Yardy Sardley

GNOME spawning 3 new DEs every time they have a major version update

I never really thought about it before, but it seems obvious now. Trekkies and open source tech folks would have a massive overlap, and Lemmy kind of exists perfectly within that intersection of utilitarian principles. So of course we would all find each other here.

For the past couple weeks it’s been Flower Moon by Dooms Children

And the data harvesting app is nothing more than a stripped-down browser with the company’s color scheme slapped on it.

If Russia is drafting foreigners who would otherwise not be there if not for Unilever, then this would be a profoundly evil thing. If they’re actually just drafting Russian citizens who happen to work at Unilever, then this might be a misleading headline. The article doesn’t specify.

(Unilever still sucks for paying Russian taxes and supporting their war effort)

It’s interesting that they’re worried about moderation. It wouldn’t seem like too hard of a thing for a $100 billion company to just hire some some folks to take care of that.

Spicy chicken sandwich. It’s the only thing on the menu as far as I’m concerned. Except at McDonald’s, theirs is prodigiously mid.

I would highly recommend python. It’s fairly simple syntactically, which makes it less overwhelming someone who’s just looking at code for the first time. It doesn’t force you to learn about functions and classes right away, like other languages would, so you can focus on the real basics until you’re ready to tackle the more abstract stuff.

The fact that it’s on the ‘simpler’ side doesn’t make it any less powerful, either. It’s one of the top languages used for neural net AI and data science. It’s also really great for throwing together a spur of the moment script when inspiration strikes, to automate a really boring task, for example. And yes, you can also make games with it.

Plus, the fundamental concepts that you use to solve problems with python are mostly the same in every language, so once you get proficient in one language, you’ll be able to pick up other languages much easier.

Whichever language you do end up choosing, good luck on your journey!

“Safer than [notoriously dangerous activity]” seems pretty on-brand with this guy

All I see here is an apparent admin of the site making a bunch of bad faith arguments and threatening to ban people who disagree with them.