Russ @ russjr08 @bitforged.space

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Jesus christ, that is absolutely disgusting. Texas has plenty of issues they should actually be working on.

I'm glad I managed to get out of there years ago.

As long as it is done properly and honest, I have nothing against a “Pro” and a “Contra” article.

Neither do I, personally. Though I am certainly less than inclined enjoy an article where the author is oddly preachy/"holier-than-thou", sayings things such as you're not a "real" programmer unless you sacrifice your health debugging segfaults at 3AM or have done the handmade hero challenge (certainly an interesting series to watch, but one that I have zero interest in replicating). Yet the author accuses copilot of having a superiority complex. I cannot say for sure, however I would assume if the article was in favor of AI rather than against, then there would definitely be comments about exactly this.

The overarching tone of the article seems like if it were written as a direct comment toward a user instead, it would run afoul of beehaw's (and surely other instances') rules, or at the least come really close to skirting the line - and I don't mean the parts where the author is speaking of/to copilot.

No, because since it's only a third party app implementation, tags wouldn't follow if I go from my phone to my desktop or any other device. It also just seems kinda... Strange?

Do you keep a journal of those you meet in-person? No judgement if you do, but if your reaction to that question was "Eww, no!" but also do user tagging I would be very curious as to what the difference is for you.

Anyways, for problematic people they either get blocked or banned (the egregious ones) which by nature of it being a first-party feature is already synced.

According to another user in here, blocking on Mastodon actually works. So seems like it is possible to do in the Fediverse.

I was not aware of this, but their implementation of how they do this does bring up the limitation I mentioned. The other user cannot see your posts only if you are on the same server:

If you and the blocked user are on the same server, the blocked user will not be able to view your posts on your profile while logged in.

I actually thought blocks were public already.

They're not, well - the operator of your instance could go into the database and view it that way in the same way that they can see your email address. But aside from someone who has database access to your instance, blocks are not public. What is public is the list of defederated ("blocked" so to speak) instances for an entire instance (this can be viewed by going to /instances of any instance), which might be what you were thinking of?

And personally I don’t see how it would be an issue if people that I haven’t blocked can see who I’ve blocked.

How exactly would you enforce that, though? If your blocks were public, all the person who you've blocked would need to do is open a private browsing window and look at your profile to see that they've been blocked.

If we're looking at blocks as being a safety feature, I would think that having your blocks broadcasted to every single instance would be classified as harmful and a breach of your privacy. This is why although an instance that you register with has to have your email address that you signed up with, they don't broadcast it to all other instances (same with the encrypted value of your password) - because otherwise it would effectively be public.

Perhaps I've just got the wrong stance, but considering that you can never block someone from viewing your content with an absolute guarantee (if the blocks were broadcasted, you still couldn't prevent someone from just simply logging out, or standing up their own instance and collecting the data anyways) I would not consider that tradeoff to be worthwhile. Not that my stance has any weight since I'm not a maintainer for Lemmy (or any of the Fediverse software), but I wouldn't be surprised if that has at least come up to those who are developing the various Fediverse software.

Aside from the rest of the discussion that has already occurred here, I'm not actually sure how this would work from a technical perspective.

You and I are on two completely different instances, if I were to block you, how is your instance supposed to know this in order to stop you from reading my comment?

The only way I could see that working is if the list of users you blocked were federated too, and effectively made public (like votes currently are) - which seems counterproductive to the problem at hand.

Then what happens if you post in a community where someone you've blocked is a moderator? Or if you block the admin of another instance? If you can "cloak" yourself from being moderated by just blocking them, that seems like an exploit waiting to happen. As far as I'm aware, on Reddit blocking a user doesn't hide your comments from them - but they can no longer reply to them, and I assume this is why that is the case. Unless that has very recently changed.

The biggest difference between Lemmy (and all software within the Fediverse - for example, I'm pretty sure Mastodon is this way as well), is that there is not one singular authoritative server. Actions like this need to be handled on all instances, and that's impossible to guarantee. A bad actor running an instance could just rip out the function that handles this, and then it's moot. I mean, they wouldn't even need to do that - they'd have the data anyways.

You could enforce it if both users are on the same instance I suppose, but this just seems like it would only land with the blocking feature being even more inconsistent.

I've been pretty busy over the last couple of weeks, so gaming has been very sparse... But, the other day I picked up "The Slormancer" which is an ARPG created by a team of two indie developers.

I absolutely love it so far! Plays fantastic on the Steam Deck too (and really almost feels like it was made for the OLED Deck). I only have three and a half hours so far in it, but it's very much giving me "Just one last round" vibes, which are my favorite kinds of games.

How is that the case? I've got pretty much zero experience with decompiling software, but I can't say I've ever heard anyone who does say that before. I genuinely can't imagine that it's easier to work with say, decompiling a game to make changes to it rather than just having the source available for it.

I suppose unless the context is just regarding running software then of course it's easier to just run a binary that's already a binary - but then I'm not sure I see where decompiling comes into relevance.

I don't see how that's going to work out well. That's asking to end up with a mess that you're just going to have to rewrite anyways.

I do not even have a complete hatred for AI like a lot of folks do, but I don't trust it that much (nor should anyone).

You'd be better off with an actual deterministic transpiler for that (think TypeScript -> JS but the other way around I suppose), not something with a ton of random variables like an AI.

Okay, was just able to test this with my Ally running Bazzite (which I did have with me, but was charged down). I was able to put it to sleep for a few minutes while in a town, after waking back up I got disconnected but was able to just log back in from the menu without a game relaunch!

I can't say that I've tried to do that directly (I'm unfortunately not at my steam deck this moment to test), however I've been disconnected from the game servers before whenever they have to apply a server-side fix (or during general server issues) and it allowed me to rejoin without relaunching the entire game. So I imagine an Internet drop from putting the deck to sleep would be treated the same and not require a relaunch, unless maybe you've put it to sleep for an extended period of time (such as 24 hours) causing an authentication token of sorts to expire.

So far I've only had to do a full relaunch whenever there is a new patch available (if you try to rejoin instantly it'll just tell you to update the game).

EHG has been putting a lot of focus on Deck related stuff, so I suspect even if it does cause a relaunch they'd be receptive to feedback to try to find a workaround on their side if possible.

This can sometimes come at the cost of intuitiveness however. As an example that just happened to me the other day, I was using Pinta which uses libadwaita and had opened an image to make some modifications to it.

All was going well until I wanted to save a new copy of it (and not override the original). The toolbar has all of these functions on it, open, save, undo/redo, etc... but not Save As.

Apparently there's a tiny little overflow button on the far right side, click it and you get a whole bunch of functions - one of them being the holy "Save As" option I was looking for. I almost went down the route of making a copy of the image outside Pinta and then just overwriting the original.

Apparently the idea of making a copy of an image is blasphemy. Even Microsoft Word when they had first moved to the Ribbon UI made the save button have a little dropdown right under the save option to reveal Save As.

Don't get me wrong, I love how some libadwaita apps look. Mission Center for example? Chef's Kiss - but it's a very simple application that all I need to do is open it to have a quick look at the very pretty looking graphs. Although the latest update seems to have gotten rid of being able to have the sidebar open persistently (now taking an extra click to change between performance graphs)... But I still need to double check to see if that's intended vs being a bug before I judge that too harshly.

Last Epoch! Haven't had a lot of free time for gaming, so my progression of the season is slow - but I'm having a good time with it so far. Season 2 is definitely quite the breath of fresh air.

LLM Studio is pretty popular, and as for code generation I know IntelliJ (so I would guess all JetBrains IDEs) has support for it with their AI tooling that's built in now. I assume there's a similar VS Code plug-in as well if that's your editor of choice.

I cannot recall why I had this open on mobile, but sure!

https://ktor.io/docs/docker-compose.html

I've been working with Ktor (a web server framework for the Kotlin programming language) for about a month and a half, so the docs themselves make sense - but I haven't been working on it from my phone, so...

Patching Comic Code? It was quite a while ago unfortunately, so I don't have the exact commands available, but I used their Font Patcher tool in order to do so.

From what I recall, the tricky thing was actually getting the dependencies it required to be installed properly, Font Forge would be up and running but then the script's errors indicated that it couldn't resolve all of the necessary dependencies. Not sure what OS you're on so your mileage may vary - but for Linux they now have an AppImage that looks to contain everything it needs, and for macOS/Windows if you have Docker available there also appears to be a pre-built container for it. There's also quite a few examples that I don't think were there when I used it, since I also recall not being 100% sure of what flags were needed to run it

I pretty much agree, personally I rarely ever downvote a comment/post - to the point where I cannot even recall when my last downvote was, unless I accidentally have done so via a mobile gesture (I try to be cautious about this). If I were at my PC, I'd check my instance's database, but alas.

[The rest here on is more of a "6 o'clock in the morning stream of thoughts from my perspective" thing. My friends know me as being very verbose - last paragraph is where I try to steer back on track]

If I do upvote something, generally it'll be something that I feel is driving forward a discussion in good faith (even if I don't necessarily agree with the content itself) and is respectful of all parties involved.

Though a lack of an upvote from me doesn't indicate disagreement either.

An actual flat-out disagreement from me tends to be more on the rare side of things. Because so many comments are an opinion / viewpoint rather than solid fact. It's one thing to say "No, 2+2 does not equal 5" since that is rooted in fact.

Whereas I have to feel pretty strongly about something to directly challenge an opinion, especially since it super easy to misjudge tone on the Internet/across text and I'm not here to unintentionally start a war over something that doesn't have a right or wrong answer (within reason - but even that itself is something that isn't binary). I try to be cautious about asserting something is wrong unless I'm very sure of it (even if I do often fail at that, given the previous issue of tone being hard to judge across text), and of course in most cases you can't really say another person's opinion is unequivocally wrong.

I don't mind giving a different viewpoint, but again I try to be cautious about it because I don't want to come across as "My viewpoint is ultimately right and yours is wrong" and that is unfortunately how a lot of discussions end up being seen (or I just simply make the human error of just having a far too strong opinion of my own).

I do my best to keep my tone as neutral as I can, though as they say "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." My original comment is a good example of this, because I do agree that downvotes are far too often used in the manner that you stated. I also agree that they're typically a poor way of criticizing someone if they don't include a corresponding reply (if I say something that is factually wrong - or even just poor taste, I usually want to know about it so I don't keep doing so!), my only divergence from the matter was that they are a criticism - just a really bad way of doing so.

I am surprised that its actually still a product they sell and seemingly update. Looking on their product page, wow it has git support - it can be yours for $22.99/month too!

(That will also require you to give your soul to them too, via a contract signed in blood)

Oh, so that's what those Python notebooks are that I've heard people talk about!

Oh hey, someone else who uses Comic Code - greetings!

I remember when I first saw it, I laughed - and then it grew on me. Then it turned into "I can't believe I am buying a derivation of comic sans" but it is actually a really nice monospaced font.

Only thing I didn't like was having to figure out how to use Font Patcher to make a copy of it that supports nerd fonts, but it was a one and done process.

(I also don't really like how it looks in my IDE the few times I find myself on Windows, but I don't really blame the font for that one - looks perfect in the same IDE on Linux...)

No human would be stupid enough to change something’s name for zero reason.

Well, unless you're a product manager at Google apparently... Though with them you're lucky if its just a change of name rather than it becoming an entirely "new" thing, or just getting outright axed...