Seems like clickbait. Wikipedia does not need actual visitors that badly.

Yeah, I am on .World which for some reason still federates with .ml. I’ve moved over to Piefed on Desktop, just not on mobile yet.

Just read these 14 books from 1930 if you want to have an opinion. No, I can’t summarize anything from them. They can only be understood in their entirety.

All hail Putin, Xi.

If you want to find out if they’re an actual tankie, just look for anything related to Russia or China. They out themselves pretty quick, usually.

You should leave any instance that is federated with the Triad, imo. Lemmygrad, Hexbear, and ML are all Russia sponsored/supported instances that should be shunned by Lemmy as a whole.

You’re encouraging people to “stay home in well-earned disgust”. That serves the fascists.

End of story.

There are ways to say what you want to say carefully. But in my opinion stopping the Nazis needs to come before any other priorities.

I think some of it is intentional, and some are just taken along by that.

Also it’s always easier to throw rocks from the sidelines than to actually lead. It’s so much easier to find something wrong with everything than it is to try to figure out the right thing to do.

Plus nuance is always difficult. Better to just treat everything as back and white.

It’s not a mistake until you admit it.

start small … nextcloud

Wait,.did PirateSoftware not actually work at Blizzard?

Oh my console.log messages are so much better than that now… (that I started telling copilot to add them for me).

Vaultwarden is what you’re looking for.

Are we not allowed to talk about an interesting intersection of advertising and politics?

You know this is a discussion board, right? If you didn’t want to discuss, why are you posting?

If the thousand instance users are controlled by three people, it’s not that hard.

We might not be there yet though. Elections are far enough out.

I expect 95% of Lemmy to be propaganda and manipulation when we get closer. There’s only so much that can be done to keep out nation states when all the users are anonymous.

And when you put your real name on things, you get cancelled.

It’s a bad time for the Internet, and I don’t have easy answers. Just be very aware that what seems to be “consensus” opinion might actually be twenty accounts controlled by the same guy or organization. They might even argue with each other, and just have the side they want to lose present weak arguments.

I think Google wants someone to go after if malware gets pushed onto the Play Store.

putting in the design effort to improve the tools in the ecosystem

They have. The problem is that they generally cause as many problems as they solve. Adding another layer in software is often as harmful as it is helpful.

LLMs are nice in this regard, because they don’t really add another layer, but they do take care of the excessive boilerplate that’s easily understandable.

But… That’s where you’d put this crap. Notepad had one job, and it did it well.

It’ll sometimes do dumb and/or redundant or too complicated shit. Pile up a couple of those and your codebase can get unmaintainable fast.

I find if you give it small chunks and keep an eye on it, it’s great.

I think one of my recent prompts was “Create a procedure that creates an example configuration file with placeholder values. If a config file doesn’t exist on start, give a warning and create the example config.”

It also works great as a replacement for an ORM.

I understand how to turn the results of a select statement into an update statement, but the AI does it a hell of a lot faster.

I find if you give it small enough chunks, it’s easy enough to review. And even if you do have to correct, it’s generally easier to correct than it would be to write it all by hand.

Also applies when the dev could know what they’re doing, but just doesn’t care to.