Does a writefreely instance appear on lemmy as a community with posts written by the author? That would be so cool, and would go in the right direction of integrating different kinds of social media in one client.

Let’s make a community powered, open source project to do this and watch them squirm when investors demand that million dollar CEOs get replaced with AI for higher investor returns.

Wow, 10 years is still pretty young! Most of the other consolidated languages are at least 30 years old. Will be interesting to see how this project evolves.

set up your VS code extensions to ensure clean code

Meanwhile, my VS code extensions:

Looking forward to C# in web exports. C# support has been borked ever since 4.0 released 2+ years ago.

Stop spamming this shit. A “censorship resistant” 4chan that runs like ass with some crypto scam embedded is not exactly appealing.

lol… apparently even the hype bots got fed up with plebbit: https://programming.dev/post/30153892

The first paragraphs of that are good points. The rest is just Stallman going on a political rant attacking strawman arguments.

There would be music programs allowed only for rap music, and others allowed only for classical music.

I get where this is coming from, and it’s good to move away from the libertarian fantasy that technology is neutral. But in practice, it is very hard to actually use.

For example, you can’t use any GPL code that you may want to include, as that forces your project to also become GPL. And anyone using your code would also have to walk on eggshells for licensing, and they would probably just avoid it in the first place.

It might be useful to some very specific end products, but this will likely not see a lot of adoption.

I’m actually surprised there aren’t already 20 alternatives to Twitter written in Rust

I’m personally not ok with not having a way to ensure that I’m not seeding nazi manifestos that were stealthing as a reasonably named subplebbit.

I kind of get the feeling this is exactly the content they want to help host when they refer to “censorship resistance”. This was also the key selling point of Gab when it launched.

Edit: even their logo is a meme commonly used in far right circles, so there seem to be a lot of dog whistles for the type of community they want to create.

Technically cool, but it’s scary that it tries to emulate the anonymous, unmoderated shithole that is 4chan. Go to 4chan now and try to imagine something even more racist, nazi and unhinged.

Some more details on Polonius:

• https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/10/06/polonius-update.html
• https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/04/27/an-alias-based-formulation-of-the-borrow-checker/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_agDeiWek8w

I just saw this late, but I agree here. Also they added CI to Github with very generous limits (which were promptly abused to mine bitcoin), whereas before you had to use something like TravisCI which hit free limits constantly or some complicated solution using your own Jenkins server. Not to mention very restrictive private repos before the MS takeover.

People just like to complain because “Micro$oft bad” but when you point out the facts it’s just crickets…

They use Bevy for ECS and custom rendering with Vulkan. It’s right there in the article:

Anastasia started with Bevy because it was the easiest thing to jump into, and we’re still using a modified version of Bevy to this day

Also mentioned in other places like this presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jusWW2pPnA0

Look, I get it that it’s trendy to hate on Microsoft, but these complaints don’t even make sense. You complain about requiring an account to contribute, and then you propose some other services that do the exact same thing! Turning github into a 4chan style free-for-all is a terrible idea. Maybe that’s exactly why you VPN got blocked, because it’s enabling spam accounts. And what info are you giving Microsoft to create an account? An email, a password and a username? Not exactly doxxing material, is it? I just searched for some code from one of my repos in incognito and it was the first thing that popped up.

Microsoft is not preventing you from migrating, it’s just that there is no standard for issues, discussions, PRs etc. But every other service has an import tool that can do it if needed. And if you’re only hosting code (doubt) you’re a git remote add & git push away from being free of that evil Microsoft that is hosting all your repos for free.

I hate Microsoft and big corporations just about as much as anyone on Lemmy, but geez, pick your battles people.

Just commit to a different branch, and then rebase to main. If you’re putting this shit into main, it’s not the tool’s fault.

If you use VSCode, Rest client is so much better than Postman. Requests are simple text files that area easy to edit, version and share with others

It’s important to understand that this is not just individual greed. The problem is that greed is ingrained into the system. Capitalism simply does not function without greed.

The only reason shareholders will move their capital is if the company is expected to grow. What is the point in risking your money if there is no profit? This search for infinite growth is what leads to the death of products. It creates different objectives and incentives than simply making a good product that users will pay for and providing a steady job for employees. A situation where the company does not grow but continues to make a good product and pay its workers a decent wage is an acceptable one for everyone except for shareholders.

Executives are just the middle layer between investors and workers. They make sure that investors get their return on investment, since investors don’t really give a shit about the product or even how it operates, they just care about the numbers on the balance sheet. And as someone noted in another comment, they are paid mostly in company stock so that the interests of shareholders become partially their own.

It looks nice, but you have to sign up for an account to use a terminal app? This is really getting ridiculous

Oh, that sounds great!