Your friendly local programmer, uni student and *nix addict.
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Your friendly local programmer, uni student and *nix addict.
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To date, what do you think is the greatest invention or discovery and why?
Mine is the computer. I continue to be amazed at what we can do with them.
What ever happened to nanotechnology? Seems like it disappeared.
Most are probably too young to remember but nanotechnology was supposed to be the most super amazing thing ever.
YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps like ReVanced (www.androidpolice.com)
I’m sure they are working on a youtube messaging app behind the scenes.
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Critical Rust flaw enables Windows command injection attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
What’s the worst car you’ve ever driven?
What is the stupidest school rule you've ever had to deal with?
Parent, student, or staff, what's the dumbest damn regulation you've personally come across at an educational institution?
Free VPN apps on Google Play turned Android phones into proxies (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
What do you think about the Gemini protocol?
For those, who do not know what the Gemini protocol is, think of it as a modern, light-weight HTTP alternative without CSS or JavaScript. In layman term, you could see it as Web 1.0 reinvented. It uses GemText instead of HTML. For folks who want to try it out, you can either install a Gemini extension for your HTTPs browser...
Remember when Google made their assistant worse and we all predicted they were planning on bringing the same features back but using AI bullshit?
Yeah. They did exactly that...
OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model (www.theverge.com)
openai.com/sora...
What's with all the tech layoffs? (infosec.pub)
Every day there’s more big job cuts at tech and games companies. I’ve not seen anything explaining why they all seam to be at once like this. Is it coincidence or is there something driving all the job cuts?
How is nicotine legal?
I just got up and took about 7 big huffs on a vape while making a coffee. 2% strength and my vision went, everything went black I started blacking out against the kitchen counter. Had to kneel down and wait for it to pass before standing up to finish my coffee. Fucked it up in a cloud of confusion and drank a warm milk....
What's the best website to learn and practice SQL?
I’m looking for a website where I can practice SQL by doing challenges. Like something where it provides you with some tables and you’re tasked with writing a script to achieve a certain output. I know how to do basic SELECT and UPDATE commands and stuff, but I need a way to practice writing more complex scripts. What do you...
What is your favourite font for code ?
Mine is mononoki...
What decorations are on your walls?
And what do you recommend to hang on walls, for decorative purposes, besides family photos?...
What's the most surprising thing when you look up your username in SteamDB? (steamdb.info)
https://steamdb.info/calculator/
Fitbit details app updates to address redesign criticism, dark mode (9to5google.com)
Very much needs a dark mode.
do you think the framework laptop is a good long term investment? (frame.work)
m.youtube.com/watch?v=u01AbiCn_Nwmental outlaw video:...
Which task would be ideal for an LLM such as chatGPT?
Here’s some context for the question. When image generating AIs became available, I tried them out and found that the results were often quite uncanny or even straight up horrible. I ended up seeing my fair share of twisted fingers, scary faces and mutated abominations of all kinds....
In light of the recent YouTube changes (lemmy.world)
A very YouTube thing to do honestly
Assistant with Bard may be limited to Tensor-powered Pixel, Galaxy S24 at first (9to5google.com)
"Useless syntax sugar": Numbered block parameters in Ruby (zverok.space)
What non-IDE tekst editor do you use?
(Graphical) IDE’s are great for development, but they’re slow to start and heavy to run. Sometimes you just want to take a quick look at an xml or dockerfile and you don’t want to spin up the whole IDE for that....