Professional software developer and all-around geek in Seattle.
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Professional software developer and all-around geek in Seattle.
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance (www.computerenhance.com) Japanese
Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen....
Why don't we have AAA Puzzle Games?
This copies a post by grailly on Reddit....
Is there a way to fix Kbin's formatting not working on Lemmy? this is in the mag bio. (see pic attached) (media.kbin.social)
Is an "everything" app the likely end state within the Fediverse?
In the typical web marketing infrastructure, a company signs up for an email account for private messages, Twitter/X account for microblogging, YouTube account for video sharing, and Reddit for forum discussion....
Twitter aka X changes ad labels, makes promoted tweets less obvious (mashable.com)
Paid advertising on Elon Musk's platform now looks a lot more like a regular tweet.
Wouldn't the Everything App Be the Last Thing We Would Want? (kbin.social)
I read an article in the New York Times about Elon Musk wanting to make X, formally known as Twitter, into an everything app. The article also mentions other attempts. Would that be the last thing we would want?...
Could popular forums implement ActivityPub and connect to the Fediverse? (kbin.social)
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The Fall of Stack Overflow (observablehq.com)
Over the past one and a half years, Stack Overflow has lost around 50% of its traffic. This decline is similarly reflected in site usage, with approximately a 50% decrease in the number of questions and answers, as well as the number of votes these posts receive. The charts below show the usage represented by a moving average of...
Twitter alternatives for the Musk-averse (www.theverge.com)
Twitter isn’t the only social network around — here are some others.
universal IDs for threadiverse items (re kbin-core #635) (kbin.social)
I am not sure what is correct to put in kbin-core/issues without cluttering it up with somewhat speculative requests. I have no idea how to implement this or whether it is possible. So I will post here?...
Why is it called Fediverse / Federation? (kbin.social)
I get it that things can have unfortunate names, but I've seen a lot of people proudly claim lemmy is "federated" or a "federation". Isn't a federation actually against what people want out of the fediverse?...
lets advertise lemmy on r/place (feddit.de)
I suggest replacing a fuckspez with “join-lemmy.org”, for anyone still having the redditapp
People say “I have nothing to hide” until you them to unlock their phone and give it to you. Chances are, you’ll quickly find out they have things they’d like to hide. (kbin.social)
Privacy ftw
Is AI the 'biggest bubble of all time'? Stability AI CEO thinks so (www.zdnet.com)
Emad Mostaque called it the "dot AI" bubble, likening it to the Internet bubble from the turn of the century.
List of subs people may find familiar (kbin.social)
General...
Share your network naming conventions! (kbin.social)
Depending on how much you self host, you may find it hard to keep track of your devices' host names. So what are your naming conventions to keep track everything? Some people stick to descriptive names, others pick themes, like Greek mythology....
idea for discussion: federation of individual communities across instance (kbin.social)
I was thinking about how there are similar communities on different instances. In some cases that is desirable/ok but maybe it would be cool to have another option....
Meet Microsoft Office’s new default font: Aptos (www.theverge.com)
It’s the first change to the Office default font in more than 15 years.
100x Faster Than Wi-Fi: Li-Fi, Light-Based Networking Standard Released (www.tomshardware.com)
Proponents boast that 802.11bb is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi and more secure.
Is there a way to deal with crap like this yet? (media.kbin.social)
It's funny that with all the technology in the Star Wars universe, their video display units look a bit dated. (kbin.social)
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Alot of people wants the old internet to return but cannot even handle when looking at its UI (kbin.social)
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Stupid Question, not an insult: Why is kbin written in PHP? (kbin.social)
Is PHP still a relevant language in today's day and age? I know a LOT of languages and it just never occurred to me to learn this one, because anyone I've ever been aware of writing a backend these days would either choose Node or one of several compiled languages. Lemmy uses Rust for it's backend which is highly desireable,...
What is the Small Web? (ar.al)
Updated June 19th, 2023 Sorry, your browser doesn't support embedded videos. But that doesn’t mean you can’t watch it! You can download Small Is Beautiful #23 directly, and watch it with your favourite video player. Small Is Beautiful (Oct, 2022): What is the Small Web and why do we need it? Today, I want to introduce you to...
Are lots of websites really going downhill and/or closing or does it just seem like it to me? (kbin.social)
Like many people I'm here because of reddit going to shit. Twitter has increasingly been shit. gycat is shutting down in September. To me it seems like lots of bastions of social media are crumpling, but as a previous active reddit user, I've been personally effected. Is this just a frequency illusion or has something changed in...
Kbin, FUD, and Tribalism - Where do we go from here? (kbin.social)
It finally happened: many Reddit 3rd party apps have officially shut down. With it comes an influx of users looking for a new place....
HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray (kbin.social)
Imma start by prefacing that I like kbin way better so far....
Jim is invading the "finer things club", aka kbin.social is only our launchpad for the fediverse. We should think about finding another instance soon. (kbin.social)
For the last few weeks we enjoyed a much better content on kbin than we had on reddit for a long time....
Twitter's latest user-unfriendly move requires an account just to read (www.androidpolice.com)
In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall
what are the best Lemmy subs across the fediverse?
I'm new here. I'm using connect for Lemmy on Android....
PSA: every interaction you make with various posts on kbin is viewable to everyone. (kbin.social)
If you click on the "more" button under a comment or link there will be an activity tab. In this tab you can see everyone who has boosted, favourited or reduced the post. I'm not sure if this a...
Op-ed: Why the great #TwitterMigration didn’t quite pan out (arstechnica.com)
Things to think about and lessons to learn.
Lemmy lets you edit the title of your post
Something that I really appreciate after moving here from Reddit: I can finally edit titles!...
Reddit protest plunges user engagement, site activity and ad portal visits (techcrunch.com)
Reddit protest by its community moderators has impacted user engagements, traffic and visits to its ad portal since its beginning on June 12.
Google thinks its new Perspectives tab will finally get you to stop adding 'Reddit' to searches (www.androidpolice.com)
While the technology shows promise, early testers have found that it falls short of a well-known search trick: adding "reddit" to the end of queries. Instead of directing readers to sites targeting SEO traffic, this straightforward technique draws on the knowledge of Reddit's community to provide actual help from forum...
Is anyone else mildly annoyed that people posting on the fediverse act like only people in their own instance can see their posts? (kbin.social)
I keep seeing posts title “Lemmy, what are your thoughts on…” or “Beehaw, do you think is…” etc, as if nobody from any other instance is reading.
Is it possible to browse unfederated instances from within kbin.social? (kbin.social)
Basically title. Can I still browse other instances from within kbin.social, even though the admin (of kbin.social) has decided not to federate certain instances?
Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud (www.theverge.com)
If this happens, will it be a mass exodus to Linux/Mac? Or will people just live with it? The fact that the Steam Deck has shown great promise in playing games on Linux has made me reconsider Windows yet again.