I definitely miss the days of xkcd and smbc on the front page all the time.

During his first term, a US interpreter was seriously concerned about the conversation.

Now he trusts Russian interpreters more than his own.

The delete key asks what you’d like to delete.

Unless I tell you otherwise, I always want to delete the contents of the cell. If I wanted to clear formatting, I would have done something more than just hit delete.

I absolutely did not want a menu.

Most Internet services don’t run at the scale of Reddit with its real time demands. Reddit was notoriously unstable for a decade with a team of engineers.

Didn’t they basically invent Cassandra?

And somehow this works for them. For decades.

Heh, you can’t primarily blame Clinton for the thing that W had 8 years to fix. Have you watched The Big Short?

So old Billy Clinton was the only president to balance the budget without causing a depression? Interesting.

Mbin is in PHP. It’s doomed. Weakly typed, garbage collection, effectively deprecated language. There’s no way it’ll ever scale as well as Lemmy.

It’s not only the tech I have an issue with, it’s also the fragmentation. Just like we didn’t need a dozen and half Lemmy clients, most of which would die, it’d be incredibly helpful for more people to be putting effort towards Lemmy. If Lemmy devs refuse to accept PRs, they can even decide to fork. Part of the reason I’m okay with all this is that the current Lemmy devs really don’t have all that much control over it. The biggest pull that they have is that they’ll continue to give us their work. If they prevent as much work as they accomplish, then their influence can disappear overnight.

Rust is a better language. It’s better tech. It’ll scale better. It’s a growing language instead of a dying one. For those less in the know, it’s roughly the difference between using C++ and, well, PHP. Except Rust is straight up better than C++, so much so that the US government has projects to migrate shit from C++ to Rust.

In a decade it’ll probably be the same price it was last year.

Here comes the Steam defenders.

There was a time when that would have been recognized as sarcasm.

I started on .ml exactly for this reason. It was the dev’s instance and seemed like the default. Though that was the time of Reddit’s API debacle, so it’s been .au e a couple years now.

… I didn’t stay on .ml once I realized how it was moderated.

Not primarily, of course. You have a local and QA instance, but some things only come out at real scale or with real data. You can’t think of everything to have it added to testing. Having your own, real instance that gets to serve as beta and accessible telemetry really helps.

LW functions at the opposite end of the spectrum. They try to maintain the most stability, which also makes sense.

Oh. What countries are socialist?

Socialist countries are Norway and Denmark.

.ml is needed for development. I’d support its existence even if I’d rather defederate.

I’m mixed. On one hand, absolutely fuck .ml and tankies. On the other, these guys have done great work. The way it’s set up, Lemmy is not at all beholden to their ideology. We can take it over at any time, and any further work they do benefits all of us, and that can’t be taken away.

As a fellow developer, I truly believe Rust is the way to go for high pressure, high scaling software. I don’t think LW alone could run off of your average python. EVE Online is a great example of that. They pushed python forward to meet their high demand needs, and still had to incorporate a lot of C++. Reddit has had teams of engineers over decades, and in the long run I expect Lemmy to be more efficient. In my professional opinion, this kind of scaling can’t be reasonably done with any garbage collected language.

My other concern is with sanctions. Are these guys in Russia? Is it legal to donate to them? If you’re paying by check or credit card, those institutions will take care of following the law for you.

Overall, I’d encourage people to donate. Open software benefits everyone and any work they do for us is public and can never be taken back.

Acknowledging the reality

Doesn’t need to be done on public social media.

Everyone who disagrees with you is a bot

I mean that’s unironically the problem. When there absolutely are bots out here, how do you tell?