Hmm, I was under the impression that there isn’t much written about him until long after his death - but maybe I did let that one skepticon video influence me too much lol

Same tbh but if something DOES happen - I think zone.ee is more likely to respond to some Estonian org’s threats than Hetzner - and I think Zone would also likely become a target first.

Shady entities outside your own country maybe. But shouldn’t you be more worried about the ones in your own country?

Exactly my point. Most of us customize our setup one way or another, usually. Few of us are ricers in the traditional sense.

It’s a very expensive form of advertising. It means you have to have margins. There are a bunch of VPNs out there, so you’d expect the space to be competitive, but somehow a couple of them can spend like half their revenue on advertising?

Though I did just now realize that they do it instead by having enticing start-up prices and really expensive prices after the fact, so maybe they don’t have to supplement their income by selling data after all.

Having other people on the network mess with them sounds kinda fun, but I think I’ll probably skip on account of all the other issues.

NordVPN is superior in every way. If you have ProtonVPN, dump it and swap to Nord.

Have we learned nothing of the whole “spend millions upon millions on YouTube sponsorships” debacle? Nord absolutely is hiding something from us.

If you need to forward ports, AirVPN seems the best right now. Otherwise, Mullvad.

By “look like Jesus” I do indeed mean the popular modern western depiction of Jesus, because as far as I know, there’s no conclusive proof of a historical Jesus existing, and if he did, he was obviously not a modern European-origin American man.

As for the second point - idk, it might just be because I can’t grow a decent full beard, but after the first centimeter or 2 of facial hair, I just get told to shave because it’s not funny anymore. I also can’t imagine letting my hair grow for several years to get it as long as those guys. I thought one of the perks of being a man is that you get to be comfortable instead of spending years growing out your hair and shit lol

Oooh so I’m not the only one who uses (used) refind with Gentoo!

And extra ambiguity with people talking about polishing their deck while also pronouncing it as dick

Ricing isn’t exactly the same as personalized though.

Ricing when it comes to cars is putting on a giant wing and a huge muffler on a Honda Civic.

Ricing in the Gentoo community is turning on every compiler optimization flag for the main portage config file without knowing what they’re doing, potentially actually de-optimizing your setup.

There’s an element of “overdone” involved usually whenever someone is called a ricer.

Are the speakers themselves good though?

Honestly don’t care about Elon’s PoE 2 account. Nor do I care much about Asmongold as a person, I only have a single important question:

What’s with gaming streamers/youtubers trying to look like Jesus? GN Steve gets a pass, he’s Tech Jesus and everyone knows it. What’s up with Asmongold and that Penguinz guy though?

Keep doing that tbh

I have family members who can’t really understand spoken English because it’s a bit fast, and can’t read English subtitles again, because again, too fast for them.

Sometimes you download a movie and all the Estonian subtitles are for an older release and they desynchronize. Sometimes you can barely even find synchronized English subtitles, so even that doesn’t work.

This seems like a godsend, honestly.

Funnily enough, of all the streaming services, I’m again going to have to commend Apple TV+ here. Their shit has Estonian subtitles. Netflix, Prime, etc, do not. Meaning if I’m watching with a family member who doesn’t understand English well, I’ll watch Apple TV+ with a subscription, and everything else is going to be pirated for subtitles. So I don’t bother subscribing anymore. We’re a tiny country, but for some reason Apple of all companies has chosen to acknowledge us. Meanwhile, I was setting up an Xbox for someone a few years ago, and Estonia just… straight up doesn’t exist. I’m not talking about language support - you literally couldn’t pick it as your LOCATION.

Man idk, Facebook in 2010 was log on, see what friends and family posted, laugh and comment, send people stuff in games…

Facebook since 2016 and especially 2020 has been “log on, don’t look at any posts, go to marketplace to post whatever you’re selling aaaand log out”

Even trivial sorting algorithms are still called algorithms.

It’s about SO but on SS so you were still right!

Haven’t had a chance to use it much tbh, I mostly work in backend development. I’d deeply prefer it to Electron for my personal ideological reasons (which is that running “native” apps in a browser is stupid), but I hear it’s not recommended for web, so you’d still have to develop two or three versions (depending on how feasible it is to keep desktop and mobile on the same codebase - I’m not sure on that). Still, it’s more reasonable than doing the desktop versions in Qt in this day and age, because C++ is just a recipe for footgunning yourself. This is of course negated by having significant C++ experience, in which case Qt is the way to go.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Windows, Apple and Android, and the companies that develop software that run on Windows, Apple, and Android, have all fallen into the habit of writing unoptimized, bloated code

Same goes for anyone who develops software that runs on Linux or more importantly, the Web. Unless we’re talking about command line utilities, which truly are bloatless. But they’re that way on MacOS too.

The issue is that 99% of the time you want your user interface to be graphical, and you want it to run on multiple platforms, unless you’re a Windows-only shop (realistically the only operating system you can afford to have as the ONLY target). But every OS has different libraries and frameworks for native GUI, so your options are Web technologies and either run it in the browser or package it in Electron, or a cross-platform native GUI framework. Those inevitably have worse performance than truly platform-native code, but not as bad as Electron. Inevitably, everything is running on Electron because it’s just easier to take your existing web app and repurpose it for desktop via Electron than develop two separate apps. And the web app itself, without Electron, is already shit. Why is it shit? Because Javascript is shit, the DOM is shit, everything is shit. We’ve been adding more and more and more to tech from the 1990s. It keeps growing in complexity and we’re just doomed.

Maybe WASM will fix parts of this, but at present time you can’t write a full web application in WASM without any Javascript involved. And you still have the DOM, and probably CSS, etc… All of which just suck ass.

Now, you CAN write an efficient UI in pure Javascript, maybe using jQuery, but not a big framework like React or Vue… But then you’ll find out duplicating so much work, it’ll take 3-5x as long to ship the product.