xavier666

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Fair enough. What we desperately need is proper social media / modern internet education right from middle school level. Identifying dark patterns, echo chambers, bot/human impersonators, fake news. I feel like this awareness is missing in both youngsters and boomers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

I was a normie once. I too fell for misinformation in the past. If it wasn't for the freely available information on the internet, I wouldn't be here today.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

enjoy the mainstream memes and discussion, but avoid the algorithmic content slop from them. That's how I see the fediverse. It's a win in my book.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I call it a layer 8 issue

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago

There are 2 types of programming languages

  • The type everyone keeps complaining about
  • The type no one uses
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I am interested in knowing what's the bandwidth to transmission power ratio of the device. If it's low enough, it would be revolutionary for IoT devices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

A package manager and app-store, which looks very similar from the outside, operates very differently with respect to security and privacy.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago

"side-loading" is literally the norm on Windows and Linux

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Hybrid is the best. There are certain types of work which needs my undivided attention and collaboration with my team; office. Other work which I can do slowly and alone; home.

HR: "But what about the bond? Team building exercises. Company morale. It will fall apart-"

Can you shut the fck up?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Technically correct, which is the best type of correct

Edit: as long as you are not part of the infrastructure team. Then things break right after 5 PM.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

Delete this. Now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Whitelist and an autobackup mod

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