birdalbrocum

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by birdalbrocum 11mo ago
I am objecting to JavaScript.
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by birdalbrocum 11mo ago
One of the horrible consequences of the last 20 years of web (there are so many, not sure where to start!) that every person with an access to a computer thinks that they have every right to upload a humongous blob of binary to your compute
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by birdalbrocum 1y ago
Why web developer culture is so annoying when it comes to naming things? Serverless? It is actually a server. Flight control? Nothing to do with airports or flights or whatsoever.
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by birdalbrocum 1y ago
Ok, good points and I agree with messages as atomic unit of communication in mail vs message history per contact as atomic unit of communication in mail. This creates a mental state of communication flow (like a conversation) and inherently
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by birdalbrocum 1y ago
> Asynchronous communication > Rather than having flow and concentration interrupted by incoming message notifications, with email I can easily decide when to fetch and process messages. Asynchronous communication describes the client
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by birdalbrocum 1y ago
> And like the communists of old, AI scientists believe in their revolution; the old myths of tragic hubris don’t trouble them at all. What an utterly bullsh*t way to say I don't know anything about history nor how world works.
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by birdalbrocum 1y ago
For 200€, you can get yourself an old Thinkpad, flash it with some coreboot variation, install a GNU/Linux distribution and in process you will learn more things and it is not an RGB keyboard; it is really an "all-in-one PC".
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by birdalbrocum 1y ago
What RTO and WTAF means? Who knows. I clicked on link to find out but looks like website blogs my IP range. I will never know this important information..
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by birdalbrocum 1y ago
This is all about destroying free software and allowing "open source" to take over, nothing with memory safety whatsoever. This can sound conspiracy but the main idea is to push permissive licenses, so companies can exploit your w
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by birdalbrocum 2y ago
When I was a kid, every month I was waiting to get the demo CDs of the Turkish gaming magazine "Level". It was such fun times. I remember in one of those magazines, they had a small tutorials for C++ to make games and it was the f
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by birdalbrocum 2y ago
Licensing is not a simple semantic problem. It is a legal problem that have strong ramifications, especially things are on their way to standardize. What Facebook is trying to do with their "open source" models is to exhaust possi