Dr. Moose

What really triggers me is that digital products that are significantly cheaper, easier and safer (environment etc) than physical counterparts have significantly worse rights and protections.

Even if I agreed with the idea of copyright the economical implementation is so absurd.

Yeah isn’t that crazy?

Copyright by itself only protects distribution but then laws like DMCA (US) and EUCA (EU) make drm removal illegal. Its hard to believe that these laws exist and should be opposed at every possible opportunity.

Can you imagine buying an ebook and being told you can’t remove malware from some strings of text or you’ll go to prison? Also you have no consumer protections like refunds or ability to pass down the license so you’re literally have worse consumer rights than a physical product and digital data costs nothing!

The current copyright framework is so broken and so toxic it needs to be completely destroyed.

And people say LLMs will degrade our collective knowledge lol

everything is open source except half of all things.

Lol

It looks like two worms split running from another tinier worm. Makes you wonder what it has done to be so feared

Most contemporary python tools like flask or uvicorn do exactly this and require an explicit entry point

I used to be very opinionated about programming languages but now I just really love all of them.

Sure some might not be the best tool for some jobs but maintaining a language is insane and just such a mind-blowing endevour.

Tbh reserving “main” is just a hacky if not more so than checking __name__ if you actually understand language design.

tbh I see a philosophical problem of separating markup from programming. Creating object structures be it in Latex or html is essentially the same thing as creating code objects. Most high level programming is more about structures and “placing things around” than people like to admit and that’s 90% of all programming today.

Writing html is absolute programming in 99% of the cases. You program the structure of a web page, even more so if you use templating or integrate structure with js functionality.

Key skill is to be able to communicate your problem and requirements which turns out to be really hard.

Thats what Temu does with its gift and discount promos as well at global scale which is clearly illegal in many countries. People fall for this hard because their already invested and continue with the process - it’s a well known dark pattern. Thats why Agoda and all airlines do as many extra fees visible at the last step as possible.

Tailscale is awesome. Alternatively if you’re more technically inclined you can make your own wireguard tailscale and all you need is to get a static IP for your home network. Wireguard will always be safer than each individual service.

Thats what they do in Japan and it suuuuucks so bad. By far my least favorite thing about the country. It’s so annoying to carry trash around and the few bins that exist are so tiny and always overflowing.

People praise Japan for cleanliness but let me tell you it’s not because of the lack of trash bins but because people genuinely care about spaces and more bins would just make that easier.

Can you believe that fucking dipshit ruined the letter X for all of us 😤

I pronounce k8s as k-eights sometimes on purpose to gauge the reactions

Took me a while to get it because it’s a bit of a stretch but still somewhat funny

all of these tips are moot because of SEO. If you want anyone to actually read your article you still have to write for both the reader and the search engine unfortunately.

So, tips like the “Write clear headings” are often hard to actually implement as search engines prioritize keywords in headings and you’d be outranked by a dude who doesn’t do that 99% of the time.

I’ve updated some legacy nodejs to Deno recently and it’s actually not bad! If you’re using serverless Denoflare is super convenient and DTN is a tool for building Deno to NPM (both esm and commonjs) so you can have easy backwards compatibility if needed, it even shims all of the Deno standard lib.

It’s really impressive what Deno and Bun people have done - for the first time I actually somewhat enjoy server side JS!

So is Deno! You can easily import npm: and node: packages and run typescript without transpiling. With Bun and Deno there’s no reason to use Node tbh.