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Debian used to be so good. What happened!? (lemmy.world)

Firefox on Debian stable is so old that websites yell at you to upgrade to a newer browser. And last time I tried installing Debian testing (or was it debian unstable?), the installer shat itself trying to make the bootloader. After I got it to boot, apt refused to work because of a missing symlink to busybox. Why on earth do...

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As someone who works, flatpak’s solve a bunch of problems, freeing me up to continue working.

Security issues are just a class of issue; no more or less important than other issues

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It’s more like android apps from early versions of Android before the permissions became user-managable.

It won’t prompt you to give the application access to certain permissions, all the permissions are predefined in the manifest by whoever published the application to flathub. When you run the application you just hope it won’t cause too much havoc (you can of course verify the permissions before running it, but I guarantee most people won’t)

Flatpak supports sandboxing but due to how most desktop applications want access to your home folder, network etc many apps simply disable it.

Regardless of the level of sandboxing applied to the app, Flatpak is a great way for a developer to package once run anywhere. Prior to Flatpak, if you wanted to support multiple distros, you had to build a package for each distro or hope somebody working on that distro would do it for you.

Inb4 AppImage was here first. And if you mention Snap then GTFO

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The first thing I noticed. I was confused, thinking maybe they had an old XP machine lying around to plug in after the main one failed, but then I read further and it was just a stunt

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Yep, being familiar with the data model is 98% of the effort.

The remaining 2% is the query

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…you have my condolences

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But it’s genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago

Jokes on you, my first job was editing files directly in production. It was for a webapp written in Classic ASP. To add a new feature, you made a copy of the current version of the page (eg index2_new.asp became index2_new_v2.asp) and developed your feature there by hitting the live page with your web browser.

When you were ready to deploy, you modified all the other pages to link to your new page

Good times!

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Hybrids: the worst of both worlds.

If you want to keep relying on gasoline then just buy an ICE car

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I disagree unless the tests are reasonably high level.

Half the time the thing you’re testing is so poorly defined that the only way to tighten that definition is to iterate.

In this sense, you’re wasting time writing tests until you’ve iterated enough to have something worth testing.

At that point, a couple of regression tests offer the biggest bang for buck so you can sanity check things are still working when you move on to another function and forget all about this one

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It’s like rebrands.

Most rebrands occur because the average marketing person is pretty average and “rebrand” looks good on your CV.

A couple of million later, half way through, customers hate the new brand and the marketing people who started it have already left for greener pastures

Redesigning a perfectly good design that everyone is used to allows you to put “designed Netflix user interface” on your CV, and since management has to spend a ton of money on it, suddenly your team is worth something

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First version: attempt to reimplement the windows API on top of Linux

Second version: give up and embed Windows inside a VM

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He said Linux Subsystem for Windows, which I took to mean the opposite of Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux

(for reference, look at the difference between WSL1 and WSL2)

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Is the joke that the main river in Paris is so polluted that swimmers would need to wear protection?

Never mind that the swimming events would be held in a pool instead

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“Fuck off Jesus” memes (or equivalent) are the best

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I’m pretty sure Tesla cars dont run on Windows…

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Yeah, but, like, I use Arch btw

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Well, theres been a push to get more women into Tech so that works in your favour.

Your job is now to lure them away from the Microsoft bros

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Tux racer go b…r…r…r

I only had access to ex-corporate office hand-me-down motherboards as a kid. This was about 1 potato per 3 seconds of rendering performance (I’m 34)

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It’s an acquired taste. Back when I was a starving student and everyone was drinking cheap alcohol and living off 2-minute noodles, I acquired the taste

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MSSQL in Microsoft* cases

FTFY although arguably Microsoft and Stupid and synonyms

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My house was built in the 1960’s, to New Zealand standards.

We build houses for the climate we wish we had, not the climate we actually have. All the wall cavities are empty, especially the external walls

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Some things, like honorifics, dont translate well to English.

For example, the -chan, -sama, -kun etc suffixes are super annoying when the English voice actors try to use them.

They’re fine in the English subtitles against the Japanese audio though

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If you’re American and you’ve been eating the food-like product labelled as “Cheese” in your supermarkets then Yes

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To be fair it’s probably running on Windows.

All the servers force-restarted due to windows updates, but the update introduced an issue and now the Bing API service won’t start

Keeping shit running on Windows is always going to be a gamble

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Consumers: only buy the cheapest regardless of how it’s produced, ensuring a race to the bottom

Producers: lower standards to increase production so they can sell meat for the lowest cost

Consumers when they find out what that entails: shocked pikachu face

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I found this in my first and second year so I stopped buying them.

Half the time it was just “recommended reading” and the book wasn’t even used in class.

Yep, not gonna shell out $120 per book for “recommend reading”

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Sad for those who worked hard and repaid their loans and now get to watch as everyone else gets theirs written off

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The irony of USA citizens hammering on about how free they are and they can’t even legally distill their own liquor smh

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Looks like someone set it up just for show. There’s no heat source for the still. The thumper is way oversized for the size of pot and the worm condenser is relying on the surrounding air which won’t be nearly enough cooling, it needs to be submerged in circulating water

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Wow, and here I was trying to set breakpoints using the devtools debugger and faffing around with sourcemaps.

Wish I knew about this 10 years ago!

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There’s a rule banning “self-preferencing.” That’s when platforms push their often inferior, in-house products and hide superior products made by their rivals

Wow, I can see Microsoft fighting this one tooth and nail. It’s basically their whole business model

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Take me back…

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Let’s say your country was about to be invaded, your house stolen and you sent elsewhere or killed so that citizens of the invading country could occupy your house and your land instead.

And all of that not happening was hinged on the physical prowess of an old guy who’s probably been in politics for decades.

How helpless would you feel?

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Based on that logic, the Christian bible is inherently leftist because it’s meant to be shared… whether you wanted it or not

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Tbh im incredulous that explicit sync wasnt a thing from day 1.

Like what kind of sane API have you ever used that didn’t allow you to buffer / queue up operations and then flush them all at once?

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We do exist but you have to really want to come here since it’s so far out of the way.

On the plus side, we don’t really have to worry about getting nuked in WW3 because we are not a strategic target

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I hear this all the time in my field.

“Can you just fuzzy match the records between the systems?”

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It just wasn’t well written. Pretty pictures can only take a mediocre story so far

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I turn UAC off before it nags me for the 10th time.

The only nag I want to see is the one right before it gets turned off.

I hate things that just throw up nag screens that users get desensitized to and just click through anyway. It hasn’t increased security at all.

Looking at you “do you trust the authors of the code in this workspace folder” VSCode. Yes I effing do, that’s why I opened it to begin with!

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It doesn’t need to know the real answer to produce a confident sounding answer

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It only works for cultures where individuals have to sepukku if they bring shame on family.

In the USA, bringing shame upon family is considered a rite of passage so it doesn’t quite have the same effect

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He’s right you know.

Of course the best way to avoid parenting is to not have kids to begin with.

Failing that, the infinite video device certainly keeps them quiet for long periods

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That would make for a long ass movie night

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To be fair they are on a third world 110v electrical system which means they need twice the cable size to carry the same current as the UK

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What else was he going to drink? Water?

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If I had a dollar for the number of BS CVE’s submitted by security hopefuls trying to pad their resumes…

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I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/LInux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

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Capitalist Jail is the one where you don’t pass “Go” and you don’t collect $200

Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

I’m looking into hosting one of these for the first time. From my limited research, XMPP seems to win in every way, which makes me think I must be missing something. Matrix is almost always mentioned as the de-facto standard, but I rarely saw arguments why it is better than XMPP?...

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Well, as far as I’m concerned Skype for Business set the benchmark for terrible. Teams isn’t even close to being that level of bad

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