Zalack

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[–] Zalack@startrek.website 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

IMO this is mainly a way to communicate talking points to his supporters. They want to start a lot of talk about Biden's "election Interference" to make it feel like this is something both sides do but only Trump is getting charged for.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The cool thing about Voyager is that it has a record of information about Earth, etched in gold, with instructions on how to read the data it contains back.

Even once it powers down, it's still on a mission. If millions of years from now intelligent alien life ever encounters it, they will know who we were and that we existed.

It's our handprint on the cosmic wall.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't tell if it's just cognitive bias on my part but I feel like the content and discussion has gotten even worse on Reddit since the protests.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago

Free and Open Source Software

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can customize both those options in Sync. I had the same initial issues, but you can switch comment collapse to single tap as well as increase font size.

Sync is very very customizable.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago

Counterargument: I don't need Lemmy to have 100% uptime. It's not a corporate service and while -- obviously -- if it's down all the time I would eventually move on, I'm not going to fault a not-for-profit entity for periodic failures.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Of course. I'm just saying pray for the ad-free version then. If you are going to use it.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 15 points 2 years ago

I don't know, there's still a lot of needless hostility; it's just around different topics.

Lemmy skews even more heavily left than Reddit and it's still too small to attract organized political trolls, but topics like FOSS vs Paid open source vs closed source gets heated fast. Look at the Sync for Lemmy threads; it's a mess in there.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's not an issue with FOSS vs proprietary, but with large corporations needing to be broken up.

FOSS isn't immune to that, its a known thing that large corporations can use their dominance of a market segment to infiltrate even totally open standards and make demands with the threat of leaving the standard (and therefore resigning it to becoming irrelevant).

This is especially true of web standards. Chromium is FOSS, yet Google can use its absolute dominance in the market place to force through changes to things like HTTP standards. My understanding is Microsoft and Google both have strong-armed stuff into C++ in the past as well

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago

That's why there is an option to disable ads... Everyone wins unless they think this person's work should be distributed for free.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

There are lots of comments and posts giving the false impression that Sync is tracking you outside of what is needed to support ads, including posts showing trackers from websites that are linked through lemmy and not part of sync at all (you would get those same trackers just browsing vanilla lemmy and clicking through a link)

You can do your own tracker analysis on the App. When you pay to disable ads all tracking goes away, which lines up with the developers claims that he doesn't even load those libraries through the ad SDK when you aren't on the ad supported version.

And yeah, this is distributed through the play store, if that's an issue for you, you don't need to download it, but like... that's not the misinformation I'm talking about.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Compiled Rust is fast.

Compiling Rust is slow.

Also my understanding is that RustAnalyzer has to compile all Rust macros so it can check them properly. That's not something that a lot of static analysis tools do for things like C++ templates

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