Serinus @ Serinus @lemmy.world

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And somehow this works for them. For decades.

Trying to avoid fake tweets while also not sending traffic to Twitter.

Here comes the Steam defenders.

There was a time when that would have been recognized as sarcasm.

I started on .ml exactly for this reason. It was the dev's instance and seemed like the default. Though that was the time of Reddit's API debacle, so it's been .au e a couple years now.

... I didn't stay on .ml once I realized how it was moderated.

Not primarily, of course. You have a local and QA instance, but some things only come out at real scale or with real data. You can't think of everything to have it added to testing. Having your own, real instance that gets to serve as beta and accessible telemetry really helps.

LW functions at the opposite end of the spectrum. They try to maintain the most stability, which also makes sense.

Oh. What countries are socialist?

Socialist countries are Norway and Denmark.

.ml is needed for development. I'd support its existence even if I'd rather defederate.

I'm mixed. On one hand, absolutely fuck .ml and tankies. On the other, these guys have done great work. The way it's set up, Lemmy is not at all beholden to their ideology. We can take it over at any time, and any further work they do benefits all of us, and that can't be taken away.

As a fellow developer, I truly believe Rust is the way to go for high pressure, high scaling software. I don't think LW alone could run off of your average python. EVE Online is a great example of that. They pushed python forward to meet their high demand needs, and still had to incorporate a lot of C++. Reddit has had teams of engineers over decades, and in the long run I expect Lemmy to be more efficient. In my professional opinion, this kind of scaling can't be reasonably done with any garbage collected language.

My other concern is with sanctions. Are these guys in Russia? Is it legal to donate to them? If you're paying by check or credit card, those institutions will take care of following the law for you.

Overall, I'd encourage people to donate. Open software benefits everyone and any work they do for us is public and can never be taken back.

Acknowledging the reality

Doesn't need to be done on public social media.

Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot

I mean that's unironically the problem. When there absolutely are bots out here, how do you tell?

Back then it was just old people trying to groom 16 year olds. Now it's a nation's intelligence apparatus turning our citizens against each other and convincing them to destroy our country.

I wholeheartedly believe they're here, too. Their primary function here is to discourage the left from voting, primarily by focusing on the (very real) failures of the Democrats while the other party is extremely literally the Nazi party.

I wonder how many of them are intentionally stupid. This isn't their war. Some of them know it's wrong.

The ruling class always underestimates the value of good will from the working class.

We shouldn't be talking like this regardless. Don't normalize any ideas they might have. If you make what's next expected, they're more likely to do it and more likely to get away with it.

They tried to say this wouldn't work, but Bob the PM thinks its great and has ordered you to put it through. His only concession to your warning was "well, add an 'lol' or something to make it sound gamery".

I've been enjoying Copilot quite a bit while developing, particularly for languages that I'm not familiar with. I'm not worried about it replacing me, because I very clearly use my experience and knowledge to guide it and to coax answers out of it. But when you tell it exactly what you want, it's really nice to get answers back in the development language without needing to look up syntax.

"Give me some nice warning message css" was an easy, useful one.

It's effectively a better Google search.

Or get moved to UN Ambassador.

The bigger battle is the war of the law firms. The big law firms, clearly, handle a lot of government cases. Many of which require security clearance. If you cross the orange man, the White House has full discretion over who has security clearances and who doesn't.

About a dozen law firms have bent the knee. Orange Hitler is planning to require them to provide pro-bono representation for police, after he grants the police new powers.

Because that's what we needed in this country, police with less accountability.