Everyone does cringey things sometimes but it takes a great person to admit their mistakes
BTW Satan is a very cool guy, follow him on Twitter: @s8n
And people are seriously considering federating with Threads if it implements ActivityPub. Things have been so crazy recently that I think If Satan existed and started a Lemmy instance, probably there would still be people arguing in good faith for federating with him.
Lol that’s like saying there’s too much porn on /r/gonewild
Yes, their actual argument is excellent, but this remark gives me instant /r/iamverysmart vibes
“Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes.”
Companies like Meta poison everything they touch. They are a deeply evil, psychopathic organization. They are responsible for causing extremely harmful runaway effects in human society that I’m not even sure are possible to fix. The very reason for Lemmy's recent popularity is that people are fed up with the "if something is free, you aren't the user, you are the product" situation and its consequences (see Reddit vs. /u/spez).
Their intent to federate is a blatantly obvious attempt at an "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy - I'm surprised anyone seriously considers federating with them. They need users to solve the "chicken and egg" problem and joining the fediverse would be an easy way for them to populate their service with content. Their motivations are obviously and transparently malicious and self-serving. They don't care about the goals and values of the fediverse at all, all they see is an easy way to gain initial users and content. At the first moment federation will be more inconvenient than useful to them, after they sucked all the profit they could out of it, they will drop the entire thing like a hot potato, and we will be left in the dust.
I personally like this instance very much, and I've been putting hours and hours of work into building the AUAI community since the day I joined. But I wouldn't hesitate for a second before deleting my account and never looking back if the community here decided to federate with Meta.
EDIT: another explanation of why they want to join the fediverse
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/400779
If I remember correctly, the properties the API returns are comment_score and post_score.
Lemmy does have karma, it is stored in the DB, and the API returns it. It just isn’t displayed on the UI.
It definitely helps me. It isn’t perfect, but it’s a night and day difference
someone watching you code in a google doc
I’ve had nightmares less terrifying than this
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Has anyone else seen this interesting "challenge site" when googling a programming topic?
(programming.dev)
I looked it up (on Google of course) and it seems like this is one of Google's recruitment channels.
You get access to a terminal and a text editor:
Here are the commands you can execute:
You have a week to complete each challenge. I've done 2 of them so far, and requested the third one - they have been very enjoyable and I've already learnt a lot from them.
I'm pretty sure I have literally zero chance of being hired by Google (and I'm not even sure I would want to work for them even if they made the mistake of wanting to hire me), but this has been super interesting so far. And yeah, also a huge time waster, I've been thinking about making the solution to the third challenge more elegant and performant all day instead of doing my actual job.
You can put spoilers in posts or comments this way:
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Here is how it renders:
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(AFAIK apps don't render these correctly, only the website)
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