Uplink

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[–] Uplink@programming.dev 31 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Everybody hating on Java being the de facto language every student learns first (at least back when I was in university) but I think it's actually a great first language while I don't think python is for one simple reason: it has types but tries to hide them from you. It is soooo important to understand types early though.

[–] Uplink@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago

Why would one though? All the bots are on Twitter now because in order to fight Bots, Elon encouraged massive abuse of bots and ChatGPT with his new monetization scheme that earns you money the more impressions and engagement you get on your posts.

[–] Uplink@programming.dev 15 points 4 months ago

True. To me, Lemmy feels somewhat more like the old vBulletin forums I used to browse 15 years ago.

[–] Uplink@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago

I think it all depends on how good our tools to detect AI generated content become. If it is not distinguishable, then the internet is probably about to be flooded by AI generated content which in turn means AI is going to be trained more and more with AI content, degrading the model in the process.

[–] Uplink@programming.dev 45 points 4 months ago (10 children)

Not from the US and I don't understand why one would support a candidate just because he survived an assassination attempt. Can somebody explain the logic behind this?

[–] Uplink@programming.dev 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah yes, this year is definitely the year of the Linux desktop. For real this time!

[–] Uplink@programming.dev 22 points 1 year ago (7 children)

How is this going to end?

Google blocks access to it's services for Firefox altogether? Maybe even ban it from the Play Store? That would finally give me a real incentive to install some CFW.

 

...but I hate that you can practically only use it with IntelliJ. Trying to use it with just Gradle and vscode is such a pain and maybe even impossible to get anything more than basic syntax highlighting. That is all.

[–] Uplink@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Kubuntu in mostly default configuration. Am I special or a normie?

[–] Uplink@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it an unofficial reddit client? How are they getting around the API prices? Webscraping?

[–] Uplink@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I tried only Jerboa and that's what I stuck with. It loads fast and has every feature I want. Compare that to the official Reddit app, which is a slog on even high end devices. Seriously, what are they doing that it loads SO SLOW?

[–] Uplink@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's already too late. Google has a monopoly on the browser market. Do you think your regular normie would continue to use Firefox if Netflix, Instagram, TokTok etc. don't work anymore?

There is nothing we can do. The internet of old is already lost.

 

What are some good tech related podcasts you can recommend? I've listened a lot to Darknet Diaries but lately, I've found it to become less and less interesting as he mostly just interviews some pentesters.

My current role includes a lot of DevOps and infrastructure on AWS and some software development. Bonus points if the podcast focuses on that but I'll check out everything tech related you can recommend.

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