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[–] entwine@programming.dev 14 points 2 months ago

Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the point of this is to reduce overhead associated with virtualization (aka VMs). Few workloads are able to take advantage of the massive compute resources that a single beefy machine has, so partitioning it is the most efficient use of resources, especially in data centers where maximizing efficiency is important.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 32 points 2 months ago (12 children)

This is probably the only time I actually feel sympathy for someone getting scammed like this, because cancer sucks and it affects everyone in some way eventually (my family has had to face it too). If they ever catch the guy that did this, his property needs to be searched for corpses because this is some hardcore psychopath behavior.

But the lesson of this is the same: don't ever use crypto currencies. Don't accept them, don't buy with them, don't mine them, don't even look at them. Even if you don't get scammed, your engagement with the ecosystem supports people who do shit like this.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 9 points 2 months ago

My (expensive) Frigidaire microwave has a feature where you can 'add 5 seconds' to the timer by pressing a button on the touch screen. However, if you press it when there's less than 5 seconds left, the timer display freezes and it doesn't add any extra time. This shit infuriates me like you wouldn't believe. Either they're so lazy/incompetent that they didn't test this one edge case, or they did but didn't care enough to fix it. If I wasn't a programmer, I probably wouldn't be bothered by it, but seeing such sloppy code seriously pisses me off. A fucking unpaid intern could fix that.

My head would probably explode if someone I loved was killed by a software bug. This is why I'm terrified of people trying to shove AI into every product. 99% of these people don't know what the fuck they're doing, and even the experts who created the model they're licensing aren't able to solve critical issues like hallucination.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 22 points 2 months ago

This article was written by an anonymous/throwaway Medium account. For all we know, it was written by a PR firm they hired. Corporate propaganda has zero credibility, and the anonymity makes it impossible to verify that it's anything else.

And if anything, now that time has proven that Trump/Vance were, in fact, worse than everyone was saying, it's further reason to hate Proton for using their influence/reach to support them. Did it help them win the whitehouse? Hard to say, but even in the best case scenario, it comes off as a lame, opportunistic move to advertise their services to MAGA and profit off political turmoil.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't trust an LLM to give me legal advice. A regular algorithm that flags key phrases/words (designed by a legal expert) would be more trustworthy

[–] entwine@programming.dev 0 points 2 months ago

But can we, as a society, please get past this disgusting idea that a picture is really anything more than it appears?

Congrats: you won the creepy comment of the day award! This is bordering "age is just a number" logic.

This isn't about spontaneous ejaculation upon seeing exposed legs; they could've been covered three layers of clothing and it's still fucked up. Meta is using pictures of under-aged girls to entice a 37 year old man to join Threads. What kind of adult man would join an app after seeing those pictures? Who exactly is Meta targeting with these ads? I challenge you to come up with an answer to that question that isn't "pedos".

In a sane world, Meta and all the employees involved in this campaign would be investigated for human trafficking/csam/pedophilia/etc. If I was an employee I'd even go as far as to report any coworkers with kids who were involved in this to CPS. Children are trafficked all the time on sites Meta's services, so this is a very serious and real danger to society.

Of course, that shit isn't going to happen. Instead, it's up to the sane people left in society to shame them for this disgusting behavior.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

That, an "javascript" was a terrible name to begin with.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

KDE recently released their own immutable distro based on Arch. It's still early though, so maybe use Bazzite or Kinoite in the meantime.

OpenSUSE MicroOS is another immutable like Fedora Atomic, and you can use it as a desktop.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Two things can be right at the same time:

  • this particular security concern is bogus
  • the ICE Block dev is full of shit

Idk anything about the author, but besides the apache version thing, he did bring up some very valid criticisms. The previous article they wrote is worth a read, or at the very least, it's worth watching the snippets of that HOPE interview. It's obvious the developer is a hardcore bullshitter, which is the most charitable interpretation giving him the benefit of the doubt (without speculation about malicious intent)

[–] entwine@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Whoa, take a deep breath, relax a bit. Modern life can get us constantly on our nerves, I understand it, but let’s not take it out on each other.

Any comment can appear hostile if you that's what you're looking for. I didn't think my comment was hostile, but intent isn't always obvious on the internet (and up/downvote systems tend to quickly distort it). In any case, if you're trying to keep a discussion civil, making condescending assumptions about someone's mental state is the wrong approach.

I didn’t comment like complaining in a demanding way, like thinking that mozilla devs would have to maintain it for me. I just commented to express myself and show that there are real people still using 32-bit software around the world

That's fine, and I never accused you of doing so.

I assume you saw my other comment already in this thread, which explains my position. I'll take this to mean that we're in agreement, so this exchange can have a happy ending 💖

[–] entwine@programming.dev -2 points 2 months ago

It depends. Spend enough time on bug trackers and forums for open source software, and you're bound to encounter hostile assholes shitting on devs when they make decisions to drop support for ancient hardware like the OP. It's particularly egregious IMO because they usually are willing and happy to use an ancient build of some proprietary software without complaining, but feel entitled to demand more from open source maintainers for some reason.

If you're doing it for your own fun, not making demands of devs/maintainers, and accepting that you're not going to get support for a lot of software, then it's all good.

[–] entwine@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  • Gitlab: has AI shit too (self hostable)
  • Codeberg: saas version of Forgejo (self hostable)
  • Disroot: saas version of Forgejo (self hostable)
  • Tangled: AT protocol based (self hostable)
  • SourceHut: git for boomers (self hostable)
  • Gitea Cloud: saas version of Gitea (self hostable)
  • Radicale: weird decentralized thing

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