taladar

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taladar,

It is almost as if it is a burden to live in a society that forces you to own a car, not an expression of freedom as car companies and proponents try to pretend.

taladar,

That title seems phrased wrong, are you sure you don’t mean something like

True purpose of program claiming to fight climate change in developing nations uncovered: funneling billions of dollars back to rich countries

taladar,

Probably closer to 130 years starting with their invasion of Hawaii and then involvement in coups in South America and the Middle East.

taladar,

The concept of sovereign states is generally considered to be established in the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Of course the US did not exist at the time but it was a concept established as International Law before it was founded. Of course most treaties of this kind weren’t signed by nearly the same percentage of nations they are today.

taladar,

I am certainly less invested in huge budget games than ever. Maybe developers need to consider the kind of games they are making in a bit more detail than just by platform.

taladar,

In a way it is already acting like a CEO, LLMs basically just repeat what everyone else they read was saying, just like CEOs do with the latest hyped thing.

taladar,

No, they are literally not. Blocking VPN users is literally the low effort thing to do because the rate of problematic attacks and similar high effort issues coming from those IPs is much higher than the few legitimate users using VPNs are worth.

taladar,

But that is the point. Most people do not use VPNs, you harm very few legitimate customers and save yourself the headache of dealing with all those who use VPNs for scams, attacks, exploits,…

The trade-off is entirely different from dynamic IPs.

Also, the admins running those things don’t do stuff to look like they are doing things, they wouldn’t care if you use a VPN if there was no downside to treating VPN IPs like any other.

taladar, (edited )

the info required was there already, just you needed to put effort in

Not really. This is mostly what this is all about. The companies are insisting that open source projects should do analysis of security impacts in addition to fixing the bugs whenever some “security researcher” runs some low effort fuzzing or static analysis thing that produces large numbers of bug reports and assigns CVEs to them without the consent of the project. The problem is that such an impact analysis is significant effort (often orders of magnitude more than the fix itself) by people with deep knowledge about the code bases and only really useful to the customers of those companies who want to selectively update instead of just applying all the latest fixes.

taladar,

Probably doesn’t happen as much on Windows because Windows has issues replacing files that are open.

taladar,

People who see it as an immature way to communicate won’t use the words at all. People who are actually immature despite growing up will use the word and think it makes a difference if they put an asterisk in there instead of spelling it out.

taladar,

I am not judging people for using profanity, I am judging people for thinking fuck vs f*ck makes a difference.

taladar,

Ich habe das mal so ausgelegt dass z.B. der Sohn das Bild von der Klassenkameradin auf dem Handy hatte und es darum ging das an die Eltern der im Bild dargestellten ging.

taladar,

While true essentially forking the latest stable version of the kernel to make an LTS branch or a vendor version only multiplies the problem, it also does not contribute to solving it.

taladar,

One of the last browsers out of the two that exist (ignoring those that don’t really develop any of those features themselves)?

taladar,

Safari is also just one of the forks of the KHTML/WebKit/Blink codebase Chrome is based on. Admittedly they probably implement some of the stuff they do implement themselves too because the common ancestor version is quite a long time ago now.

Do we need to create increasingly more children for a stable economy?

So in the whole anti-natalism/pro-natalism conversation (which I’m mostly agnostic/undecided on, currently), my friend who is a pro-natalist, argued that the success/stability of our world economy is dependent on procreating more children each year than the previous year, so that we not only replace the numbers of the people...

taladar,

There are also many things we consume only because marketing makes us want them even though we have no real need for them. And many jobs producing completely useless things. Not to mention waste through planned obsolescence, DRM, patents and similar mechanisms that artificially reduce the usefulness of goods below its natural level. We could easily produce everything we need with a fraction of the current work force.

Most unique looking celebrities?

I’m working on a side project studying variations in human facial features. It’s been helpful to study celebrity faces because it’s easy to find numerous reference photos. I’ve actually got a fairly good range of weird looking white men, turns out Hollywood is pretty flush with those, but it’s been harder to find...

taladar,

Oh, I meant searching for lists of celebrities with mixed heritage.

taladar,

I can understand the argument against GitHub in two contexts, one is when people build features into their software that assume GitHub, e.g. when a programming language assumes it can just prepend github.com/ to your repo to find it and the other is the argument that losing GitHub would be a huge blow because so many projects are there and only there so a lot of things would have to be done at once if that ever happened.

taladar,

Can you name an open platform that actually does distribute PRs and issues? I know there were a few that tried but I mean one that actually succeeded and is usable by people who just want to report a bug?

Also, your issues and pull requests are much more likely to be lost in your self-hosted one project instance than on GitHub if anything happens to you.

taladar,

Forgefed seems to be ActivityPub based which, judging by Lemmy, doesn’t solve the redundancy issue at all, it just allows you to interact with the content hosted in a single place from your own single place, giving you two single points of failure and two points where you can be tracked instead of one. This is not really the same kind of distributed as git repositories.

taladar,

The term “single point of failure” means that only that point has to fail for the entire system to become unusable. You can easily have more than one of those in a system though.

taladar,

I could be up and running in like 10 minutes to install Forgejo or Gitea

You could maybe do that but only because you already know how unlike most developers and you completely dismiss any active maintenance like updates, moderation, debugging performance issues, resizing storage,…

taladar,

Yeah, the whole commenting won’t work if the server where the repo is hosted fails or the server where the person has an account. There is no redundancy.

taladar,

Talking about PRs being broken and then bringing up email, just about the most broken technology still in wide-spread use, is sort of ironic.

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