Zalack

joined 1 year ago
[–] Zalack@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I joined the Star Trek instance solely because I like startrek.website being in my handle.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

IMO this is mainly a way to communicate talking points to his supporters. They want to start a lot of talk about Biden's "election Interference" to make it feel like this is something both sides do but only Trump is getting charged for.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The cool thing about Voyager is that it has a record of information about Earth, etched in gold, with instructions on how to read the data it contains back.

Even once it powers down, it's still on a mission. If millions of years from now intelligent alien life ever encounters it, they will know who we were and that we existed.

It's our handprint on the cosmic wall.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't tell if it's just cognitive bias on my part but I feel like the content and discussion has gotten even worse on Reddit since the protests.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago

Free and Open Source Software

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can customize both those options in Sync. I had the same initial issues, but you can switch comment collapse to single tap as well as increase font size.

Sync is very very customizable.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Counterargument: I don't need Lemmy to have 100% uptime. It's not a corporate service and while -- obviously -- if it's down all the time I would eventually move on, I'm not going to fault a not-for-profit entity for periodic failures.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago

I don't know, there's still a lot of needless hostility; it's just around different topics.

Lemmy skews even more heavily left than Reddit and it's still too small to attract organized political trolls, but topics like FOSS vs Paid open source vs closed source gets heated fast. Look at the Sync for Lemmy threads; it's a mess in there.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's not an issue with FOSS vs proprietary, but with large corporations needing to be broken up.

FOSS isn't immune to that, its a known thing that large corporations can use their dominance of a market segment to infiltrate even totally open standards and make demands with the threat of leaving the standard (and therefore resigning it to becoming irrelevant).

This is especially true of web standards. Chromium is FOSS, yet Google can use its absolute dominance in the market place to force through changes to things like HTTP standards (also FOSS). My understanding is Microsoft and Google both have strong-armed stuff into C++ in the past as well

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago

That's why there is an option to disable ads... Everyone wins unless they think this person's work should be distributed for free.

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Compiled Rust is fast.

Compiling Rust is slow.

Also my understanding is that RustAnalyzer has to compile all Rust macros so it can check them properly. That's not something that a lot of static analysis tools do for things like C++ templates

[–] Zalack@startrek.website 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's not the actual reason. Hexbear was openly advocating for their "army" to brigade other instances once it was federating. It just so happens that the basis of that brigading was going to be political.

Lemmy.world pre-emptivly decided it wasn't worth the hassle of having to deal with that.

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