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  • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•do you think lemmy will ever be popular?Deutsch
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    1 day ago

    Depends, it’s been a bit disappointing to see virtually no change since I started using it, particularly in terms of QoL. It is open source, so that’s on everyone, including me, but I had hoped for more speed, etc…

    Mastodon is way better when it comes to filtering.

    Having the option of a reddit clone is pretty good though and I will stick with it. Who knows when and where it will get that critical bit of momentum.

    It’s already superior to regular forums, in my opinion, so now the question is what kind of format you want to have discussions in, instead of having to default to forums. That choice is a definite upside and I’m glad it exists.

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Must EU banks provide basic service via internet?Deutsch
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    1 month ago

    I don’t think that there is an obligation with that kind of standard, no.

    Banking and security, accessibility yes.

    Specific choice of “user side software”, probably not. And it’s somewhat unlikely to happen too, because if you think about apps on phones, if suddenly a completely new phone OS were to show up and had 30% market share, it wouldn’t make sense to have a law that would legally require them to offer an app on that platform

    And Chrome isn’t “officially bad” in a legal sense.

    The internet standards themselves are a bit… imprecise too. Implementing them in browser is ultimately up to the companies, there is no legal body requiring a browser to have or not have features. They just usually sort of do the same things because going different paths would be stupid. Mostly. Sometimes they totally do that, though, e.g. calendars and contact info have a standard, but all implementations are a mess and transfer is a pain.

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why is space 2 dimensional?Deutsch
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    1 month ago

    When things collide, they transfer their movement energy. If things collide like this >- They will continue in roughly the same direction. If they collide like this -> <- their movement will cancel out and they will fall into the sun.

    Satistically, at the “beginning of time”, in a random sphere around the sun, things will not be completely the same. So everything will either collide and fall. Or it will collide and continue in roughly the same direction. What we have now are the leftovers that were moving in roughly the same direction and colliding so little that they didn’t fall into the sun because of that.

    The same is true for the “disk”: If you start with a roughly evenly distributed sphere of gases or something, there is a middle somewhere where there is a little bit more mass than anywhere else. That’s where things will go.

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"English
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    2 months ago

    At the cost of sounding naive and stupid

    It may be a naive question, but it’s a very important naive question. Naive doesn’t mean bad.

    The answer is that that is not possible, because the compiler is supposed to translate the very specific language of C into mostly very specific machine instructions. The programmers who wrote the code, did so because they usually expect a very specific behavior. So, that would be broken.

    But also, the “unsafety” is in the behavior of the system and built into the language and the compiler.

    It’s a bit of a flawed comparison, but you can’t build a house on a foundation of wooden poles, because of the advantages that wood offers, and then complain that they are flammable. You can build it in steel, but you have to replace all of the poles. Just the poles on the left side won’t do.

    And you can’t automatically detect the unsafe parts and just patch those either. If we could, we could just fix them directly or we could automatically transpile them. Darpa is trying that at the moment.

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.world•How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it growEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I think the timing isn’t quite right, because the other social media places aren’t figuratively totally on fire.

    There isn’t “the great social media collapse of 20XX” happening, because of some security issue or servers being super expensive or ads being actually 99% of the content. The forces that be are managing things well enough that things aren’t collapsing right now.

    There is no single actually big celebrity that has picked a fediverse platform as the place to be, follow and discuss news.

    And there is no killer feature that you can only get here.

    The bonfire is stacked nicely, but there is no spark. For now. That could change at any moment, but it could also take a while.

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldtoFediverse@lemmy.world•How to make the Threadiverse a nice place and effectively make it growEnglish
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    3 months ago

    I don’t think the timing is quite right.

    I don’t really have anything meaningful to contribute to the feeds and most of the discussions are a bit pointless. They’re not really changing anything. So, in part those other platforms are fueled by outrage culture. Which I know is bad, so not having it is good, but then we also don’t have the growth from it.

    The technology is there and that should help. Apparently people aren’t going to mass migrate from reddit quite yet, even though the push last year probably helped a lot.

    It is a network problem. I think the slow growth will / should happen eventually, because the fediverse is an objectively good place to start a community. It’s just not going to be fast and other platforms adding push factors would help obviously. We’ll see where reddit goes with their paid subs.

    I don’t think the low effort posts are a problem, there is hardly motivation to interact with an empty page and there is slightly more if there are “boring topics”. At least it’s a place.

  • it_depends_man@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.world•Self-confidenceEnglish
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    3 months ago
    1. if a random comment on the internet is enough to destroy

    your dream

    then it was a weak and shitty dream. Get a new one.

    1. do it anyway. Who cares. You know what’s the worst that could happen? You try, and it doesn’t work out and then you can look back at it and consider it “gave it a good shot, didn’t work out”. And then you can point to all the people who still sit on their couch and didn’t even try.

    2. do it.