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It was a good answer anyway

That’s funny, I dislike Ruby for probably the same reasons you like it. I don’t want a language that’s clever or elegant, I want it to do exactly what I say and nothing else. Lower level just makes more sense to me, I’d be a shit & unproductive software engineer.

People love to repeat this but it’s not as comforting as you think it is.

Thank you both for warning me against doing something like that.

Any way to read the article without the paywall?

Don’t forget waking up hungover, checking the time, and seeing you still have 3 hours to go in a loud metal tube.

They cite grsec, that guy is a notorious troll. I’ve seen customers apply their patches thoughtlessly, on bad advice, and bring down production systems. Linux security isn’t perfect (if it was I would be unemployed) but a lot of those problems are solved on properly configured modern systems.

This is really it. I’ve been working remote since well before 2020. If my office were 12 minutes away by bike I’d be there every day. Having an entirely separate space dedicated for work is great, actually! Especially if your team is all there too.

But when I first went remote it was 90 minutes by car, and half my team were in other countries. Going remote gave me 15 hours per week of my life back. There’s nothing you can do to convince me to give that up again.

Nah, the 25 has a stylus. The 24 didn’t. The 26 won’t either.

Perchance

I do Linux research for a living and I barely give a shit.

The best feedback I ever got on an assignment in grad school was “wow, your homework looks like a textbook!”

It may not always be correct, but it’s always pretty!

They usually don’t have a choice. They know this stuff is bad, but they need it to demonstrate compliance with XYZ framework so they can fill out the marketing copy so sales can land a contract with some big customer that wants to know why $competitor has better security than you.

Holy shit, I remember now.

The archive link to the AI article is hilarious. It’s neither chronological order nor canonical order. It’s not even a comprehensive list, a bunch of stuff is missing. It’s just bullet points of some star wars media vaguely ordered.

Can’t wait for search results to become even more poisoned by this useless garbage!

I used to self host email and got sick of my emails never getting through. Email is federated in theory, but pretty centralized in practice. Paying for Proton was definitely worth it.

I’m not so sure. Anecdotally, lots of my friends stay up to date on news from various For You pages, or Instagram stories of orgs they follow. By being on this website you’re by definition someone who is active and selective about how they consume information, most people just consume what’s put in front of them.

Basically, it seems plausible to me. The headline is pretty trash though.

The actual data seems to suggest elder millennial, Gen X, and younger boomers do the best, while Gen z, younger millennial, and elder boomers do the worst. This kinda makes sense? The people that do the best have a frame of reference of traditional news media but also enough internet exposure to be familiar with the amount of bullshit out there. The people that do the worst have either limited familiarity with internet nonsense, or limited familiarity with traditional news media.

Yep. I want to federate and block who I want to federate and block. Large instance admins need to make compromises for practical reasons, but I don’t. My personal instance has no boards, so I don’t have to deal with problematic users from other instances either. If an instance is particularly awful, I can just not visit them until I have time to switch to my admin account and defederate it, there’s no urgency.

Plus, I thought it would be easier to get my friends to switch if they had an admin they could literally call if they ran into problems.