reality, this means they miss the syntax errors and typoes that we all make because we are human, and end up wasting hours looking for them when an IDE would let them see them.

You wouldn't turn up at a cookery school saying "I'm still a beginner, so I'm only going to use this pair of scissors" - specialised knives and utensils are part of the chef's toolkit, and becoming a better chef is just as much about learning to use them effectively as it is about memorising recipes. It's the same with programming.

I would love to know more without having to actually research who this guy is.

With the greatest of respect: the guy was Chancellor of the Exchequer for years. It seems reasonable to assume people know who he is in a UK politics forum. (edit: sp.)

Me, personally, I'd one hundred percent fall into the power trap and just ignore it all and jump in the chopper to go and do a bunch of hookers and blow in international waters.

But I'd like to think that better people than me in that position would, y'know, use their power and influence for good.

No.

There's no need for monoculture - especially on a platform that aims to be decentralised.

Look at it this way - if some town has three gay bars, three metal pubs and three old-man real-ale pubs, it's not an issue for the LGBT community, the metal community or the drunk old men; they're just different places to drink. Possibly the drunk gay old metal fans might get confused, but they sound awesome and are likely welcome everywhere.

...actually, thinking about it, I bet the drunk old men probably do have an issue with all eight of the other pubs they don't go to. But that's just them.

I think this sounds reasonable.

Very probably too little, too late, but hey ho.

Tories practically exist to fellate the landed gentry - they'll come for yours too given half a chance.

Ah, the state of the gender paygap. It's 2023 and still a woman can't be fairly compensated for tanking an essential public service into the ground smh.

Just for the record: the Sun ended Page 3 in 2015.

No "it was a different time" excuses wash yet.

The Politico thing is informative for sure.

Obviously you'll also need any prospective bot to have a big list of hilarious thread titles to choose from.

Please don’t be too principled as long as the tools and community to back up those principles aren’t in place.

I very much agree with this, @sunaurus@lemm.ee - your stance above is, I think, exactly as a stated policy should be, but please do remember that plans and reality must meet somewhere along the way. If you overthink things or cleave too religiously to the rules you've set yourself, you risk taking too long to act, and it's exactly this delay between problem and reaction that bad actors exploit.

Don't cut off your nose to spite your face, basically. Lemm.ee is a great instance, and we'd all, I think, love to see it stay that way 🙂

Maybe ISPs is an okay comparison? Most of us are on different ISPs but we access the same internet.

It's probably more productive to just ignore the technical details. Half the country seems to believe they're buying "wi-fi" nowadays.

Just stick with "try Mastodon" or "try Lemmy" and let the non-technical folk build whatever mental model suits them best.

Indeed, give them no quarter.

Forget the forensics guys, if he keeps this up they'll be prepping the rubber hose and dentistry tools guys.

That is indeed the system.

hopefully we’ll get an autumn general election

No chance. They're dug in for the duration now.

The word you're looking for is "frit".

NINETY DAY suspension, dear god.

Beautiful. Beautiful.

Would you say they were going... weakly?

😎

If you think its UK politics, post it up.

Famous last words 🤣

Nah, I kid. Obviously at this scale you're approaching it the right way - there's a sliding scale from "tiny place, light touch" to "jesus christ what colossus have we wrought", though, so keep one mental eye open.

I do like that moderation logs are public here though. That's a big plus on the watchers/watchmen score.

Oh!

Vielen dank - jetzt fühle ich blöd :D