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I’m gonna say SI

Or why not just seconds past the epoch?

Soothing white noise that helps you sleep

They removed support for their own markup language and then closed a bunch of the “please give us markdown support” tickets as completed like a bunch of dumb, dumb, dingleberries

More importantly which do potential employers want to see on my resume because they’re shifty bastards always moving the goal posta around

Don’t forget the 5 minute request before you’ve even seen the start of what you’re interested in that you like, subscribe, and request notifications

See also: assgina

Ruby’s popularity in the early 10s thanks to Ruby on Rails feels like it happened by accident. The language is hard to read and low performance, but Rails is completely automagic. But this is also the worst thing about rails. You create your app fast, but then maintaining it is expensive because you can’t onboard new developers easily. Even if they’re familiar with rails’ automagicisms, it will take them quite some time to parse what the hell the code is doing.

Meanwhile I seem to recall Ruby’s creator finding the situation of his language being popular because he’d created it as an experiment and never thought it would be used in production grade environments

Where can you point to other developers evidence that the code in git matches the code you deployed? Deploying locally built packages to prod is an automatically fireable offense because its not auditable

it’s a big world. Any conceivable promotion you could think of us being done in at least a few places. Can’t imagine its common though

There are all manner of grocery stores that sell that

A better solution is to flat out not patronize businesses that do tips

“Oh God our eyes. The non proprietary software we didn’t buy licenses for. It burns!”

I’ve noticed a lot of people not wanting to ever revisit older paradigms. Like when the Reddit protests started a lot of people were adament that going back to forum type software would be a disaster and I felt taken aback. I loved that shit. The only reason I saw to do that with Reddit instead of a dedicated forum was because Reddit already had users that could wander into your community and slowly onramp. Here on the fediverse we get the best of both worlds, but there are people who hate the idea that [email protected] and [email protected] don’t aggregate together even though they might actually be about completely different subject matter because “we don’t want to go back to the phpbb days”

Well y know what? Maybe there are parts of the phpbb days that were worthwhile and good. Maybe hosting dedicated servers that are specifically about something is a positive thing as it makes there be more people excited to host a small part of the internet that people can make use of. Maybe what we needed was the easier on ramping, not the centralizes forums.

Same here. I found the Microsoft ribbon they introduced in 2007 to be a major anti pattern. It didn’t make things easier, it made things way harder. Our IT department tried to bust me for not using the official Microsoft software (outlook, excel, word, etc) so I outright uninstalled windows and put fedora on there. Granted, I was trying to do partitions and fucked it up, but whatever. The point is I wanted to get away from their “antivirus” spyware so I could use what worked for me. I got the idea when I saw the Dean of academics was using i3 as her window manager

It feeds an anxious brain’s desire for dopamine. Just “here’s a nonstop feed of easy to digest content.” I think it’s kinda predatory, tbh, and that’s not to get into anything else about the company

I’m sure she’s good, but god, sometimes I wonder about her mental health. I know she actively uploads those videos, but what does it feel like needing to objectify yourself to try to get people to notice your talent? And also if I wanted a thirst trap video of someone playing guitar, goddammit, I want 3 minutes to rock out to

Linux Experiment has been doing a mixed model for a while, and asks reasonably well for Patreon patrons to front the majority of the bill. And frankly, that might be the way forward. Creators putting their introductory content on Peertube and then their best content on curiosity streams. Introduce themselves on the free platform, get the money on the paid platform. But they’re always going to at least want to put some content on the easily monetizable platform that’s ad funded, and I think that’s fine, to be honest. Maybe they even want a three tier model. Intro stuff on Peertube, some of their premium content on YouTube as a preview for what you get if you pay extra, and then the best stuff on the paid platform. You’ll see some people who jump from Peertube straight to paying the creator directly, but people always have varying degrees of caring about this stuff and different motivations, and for content creators who really have to put a lot into videos to stand out even just a little, they need to find the model that makes them the most money

It’s amazing how much YouTube doesn’t understand what people do and don’t like about TikTok

OCI uses Dockerfiles and runs Docker images as docker images are just KVM image, which is what OCI runs. Nix is absolute overkill for the orchestration of a web server workload and would be better for managing the container host (whatever you’re running kubernetes or docker swarm on).

I don’t really know how to put this, but nearly every single web service you encounter and interact with is built using a dockerfile just like how Lemmy is doing. If you’re going to disqualify Lemmy as a viable platform based on it having a dockerfile, I got bad news