@Tony@caekislove@VeroniqueB99 No, that is what has actually happened! Pretty scary 😨 And in Russia they have launched a HUGE campaign that it's not a waste, but a valuable resource that can be reprocessed and that the Germans are simply stupid giving that up. Germany most probably had nothing to do with this part, this was our own government. And yes, of course Soviet Union indeed had a technology or two in this field, and yet I doubt that a country that now can't make even an electric kettle without help from China can do what Germany can't. And I've seen photos of this containers just sitting there in the woods, no one is reprocessing shit. Right now there is no harm, but they are just sitting there unattended, the weather conditions are pretty harsh, who knows what will start happening in a decade, when the containers start degrading and this stuff starts leaking out. That's the nuclear shit that they have just shutdown. There are also windmills, parts for which are made in China and production of which is very environmentally unfriendly. Like I said, astounding levels of hypocrisy 😖
@kirby@Kirino Both are fun, but go for Go first I think if you want to make network services. Rust's syntax will feel weird afterwards, to the one who is used to C-like languages it always does, but you will be able to get around that.
@munir They do, but you can do our favourite fucked up shit, like creating unsafe references and even ignore the most part of the type system, to show that borrow checker the finger 😊 @kirby@Kirino
@gnarley_boot > Now you have this wayland cult trying to get rid of Xorg and that pisses me offf. I must be too deep underground and I only see the opposite end of it: "OMG, let's use this ancient shit from 20 years ago! They are trying to force this new thing upon us, but we won't budge!" Who the fuck is forcing anything on them? I have no idea! Developers only want to work on the Wayland thing? It's their choice, they aren't obliged to support what you want. Want something else? Fork it and add support for whatever you want, or support financially those who are willing to step up 🤷 I wanted to solve the screen tearing happening when scrolling through long pages in Firefox and Wayland did it. I also have very old computers, which have hardware incapable of using Wayland, and I use Xorg on the just fine. No one ever forced either on me. Unlike with Windows and Mac OS X, when you have to upgrade just for your system to remain secure, and when it comes with shit you don't like, you have to accept it, whether you like it or not. Mozilla is attempting to force this WebP shit on me so I have rolled back the change, problem solved. I have to undo this every time they update, this is the price I gave to pay for my choice. Most people don't want to pay any price, and expect someone else to solve it for them: the state, upstream software developers and whatnots. Well, surprise, sometimes this feedback mechanism gets broken, no one is interested in your opinion and just whining won't work — you have to step up and invest your own time and money into it, most are simply not prepared for it. @theorytoe@LordMordred
@adiz Computing power has gone way through the roof nowadays, I don't think I ever use the computing power even of my midrange phone and I'm quite comfortable using 10 y.o. computers. And I think I'm not alone in this — that is precisely why they had to come up with this "AI" bullshit, to have a whole new point for selling people new hardware. On the bright side: it doesn't look like they have succeeded in this, more and more people grow comfortable with using older hardware or using the one they already have for longer, this means free software has higher chance of catching up and soon (but not too soon) we might have truly free and open software on quite capable and open hardware.
@theorytoe@MK2boogaloo I could live with that! Knowing a girl who can use the programming languages which I don't hold in the highest regard seems pretty minor compared to having to rebuild Firefox to not have support for the image format that I TOTALLY DESPISE!!! :marseyraging:
@munir I don't even have a Discord account, I don't even know if you are supposed to have one or are they different on every server 😂 My only experience with Discord was when my friends suggested we could use it for group video calls instead of Skype, it was long ago. I decided to look into it and found out that all its desktop applications are based on Google Chrome. Although it grew in popularity significantly since then, I have never revisited it again. During COVID we got fed up with video calls it seems and don't do it often anymore, when we do, Matrix/Element works pretty well, and it works fine in Firefox.
@not_br549@dcc@j@pwm@p@0@syzygy@sun@threat I don't think it's feasible to copy Intel at this point, it's hardly as easy as clicking fingers, it's got too complex, would take very competent people to figure out how everything works — but it also makes very little sense, considering having competent people it won't take that long to port everything to any architecture you want. They could've embraced RISC-V, gave such systems a boost and them start benefitting from what the community itself does with it. They could make people want these computers voluntarily — so no one ever has to rely on backdoors in Intel CPUs, whether those are real or not. But that's not what they do at all — instead they do this stupid Long Dong shit, that no one wants outside of China :cirno_shrug:
@not_br549 Sure, they can copy the instruction set, but without doing everything Intel does the performance would be subpar — and again, would make little sense. Long Dong is just my way of mocking it, it's Loongson actually 😂 Basically it's 64-bit MIPS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson But as much as I'm into marginal CPU architectures, I've never seen this stuff being popular even in these circles.