[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 8 points 14 hours ago

for some people it's an excellent topical ointment. for others like me, we're allergic and it makes us itchy

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 8 points 14 hours ago

they're fediverse mascots. i'm not sure about the middle two, but the far left one represents Sharkey (a transfriendly misskey fork) and the far right one represents Pleroma (a fediverse platform written by far right chuds that's been forked into akkoma about it)

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 13 points 14 hours ago

i hope someone working on KDE sees this and says "well this is unacceptable. we have to figure out why this is causing so much frame lag" and the ability to enhugen your cursor remains forever.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 5 points 1 day ago

new is a different concept from first api stable release. it's been in development since 2002. 0.21 was the most recent release, and the software has been pretty much usable since 2010 at least. but this 1.0 release is a big deal because it basically means any features you currently know and like can be expected to be there for forever. it's more of a promise than a time-based release measure

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 4 points 4 days ago

the google corporate overlords are just straight up evil

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago

it was for a time a distro i was really big on on account of how small it could be on live media. absolutely fantastic for very old pcs and netbooks, too

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 4 points 4 days ago

gotacha. i've only ever heard them called ternaries. maybe i'm old. maybe i'm too young. definitely one of the two

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 16 points 4 days ago

been programming since 2008. the fuck is an elvis operator?

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 209 points 3 months ago

The ad company blocking an ad blocker is totally about security

- Google stans

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submitted 1 year ago by Cube6392@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

(I mostly need this link for work tomorrow, but I thought maybe some folks here would be interested)

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The Hacker News and reddit.com/r/vim take on NeoVim is frequently that NeoVim has done tremendous harm to the overall Vim community and that the NeoVim developers aren't respectful to Beam. Having been involved in both commubitues, I have never been able to track where that idea came from. Vim has accelerated in features drastically since 2013 and the NeoVim team often goes out of their way to speak well of Bram.

JustinMK, the main organizer these days of NeoVim has pinned this issue to increase its visibility. I'm not really fully certain what should be the most fitting tribute, but its hard to express how much impact Bram has in the world of software development through his flexible improvement to a text editor from 1975. He's also been an excellent benevolent dictator for life over the Vim community throughout its existence and it feels like the world of open source software got just a little bit worse for his loss this week.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 127 points 1 year ago

Cool. Using slave labor to train tools to strip the best parts of humanity away from us so that AI can do creative activities like poetry and art while we're more and more stuck in a gig economy.

Cool cool cool cool.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 138 points 1 year ago

Blink has a younger code base that's easier to build on. Gecko has been around since the early 90s and has some ancient evils lurking deep within. At least that was the reasoning a while ago. As Mozilla has been putting a heavy emphasis on code correctness for the last few years, that may no longer be the case. Then again, momentum is a big deal, and I still see people saying the don't want to try Firefox because its memory inefficient even though they fixed that bug almost a decade ago now and its less resource hungry and faster than chrome now

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This is a very interesting article about the long-term sustainability of the Fediverse for moderators, administrators, and developers. We've already had two of our lovely Beehaw admins take breaks to take care of themselves as they experience the burnout associated with maintaining a community, and I think for a lot of use we already know how exhausting it can be to take a center stage position in an online community.

Unfortunately, I don't have any great starting points for what to do, but at least talking about it is a start.

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The title I have assigned this article is intentionally boring. The article's body goes out of its way to not provide simple summaries, silver bullets, or otherwise give a single size fits all answer to everything. The author actually gave it a fun title that, I felt, did a slight disservice to their overall point, but hey, we all make our own decisions.

I thought there was some interesting stuff in there about the Fediverse at large, even if that wasn't expressly what the author was getting at.

[-] Cube6392@beehaw.org 118 points 1 year ago

I enjoyed reading this tweet

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I just went for my run. And wanted to talk about it with some of my new social connections here on the threadiverse. I used to run a lot. Like a lot a lot. 100 miles a week sometimes. I was a long distance specialist trying to qualify for Olympic marathon trials. Injuries and old age have ended that chapter of my life and I often find myself needing to remind myself to be proud of my ~10mi/w workload because that's more than a lot of people my age in my profession do.

Today I just ran around my neighborhood. There's a nice park nearby but I don't get to go to it very often because the street I have to run down to get there can be pretty scary. I think access to green spaces is something that often goes neglected in community planning in my country

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For the screen readers: this is a picture of a small preying mantis, no longer than the first knuckle of my index finger

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Itsy Bitsy Mantis (beehaw.org)

Explanation for screen readers: it's a tiny little praying mantis that was on my door this morning. Roughly the length of the first knuckle on my index finger

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This little guy was crawling around on the hiking trail my partner and I were on in the central Appalachians

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