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ScreaminOctopus 71 points 3 years ago

I don't understand why you'd be fixing unit tests he broke during his pr. It seems like he might be bullying you? Maybe discuss with your manager.

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ScreaminOctopus 45 points 3 years ago

Now it'll go to some private equity vampire who will really ruin it

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ScreaminOctopus 29 points 2 years ago

Hopefully articles like this get more companies contributing to steamos/proton

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ScreaminOctopus 28 points 3 years ago

If your cloud provider decides to screw you you're gonna have to put physical infrastructure together no matter what license their software is distributed under.

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ScreaminOctopus 27 points 2 years ago

Pretty crazy to reccomend Java as a secure alternative.

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ScreaminOctopus 22 points 3 years ago

Another 14 year old probably asked this

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ScreaminOctopus 21 points 2 years ago

This is basically just a way nicer, more flexible cron syntax being dressed up as something ridiculous. There are legitimate reasons for wanting something like this, like running some sort of resource heavy disk optimization the first Friday evening of every month or something.

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ScreaminOctopus 21 points 3 years ago

The dynamic colors are a fucking nightmare. No, I don't want all my ui elements to be the same color as my girlfriend's skin tone. And the worst is even if I change it, it resets every update. I also don't like the new quick access controls in the pull down. This is really the first Android update that's felt like a flat downgrade for me.

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ScreaminOctopus 21 points 2 years ago

The main issue I have with rust is the lack of a rust abi for shared libraries, which makes big dependencies shitty to work with. Another is a lot of the big, nearly ubiquitous libraries don't have great documentation, what's getting put up on crates.io is insufficient to quickly get an understanding of the library. It'd also be nice if the error messages coming out of rust analyzer were as verbose as what the compiler will give you. Other than that it's a really interesting language with a lot of great ideas. The iterator paradigm is really convenient, and the way enums work leads to really expressive code.

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ScreaminOctopus 19 points 4 months ago

Surprised privacy conscious people are so pro obsidian when it's not even source available

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ScreaminOctopus 19 points a year ago

It seems like since my generation had "If you put something on the Internet it'll be there forever" drilled into us as kids, many of us feel entitled to "the internet" preserving our data for us. Most people don't realize how much labor and resource usage goes into preserving data forever.

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ScreaminOctopus 18 points 3 years ago

I don't know if I'd really call this an issue, workers at companies generally start unions because they're being pushed into untenable hours and subsistence living without an escape. When you can jump from a sinking ship and add 15-20% to your salary you're just in a very different situation. There are risks to getting serious about organizing a union, especially in tech where the vast majority shops aren't union. You could end up tied to whatever company you're at currently for the rest of your career, since I'd imagine many non union shops would blacklist you from hiring if they found out you attempted to organize at a previous job. It's also difficult to get enough people on board for unionization when almost everyone in your department likely has the option to leave for a similar pay bump. The benefits of unionization are much less tangible for tech workers, who generally lead pretty comfortable lives, than professions that are tipically unionized like tradespeople or factory workers.

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ScreaminOctopus 18 points 2 years ago

Tbf, does anyone actually "like" C++?

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ScreaminOctopus 18 points 2 years ago

The problem is the Gnome team doesn't give a flying rat's ass about maintaining a stable api. I've never bothered with extensions because even the most basic stuff only works for one or two versions. The neovim team is pretty committed to backwards compatibility and following standards for interoperability like LSP these days, so it's much easier for third parties to maintain a large set of extended functionality at this point. If they acted like the gnome team, your status bar plugin would break every other update.

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ScreaminOctopus 18 points 3 years ago

They can't, even suggesting they'd think of making such a move would've ruined them. No one in their right mind would do business with a company that's willing to even entertain retroactive changes to payment structure. Just an insane risk to take.

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ScreaminOctopus 18 points 2 years ago

I've been happy with Qwant lately, they have their own index so using them doesn't support the Google + Bing hegemony. They're also EU based and regulated by the gdpr.

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ScreaminOctopus 16 points 2 years ago

I got a set off ebay, Jesus christ they're loud. I ended up returning them cause I could hear the grinding through my whole house

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ScreaminOctopus 16 points 3 years ago

It kinda crazy you can't do this, wasn't Microsoft forced to let you change default browsers in an antitrust suit?

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ScreaminOctopus 15 points 2 years ago

Also since this works on cards that are already old, it lets you eek out a few more years out of a card you already own rather than being a shitty excuse to overcharge for a weak card.

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ScreaminOctopus 15 points 3 years ago

I think the culture is different here for a few reasons. I checked out lemmy a few years ago when I saw a hacker news post about it, back then it was almost entirely technical people who were entirely opposed to corporate social media, and a lot of tin foil hat type privacy discussions. On top of that, if you look at a lot of the older instances like lemmy.ml and hexbear.net you'll find a lot of tanky communities that were displaced by corporate social media. These older and more established subcultures are probably shaping the culture to this day. I think their influence will fade as the fediverse becomes more popular.

Second, the threads thing is the Big Event on the fediverse right now, and everyone is talking about it. I addition to the groups I mentioned earlier, a ton of the lemmy user base just came from reddit, and I can't even count how many "fuck meta because privacy etc." conversations I've seen there. This is the same way everyone was talking about the reddit migration to lemmy constantly a few weeks ago and filling up the front page. This will probably blow over in a week or two. Reddit has stuff like this happening all the time as well.

Third, I I'd say lemmy and the broader fediverse is self selecting for the more tin foil hat privacy obsessed types due to the barrier for account creation being higher. Why wouldn't someone choose the more popular, more reliable, easier to on-board app if they don't care about privacy? The API changes were definitely handled really poorly, but a drop in content quality from poor moderation still remains to be seen. The subs I was frequenting definitely became less active as the protest dragged on, but a lot of them were open source focused communities. I don't think everyone has noticed the same change I have. Most people on reddit don't really care about it's drama.

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