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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

[meme where the hero pulls the mask off the tied-up Firefox's head, revealing Safari]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dynamic typing is insane. You have to keep track of the type of absolutely everything, in your head. It's like the assembly of type systems, except it makes your program slower instead of faster.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It doesn't have to solve every problem, but it does have to result in a better world than we have now, which it won't.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Excellent. Let's do the same in America, please. Stop KOSA!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So, basically, they plan to install a dictatorship in which separation of powers, states' rights, and meaningful judicial review do not exist.

Sounds about right.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How the heck did these guys manage to outbid Big Oil to put up that billboard?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This right here is why electronic locks could be way more secure than mechanical ones, if only their manufacturers would hire well-trained programmers and not boot camp graduates to write the firmware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Since when were Boston Dynamics robots sentient?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That was pretty much IBM's excuse, if I recall correctly. Then it turned out IBM execs were well aware of who was buying their equipment and for what purpose…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm reminded of IBM's dealings with the Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Linux is already dominant on just about everything except the desktop, and it has yet to suffer significant enshittification.

Edit: Well, a bunch of Linux distributions have suffered enshittification, if that counts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Linux: “We're dropping support for this device because we're fairly sure we had the last one in existence and it just died.”

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