aurisc4

aral, 4 days ago to Israel

Given the outpouring of empathy and care as well as the condemnation of violence from European politicians, can someone please inform them that over 35,000 Prime Minister Robert Ficos have been murdered in Gaza by Israel, including over 15,000 baby Prime Minister Robert Ficos.

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #settlerColonialism #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #EU #EuropeanUnion #EUComplicity

aurisc4, 12 days ago to apple

Great news from Apple - now even your pencil tracks you. Only for $129.

#surveillance #Apple

aral, 13 days ago to random

Your daily reminder that capitalism is cancer and billionaires are tumours.

aurisc4, 21 days ago to UX

Monday morning rant goes to Google, whose web version Keep on first use suggested me "more comfortable reading by switching to dark theme"...

Listen, people, what's comfortable or not is something that is both personal and something just about everyone is quite good at determining by themselves, alright? Offer people to try, but don't ever tell people something will be more comfortable for them.

#UX #theme #software

aras, 1 month ago to random

Source files in current project: various_tests.c, stuff.c. Hey it is my project, I make the rules! (or lack of the rules)

jwildeboer, 1 month ago to random

I know the next 3-7 days will be filled with exaggeration and doomsday talk, but IMHO the #xz backdoor, though seemingly meticulously planned for a long time, failed miserably as it was caught at a stage where it wasn't widely deployed but only in testing/prerelease distros. Yes, it made it quite far in the supply chain but it ultimately failed. The mess is being cleaned up, no cases of actual use of the exploit in the wild are known thus far. The immune system of FOSS has worked. Again.

bugaevc, 1 month ago to random

GNOME Software: a critical system update is available! Stop what you're doing and reboot to install it at once!
Me: what, another buffer overflow in glibc?
GNOME Software: it's firefox-langpacks

aral, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to technology

Freedom in technology must include freedom from technology.

We must not create societies where the price of admission is owning a device controlled by one of two trillion-dollar US corporations.

We must safeguard people’s access to public services and the everyday necessities of life via alternate methods.

Technology should always be a progressive enhancement.

Do not let Silicon Valley privatise your access to modern life.

https://mastodon.ar.al/@lrvick@mastodon.social/112079059430275102

#technology #society #access #humanRights

aurisc4, 4 months ago to programming

Once again on "just works" type of UI: it either works 100% of the time, or give me the f*ing error message!
It is so frustraiting to see things are not working and have no clue why. I can't even search online, nothing useful to search for.
#programming #rant

khalidabuhakmeh, 6 months ago to programming

What boring #programming tasks do you think most developers take for granted?

For example, I think querying a database table and displaying it in a table is "boring" but valuable to your users.

#dotnet #development

SonnyBonds, 6 months ago to cpp

What's your favorite way of doing type safe flags in C++? I typically just use some enum/int combo, but it's not really type safe and you can combine flags from different sets.

#cpp #cplusplus

mjg59, 6 months ago to random

Maybe don't trust someone who refused to fix a security vulnerability because he didn't believe in computers with more than 4GB of RAM when he complains about elaborate conspiracies to backdoor cryptographic algorithms

joncham, 6 months ago to random

Not a good sign when the garage/mechanic recognizes you and says “Welcome back!”.

aras, 7 months ago to random

Ever since Unity grew to maybe 15 people in total, I was running around panicking "too much, too fast growth! we're turning into IBM anyday now!"

Well, careful what you panic about, Aras. Or fifteen years later the company might get a CEO from IBM.

That's it. That's the story.

aras, 7 months ago to random

Me: programming since 1995 or so.

Also me, just now: "turns out when an integer has more than 16 bits it can go above 65535!"

gamingonlinux, 7 months ago to random

Lol. Lmao. How is this a real post from Unity?! About the original removal of their TOS GitHub.

"We removed it way before the pricing change was announced because the views were so low, not because we didn't want people to see it."

Sure, nothing to do with it being replaced and the protections for developers being removed. Which you pinky promise you won't do again.

aurisc4, 9 months ago to javascript

#JavaScript joke of the day:

>> typeof(NaN)
"number"

#programming

aurisc4, 9 months ago to random

Considering to switch from stock GMail app to K9 Mail on my phone. Any reasons not to?
#Thunderbird #K9Mail

fell, 10 months ago to programming

"Parse, don't validate"

Ever heard of that? I know that it means something about type driven design, but to me it means something much simpler.

Imagine #programming reading a config file. You could read it line by line and match each line to one of the possible config options. Or you could just go through all config options and try to find them somewhere in the file. This second approach is what I mean by "Parse, don't validate". Only read the data you need and ignore the rest.

Opinions?

aurisc4, 10 months ago to CSharp

TIL: params is a reserved keyword in C#, cannot name parameter like that. Compiler error could be clearer though.
#CSharp #programming

aurisc4, 10 months ago to Java

So #Java is about to get main function without requiring a class.
That is nice, but justification about making language is more student friendly make me raise my eyebrows. If you want to make Java friendlier to newcomers, you should address the problem java.io being notoriously overcomplicated, IMO. After "Hello, World" next thing is to ask for user input and do something about it, and Java is the worst at it from what I've encountered.
#programming