Trains aren’t 100% the answer, but cars should be the last answer. Still we should electrify cars.

It takes a lot of work to support encryption and it’s definitely not end to end

It’s not really federated, you make a new account for each server I think.

needs rich messaging support. At very least markdown. Matrix supports images.

You pretty much can’t take a gun anywhere outside the US. Don’t do it unless you want to stay there in their jail cells.

Every article about weather should say “this event is made more likely due to climate change” and “this event will cost the taxpayer $X to repair” and “so far we have spent $Y total on climate related disaster relief”

Read the damn code

I think FOSS is enough because as long as you can fully read the code, it can be audited and even forked to remove BS. So I’m fine with companies developing FOSS. I don’t even really care about EEE. We can always maintain a fork of the standard at the moment you fucked with it. We can even still get your upstream changes just with the shit cherry picked out! It’s always a win.

Who needs a new computer every couple of years. 5-7y is normal. You should be able to buy a desktop for a 10yo and have it last till college.

Another correlary: learn lots of languages, even if you’ll never use them. I never want to fall into a codebase that I’ve never even learned the paradigms. One procedural, one functional, one OOP, one interpreted, one compiled, one byte code compiled, one or two command line scripts, regex, all the structured data text languages: XML, CSV, JSON, YAML, TOML, … A JavaScript framework. HTML. A relational database, a non relational db. REST.

Should be enough to get started lol. But you learn something from each, about code architecture at least.

Always learn the languages preferred directory and repo layout structure, never invent your own.

I’ll just say I read this book and it was very hard to understand without socialist lingo in your mind. It’s more of a rant than anything. I really wish it was more of a beat down of capitalist economics, but it was really just difficult to understand let alone follow along.

Better moderation.

Didn’t Firefox install adware on everyone’s instance in an overnight update? Like idk why people swoon over Firefox.

ML stands for Machine Learning and just became a popular domain for open source apps.

I’m imagining people knocking morris code to communicate from one side of the moon to the other lol

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robot-arg-plugin-firefox-looking-glass

https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/16/16784628/mozilla-mr-robot-arg-plugin-firefox-looking-glass

The fact I haven’t doesn’t mean I can’t read auditors who have, who do keep track of these changes. Zero days are usually caused by things no one noticed, not things that were intentionally added by corporate overlords to spy or back door a FOSS app.

But we were talking about lemmy.ml too

That’s a good point. I was born in the 90s but I don’t remember upgrading my computer that often in the 2000-2010 era when I would have started playing. Maybe I didn’t play intense games or something.