It's 100% clear that Reddit is trying to kill off third party apps completely so that they can facefuck you with ads and other garbage. The Apollo dev saw the writing on the wall. I can't blame other app devs for trying to squeeze a bit more livelihood out of this, but hopefully they've realized that they need to move on asap. In the end, it's a great reminder to not build your business on someone else's platform, even if they're "cool".

This, but unironically

I'll never use any Microsoft products again because of the inevitable enshittification. It might be nice now, but that's just because they're in the Embrace step of EEE. I could waste a bunch of time churning through that process, or I could learn tools that have proven that they're in it for the long haul.

One big reason Nim never really caught on is because we've got lots of fast-ish languages with garbage collection (like Go, which sucks a lot of oxygen away from Nim IMO). Rust introduced a new concept to the mainstream that lets you program safely without a runtime hit for garbage collection.

The comic is fine, but that title is just word salad

I've seen this used on other Fediverse posts:

https://catbox.moe/

Trust is a broad term. If you're paranoid, find the package you care about here, and read every line:

https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs

If you're slightly less paranoid, check the git blame logs for anyone that's touched a package you care about. If you trust all of them, then you're good.

If you're less paranoid than that, assume that someone reasonable is in charge of that repo. You'll get warnings about insecure packages. I've had to Ok a few insecure packages in my configuration.nix, because I assume the packagers are reasonable people. I may yet find out I've made a mistake.

Broadly speaking, I think it's the same model as any other distro. Debian for example has volunteers that package stuff. You can go through the same process above and decide how paranoid you want to be for that as well.

You might like Total Annihilation and its modern descendants, like BAR or Zero K. There's still some micro depending on the variant, but the focus is much more heavily on macro, along with making the units smarter.

Apart from that, the Civ games are turn-based, but scratch a similar itch as RTS games

I'm bearish on Elementary. Their recent-ish drama where the founders split up doesn't seem good for long-term stability:

https://lunduke.substack.com/...

I'll be honest, I have no idea. Sometimes, I get nagged that a package is insecure, and it seems reasonable like an old version of Electron, and then I just sigh and add it to my list of packages to ignore that warning on.

This is cool, but on the other hand: I pretty much never see my wallpaper because everything's fullscreen anyways

Shattered Pixel Dungeon is a great time killer. There's a Lemmy community over at !pixeldungeon@lemmy.world

I think it's easier to go the Batman route and just have a plan to kill everyone you meet

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Within a few minutes of watching it I knew it was going to be awesomely bad, and it lived up to my expectations

To my knowledge, Ada doesn't have an equivalent to Rust's borrow checker. I also think I covered that base by specifying "mainstream" 😀

How would this apply towards the Reddit API situation? I'm torn between didn't know and didn't care

https://archive.is/DeUvO

This would tie in nicely to existing library systems. As a plus, if your account ever gets stolen or if you're old and don't understand this whole technology thing, you can talk to a real person. Like the concept of web of trust.

Animals as Leaders in general transcends their genre. Even if you don't like heavy music, they're worth checking out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jpOBd949O4

I wonder if this is a sign that Lemmy has achieved real Reddit replacement status. HN occasionally links to some interesting Reddit post like it did here for Lemmy