Haha, yes, that’s my plan!

Make Microsoft Windows show filename extensions.

They may be feeling the pinch of a ton of their subscribers cancelling it after they watched the last episode of Severance.

Added to my watchlist, thanks!

Absolutely! If you haven’t watched it yet, Dark Days is also harrowing, if not as much as The Act of Killing.

The WordPress company, as in the developers of WordPress itself.

Thanks for these. Will add them to my list.

I love documentaries. There are so many amazing ones and I regret that they don’t get as much attention as the biggest fiction films, even though I love those too.

Here are two documentaries that immediately spring to mind because they made a big impression on me:

Dark Days (2000)

The Act of Killing (2012)

If people can code better, faster, cheaper, safer (more secure) that will surely apply to open source as well.

I’m not European, but I understand that there’s an old European (German?) saying that basically goes: “If I had wheels, I’d be a trolley.” I understand that it’s been pretty well-established that AI coding tools routinely underperform compare to humans in terms of “better” and “safer”, which indirectly would also lead to it failing at “cheaper” too.

On top of that, there is another major issue with using AI for open-source code: copyright. First, you don’t know if the code that you’re adding through AI may be copying license-incompatible code verbatim. Because everyone has access to open-source code, it would be trivial for anyone to search and find copyright-infringing code to attack projects with. Second, the code that AI produces is also not-copyrightable, so that is another line of attack that this would make open-source projects vulnerable to. These could be used in combination as a one-two punch combination to knock out an open-source project.

I think that using AI-generated code in open-source projects is a uniquely ill-advised idea.

This is almost like a real-world Chewbacca defense?

America’s right has been pretty relentlessly trying to get people out of pensions and into 401Ks for decades

Not just pensions. They’ve also been trying to get rid of Social Security in favor of private retirement accounts invested in the stock market for decades now.

Dear CEOs: devour feculence.

Thanks for your thoughtful reply! I feel similarly about mean replies online, which is why I usually try not to contribute to that trend. If nothing else, I at least try not to escalate arguments.

Regarding programming languages’ efficiency, it’s a pretty interesting topic to consider in this time of climate change. There can be trade-offs like for example in the case of Python vs. Rust, while you gain a lot in terms of performance and resource utilization with Rust, you lose a lot in terms of development speed, from what I understand (I have not programmed with Rust yet, nor any large projects with Python). I hope that more programmers begin to consider these factors when picking a language to develop with.

Take care.

Yes, but I’ve felt this way for quite a while. It’s not recent. I think it has to do not only with personal family stuff, but also national and world systems, and most especially climate change. All stuff that has been going off the rails or threatening to. Also ADHD here.

By the way, this movie may be of interest to some of you, as it deals with this kind of feeling (a little more dramatized and specific for the story, but it portrays the feeling of impending doom fairly well, I think): Take Shelter (2011)

Maybe it’s just my face shape, but I basically extend the top and bottom panels almost completely. The edge of the bottom panel is pretty well under my chin. Comparing with your photo, I think my middle panel would be a little lower relative to my face. Maybe you can find a video somewhere on how to best fit that particular mask?

Edit: the other thing I do after extending the panels is to put the mask on my face pretty much where/how I’m going to wear it, then pull the rubber bands over my head, then do some final fine adjustments to make sure that there are no gaps.

How weird, those 3-piece 3M N95s (Aura) are my absolute favorite ever!

I didn’t look at the details of those three communities before posting them. I was just pointing out what I had found on a search. I don’t mind lemmy.ml. and prefer it over lemmy.world, but I can understand that some people don’t like .ml. I’m glad that you and others are creating alternatives to .world communities anyway.

I figure that Mbin is not too bad, since PHP seems to be quite a bit faster than Python too.

Haha, yes, that!

There is also:

• !fediverse@lemmy.ml
• !fediverse@midwest.social
• !fediverse@lemmy.zip

I’m not too keen on Piefed because it’s written in Python, which is multiple times less than Rust (what Lemmy is written in) for a server back-end application. It just seems like a waste of electricity or adding more carbon to the atmosphere than it should, for a widely-used server application.

Edit: “less [performant]” - missed a word there.

Jason Statham is like his own IP now, similar to superhero or star wars movies. Should we call it the “Jason Statham universe”?