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iByteABit

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  • As the US starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help

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  • The world doesn't revolve around the sex crimes of your leaders that you choose to do nothing about.

    Cuba is being starved because of a decade long embargo the US is inflicting on it in order to bring about regime change and be able to exploit their local resources again as they used to before the revolution.

  • f in the chat!

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  • True for some of them but many of them are very based and do a lot more irl stuff.

    Socialist orgs definitely have things to learn from them in terms of mutual aid for example, I find that very lacking in these circles while anarchists take it very seriously

  • Rimu Mass Bans Users

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  • Someone could argue that action should be taken against an instance admin like Rimu creating public lists of undesirables and calling for bans against them for no reason other than posting things he didn't agree with, but then the Piefed people would go up in flames saying ooh .ml is so authoritarian etc. etc.

  • Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my own lemmy. With blackjack and hookers! In fact forget the lemmy.

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  • Doesn't even have a proper 404 view, but yeah "Lemmy's development is too slow"

  • Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my own lemmy. With blackjack and hookers! In fact forget the lemmy.

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  • yeah probably just an imperialist for the love of the game

  • Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my own lemmy. With blackjack and hookers! In fact forget the lemmy.

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  • lol, lmao even

  • Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my own lemmy. With blackjack and hookers! In fact forget the lemmy.

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  • acts in an extremely hypocritical and provocative way that naturally raises lots of questions from many people

    noo why are they're coordinating attacks against me they need to be banned from everywhere 😭

  • Yeah, well, I'm gonna go build my own lemmy. With blackjack and hookers! In fact forget the lemmy.

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  • aaayyyyyyyyy we're in baby

    (this is such fed activity btw, what are the chances this guy isn't a fed lol)

  • White to Mate in 2 - Composition by Marcel Stoica

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    1. e4 d6 2. Nf3#

  • How does one get into Open Source, generally?

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  • You've already done the first step, which is actually using FOSS software. That's the only way to get real context on what you're contributing to and find issues or lack of features that bothers you or is incredibly specific to your system or use case, and fix something that maybe would not have come up otherwise or no one would have time to get to.

    Filtering issues by 'Good First Issue' as someone said is also a really good way to find tasks that are relatively easy to get your feet wet with a codebase. Don't feel bad about taking on too many of them, it's better that someone does them all and gains enough experience to become a regular contributor, than the rest of them collecting dust until someone else like you shows up.

    Don't worry too much about not knowing X or Y language, the great thing about being into FOSS is that you get to become a multilingual developer, which is very eye opening and educational as opposed to sticking to a language like Java and never realizing the limitations it has or even the benefits it has relative to other languages, and use that knowledge to be a better engineer overall. It's easier to learn new languages nowadays, plenty of guides and docs to find, and AI can help for more specialized and context aware questions, just don't fall into the trap of letting AI do the job for you, you would only be fooling yourself.

    Also don't underestimate the value of small contributions like documentation updates, translations, creating issues, etc. You don't need to come up with a PR for every issue you create, just finding things and keeping active is enough when you don't have the time or energy to go the whole way.

  • How bad is the software engineering job today?

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  • Not there yet at my company, but management is starting to shove AI down the throats of the more senior engineers at first. I've definitely heard of companies where they strictly push for as much AI as possible which is just completely self destructive and delusional.

    It sucks that we have to use this crap even if we don't want it or need it just because the suits see the line go up (even if the line is completely made up of garbage code that will explode one day), but that doesn't mean you should quit the field. There's still plenty work to be done, and that will probably go upwards as the symptoms of reckless AI usage start showing up.

    The work is worse by all means, you are encouraged or forced to work in a way that strips all enjoyment away, you are forced to nitpick code made by others that you know vibe coded the entire thing, and fixing tons of stupid as hell bugs that a human would probably not make. But still, it takes an actual engineer that knows what they're doing to be able to clean up that mess and do some actual engineering.

    What I fear the most is what comes after the pre-AI senior engineers start leaving or going to retirement, and you're left with engineers who finished their degrees without ever truly diving into details like one would before AI, starting jobs without learning properly and picking up all the domain knowledge.

  • Is this you?

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  • not autistic as far as i know but i relate to this a lot

  • Gen AI and big tech makes me dread the future.

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  • A lot of things make me dread the future, but I can only change the here and now.

    Doing everything I can with as little AI as possible or none at all, being creative and holding on to my humanity despite the outside pressure to become dependent on this bullshit, it keeps me sane that at least I'm not letting myself be ruined by offloading my skills and thinking to a machine that can only fake them.

  • Have you noticed this phenomena on forums

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  • I've noticed the opposite actually, searching "why does X suck" gives me exactly the hate filled responses I was looking for to validate my rage lol

  • Lemmy Accessibility

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  • I believe you will still be able to install it outside of the Play Store, from F-Droid or Obtainium for example. You can make a post asking on c/jerboa

  • How people around the world get around.

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  • Lemmy Accessibility

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  • Are you referring to the keepandroidopen.org warning? Afaik Jerboa is not going anywhere, it's just raising awareness for Google's decision.

  • How Israel Turned Eurovision’s Stage Into a Soft Power Tool

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  • I think most people in Europe nowadays hate Israel, at least the younger ones.

    y’all aren’t as free from State thought control as you think

    Yes this should be obvious for anyone with even a slight political awareness, I honestly don't know why Europe still has such a good rep for its "democratic" and "free" values when it's trying really hard to remind us that's not the case. Probably through the sheer force of propaganda, and the remainders of socialist concessions that haven't yet been taken away like free healthcare etc.

  • Is everything in your life the way you want it to be & you're comfortable & feel no angst?

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  • It's not perfect, but I've got quite a few of the things I wanted to have when I was imagining the future back then.

    I've got a partner that I trust and love, I do the job that I wanted to be doing, albeit not the perfect company or the most satisfying position, I'm still in touch with the friends I wanted to keep (and happily not in touch with some of the rest), I'm no longer living with my parents and have two cats that are the perfect little creatures for company.

    Some things could be better, many of them completely out of my control. My current goal is to just make my lifestyle healthier, I'm too sleepy all the time because of staying late trying to regain the time lost doing the boring adult things, and I get exhausted and out of breath extremely easily.