I appreciate them clustering together on a single instance, much easier to block.

It’s sort of built in. During initial setup a blocklist is downloaded which includes fox news, RT, brietbart and 3000 more fascist, conspiracy and misinfo sites. Admins can unblock anything but I assume they have not bothered.

FYI

Fox News is banned from all PieFed instances and on https://piefed.social/ every post linking to nypost.com has a red warning symbol with a popup saying “very unreliable news source”.

Yeah in the late 90’s I was coding in C++ and I’m pretty sure I had to define true and false manually.

video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gAT-BbyOWw

code https://github.com/Leproide/Linux-G15-Daemon-Logitech-G110-

I’m pretty sure it will only work with a handful of old Logitech keyboards.

When I eventually upgrade my OS and can’t compile the stack for some reason, I’ve got a Sun Type-7 waiting in the wings.

I have an old gamer keyboard with extra programmable keys on the side, which I use for cut, copy, paste, close tab, close window, etc. Logitech provides drivers/software for Windows & Mac only.

To make it work I have a custom monkey-patched USB driver that I compiled from source, some weird daemon that interacts with the driver and some shell scripts on top of that. I’m not sure how but it works thanks to a 9 year old youtube video made by a guy from eastern europe somewhere.

FYI lemmy.world has over 6000 daily users, 15k monthly. You could roughly double that to estimate the amount for Lemmy as a whole.

I have a very tidy house yet my puppy is always finding stones and bark in the garden to chew on (despite having plenty of other toys). They love it, nothing you can do to stop it.

I made !antisocialmedia@piefed.social for all the drama at social media companies

I had trouble believing you at first so I hunted down the study https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0045653524026377?via=ihub to verify. You’re completely right!

PieFed has a trans theme, btw

My cute puppy: !sophie@piefed.social

Actually pretty close to how it was.

People on the radio keep talking about this revolutionary information superhighway which sounds grand but no one you know has an internet connection but you read in the newspaper that in a town nearby there is one in a public library. You travel there and find a single computer. There are no instructions and none of the staff know how it works. When you ask to see “the internet” they show you an icon to click and leave you to it. You click it, strange noises happen for a bit then stop and nothing happens, the computer seems frozen. Maybe you broke it but then literally 10 minutes later it un-freezes and you see a list on the screen:

• alt.binaries.mom
• alt.binaries.misc
• alt.binaries.warez
• alt.binaries.etc
• alt.binaries.warez.flightsim
• and so on, hundreds of them
• comp.lang.c
• comp.lang.perl
• comp.lang.prolog
• blah blah gibberish

Ok none of that sounds like an “information superhighway” so close the window and go back home.

For bash, there is Linux, a shit ton of distros, even BSD, MacOS and Solaris uses it. For python, there are games and qtile window manager. For C, there is dwm. I don’t know anything like these for C#, except Codingame

It seems like you find an environment that requires the language and then kinda sink-or-swim? If so then yes, your whole approach is wrong. You need a process with a lot more structure. Get a Udemy course or a book from the library.

Yeah I agree that response was uncalled-for.

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https://beehaw.org/ doesn’t federate with lemmy.world which cuts them off from most of Lemmy-space.

All I want is to make API requests with whatever headers but no fucking Electron so the app loads before the heat death of the universe… Please, please

Human-readable names are a critical feature.

The fundamental flaw with microblogging is that people follow other people. Those people then spew a bunch of random posts on all sorts of topics. Very few people are consistently interesting, leading to a timeline / feed of random crap with a few nuggets of goodness scattered through it. This is unavoidable because of the person-follows-person architecture.

There are other pernicious effects that come from centering the individual. The narcissism, defensiveness, dunking are all enflamed, rewarded and promoted. Mastodon avoids some of this by not using a recommendation algorithm but the fundamental mistake of centering of the individual remains.

Also short-form content tends to be brainrot that destroys attention spans and reduces complex issues to bite-sized hand grenades to lob at The Other.

Combine hand grenades with narcissism and news/politics and the result is kinda predictable in hindsight.