FarceOfWill

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You've answered the question of why America doesn't protest, but maybe not in the way you think you have

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

There have been cases of crypto miners embedded but once discovered they're nuked so quick it's hard to get more than rumours.

C# modding is the most likely vector (rimworld, cities skylines, unity stuff) but Skyrim skse mods are raw code too. All can be misused.

Usually lua mods have a sandbox so they're safe. Eg.factorio. and, um, more but my mind has gone blank.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Subsidise orchards like we do open farm land?

(I am not good enough at this law to know if orchards get the farming subsidies, happy to be informed by Lemmy people)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tom's the best you goddamn ingrates

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

There's plenty of people on masto saying they have accounts on both but prefer bsky due to difficulty managing replies.

As I say I don't really understand it but it's a real thing big accounts experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The tagging sounds great. One of the problems with masto is showing the hashtags in the body making posts that use them look awful, and of course being entirely set by the author

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

I think there's a fairly serious problem for large accounts on mastodon but I will never have one so I can't quite understand it myself.

Something like dealing with replies / scolds without spending all day blocking is too hard. It doesn't help that "no algorithm" means "show first reply at the top" so quick replies can dominate comments.

The bit I don't understand is why this is fine on blue sky. Is it just different users? I can't quite believe that but I can't see why blue sky would be less annoying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (7 children)

It does have keyword blocking.

Not sure what nuclear block means but I can't think of any way a blocked person could be seen again. It even has above nuclear blocking where you block their entire server.

It has custom feeds but the implementation with lists is very fiddly and I wish it would be improved.

There is a trending posts section but I think you want a personalised discover feed? Which will never happen of course.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Over 50% approval rating.

Higher than the leader of many other countries, like, er, USA.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Despite my drive-by shitposts in the rest of this thread I want to make a serious point here.

There's a large part of software engineering that thinks languages are chosen based on the problem, as a tool for a job.

They aren't. They're chosen based on the team, on how well the team knows and can use the tool. On how many people can be hired with the knowledge of the tool to work immediately.

Sometimes, even if the team knows C well, there can be a problem so different it's worth using another tool. say python for some testing scripts on a C project.

But rust and C are too similar for this to apply. If you want rust to be used for the kernel you have to push for it to be more well known and used, so more Devs come into teams already knowing it well. Anyone agreeing to work on a team using rust is making a career decision that will be stay on their CV forever and you need them to feel good about this, that it will give them more opportunity in future.

It'll take 20+ years because that's how long legacy code is often maintained for and we already have 20+ years of future legacy code for C teams to deal with. We're all making more future legacy C code than future legacy rust code too.

I'm trapped in C++ so I'm doomed but good luck C and Rust coders.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

C++ is a semi automatic shotgun with 200 barrels pointing in all directions.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It owns too much of Africa to be a regional power. It's a superpower even if by a web of alliances/dependants rather than its own military projection

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