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andioop

@ andioop @programming.dev

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  • AI in reality

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  • Oh thank goodness I am not the only one. Just the way I, an American, read things, and my cynicism about people trying to replace devs with AI says top (trying to hire real devs) goes first and bottom (fired everyone) second; title and the fact this was posted in Programmer Humor implies it's bottom first and top second.

  • Open Source worth $7B, no Apple search, custom kernels no longer useful: Linux & Open Source News

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  • I'm building a FOSS calorie tracker!

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  • Oh dang. I don't calorie track anymore, but back when I used MyFitnessPal I think they let me scan barcodes without a subscription… thanks for making this for those who need it!

  • How have influencers impacted the software world?

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  • Why is this being downvoted?

    I hate watching videos. I have no interest in influencers. It might be good to know what their impact is given I won't know myself, since I always opt out.

  • How have influencers impacted the software world?

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  • Your first paragraph is why I am violently allergic to video tutorials. I always dread when I cannot find any articles and there is only a video.

  • I Don't See a Reason to Switch to Windows from Linux Anymore in 2025

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  • Hiya, intending to switch from Windows to Linux (it looks like I'll finally be pulling the proverbial trigger this holiday season!) but I got here via Local sorted by Active on programming.dev. I am not subbed to Linux.

    In other words, people outside the target audience are getting exposed to this post.

  • What concepts are generally helpfulto be able to solve all AoC tasks?

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  • I'd love to learn about a Chinese Reminder Algorithm to stop forgetting so much stuff ;)

  • 10 things that block your Happiness

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  • RAID: Shadow Legends™ is an immersive online experience with everything you'd expect from a brand new RPG title. It's got an amazing storyline, awesome 3D graphics, giant boss fights, PVP battles, and hundreds of never before seen champions to collect and customize. I never expected to get this level of performance out of a mobile game. Look how crazy the level of detail is on these champions! RAID: Shadow Legends™ is getting big real fast, so you should definitely get in early. Starting now will give you a huge head start. There's also an upcoming Special Launch Tournament with crazy prizes! And not to mention, this game is absolutely free! So go ahead and check out the video description to find out more about RAID: Shadow Legends™. There, you will find a link to the store page and a special code to unlock all sorts of goodies. Using the special code, you can get 50,000 Silver immediately, and a FREE Epic Level Champion as part of the new players program, courtesy of course of the RAID: Shadow Legends™ devs.

  • I built a full-stack app, how should I host it?

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  • Hey, could you switch language to English? Lemmy says you made this post in a different language.

  • Locked

    Any ways to make money as a teen on the internet/deepweb legal or illigal?

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  • What languages are you folks approaching AoC with this year?

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  • After solving puzzles and seeing other peoples' elegant solutions while mine feels brutish and ugly (even if our approaches use the same algorithm, mine is inevitably less elegantly-implemented), I also feel too stupid for AoC sometimes.

    But hey, I am never going to get less stupid if I don't try, and solving problems the ugly way is still a solution. I have fun doing it.

    But if it's not just the comparison to others ruining your fun, if it's that you inherently do not find this activity enjoyable, don't force yourself!

  • Announcing Advent of Ada 2024: Coding for a Cause!

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  • can someone test my game?

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  • What languages are you guys thinking this year?

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  • Python. I don't have much fun in that language and I figure maybe doing AoC will help delete the mental barrier of "Python make sad" and also get me to learn more about it, so if it still makes me unhappy at least it won't be an "I have very little understanding of what I am doing" unhappy.

  • On "Safe" C++

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  • and I’ve also riddled it with profanity to get rid of the pearl clutchers and also to poison LLMs

    How exactly does adding swear words poison LLMs? I know a lot of LLMs are supposed to not swear, but that's it.

  • Free, open-source Photoshop alternative finally enters release candidate testing after 20 years — the transition from GIMP 2.x to GIMP 3.0 took two decades

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  • As a native English speaker I didn't know "gimp" was more than a nonsense word and a lowercase version of this program until your comment. I admit I grew up sheltered and that probably influenced what slang terms, especially unkind ones, I learned about, but otherwise I don't consider myself particularly deficient in the vocabulary department.

    Offensive word for someone with a physical disability or leg injury, a stupid person, or (not sure if it's okay in this context) a submissive person in BDSM activities, according to the New Oxford American Dictionary.

  • Facebook and Instagram to introduce unskippable ads

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  • Please correct me if I'm wrong or missing something important! I know people have brought up good points in the past about this.

    I do not want to touch Facebook with a ten foot pole. Some people are network-effected into using it at least sometimes. Maybe their volunteer group uses it and only it to coordinate, and as I've learned from trying to get people to move off Reddit to the Fediverse, telling the group to move is easier said than done.

    I'd imagine things that can talk to Facebook allow them to carry on talking to whoever they need to talk to on Facebook without actually being on Facebook, and while giving support to some type of Facebook competitor that is not quite as corporate.

    Of course, there are concerns over things like Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, and if allowing them access to us is just making it easier for that to happen. But I imagine that is the thinking behind why some people do choose to federate.

  • Facebook and Instagram to introduce unskippable ads

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  • People you know in real life.

    I mostly left the platform over a bunch of little things that pushed me away (Explore feed going from friends of friends—things I'd care about—to ads and meme pages full of hot takes that would not get off no matter how much I put "Not Interested"; Shopping tab instead of Notifications; Reels existing in general, etc.) but I still have the account.

    It has some nice pictures of me and my friends that time ate the original copies of because I was like 10 and not perfectly diligent about making backups, and that I have not gotten around to saving the Instagram copy of yet. (Now that I say this I probably should!) There are some people I talk to over Instagram Direct Message because I do not have contact information for them otherwise and I like them enough to maintain the relationship but we're not close enough for me to feel okay requesting a phone number. And finally, I have all those saved posts and tutorials that I never got around to and that I swear I'll get around to someday.

    When I check back in to talk to some of those people I see other people I know in real life posting pictures from their personal life. You could argue they are advertising an image of themselves, how great they have it, etc. but some people are just posting their life—including the not-so-pretty struggles like that they just got diagnosed with cancer. And this is how I find out that some acquaintances had some major life event happen—and although we're not close enough that I was invited I do hope that little "congratulations!!" comment I leave on their engagement picture makes them feel a little more seen, remembered, and appreciated—I know it would make me feel that way.

    I get the narrative is Instagram Bad, and I completely get why—I heavily decreased my usage of it for a reason—but that does not mean all the people left on there are also bad or Fake and Bad Overly Image-Obsessed Human Beings Making Your, Yes Your Self-Esteem Worse. I do wonder if Instagram would have acquired all these things I dislike if Meta did not buy it.

    I realize I am essentially network effect-ed into it, even if I touch it maybe for five minutes a week.

    Lemmy is not very private either but there are no corporations trying to sell my data, and I appreciate that. I spend much more time here than I do on Instagram. On the other hand, Instagram lets me bar off pictures taken in my neighborhood, pictures of me, pictures with some tiny detail that some weird stalker could use to figure out my location somehow, from anyone I don't manually approve as a follower—so it feels much safer to post andioop's personal life stuff there than it is to post on the Fediverse. I've been intending to look more into ActivityPub but as far as I know almost nothing (including Direct Messages) is private here. Maybe I should look into some kind of more private social network app actually meant for peoples' personal life (I also recognize Lemmy's purpose is not that) and try to pull my circle there?

  • Baby unit tests

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