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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev -1 points 3 hours ago

CrApple users exist that understand crApple is a surveillance platform? That's impressive. Most users seem to be so entranced by the marketing, shiny gadgets, and shiny symbols that they don't want to know what's happening underneath.

How should strings be terminated? Should they always be a tuple of length in bytes and data?

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Where's his wheel? 😋

Beautiful ferris though. That's a very nice present.

Dumb, ignorant people voting for dumb, ignorant people gets you dumb, ignorant people at the top. What a surprise!

If the well is full of shit, you'll only be pulling shit to the top.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 12 points 3 hours ago (4 children)

Groff is indeed such a crap format to write documentation in. It nearly reads like zalgo.

I can't wait for the anti markdown people to come out of the woodwork though and complain that it's "the progressivist agenda" to be more user friendly because devs aren't users.

"If you can't write Groff, maybe you dont deserve to read the output"

"The markdown evangelists are so annoying. You can't just rewrite everything in markdown"

"When will this markdown craze stop??? I can't hear it anymore!"

Identity politics entered the developer arena.

Give me a pay raise and I'll put in the hours.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy is so heave that @jeena@piefed.jeena.net replaced his lemmy instance with a piefed instance and it's using less resources. I like Rust, but like every tool, it has to be used properly.

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Sigh... Openscience on proprietary platforms.

Well, at least they got off of Elsevier and WoS, butthere seems to be a lot of work left to be done. Not least how rebuilding a broken system doesn't solve the systemic problems that exist. Moving away from closed source systems is great, no doubt. I just hope it won't lead to the same system being built just with opensource. Instead of being shackled in the dark it might end up being public shackles.

That's the one. Thanks.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Qualcomm should embrace Linux instead of relying on Microsoft. Valve recognized that in at least 2012. Who knows how long it will take Qualcomm to wake up.

People are starting to leave Windows. Windows 11 on ARM is not going to be a good experience and who will want all the AI crap slowing down a gaming rig? People won't be able to install Windows 10 on the new ARM devices so the most likely option will be Linux with either SteamOS, Bazzite or something else that can run Steam.

Valve has also been investing in running x86_64 on ARM (can't remember the name of the project) and even going to use it in the Steam Frame. It will run on Linux, not windows. Ignoring Linux is going to be idiotic if Qualcomm wants to be appealing to gamers.

 

This contribution, delivered by Sven Thomsen, CIO of the German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, outlines the state’s pioneering path toward digital sovereignty through Open Source and Open Innovation. It highlights the risks of dependency on proprietary software - including lack of transparency, inflated costs, and reduced security - and positions Open Standards and Open Source as essential for autonomy, resilience, and competitiveness. The speech details Schleswig-Holstein’s concrete migration from proprietary to Open Source solutions across its administration, supported by strategic planning, procurement reforms, and budget shifts. Initiatives such as the state’s Open Source Program Office (OSPO) and innovation hubs foster collaboration between government, industry, academia, and civil society, ensuring sustainable adoption and stimulating regional economic growth. Emphasizing both national security and Europe-wide competitiveness, the keynote calls for collective action to establish Open Source as the new normal in public IT systems, framing the transformation as a shared European mission for digital independence.

Pushover licenses show how much influence big tech companies have over opensource. It's in their interest of promote these licenses.

You don't need to go 4 weeks without. That's like going off nicotine cold turkey - it's hard. Build it up. Install an app blocker that limits your time on apps or even the internet.

It's possible to live a life connected to the internet in a healthy way. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. The problem is our education system has failed us and our youth.

I am a programmer, but have no problem putting down my phone and having deep discussions that can take over 8 hours. Sleeping deeply isn't a problem either. Put me on any moving, covered objet (car, train, plane, boat, whatever) and I'll be sleeping in minutes. It's possible for me to go on a holiday, be active for most of the day, fhrck my phone for an hour at night, sleep, and repeat that for weeks.

Phones and the internet are tools. It's how you use them that matters. They aren't immediately evil because a bunch of people haven't been guided how to use them.

The claims of "I wrote 4 essays in 4 days" are like the crap I read about No But November. People talk about it as if they reach a new realm of existence. "By day 100 I was levitating and dreaming up things I never would've thought of when touching my dick 3 times daily!".

Relax. You're addicted. Everything in moderation even moderation.

 

I read an old thread documenting the opinions of Lemmy maintainers an the .ml instance. The issue of funding a project with people openly expressing opinions many find distasteful and it being the biggest reddit alternative on the fediverse came up, so here's a topic to discuss it.

What should we do? What are the options?


Answer: No fork necessary, there are Piefed and Mbin.

 

PrivacyGuide.net mostly has US providers for these and given the current situation with the US, let's say using US services doesn't feel very private at all, regardless of how strong the claims are.

I'm not looking for total privacy, but just to start being more private until the EU gets its ducks a row regarding payment systems (VISA and Mastercard still dominate and make you transparent or at least translucid).

 

Bloody Roar is a Fighting Arena game made by 8ing/Raizing in 1997. It features a 3D space where movement works more like 2.5D. The Battles are fast, bloody and furious.

Eight Mysterious warriors appear, all with the ability to transform into half beasts. Blessed with super-human strength and agility, what will they choose to do with their new found abilities?

You can play as Yugo the Wolf, Alice the Rabbit, Hans the Fox, Mitsuko the Wild Boar, Gado the Lion, Bakuryu the Mole, Long the Tiger and lastly, Greg the Gorilla.

 

The European Union is slowly waking up to the fact that the US might not continue protecting it (a Republican senator introducing a bill to exit NATO, a new security direction talking about breaking up the EU) and the possibility of a Russian invasion. Multiple military and civilian facilities reporting drone sightings, Polish railway tracks being sabotaged, Portugal and Spain losing electricity for multiple hours, Russian submarines and warships along the EU coasts, severing fiber connections between Sweden and central Europe, the list goes on and on.

Obviously infrastructure will be attacked and communication cannot depend on Starlink, services from US tech companies, nor be centralised.

So, which networks (from software to hardware), can citizens join to bolster their communication in case of war? Meshtastic? Meshcore? Jami? Briar? Freifunk? What exists? What can work? Which limitations are there?

 

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Sounds like a misnomer to me.

 

I just watched "Decentralized Authentication is Our Only Hope" and the dude presented a new method of authentication that went over my head. Back when reading SQRL my first thought was "damn, that's genius".

My credentials lie pretty far from cybersecurity and I'm way out of date on auth (OAuth I understand, but not webauthn and FIDO, etc.), so if somebody could maybe explain why SQRL didn't catch on, that'd be great. Was it too complciated? Did something better come along? Just general inertia?

 

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