寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Thursday, 02-Feb-2023 00:09:01 JST
寮Just wondering, is there some condom for WordPress soytes?
Because it seems like all WP soytes (both wordpress.com and self hosted included) tend to come with large numbers of spyware nowadays, so a lean frontend would be welcoming.
Mono yes, but .NET Core only released a few years ago, so I don't really count that.
> People want a replacement because C suffers from the problem of being too simple yet difficult to use effectively (need to grasp pointers, learn how data is managed, etc.)
And none of these are that difficult to learn honestly.
Like so many people fear the lack of a garbage collector, even though it's basically just making use of the "free" command, just don't forget to call it before the end of the program.
Correct PHP even requires you to unset (the PHP counterpart for "free") variables, close SQL connections, use fclose if you use files, and so on, but very few PHP devs do so, and then they wonder why the memory usage is growing, and why they get DDoS'd.
So instead of learning to code properly, they resort to bloat like Cuckflare/Fastly and frameworks like Laravel/Symphony/CakePHP/whatever.
Because PHP is technically just a C framework for web development, very few people realize this, so they often make frameworks inside of frameworks inside of frameworks inside of frameworks inside of frameworks inside of frameworks inside of frameworks, and then they wonder why PHP sucks...
In my view, C is where re-inventing the wheel should have stopped.
The "easier" programming becomes, the more retards start writing soyware, and C was already easy enough.
I would actually split up C++ and Java, because C++ is "we took C and made it worse", but Java is "we took C++ and made it worse", as Java was made as a "let's make something like C++, but make it run on everything using 1 codebase", except what it became is "let's make it like C++, force an overly complex IDE down everybody's throat, make programming into an even bigger hell than C++ already was even though we added a layer of abstraction, and make sure it's a memory hog too by the way because fuck computers".
And then Steve Ballmer copied Java, fixed a few problems, made it Windblows-only, named it "C#", and danced like a monkey on stage while announcing it.
GiveSendGo is openly Christian, so it's only a matter of time before them lying about not cancelling people gets exposed, like how it always tends to happen.
I instead recommend self hosted solutions like Fosspay (still requires (((Stripe))) as a middleman though) or BTCPay (which can be configured to accept Monero, so you effectively cut out all middlemen).
Or simply a Monero + Bitcoin + Wownero QR code on your own website, even easier!
You can optionally add QR codes for PayPay, AliPay, LINE Pay, and Wechat Pay for the government """money""" fans, I mean fiat currency fans, but they're owned by (((Jewhoo Japan (aka, SoftBank)))), (((Alibaba))), (((Naver))), and (((Tencent))) respectively, none of which are particularily trustworthy middlemen at all.
Hyperbola: "Our objective is to support the privacy of our community"
Also Hyperbola: "The official Hyperbola channel is #hyperbola, hosted on (((Libera Chat)))."
So you don't support the privacy of your community then...
寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 11:25:24 JST
寮Gargron: "Mastodong.Soycialist got DDoS'd REEEE!!"
Me: "Maybe you'll need to upgrade your server, or clean up your database, or make your software less bloated, or optimize your server configuration, or multiple of these, or all of them."
Gargron: "I KNOW!! Let's misconfigure my instance even further by putting it behind a Big Brother surveillance soyvice so that the entire clearnet that depends on it goes down next time a DDoS happens! What can possibly go wrong?"
I never used it before, so I can't really comment on the specifics when it comes to the language itself.
But the fact it requires its own package manager (Cargo), like now in Python it's PIP and in Ruby it's Gem, is already a red flag (there's NPM for JS and Composer for PHP, but the use of these is optional at least).
And then there's issues with trademarks, which effectively makes it a non-free language: https://wiki.hyperbola.info/doku.php?id=en:philosophy:rust_trademark
And I heard from people who actually gave Rust a try that they're not as sold on the whole "type safety" part.
But what worries me more about using a meme language is that everyone jumps right in on using it, only to them regret it once it falls out of favor, but can't go back anymore because it's already far too late.
For example how the I2P team regretted using Java, but are stuck with it because they fell for the Java meme.
Or Discourse regretting using Ruby, but are stick with it because they fell for the Ruby meme.
And so many who used .NET in the past who now have to rewrite their stuff again now that more people decided to switch to Linux, BSD, or macOS even.
This is why I just stick with the old and trusted, because at least it just works.
寮 (ryo@social.076.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 09:12:33 JST
寮It's getting even more confirmed now that Rust is yet another meme language that everyone will talk about like crazy for the rest of this year, and nobody will care anymore next year or the year later.
Even System76 is going Rust...