ScreaminOctopus

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[–] ScreaminOctopus 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Back in the Gnome 2 days this wasn't as much the case. Plus KDE was kind of a mess back then so the main choices were Gnome or XFCE which had fewer features. When Gnome 3 came around the devs switched hard to a much more opinionated approach, leading to Gnome 2 forks like Cinnamon since KDE was still very underpolished. It's a bit regrettable that all that effort was poured into Gnome forks instead of improving KDE especially considering how great it is now.

[–] ScreaminOctopus 5 points 11 months ago

My theory is that Google wants to move towards vector symbolic representations for pages in search rather than page caching. It would make index storage and retrival orders of magnitude cheaper for them if they can design a scheme that works well.

[–] ScreaminOctopus 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Under this explanation, the AGPL wouldnt qualify as an open source license, since you must distribute the source if you provide a modified version as a network service.

[–] ScreaminOctopus 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Or league, or WOW, or BF4, BF1, overwatch, fortnite, genshin...

[–] ScreaminOctopus 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Looking at it this is definitely the case, its no better than fptp because you're incentivized to give 5 stars to all candidates you can tolerate, and none to others.

[–] ScreaminOctopus 2 points 11 months ago

VAT is just a shitty tax mechanisim, ends up being regressive (people with less money pay a larger portion of income), and really shouldnt be used. Land value tax + carbon tax is much better, and has nice side benefits like encouraging housing development and walkability.

[–] ScreaminOctopus 2 points 1 year ago

No one in the sane world... so plenty of coiners will take it!

[–] ScreaminOctopus 1 points 1 year ago

Thats because in government products many unsafe languages shittier than C(++) are used, like Ada, Fortran, and Cobol. It wouldn't surprise me if most of the code running on products for government use werent written in C or C++

[–] ScreaminOctopus 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing really, the JVM has a pretty troubled history that would really make me hesitate to call it "safe". It was originally built before anyone gave much thought to security and that fact plauges it to the present day.

[–] ScreaminOctopus 27 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Pretty crazy to reccomend Java as a secure alternative.

[–] ScreaminOctopus 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The enshitification discourse on lemmy is fucking nuts. Service goes from you getting a gaming PC completely free, no strings attached except your play session is limited to hour, to the same thing but you see preroll ads while you queue. Any person with more than two braincells could tell it was meant to be a trial for the paid service, but of course people on here are gonna cry because they don't get free toys anymore.

[–] ScreaminOctopus 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think you're underestimating the mechanical and chemistry problems that still need to be solved before autonomous robots that can perform a task like ship salvage effectively. There's a very good reason that basically all industrial robots spend their lives plugged into a wall socket.

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