The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it

DRM violates this principle. Atreides forever

DRM infected files mean that you as a consumer don't own anything. As someome else can destroy it.

Found it's niche may be a better way to put it. Technology is very active, programming is full of good content. A good few meme communities. And the daily comics are great too. Plenty more examples. But plenty of communities pale in comparison to reddit, and this is likely due to the normie effect.

Techologists lead normies by 2 to 3 years, so give it another year yet before people migrate in bigger numbers

Or just try linux. It's pretty great

What if you learned that karma is gone? No more dopamine hit for your beans here. Shit posting is now shit posting for only shit posting's sake

Upvote everything!

Some fuckwit VP needs fired over this decision. It was a simple game: pickup fairs, earn extra time, unlock stuff as you progress. If a publisher want extra cash, do more levels, or different jobs (delivery driver addon anyone?). And a fun soundtrack

Should have been able to bang it out for a million quid, and then reap the rewards. But nooo, now we have a game nobody wants to play, costing 20mil and will have servers shut down 2 years after launch

Everything that is wrong with gaming in 2024

When does systemd stop? Linux without it is increasingly looking unlikely in the future. Are we not worried about it being a single point of failure and attack vector?

This isn't a moan about the unix philosophy btw, but a genuine curiosity about how we split responsibilities in todays linux environment.

Never pay ransomware. Just write the data off. Learn how to take decent backups

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it
- Paul Muad'Dib

I do this for a living. I've spent basically my whole career (15 years full time professional at this stage) basically trying to kill excel. You can't, or at least I can't. You can add processes to it, you can programmatically read/write from it, but when it comes down to ditching it: every stakeholder is invested in excel. No other piece of office has the staying power that excel has, it will outlast us all

Pretty much all data heavy organisations use excel VERY heavily. And when nobody understands the model within them any more, they need retiring and are usually replaced with... Excel! This time with even more tabs and columns. To replace these things with computer models risks repeating the same problem the original sheet has: bus factors and complexities are hard, more so even in python/r than excel sadly. Maybe one day something will trump it, but that day is not today

Archive.org offering to step in and help if google will hand over the domain and db

enshitification continues

Lol, this act is perhaps the least enforceable piece of legislation ever passed. It does nothing to actually make the net safer, like tackling the big networks' extreism, moderation, or misinformation

What would we do without postgres? How does anyone justify another SQL DB these days?

You aren't wrong with this theory. It's why betamax and hd-dvd lost too

Lol, zombie government

Reddit is almost certainly going to throw your old comments to them if you edit stuff. We're pretty fucked. And if you think Lemmy is any different, guess again. We agreed to send our comments to everyone else in the fediverse, plenty of bad actors and a legal minefield allows LLMs to do what they want essentially. The good news is that LLMs are all crap, and people are slowly realising this

Has there ever been a more obvious outcome?

Would be better if right hand side read better

Mobiles should not be in a classroom.

They are distracting, rarely help with actual learning, and are a source of anxiety. Children do not need to be contactable 24/7. The supposed pros are all bs too. Learn to use a computer, sure, laptops are a different matter. Much easier to police, much easier to manage, much more helpful to learning, and most skills transferrable to a mobile too. Have online courses, excellent! But rarely at primary and secondary level education will a phone actually be beneficial. Long overdue for a ban.

Long overdue for a digital overhaul too. Paperless offices are here, where's the paperless schools? (Paperless offices are never paperless either btw, plenty of stuff still printed, physical books read, and things written down)

What better way to manage head counts down?

Yarr harr harr

Why would you quit vim?

About time, pavement parking a menace in the city with the best bus service in the UK

So Rust is capital H Hard to hire good developers. There just ain't enough with experience in not only the language, but service management, the rest of the SDLC, SLAs, getting the best out of Diesel and knowing DBs, and the grizzled nature needed to be leading teams etc. There just isn't enough of it in production to have built up this industry level that python, js, php, c#, and java have. Typescript is also pretty niche still, and thus has similar problems, though not to the same extent.

And I've noticed pretty much every backend dev would like Rust, every front Typescript. And fullstack will learn and run everything and anything anyway. And so this is a temporary problem. Early adoptors, like lemmy, will see more people contribute, more learn, more launch more stuff. And that starts with open source projects.

And thus: I'd make exactly the same decisions. Lemmy isn't a bank, it's more a start-up, it doesn't pay well, it has to attract on other benefits. Attracting volunteers might be easier in desirable languages, will certainly be easier in ten years time say than Rails, Play, or Laravel might be. CV fluffing from OS contributions is a fantastic way to make yourself more marketable, and who doesn't want TS/Rust on that CV?

What is the most downvoted comment on lemmy? Would you like a sense of pride and accomplishment?

Okular

Seems fine with anarchy to me

The boring answer: the boring shit pays the bills. If you want to apply your programming chops to science then academia is your home

UBI often touted as an answer to this kind of thing though, breaking capitalism through removing cheap labour will have untold societal shifts, including an uptick in creative thought and independent research. Beware though: most research today costs way more than you think to generate meaningful breakthroughs

But no sd card, or changeable battery, or audio jack. Vote with your wallets. I like moto G series, but edge lines are terrible

It isn't. GZDoom has been doing this for years and years

Now this is redditing. Nothing like posting a wrong answer to get the correct one. But also, some random youtuber? I'm going to need far more evidence before I throw away decades of wisdom

You were so close until you mentioned trying to ditch SQL. Lemmy is 100% tied hard to it, and trying to replicate what it does without ACID and Joins is going to require a massive rewrite. More importantly - Lemmy's docs suggest a docker-compose stack, not even k8s for now, it's trying really hard not to tie into a single cloud provider and avoid having three cloud deployment scripts. Which means SQS, lambdas and cloudfront out in the short term. Quick question, are there any STOMP compliant vendors for SQS and lambda equivalent yet?

Also, the growth lemmy.world has seen has been far outside what any team could handle ime. Most products would have closed signups to handle current load and scale, well done to all involved!

Blue shell zuck

2 small children need constant lies. How else do noses get stolen?

For sure. Coat buildings with this and we all win

Fuck yes, networks of forums are fabulous, as we on lemmy have to all agree. Welcome to the threadiverse NodeBB!

Someone didn't read the TOS

Am I taking crazy pills? Discord and Slack suck just as much imo. They are all a shitty web app repackaged for the desktop. And they are all fine, barely anything to chose betweem them. Teams is probably the best as the calendar integration with outlook and hosting ad-hoc drop in meetings in a room is good, no really, the virtual office is fantastic for pairing and team work.

IM peaked with IRC though, the simplicity was excellent, Matrix the closest thing to it imo. I do wish more stuff integrated with it to offer the same business experience as teams