Most of the Web GUIs are designed for interaction/collaboration between multiple people, and are massive overkill for one person. Tools like gitk/git gui are more than enough to see what’s going on graphically.

If you want to install all the other stuff, that’s completely up to you, but a lot of people don’t seem to realise that the Web GUI stuff and command line are completely separate things, and you don’t have to install both of them.

If you don’t need the web gui stuff (and you shouldn’t for personal use) you can set up a git server using gitolite. Very easy to manage

Hopefully Unity doesn’t disrupt your current project too much.

But yeah, I think this is the most extreme case of a company burning trust with their users overnight in recent years (worse than Twitter IMO). It’s especially bad because many Unity users/devs have their livelihood depending on Unity, so of course they are going to change once they get a chance. The risks of not switching now massively outweigh the risks of switching.

It will just take a lot of devs/teams some time to transition. Unity will probably go under in 2-4 years, they can’t recover from this.

I’ve played around with Godot a bit, and in my view it actually makes more sense than Unity. Probably has more limitations, but hopefully those can be overcome in the next couple of years.

You could look at the development practices parts of extreme programming.

Also remember software development is a craft to be mastered. It takes a lifetime of continuous improvement to get there.

I think they have some areas where they’re very useful, but beyond those areas they’re only OK at best. They don’t come close to living up to the hype, which is mostly based on “the next version will be mind blowing!”.

They are a new type of app, nothing more. New types of apps can be extremely useful, and make a lot of tasks easier, e.g. spreadsheets. I would say at best generative AI is as game changing as spreadsheets were, but maybe less.

The hype machine wants us to believe they are as revolutionary as the PC itself, or the car. In fact 10 times as revolutionary! I just don’t buy it… at least not in the foreseeable future.

“Let’s have a reasonable rational debate about whether certain groups should have the right to exist! If you’re a member of one of these groups, please be respectful to the people who say you should be exterminated!”

I think choice of software (wiki or otherwise) is the least of your worries. The problem is not so much with fake data, it’s with the interpretation of the data. That’s where the bias (and sometimes manipulation) comes in. Even if you managed to moderate it well enough so that all the data was “objective”, you couldn’t stop subjectivity being a part of the interpretation.

As an example, in most countries, certain minority groups are over-represented in prison populations. e.g. in the US, black people disproportionally end up in prison. That is an objective fact (so far as it goes).

But based on that fact, you could interpret it as either:

• Black people are just inherently more likely to commit crimes
• There are systemic biases that mean black people are imprisoned more often

How do you decide which is right when both are based on the data? (One is clearly racist, but still based partially on facts)

Yeah, it’s a fricken nightmare… Windows is ok in a well managed corporate setup where all the crap is uninstalled

I bought a laptop recently which came with Windows. I was going to setup dual boot because I need Office365 for work… but in the end I just gave up, deleted windows and installed Ubuntu.

I hear lots of people used to using Windows saying “I tried Linux and couldn’t get anything to work”… it’s not that I don’t believe them, but I really struggle to understand it. Windows is so much worse!

Codeberg is at least non-profit. Gitlab.com is for profit and has (or will have) the same problems as GitHub.

It’s been fixed in the next release

And Doctor Who

There’s always software I can’t use properly (and not just Windows stuff), some stuff badly configured with weird error messages… last time I was not able to even use the apt command

I’m not sure what you were doing to break apt, but it was probably something pretty funky (or at least adding a bunch of repos without really thinking about it).

The thing with Linux is that it doesn’t stop you doing stupid shit as much as Windows. If you know what you’re doing, that’s a really good thing. It’s really annoying when your OS stops you doing something for your own protection if you know that you’re not going to break anything. Simple example: Windows locks any file that’s open, Linux doesn’t. That’s really convenient, but you can screw things up badly if you’re not careful.

If you’re a beginner, I would suggest sticking to the GUI, i.e. control panels, software installed, etc. in Ubuntu. If you ever go into command line, be really careful, and understand what you’re doing. Definitely do not copy and paste commands you find online without understanding them reasonably well. Ubuntu puts in pretty good protections in its graphical tools. You’ll be able to do whatever you need to do, but shouldn’t break anything. Over time, you’ll pick up some knowledge and be able to do more in the command line (etc.) without breaking things.

Nah. There’s fuck all there.

That’s why it’s called “space” and not “interesting shit”

I struggle to see why I shouldn’t wear a mask in certain situations. e.g. the supermarket, where I’m not there too long, am hardly talking to anyone, it’s indoors with lots of other (unmasked) people. There are almost 0 downsides to wearing one in that situation (for me at least).

COVID is still killing a lot of people, and even if it doesn’t kill you, it sucks to get it. So yeah, makes sense to me to mask when you can.

Doubt it. Why do you think Reddit is broke?

If this is accurate then I don’t think the fediverse has much to fear from Threads federating. Even if they can technically talk to each other, not many people will want to follow someone on the other platform. They’re different worlds.

There is a bug with hot sorting at the moment: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3428

If you want to know how it’s supposed to work, see: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

It’s a difficult question to answer precisely, because of:

• Scientific uncertainty in exactly what the climate effects will be. It will be “bad” regardless, but exactly how bad and exactly what will go wrong is not 100% clear
• Uncertainty over how much warming will happen over the next few decades - this is highly dependent on how much action is taken to reduce emissions
• Interactions between multiple highly complex systems, including climate, the biosphere, and human societies
• The difficulty in imagining what life will be like when there are significant changes in parts of the world. One of the things people really struggled with in the early days of COVID was: “what the hell is this going to be like?!”. No one really had anything to compare it to. It is similar with climate change, but on a much larger scale.
• Timescales. Even if we limit it to this century, that’s another ~77 years (but the effects will probably go on for multiple centuries). It’s really difficult to predict the future with a high degree of confidence.

So limiting it to the end of this century, there’s a few things we can say. This is taking a somewhat pessimistic view, i.e. there won’t be a substantial change in emissions trajectories over the next couple of decades.

• Climate change itself is highly unlikely to wipe out humans on this time scale. We are a highly adaptable species, spread across the planet and the temperature / climate changes won’t be enough to kill us all.
• That said, there will be human suffering on a scale that is difficult to imagine. Millions will die in heat waves, droughts, floods, fires and other extreme weather events. Some regions, including heavily populated ones will become uninhabitable.
• There will also be suffering due to food and water shortages, and the spread of diseases
• Social instability (including war) will increase, due to competition over resources, migration on an unprecedented scale, and general fear/uncertainty among the population. It’s possible that instability could become bad enough to wipe out humans (and possible all life) through nuclear war.
• Parts of advanced society could begin to break down, e.g. we may no longer be able to maintain reliable electricity grids
• Other species will be hugely impacted too. The rate of extinctions will accelerate, although some species will probably benefit (not necessarily species that humans get on well with).

It is pretty hard to overstate the scale of what will happen this century. It may take a while before we see the worst of it, but we’re already seeing the effects, and I think within 20-30 years it will be hard to deny that climate change is affecting everything. At that point, there probably will be substantial action to reduce emissions.

As bad as all this sounds, it’s important to remember that it is the “pessimistic” view in terms of our emissions trajectories. i.e. it is not written in stone. There is still time to bring emissions down to avoid the worst of it. There is also no point where it’s “too late” for action. Every 0.1 of a degree that we can limit warming will reduce the impacts. So it’s important to avoid “doomerism”, which often just ends up being an excuse for inaction.

Even if we do restrict warming to 1.5-2C, the world will look very different to what it does today. To get to that point, there will have to be fundamental changes to global society and the economy, which will make the world unrecognisable from today. There are no moderate solutions left, it’s either the nightmare described above, or a complete transformation of society. So in that sense, the apocalypse (going by the dictionary definition) is guaranteed.

I enjoyed the episode. I think what makes SNW stand out for me is the characters. All the main crew are interesting, likeable characters, and that for me is generally a key ingredient for great Star Trek.

It has been quite a weird opening to the season. We haven’t had the crew together on the bridge (or even the ship) for 3 whole episodes. I’m guessing there was a real world reason for this (i.e. availability of the cast), but kind of hoping the next episode is a bit more “normal”.

Also, given that Kirk features, it was a missed opportunity to open with “Personal log: We’ve. Travelled. Back in Time…” without further explanation.

Every language starts out as beautiful, then it becomes popular, a whole lot of new features get wedged into it, and everyone who’s watched a 5 minute tutorial video starts coding in it.

I remember the days when Python, Java and even Perl were considered beautiful.