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  • I think it's especially the money and LGBTQ+ and non sexual norms that are driving people to the right. I notice when I talk to a lot of younger guys theyre tired of hearing about it.

    Because it's pushed on so much of their TV shows and things they like that they side with political candidates that are conservative at a young age and they further grow into it. These are conservative candidates with lots of money usually.

    I hate to say it but it was universally cool to defend LGBT people when the media and TV shows didn't push it. Because you were defending an oppressed person. Now it more so feels like it's popular which means it's no longer an obscure thing, the anti culture is the new trend.

    I want to disclaim that I don't agree with any of this other than to say this is my observation of the behavior. I play rainbow six ranked on Xbox and use the looking for group party finder with a buddy of mine. We group up and encounter a lot of guys in the army and Marines, a lot of teenagers and this is cumulatively the culture I've heard. Same thing on like world of warcraft classic and using discord to raid but those guys run older typically.

  • I'm not convinced that's the truth. But we also need term limits universally. I think too that officials need a way to get elected without third party funding in the US. Like even if you run there should be a system for running too.

  • People aren't that great online at hearing what you mean not what you're saying. The implications normally drawn by assuming the other person is either of basic intelligence or aware of the context are thrown out the window in favor of Internet points.

    It's exhausting. Sometimes that's why I like mastodon or twitter or threads or nostr. Whatever pick your poison. Point is I want to say my fucking piece and not have to add all this extra context so the other person doesn't call me an idiot on some niche part of what I said.

    Thinking about it from the commenters perspective: People online need to go back to just saying what they actually meant to say without prefacing everything. If that happened we'd at least have a more fulfilling experience. There's a reason folks leave knee jerk comments and don't elaborate further because the sentiment is popular too.

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    I want to get my PC off the grids power; any decent solutions for an apartment that has access to a roof?

    As title says. I think my PC is using like a max of 500w when it's juicing but idles for less. I was thinking of using an ecoflow high grade setup for this. Anyone have experience doing something similar?

    I might switch to a small micro tower setup by Dell or Lenovo that uses like 120w max. The new Mac minis seem to cap out at 39w though which is crazy.

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    Opening a new community: Federated Ideas (Discussion for apps that should or could be federated, or existing projects)

    Hey just an announcement. I can't code everything that comes around but if you have an idea, an existing project, or want to talk about something you're passionate about with federated apps like Lemmy or Mastodon: this is the sublemmy I opened. Fediverse is awesome but there are other apps out there too and even other protocols.

  • 🌶️🥵Many people consume Facebook meta company's tech stack wholesale, don't know how to actually traditionally program their way out of a paper bag, and web dev and devops caused a massive layoff (250k people) at the end of 2022, start of 2023 because it was all vaporware. They consume the same software in droves if the other guy uses it.

    There is an entire subculture around it that is just a bunch of medium.com writers, YouTubers and twitter handles just trying to get the clicks for their ad money. Some of these guys have never written valid software or done anything noteworthy. If you meet them head on you'd find they have enormous egos and can't find a counter argument when presented with reason.

    I'll even add on that there are many programmers who don't know how to code outside a web app.

    Why is something like [react, graphql, react ssr, devops, tailwind, unit tests, containers] vaporware?

    • there are other frameworks even with component libraries that are easier to read the code for large codebases, better maintained, and have cohesive full stack solutions, and even faster to develop in, to name one quasarJS or even just plain ecmascript
    • if you look at the anatomy of these enterprises using these solutions they've evolved to have micro front ends requiring armies of workers.
    • devops is a sales term, the actual implementation of it is so contextual that you'd probably find you don't need a full time job for it half the time and most are relatively easy to setup inside of a business quarter
    • not everything is Facebook scale: unless you're padding your resume why did some of these get adopted? How complicated does your app need to be? Did you really need to transpile JavaScript for it?
    • unit tests were code to test your code that you're going to have to functionally test anyways: you're telling me that you have to write your code...twice? How the hell did this ever get justified to mangers? Why did the culture not evolve into literal automated smoke tests of the actual builds, instead of testing whether a function that is probably type annotated is going to fire anyways???
    • docker/containers suck ass: great that they solved a problem but created a whole new one. we moved to python and JS which were JIT without artifacts and suddenly everything needs a generalized build system to run it. C lang variants and Rust lang compile to a binary you can just run... Ship the small ass binary not an entire container to run your shitty web app

    You know the stuff I don't hear about?

    • Javascript and Python were steps in the evolution but never the end goal. I'd even say the same of java. There are new solutions but JavaScript in the browser especially should be replaced.
    • eye appeal is buy appeal
    • that eye appeal shouldn't always mean you need to use a library or framework; vanilla apps work okay too.
    • binaries/artifacts/installer packages > containers
    • automated testing of the actual end product
    • well written logging to the point someone can tell what the application was doing without seeing code
    • using all these compsci algorithms to actually write new products and searches from scratch instead of being a framework baby: do you actually need ELK or Splunk for your search? Really?
    • you probably don't need MySQL for a lot of projects, I bet you an async library with sqlite would be the same for many of these projects.
    • small teams with feature rich apps using SSR, the value of an SSR web app
    • the value of a SPA
    • the value of traditional desktop software and not using REST APIs
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  • I want to take a camera and microphone to a voting booth building and ask people "hey did you vote for a man over 70 years old today"

    Just because it's like encountering a bad show on live TV and skipping over it or a commercial and saying "damn that's dumb who is buying this?!" And never finding out. The best eye opener is meeting people who you didn't think actually existed.

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  • You're about to make a lot of enemies 😂

    Last time someone posted this stupid fucking article up on a different tech lemmy I got into it with some single brain cells morons.

    It's open source tech. You could fork the entire thing if you didn't like the CEO. Who cares.

  • I don't have access to that data. And I don't won't to be misconstrued as promoting Elon or his activities (not that you're doing that but I see the downvotes).

    I'm just explaining what I think he's doing. It's what I'd pitch personally if I noticed red voters trend and visibly meme anti EV and I had obligations to shareholders I had to keep.

    People are better off buying EV anyways. ICE vehicles are disgusting. I think people just like to assign large structures like businesses and folks like Elon to their political idealogies. Businesses and governments have to be larger than that because they need to serve people at the end of the day with either product or policy.

  • Keep your friends close.

    Keep your enemies closer. Where do you think GOP Republicans live? Texas. What vehicles do they drive? Gas/diesel.

    Call him everything he is. But he is a fantastic businessman for going to the place of most resistance and turning his worst demographic to his biggest group of followers.

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    Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake | Official Trailer | Max

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    If you haven't heard of it - Nostr is a decentralized twitter alt - but uses relays as soft servers

    Hey folks. Just wanted to put out a good word about Nostr. I'm finding it to be pleasantly easy to use and very akin to twitter but uses soft servers in the form of relays. Its not quite moving away from servers but where decentralization is happening frequently, its nice to give that liberty back to users.

    Anyways its worth a try, here are some web clients. Just make sure to save your PK its basically your login:

    https://nostr.com/clients

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    Why Lemdit is great

    • We have a great server host an admin
    • It is cleaned up of morally & legally compromising posts to keep the server out of hot water.

    Thanks for hosting us!

    Making this post so we have a more positive greeting when you open the Lemmy app or land on the home page ;-)

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    Relevant again with Federated Software: The Cathedral and the Bazaar

    An old publication more relevant now than ever - The Cathedral and the Bazaar. A comparison of software practices in the early 2000s with some retrospective to how great software is built.

    I think much of the writing can be applied to today's federated content models.

    In particular:

    • The Mail Must Get Through
    • Necessary Preconditions for the Bazaar Style
    • The Importance of Having Users
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    Early August - What tech has really garnered your interest as of late?

    What tech if any have you found interesting lately?

    What tech concerns if any do you have as of late?

    Mine:

    • concerned about the google web DRM. I've been digging into android and trying to give stock android a chance again but the DRM stuff makes me want to jump over to iOS for tap to pay + carplay and Graphene/Calyx for my daily internet usage. Android added a builtin ad ID to their phones which makes me pretty uncomfortable.
    • Decentralized Tech, like Radicle, Gitopia, Mango for Git and Ethereum DApps (again). Feels like there is a lot of good that can be done but anything I'd build with ethereum I'd really want to disambiguate from the culture of scam/scam coins. The notion that most successful platforms today are ones people can make a career off of like being an influencer isn't lost on me and I think ethereum offering ways to maybe appeal to that is good.
    • IPFS (interplanetary file system). Love the idea but can't seem to find a good entry point or an
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    If you had to say one country is about as close to perfect as it can get current day- what country would it be?

    title. We live in interesting times. Those especially traveled, would love to hear your input.

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    Devs and Devops: if you have running containers in production, how are you upgrading those containers?

    Hey all!

    I'm seeking guidance. I have a lot of apps that use ORMs like Mongoose or Sequelize or Sqlalchemy, or even just init-db scripts with raw SQL. Point is a lot of apps have changes to the data layer. When we program and make apps they tend to describe how they need to see a database. Sometimes its no trivial feat to do an upgrade - and even if you have a CI/CD pipeline in place what does that look like to have something like even lemmy upgrade in a container.

    If you have these apps in production how are you handling these apps? Both developer perspective and devops welcomed.

    I see the devs offering insight into maybe how the backend recognizes database state, while the devops perhaps either describing process and implementation.

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    Highlighting that in the article researchers found that the average chat with ChatGPT is the equivalent of dumping one bottle of water on the floor.

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    Nim Programming language - thoughts?

    Anyone have experience using Nim? The TLDR that I am seeing is compiled portable python/js replacement in a way.

    I was thinking about trying to write a webserver with it and was wondering if anyone had any previous experience with it.

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    Analysis | Twitter rival Mastodon rife with child-abuse material, study finds