Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)N

namingthingsiseasy

@ namingthingsiseasy @programming.dev

Posts
16
Comments
516
Joined
3 yr. ago

  • Kremlin could be 'nervous' as angry Russians send messages to Putin amid Ukraine counterattack

    Jump

  • it always got marginally better at best, and then it got worse again

    But why? I think it's because Russians just don't exhibit a lot of civic engagement. When you see the kinds of things Putin did to get into power, do you think any of those actions would slide in any other well-functioning liberal democracies? Just look at how Ukraine responded during Euromaidan. You just don't see that kind of engagement happening in Russian society.

    So why does it keep getting worse again? Unfortunately, it's because they let it.

  • Removed

    Taxonomy of programming paradigms!

    Jump

  • This is very interesting! Things like this make me wish programmers would give functional^W declarative programming more of a chance. I've long fantasized about being able to write programs as declarative code that the computer can optimize automatically without human intervention. When you implement your program in more restrictive (ie. stateless) paradigms, you can more easily reason about the code, and thereby make it easier to optimize or run in different environments.

    SQL is a great example of this - when you look at some of the optimizations that servers like PostgreSQL can do under the hood, this is because the language inherently limits what you can do so the actual system executing your instructions can do different things with it for better performance and reliability. Things like this are what make query optimizers possible, and it's really fascinating if you actually read carefully what query analyzers report (beyond just checking whether your indices are being used or not).

    Beautiful chart. Thanks for sharing!

  • Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

    Jump

  • Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads

    Jump

  • How is it that you're so well-versed in all of Stallman's negative quotes (from over a decade ago), yet conveniently omitted the fact that he later retracted those statements?

    On September 16, 2019, Stallman announced his resignation from both MIT and FSF, "due to pressure on MIT and me over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations".[124] In a post on his website, Stallman asserted that his posts to the email lists were not to defend Epstein, stating "Nothing could be further from the truth. I've called him a 'serial rapist', and said he deserved to be imprisoned. But many people now believe I defended him—and other inaccurate claims—and feel a real hurt because of what they believe I said.

    The FSF board on April 12 made a statement re-affirming its decision to bring back Richard Stallman.[133] Following this, Stallman issued a statement explaining his poor social skills and apologizing.[134]

  • Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report

    Jump

  • I think each of these needs to be handled in separate ways. For example, search could continue to be a conglomeration that includes maps, mail and possibly cloud. Android can just be split very easily into a separate company and same for Youtube, since that would basically be another Netflix or whatever.

    Ads, in my opinion, is the most important one though. That absolutely has to be shattered into thousands of tiny pieces, all of which need to be forced to compete with each other, for the benefit of all internet companies anywhere. It would be a massive boon to companies everywhere and would provide an opportunity for lots of innovation in the advertising space, ie. trying ads that are less intrusive or ones that are cheaper because they don't rely on tracking information.

    And another thing I think people need to understand about search is that building the search engine is not the hard part - the hard part is figuring out how to pay for it. Search is really expensive - crawling websites, indexing, fighting spam abuse. That's what really makes Google successful - the fact that they coupled it with advertising so that they could cover all the expenses that come with managing a search engine. That's much more important than the quality of the results, in my opinion.

    And as for Chrome: well, personally I think that monopoly has been the most damaging to the internet as a whole. I would love to see it managed as part of a non-profit consortium. There should not be any profit motive whatsoever in building a web browser. If you want a profit motive, build a website - the browser should just be the tool to get to your profit model, not the profit model itself. And therefore it should be developed by multiple interest groups, not just one advertising company.

    Anyway, I know this is all an impossible fantasy. Nothing in the world is done because it's right or wrong, it's done because it serves whoever holds the most power. But if there were a just world, this is what I think it would look like.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • I don't doubt you at all - I've seen quite a few stories of Google exhibiting retribution against employees attempting to unionize.

    The point I was trying to make (admittedly quite badly) is that Google employees should have unionized a long time ago, when they had the upper hand. At this point, it's a much steeper uphill climb. But it is still a very worthy fight.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • You could also blame the idiots who had a chance to unionize but never did.

    If you go back 5-10 years, everyone would say, "why do we need to unionize? Working in IT is great, we don't need to unionize!" And now see where we are today to realize how stupid of a mindset that was. I guess they don't buy insurance for the same reason.

    I thought you had to be smart to work at Google, but seeing people take dumb positions like that made me realize that while they might have been brilliant engineers, they were definitely not very smart people.

    (I'm not holding Google blameless here by the way - fuck them hard! But Google employees had the chance and wasted it, and this is what they left behind.)

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • All negative basic human instincts are like this though, but it's greed that we allow to grow unfettered. Anger is considered socially acceptable until you go berserk and start killing people and breaking things. Lust/sex is fine, until you start humping everyone and everything you see in the street. Greed has no upper bound like these though. And it's high time that we started imposing some sort of control to stop this growth.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • we cant have nice things because humans are just so fucking greedy and incapable of controlling that greed.

    That's not completely true though! One thing that a lot of people forget about Google is that they didn't have to become a publicly traded for-profit company. A lot of people around 2002-2004-ish saw Google's meteoric rise and wondered what path they were going to take. Some speculated/hoped that they would go the Wikipedia route and become a service that existed for the public good instead of a for-profit venture.

    We all know what happened after. The pursuit of profit inevitably leads all companies to becoming sociopathic and evil. They didn't have to be this way. And this is true for lots of tech startups. I wish we had seen more of them become wikipedias instead of googles.

    It's also worth pointing out that the original founders did want to make a company that was good and not evil. They tried to succeed by creating legitimately good products, and not screwing over their users. They did make mistakes along the way, but their intentions were at least good. The major problems started (as they usually do), when the second CEO took charge of the company, and it was evident that he had not clue whatsoever how to create a product. All Sundar Pichai knows how to do is suck as much blood as he can out of a stone. But Google's founders are not blameless here: they were the ones that set the corporate structure up this way, and they were the ones that got bored and decided to fuck off. And they cheated on their taxes the way all corporations do, so no matter how good their intentions were, they were still pretty awful people.

  • US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'.

    Jump

  • Because the USA haven't had the balls to hold corporations responsible for their actions in decades. They can save them from failure, but have no willpower to correct any of their malevolent behaviors.

    I really hope this generation is the one that finally changes that trend.

  • IDE/Text Editor Recommendations for Go Development on Linux

    Jump

  • So I installed Arch Linux... Is this it?

    Jump

  • What exactly is it that people obsess over? The desktop environment and terminal customisation? Setting up NetworkManager with nmcli? Using Vim to edit a .conf file?

    Welcome to the crowd! Eventually, you realize that an operating system is just an operating system: something you use to get work done, and the less you notice it, the better it's doing its job. The pride of setting it all up mostly ends very shortly after you're done. At that point, you realize that pretty much all distros are the same, give or take.

    That said, there are always moments that make you realize that your OS is amazing. When you're faced with a new and difficult task that you don't know how to achieve, then you look at your distro's documentation and solve it in a few elegant steps. And I'm not an Arch user, but that's when the Arch wiki will really be your friend, as well as all the other resources that Arch has for its users. I can't think of examples of these kinds of moments because they're so rare, but those are the moments that feel great and really make you appreciate your OS.

  • Intel is laying off over 15,000 employees and will stop ‘non-essential work’

    Jump

  • Yes, I agree, and I think it's a reflection of society's values over the past 50 years.

    We are living in a world with more of a "make money and fuck all else" mindset. Children of wealthy elites are living very privileged childhoods, and as a result, have less empathy and more contempt for real people. We are now seeing the effects of living in a society where the needle of social values is pointed 100% on the side of capitalism and 0% on the side of moral values. And how that has affected our perspectives of a society at large: a general lack of caring, a lack of empathy, a lack of conscientiousness from the top, tossing normal, real people aside like rubbish in a bin.

    We're seeing what happens when you let a generation of incredibly entitled children grow up to take the reins of society. We all know how it ends....

    (And for what it's worth, I think a long, extended Great Depression-style event is much more likely than a violent conflict, especially given how docile citizens of the west have proven themselves to be over the past several decades.)

  • Linux Desktop reaches New All time high. 4.45%(+0.4) 📈🐧

    Jump

  • One for every current ~0.5% market share!

  • Deleted

    Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal

    Jump

  • The “just add reddit” or “just add site:reddit.com” has been trash for a while

    Has that ever been true? I always assumed it was some sort of shadow marketing campaign to get people to look at reddit more. Pretending that one website is the only reliable source of answers on the internet is incredibly audacious, it always seemed very farfetched to suggest that

  • Hungary demands EU action against Ukraine as Russian oil spat escalates

    Jump

  • “Ukraine’s decision fundamentally threatens the security of supply in Hungary,” the country’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said Monday

    Oh my God!!! I can't possibly imagine them being concerned about anything more serious than that right now!!!

  • Sell us on your favorite exotic/niche distro

    Jump

  • I'm not sure what you mean when suggesting Linux is a singular implementation around which features are exclusively designed. There's all kinds of software that runs on all kinds of different OSes. Userspace applications, for example, can take advantage of POSIX compatibility to ensure that they run on all platforms (Linux, BSDs, even Windows).

    Does systemd have any similar sort of compatibility guarantee? Can I run systemd-whateverd on BSD? Can I run systemd itself on BSD? I'm pretty sure most other init systems support at least one other OS if not more. Would the maintainers even support merging patches that do this? What about musl?

  • Solution to youtube-dl (yt-dlp) IP bans?

    Jump

  • Thanks for letting me know. That sounds promising, so I'll give it a shot!

  • Solution to youtube-dl (yt-dlp) IP bans?

    Jump

  • Thanks, I'm using yt-dlp too. I was a bit sloppy while writing the post and updated it to make it clear that I'm also using yt-dlp