[-] randy@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

Days before the 2016 election, 538 (which Nate Silver founded and was leading at the time) ran an article titled "Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton". Nate Silver and 538 did some of the best forecasting of that election. Don't conflate him with others' screwups.

[-] randy@lemmy.ca 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

K-9 mail... isn’t supported or being developed any more.

That's not true. They make frequent-enough releases, they post monthly progress reports, and they are actually going to become Thunderbird's Android version.

Having said that, I almost switched to FairEmail because K-9 lacked support for some sort of authentication measure (which I no longer need), but that wasn't because K-9 stopped development.

[-] randy@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 months ago
As I said to him, “in the US you don’t get to vote and get someone better than Joe Biden

Actually, write-ins are a thing, so you literally can vote for anyone else than him and Trump.

I think you misunderstood the author. You can literally vote for anyone, but the winner of the next US presidential election is only going to be Biden or Trump (barring a crazy twist, e.g. death or criminal conviction). I think the author's point is that, in any given election, you should probably vote strategically, but getting better options takes a lot of work for a long time to make it happen, so get working if you can.

[-] randy@lemmy.ca 14 points 7 months ago
[-] randy@lemmy.ca 17 points 8 months ago

Also worth noting this article is nearly five years old. Rust's first stable release was nearly nine years ago, so its (stable) age has more than doubled since then. I expect Rust would look a lot more mature if the article was written today.

[-] randy@lemmy.ca 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

At a glance, it looks like Aegis generates standard TOTP tokens, which means there's a lot of software that can do the same thing, so you don't need to emulate Aegis. I use pass-otp (an extension to pass), but that's command-line-only, and a lot to deal with if you're not already using pass. From a quick search, it looks like Keysmith and OTPClient are decent graphical alternatives. From another quick search, OTPClient is available in Ubuntu 23.10.

Edit: Re-reading your post, your issue is that you don't like logging in on your phone, right? But Aegis just provides the code, you should be able to use the code from your phone to log in on your computer. TOTP codes are only affected by the secret values and the current time, so the code generated on your phone can be used on any device.

[-] randy@lemmy.ca 12 points 11 months ago

Tell us more about what you're thinking of building/drawing. I like FreeCAD, but it's also quite complicated, depending on what your goals are.

[-] randy@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 months ago

Fairphone is well supported by open-source Android distributions like Lineage and /e/OS. Not all Android is involved with Google.

[-] randy@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here is their reasoning, basically summarized as "it's easier to get everything for games into a new language than bolting it onto an existing language". I also recall seeing a blog post where they said their initial implementation of GDScrip took fewer lines of code than embedding Lua did.

Note Godot does officially support C# and C++, and there is unofficial support for other languages too. But they commonly recommend GDScript for beginners.

[-] randy@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I'm an engineer, and I make it a point to teach young engineers that "a ton" can mean any one of three things:

  • Short ton = 2000 lb
  • Long ton = 2240 lb
  • Metric ton = 1000 kg = ~2204 lb

And which is being used is often not spelled out, but is just known from context, and usually should be clarified. I once nearly got in trouble by thinking a measurement was in short tons when it was actually metric tons.

So my own act of rebellion is to use "Mg" when I'm writing my personal notes.

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