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frezik

@ frezik @midwest.social

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  • JavaScript programming

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  • Yeah, those are mostly showing off. They're not really what I'm getting at, either. I more want to challenge people to make useful things simply.

    And yes, there are ways that JavaScript can be used to give users a faster and more streamlined experience. The web as it stands is so far past that justification. I swear there's lots of "full stack" devs that haven't a clue how to make a site without React.

  • JavaScript programming

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  • I'd like full stack developers to try something. Next time you have an itch for a personal project, see if you can make it with no frontend JavaScript. Just some CSS and HTML forms. All templating handled on the backend. Just try it and see how far you get. Don't worry if it looks like a GeoCities page.

    Then try finding places where JavaScript would make it more responsive or better UX in some way. Does the back button still work? Is it actually faster? Does it provide any benefit at all?

    Maybe it does, but just try.

  • using AWS

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  • AWS has a multitude of different offerings with confusing pricing structures. They have zero incentive to make them understandable.

    That said, chances are your new company has people who understand this already and know how to manage it. Hopefully, they'll put up some guardrails that prevent you and others from running up a big bill. I wouldn't expect a junior programmer to know how to do this, but that's ok as long as the company is managed right. Granted, that can be a big if sometimes.

  • Fox news trying to explain github.

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  • unzipstriptouchfingergrepmountfsckmoreyesfsckfsckfsckumountsleep

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    Has anyone checked on the NRA recently? They seem to have been pretty quiet since the tyrannical government that they've been warning us about for decades came to pass. I wonder if they're ok?

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  • As the article notes after '94 the number of Democrats the NRA could support steadily dwindled.

    Cause or effect? Did NRA contributions dwindle because Democrats changed their mind, or did Democrats change their mind because NRA contributions dwindled? I know what the article says, but that's not the only possibility.

    No amount of political donations to Democrats, or anyone else, should have insulated them from the consequences.

    Which is nice to say, but we all know how that works. If both parties were in their pocket, it's far less likely they would have been a target.

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    Has anyone checked on the NRA recently? They seem to have been pretty quiet since the tyrannical government that they've been warning us about for decades came to pass. I wonder if they're ok?

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  • They used to donate significantly to Democrats, as well:

    https://www.governing.com/archive/tns-nra-campaign-contributions.html

    An issue with only having two political parties is that a special interest group can split their donations to both election candidates and win either way. At some point, the NRA forgot that and only funded one side. That left them vulnerable when there was widespread financial fraud in the organization; only one side was willing to come to bat for them.

  • race conditions

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  • That would be the natural assumption, but Sun didn't do it. I think there is a logo for books, but not one by Sun/Oracle.

  • race conditions

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  • Branding fail so bad that everyone forgets that Java even has a mascot.

  • choas

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  • Always have to remind myself of this when managers ask me if something could be done. If it's easy, I naturally get a little annoyed that they're even asking. But knowing that is my job, not theirs, and it's good that they ask. There's lots of places where they assume and things go badly.

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  • And the thread is wrong about one of those. I rarely touch them for tech news.

  • if vibe coders built houses

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  • That house is in the "so bad, it's good" category. Vibe coders can only aspire to such things.

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  • Somehow, they actually are a good source for political news. The tech press (them and Wired) have been some of the best at covering the second Trump Admin. Possibly because it's crawling in tech bros, and the tech press already knows how to deal with them.

  • What are some creative ways to use an unused telephone jack outlet?

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  • Hide your ricin.

  • Well, when you put it that way

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  • I only take issue with "read it". Shakespeare wrote plays. They were meant to be performed and seen, not read. "Do you bite your thumb at me?" makes a lot more sense when it's done by a good actor.

    If their first introduction to Star Wars was reading the script, kids would hate that, too. Having a script can be useful for analyzing and referencing things--I do have a book of the OG Star Wars trilogy scripts--but it shouldn't be the default way we enjoy it.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • Have you ever chained three Cisco 2600 routers together and then successfully ping'd clients on each end? Do you know what BGP is? OSPF? Do you know the difference between routing and routed protocols?

    I know you don't, because people who do don't make the claims you're making.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • No they fucking don't, that's not what routers do. You don't know what you're talking about.

    And don't fucking tell me NAT is for security, either.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • Skype won't be supporting anything at all very soon.

    What happened with Vonage is something that could happen with any kind of instant messaging, including things like Discord.

    With everything directly addressable (not just static addresses, but directly addressable), an IM/VoIP service can simply connect to the recipient. No servers are necessary in between, only routers. That doesn't work with NAT (CG or otherwise), so what you have to do is create a server that everyone connects into, and then that forwards messages to the endpoint. This is:

    • More expensive to operate
    • Less reliable
    • Slower
    • A point for NSA eavesdropping (which almost certainly happened)

    This is largely invisible to end users until free services get enshittified or something goes wrong.

    Yes, it's only tangentially related to static addresses, but it's all part of the package. This is not the Internet we should have had.

    And at least in the US (in single family homes) its crazy unlikely that your router is behind any NAT

    Your router has NAT. That's the problem. CGNAT is another problem. My C&C: Generals issues did not have CGNAT.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • . . . nobody at home actually runs VOIP . . .

    Plenty of people used Skype and Vonage. Both were subverted because they have to assume NAT is there.

    . . . quick game servers don’t need static . . .

    But they do work better without NAT. That's somewhat separate from static addresses.

    My old roommate and I had tons of problems back in the day when we tried to host an Internet game of C&C: Generals behind the same NAT. I couldn't connect to him. He couldn't connect to me. We could connect to each other but nobody outside could. It's a real problem that's only been "solved" because a lot of games have moved to publisher-hosted servers. Which has its own issues with longevity.

  • Every god damn time

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  • Or stretch out the twists in the individual wires. That will also cause signal issues.

    IIRC, cat5 cables are rated for 50lbs of force on them. They'll technically hold a lot more than that, but you can't guarantee the twists will stay in spec.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    I think this is the right time to bring this rule back

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    After six years of hardware ray tracing, the best examples of it are modified old games, like Quake and Minecraft.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Nothing strange about a tornado in February in Wisconsin rule