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Since the project is already okay with Github, perhaps a set of polls in Github with this feature, linked far and wide in Lemmy.

0.5% in January alone

That’s a great point and a really low hanging fruit that would likely help with adoption and retention. The defaults weren’t great for me either.

If people went as far as registering in a Lemmy instance, they clearly have some affinity towards the Fediverse. Getting through Fediverse to work nicely for them is what bridges the gap. It’s the same with anything people do. Better defaults is a trivial low hanging fruit that can help perhaps significantly.

There’s faster ways to get data. We can do a few surveys on existing users. We’ll get hundreds of responses easily. Perhaps multiple surveys, one for each setting.

Thank your for your service. 🙏 Building a community takes work. Let’s hope this one is more resilient to corpo-lobotomize than Reddit, Digg and Slashdot.

Why did you do that to yourself… 🥹

For some reason I thought it’s based in the UK, but apparently not.

Time for China to step in I guess.

AFAIK the American plants use inputs from Taiwan. I don’t know what inputs exactly.

The horse-car analogies rarely achieve what you want them to, especially in situations where we don’t have the benefit of hindsight.

Interesting. They already make their motherboards in Vietnam.

This is why security is usually multi-layered - decrease the chances of a single fuckup compromising everything. And yes using a safer language adds a layer. But typically it won’t be the only layer.

I don’t disagree with these points in general. However this isn’t simply about the tools. Tools go along with people and their skill and experience. There are developers and developers. There are people with lots of experience who create much higher quality C code than others. Personally I’d never touch C if I can avoid it as I don’t trust myself as much. I’d always go for C++ instead. Modern C++ with RAII is great. It’s what most of the software at our corpo is written in. Maybe Rust would end up becoming the default standard at some point. Maybe something else would. I would never go shit on a coworker who has produced tons of well functioning code that they better reskill in something that may or may not stick around, or that they may not become as productive with for a long time. A team skilled in C or C++ may be able to produce higher quality software, quicker than a less skilled team Rust. Rust might be better for teams that just start in native programming. I don’t know. If it grows enough in use, reskilling people and reworking software to cooperate with it might become an obvious choice. For now, as I see it, it depends on the team.

JFC… This such a trainwreck…

No amount of sabotage from old entrenched maintainers is going to stop the world from moving forward towards memory-safe languages.

Jesus fucking insufferable Christ… Saying shit like this, given C has been in use for 50 years and is still in very wide use today, and given the vast number of languages that have come and gone over this period, it’s just incredible.

Because beyond the racism, their issues are our issues. They’re class issues.

Hasn’t done sieg heil in public yet. 😂

Termux doesn’t run arbitrary software. There’s a pretty large set that does but plenty doesn’t. A VM would resolve that.