“barely any” is neither entirely accurate, nor does it excuse the use of flatpaks.

beyond root processes, none that I am aware of. Hence I configured all my internet applications and steam to run in a jail :) firejail & bubblewrap come as native packages, unlike the flatpak contents

isn’t flatpak by definition relying on a second software source, hence 2x as much risk as relying on a single source (your OS repo)?

I love everything about this story.

N00b. True pros accomplis O((n^2)!)

I love whistling back at cheerfully singing birds and getting a reaction out of them :)

it’s reading lemmy right now :p

Old age

“Spells that have more than 5 lines of text can’t bring you into existence.”

Hooray for spelling.

Same question

while your measured response is appreciated, I hardly consider a few dozen downvotes relevant, nor do I care in this case. It’s telling that those who did respond to my comment seem to assume I would consider myself a “pro” when that’s 1) nothing I said and 2) it should be clear from my comment that I consider the expression cringy. Outside memeable content, only idiots call themselves a “pro”. If something is my profession, I could see someone calling themselves a “professional <whatever>” (not that I would use it), but professional has a profoundly distinct ring to it, because it also refers to a code of conduct / a way to conduct business.

“I’m a pro” and anything like it is just hot air coming from bullshitters who are mostly responsible for enshittification of any given technology.

I’m a 10 year pro,

You wish. The sheer idea of calling yourself a “pro” disqualifies you. People who actually code and know what they are doing wouldn’t dream of giving themselves a label beyond “coder” / “programmer” / “SW Dev”. Because they don’t have to. You are a muppet.

I fully concur. There’s tons of really inefficient software out there that wastes resources just because for a long time, available resources grew fast enough to just keep using more of them without the net speed of an application slowing down. If we didn’t have so many lazy SW devs, I suspect the reduction in needed CPU cycles would have a measurable positive effect on climate change.

mildly amused

It’s why I’ll always remain happy with recreational diving at depths less than 40m :) Tech divers are a bit crazy imo. Sure, there’s nice views to be had (if you bring a lot of light), but it’s not worth the risk for me.

I highly recommend using compressed air over oxygen. Nitrox 100 (pure oxygen) becomes toxic below 5 meters…

1.6 bars partial pressure Oxygen is considered unsafe / hazardous.

99% morons, that’s why…

If you lost it, you are dehumanizing people, which is a condition that many absolutist regimes aim to accomplish to enable genocide.

The Russian war of aggression and uncounted war crimes against Ukraine are suitable to make everyone furious, but how we treat even mass murderers is a reflection not of who they are, but who we are. By doing more than the necessary (and if that is killing, by being excessively cruel, or enjoying the killing), we harm ourselves, not the enemy. Because we desensitize ourselves to violence, and we become that which we claim to be fighting.

Support Ukraine with everything we have, but let us enable them to kill as cleanly as possible - that also means (looking at you, my government in Berlin) to give them proper long range missiles. Let us never rejoice over unnecessary cruelty towards anyone - although we may be happy for neutralized threats.

There are certainly Russian soldiers who knew enough about that war to make such an informed decision. But Putler is also using this war to perform an ethnic cleansing a genocide among Russian minorities from far east - recruiting people from communities with little knowledge about world politics and being very very poor. Buratya comes to mind. Low education + poor + pressure + promise of money and you will end up with a lot of recruits who had no idea what they were getting into until their own soldiers started pointing rifles at their backs from the second line should they dare retreat.

That may be not an option for the individual conscript. We don’t know who of them was recruited under which circumstances. They are still humans. Even for war criminals we can unfortunately not deny that they are human.

With the Russian army being the aggressor, and short of Putler withdrawing from Ukraine, it is unfortunately the only option for Ukraine to kill the Russian soldiers in self defense. If that can be accomplished without causing them to suffer unnecessarily, that is the preferable option.