Daniel Quinn @ danielquinn @lemmy.ca

Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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This all appears to be based on the user agent, so wouldn't that mean that bad-faith scrapers could just declare themselves to be typical search engine user agent?

I've been thinking about setting up Anubis to protect my blog from AI scrapers, but I'm not clear on whether this would also block search engines. It would, wouldn't it?

Was it "social media" or was it specific tech companies trading rage for clicks? I find it hard to believe that Mastodon & Lemmy would be comparable to X & Facebook in this area.

Yes. It would.

I should hope that they're right. We should return what was stolen.

You do not need to pave green space to build homes. There's plenty of paved, ugly, low-density areas in desperate need of upgrades. The problem is the British public's obsession with that idea that everyone needs their own patch of grass and two cars.

Hell yeah.

I had a job interview a few weeks ago where the lead developer straight-up said that he doesn't have any tests in the codebase because "it's just writing your code twice". I thought he was joking. Unfortunately he was not.

I didn't end up getting the job, perhaps because I made it clear that I thought he was very wrong. I think I dodged a bullet.

Why would they do that? The current system ensures that at least one of them will always be in charge, and they effectively have the same politics.

They already do.

How can anyone hate someone so much, when she never did anything to them?

Imagine that your life is terrible. You're poor, desperate, maybe ill too. You live with your parents who are also poor and desperate, and the lot of you self medicate with copious amounts of alcohol.

You're miserable, and not terribly bright. Then one day, your primary media sources and even the governing political party starts parroting the same lie that the reason your life if shit is because trans people and immigrants exist. No one with a similarly large platform is telling you the truth.

Now consider how many millions of purple have been abandoned by the state in this country. How many poor and desperate people we've made in the last 10 years and the incentive the owning class has in laying the blame for that at the feet of anyone but themselves.

Hate is learnt, and the teachers are holding all the money & power.

I don't think there's an official "way", but here's mine (which I love):

On start-up I open all the apps I usually use, one per designated workspace:

1. Slack/Teams/Mattermost, whatever my work requires.
2. Thunderbird
3. Kitty
4. PyCharm/RustRover, whatever the job requires
5. Firefox

Workspaces 6-9 are left empty, ready for whatever app I need in the moment, but only ever one app per workspace.

With this setup, I've mapped Ctrl+Fx to each workspace, so Ctrl+F4 takes me to PyCharm where I write the code, and Ctrl+F5 followed by another F5 takes me to Firefox and reloads the page. Ctrl+F3 is always the terminal, etc., so you quickly start building these shortcuts to mean Fwhatever is $APP_NAME.

I almost never use the mouse, unless what I'm doing is necessarily mouse-driven: browsing or drawing charts etc. Everything else is keyboard-driven.

Honestly, I'd favour dropping any incentives for EVs, so long as Canada were to then redirect its efforts into transit and active transport. You just can't replace every combustion car on the road with an EV, but you can narrow roads, reduce lanes, and add trains, trams, and cycle paths.

Hooooly shit, that man is a sociopath. It's no wonder we're barrelling into 5°C with people like him driving the world's economy.

He's done the classic trader thing:

1. Classify everything based on its financial value
2. Ignore the real-world implications of things that don't fit his models
3. Take it as a given that markets will always behave the same way regardless of point 2.

Oh I've never used it to find games. I just go to the store pages directly. I didn't even know it had such a feature!

It's pretty good, but my problem is that if a game doesn't run I assume it's because I screwed something up. For example, Synergy, has a platinum rating and it installs just fine, but once started is just do slow for even drawing the starting menu while my CPU goes crazy. Clearly there's a problem with it not using my GPU, but fucked if I know what package I didn't install/configure properly.

Me too! I've been using Steam on Linux for a while, but thanks to American fuckery, I've had to experiment with leveraging Proton in Heroic to play GOG games. It's pretty smooth though. I installed Disco Elysium this morning and it Just Worked™. I then went ahead and bought a bunch of indie games: Dorfromantik, Frostpunk, and Terraformers in GOG's own Sumner sale. Not Canadian games mind you, but also not American ;-)

I've found that GOG generally has around 40% of the games I like on Steam, so I use lists like this to find interesting ones and then check GOG if it's there so I can avoid paying Americans anything.

It doesn't always work. Steam's library is huge, but I'm doing my part for the whole #ElbowsUp thing, and for me, that means sending as little money their way as possible.

...and honestly, targeted sales like this make me think the boycott is properly hurting them.

...sold through an American company.

Why patronise Valve when GOG is right there?

Personally I think it's fantastic and long overdue. Hating genociders is finally "cool" and I am 100% here for it.