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The creator of Pixelfed announced an upcoming encrypted messenger for the fediverse that will work across the fediverse (mastodon.social)

It will be open source, end to end encrypted using Signal’s double ratchet encryption protocol, and he plans to make it easy for fediverse platforms to integrate it. The beta will release later this month....

aloso ,

“secure” is relative. They may not be e2e encrypted, but they are still encrypted via TLS, like any HTTPS traffic. It’s the same encryption used for online banking. If you care about your instance admin being able to read your messages, you should use Signal or a Matrix client though.

But remember that only a few years ago, almost nobody used e2e encryption, and it wasn’t much of an issue.

aloso ,

Oh, didn’t the domain somesoftwarecorp.com give it away?

Which AI have you replaced StackOverflow with?

After seeing this graph about the fall of StackOverflow, it’s clear to me that I’m not the only one who has stopped using it in favor of LLMS (large language model) alternatives. With the rise of generative AI-powered initiatives like OverflowAI by Stack Overflow, and the potential of ChatGPT by OpenAI, the landscape of...

aloso ,

I do not use AI to solve programming problems.

First, LLMs like ChatGPT often produce incorrect answers to particularly difficult questions, but still seem completely confident in their answer. I don’t trust software that would rather make something up than admit that it doesn’t know the answer. People can make mistakes, too, but StackOverflow usually pushes the correct answer to the top through community upvotes.

Second, I rarely ask questions on StackOverflow. Most of the time, if I search for a few related keywords, Google will find an SO thread with the answer. This is much faster than writing a SO question and waiting for people to answer it; and it is also faster than explaining the question to ChatGPT.

Third, I’m familiar enough with the languages I use that I don’t need help with simple questions anymore, like “how to iterate over a hashmap” or “how to randomly shuffle an array”. The situations where I could use help are often so complicated that an LLM would probably be useless. Especially for large code bases, where the relevant code is spread across many files or even multiple repositories (e.g. a backend and a frontend), debugging the problem myself is more efficient than asking for help, be it an online community or a language model.

aloso , (edited )

You confused revenue and profit. You must subtract expenses to calculate the profit. For example, if you buy something for $20 and sell it for $21, your revenue is $21, but your profit is only $1.

Facebook reported a profit of $39 billion in 2021 and $23 billion in 2022. This takes their expenses (salaries, offices, data centres, etc.) into account.

aloso ,

obligatory XKCD

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aloso ,

We have pointers in Rust, too :) see documentation

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