Mr skeltal will save us.

Doot doot.

Lol, he’s dead

A list of usenet groups on my dad’s computer around 1989. Porn groups, I think, but that may be mixed up with another later memory.

DevOps here, been a sysadmin since the 90s.

Yeah it’s weird. AWS has a Q LLM too: https://aws.amazon.com/q/

You’d think someone would tell them about qanon

They don’t have the talented programmers needed to make API changes happen.

reddit is an old school internet site. In that it was originally hacked together by very motivated people. But once the novelty wore off, and the tech debt started piling up, the motivated people either left or got promoted. It should have been trivial to add things like headline editing, but that never happened because their code and DB is a huge huge mess.

Overshadowed by the API fuckup was something that really spoke to how badly off they are. They deleted old private messages! Their schema or infrastructure is so utterly fucked up that they couldn’t roll back whatever made that happen. People lost years of communication, just gone. No backups, no “go to this new page to download an archive of your messages”, nothing.

It should have been easy to incorporate rate limiting into the API. It should have been easy to serve ads to 3rd party clients. It should have been a no brainer to charge heavy/advanced API users a nominal monthly fee. Mod tools should have been implemented over a motherfucking decade ago!

Utter incompetence. Completely clueless. Fucking useless.

It really angers me because they had it handed to them on a plate. But instead they fucked around and found out.

Looks really good, but I’ll stick with my favourite M+ Code, which I use in iTerm2, Emacs, and VSCode.

https://www.programmingfonts.org/#mplus

Also in https://www.nerdfonts.com/

Edited to add: they have semiwide and wide, but no condensed? Weird. That contextual resizing is pretty cool though!

That’ll pay back those billions in debt!

I have a ploopy mouse and it’s utterly fantastic.

So many buttons and has QMK firmware so I have actual layers on my mouse!

https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/

2023 version of Jobs’ “You’re holding it wrong”

Raspberry Pi also brought arm64 to a lot more people.

I could imagine that there’s some very angry and confused developers who might feel violent towards unity right now.

Not that threats are the answer, just that I could see people might feel their livelihood is threatened.

Stop feeding the hexbear trolls. They only go away if you ignore and block them.

It’s not even someone they like, they just use it for easy trolling just like in this thread.

Edited to add: don’t feed the trolls by responding to anyone from hexbear. Just use your Lemmy client’s features to block the user or the instance. Connect on Android has great blocking features.

Why are people spamming this multiple times per day?

Oh no the scary left wing people are trying to treat each other better. Why does that bother the right wing so much?

But definitely trust them with your money! They’re gonna be a bank!

I just installed it, it really is like RiF. This makes the loss a bit more bearable.

I was surprised at how sad I was at RiF’s passing. I feel like I owe the creator a lot of money for how much I used their app.

For me it was BBSs, Slashdot, Kuro5hin, Fark, Bannination, Hacker News, Reddit. And now the 'verse.

Good luck to all the Lemmy and Mastodon app coders, and to all the people hacking away at great front ends to the same.

There’s definitely going to be growing pains, attacks, victories and losses. But I think it’ll be worth it.