Ayaya ayaya!

Just put an MCP on it and let the AI play the game at the slowest speed ever

There must be an Icelandic community that complained about suddenly seeing English letters in their text https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/1559

My memory of it is how unnecessarily arcane it is. I had (and still have) a better understanding of assembly than COBOL. COBOL has hundreds of keywords. And while an instruction set can have thousands of instructions, COBOL still felt more difficult.

Also, nearly any executable can be decompiled to assembly. If you understand assembly, it has a plethora of uses. COBOL can make big bank, but it currently has very limited use.

I’d much rather write in assembly than COBOL

Haven’t heard or read about it since it was kicked out of the kernel! Does it still exist?

Ho boy. Don’t ruin the good ol’ memory of the dude. Some things should be left untouched, just like the movies you watched as a child.

No thanks. This sounds entirely plausible and he gig economy should be highly regulated. I want my stuff delivered, yes, but I want it delivered by somebody who isn’t doing it as a last measure to survive and it won’t get them out from the heel they are under.

We need whistleblowers like this. If you’re a software developer and see shady business practices, fucking say something. If not to your superior, then to an authority. Companies shouldn’t get away with this unethical behavior. If even one thing is true of what OP is saying, they should be fucking sued and forced to improve or die.

Microsoft will add 1 million lines of Rust code per month to their repositories and replace all C/C++ code by 2030. C/C++ doesn’t stand a chance!

(At least according to LinkedIn)

Yep, I enjoyed the article. Unfortunately, it won’t convince zealots. Reason rarely does.

Just like all “principles” they shouldn’t be blindly applied. Simply forcing SOLID upon a codebase won’t magically make it better. In fact, I’ve seen codebases that “strictly follow SOLID principles” being terrible to understand, debug, follow, and optimise.

There will always be blind and zealous followers who will vehemently “protect” a codebase (or anything really) from impure modifications. They are the worst to deal with.

I was expecting circular pixels which is what they are on CRTs. Was not expecting non-square rectangles. wtf?

Dumb, ignorant people voting for dumb, ignorant people gets you dumb, ignorant people at the top. What a surprise!

If the well is full of shit, you’ll only be pulling shit to the top.

Looks like I’ll be checking that out.

We all have limits. For some communicating with those who tolerate genocide is alright, for others using their software is fine, and for even others they will happily give money to them à la “it’s not me, so why should I care?”. But if the number of people who don’t care is not enough to sustain that software development, it will have an effect. We can wait to see if we get that far or do something about it.

I’ll check out Piefed and Mbin as that seems to be most common answer here.

I write opensource software, I donate to opensource, I use opensource. I however can’t do everything. That is why the question is “we” not “hey @gerowen@piefed.social why don’t you make a fork, you lazy bastard”. Code is not the only way to contribute to a project and I’m willing to donate to lemmy alternatives while it is still possible for me.

Piefed might be where I start donating. Gotta check it out first.

OK, let’s say somebody who hates you to the core and wants to see you dead made software you found great. All they said was stuff like “I think your kind deserves to be shot”, “your kind are subhuman”, “they hung your kind and I see nothing wrong with that”.

Would you use their software? Would you enjoy being part of the numbers that they use to validate getting money, maybe even power? Would you publicly promote their software? Would you get others to use it? Would you even donate to them? Would you get others to donate to them?

I’ll check it out. Thanks.

OK, thanks. I guess I’ll be migrating to those and setting up a donation - if they don’t use Github sponsors.

Usually it is as this point things turn to shit in opensource/community/fediverse/cooperative. The devs are not the product.

What does this even mean? Who creates something doesn’t matter at all? If that’s the case, then using Microshaft products doesn’t matter, does it? They can provide the infra and software for bombing Gaza but who cares right? They make software that is worth using so we should keep giving them money. No problem.