glad_cat @ glad_cat @lemmy.sdf.org

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Fake?

He's living the dream of every man.

I only used usenet in the past to talk about programming and I'm not knowledgable about it. I guess it never really died but it was hidden because it's difficult to use: you need to pay for both an indexer AND binaries, it's weird. I'm still not sure it's popular. Its usage may increase in some circles due to having some tutorials and applications like Sonarr, but I could be wrong.

a law company can basically send a legal letter asking your ISP

It's the same in France, and I guess also all over Europe. Those companies mostly look at who is seeding torrents, and that's why you can safely use direct-downloads like Uptobox (DD) or Usenet.

VPNs can fail and not all VPNs allow you to torrent

You're pretty safe if you use the application given by the VPN, and most don't care about torrents. Also e.g. Mullvad has a page to make sure that you are not leaking info (https://mullvad.net/en/check) and other VPNs should have this too.

You can stream movies

The article is wrong here: you either download or you torrent. "Streaming" is not a technical concept. You mostly get caught when you seed.

Thanks for the answer. It’s clearer now.

At-will employment makes no sense to me. You go to work every day knowing you could be fired without any possibility of taking the time to find another job. It would drive me crazy.

A bunch of teenagers all over the planet certainly don’t have "official YouTube channels."

I thank Musk every day for reminding me that money brings neither happiness nor intelligence. He should buy a psychiatrist as soon as possible.

The only limit is yourself.

Yes but not through GitHub.

People didn't move when it became a social network, when Microsoft bought it, or when their IA scanned the whole code to make money from open-source projects. Only Musk buying it would change that a bit, but it still wouldn't not destroy it.

As for me, I don't have an account. My personal projects stay private, and for work I have pro accounts at GitLab or Azure DevOps.

In boring meetings, I play Arkanoid with things around me.

Harassment from toxic managers who abuse employees verbally (insults, etc.) It happens a lot sadly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

5 stars in GTA.

Your code won't be indented properly, same problem as Python unless you have a formatting tool in your setup.

It has never been an issue for me in 20 years. If you move code, you cut a whole paragraph, paste, and indent appropriately.

For me, Python replaced Perl 15 years ago. I know Perl is a great language, but it's too "write-only." Python replaced both BASIC and Perl at the same time, even with the problems of migration from v2 to v3. Python can also do scripts to replace Bash and PowerShell. I don't see myself learning Perl now, it would be a waste of time.

Perl was revolutionary at the time with CGI and regexes, but it's not needed anymore.

That’s the job of you and me.

Yep. One more proof that they don’t understand what users want.

I’m glad Lemmy is here to fill that need.