I used to work as a Windows application developer for a while and even though Windows itself never gave me the feeling of “oh, I’d really like to have this at home too” there was the C++ debugger in Microsoft Visual Studio that I remember as being remarkably good, to this day I haven’t seen anything quite like it anywhere else.
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It was cancer. Just because the cancer got you down to your goal weight, it doesn’t mean you should lament the success of your chemotherapy.
This is the best explanation of Flash I’ve ever read!
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Android@lemdro.id•No banking apps on your custom ROM? This new initiative could help.English
3·4 days agoAll the big banks I use don’t do anything ither than SMS, they’re lazy AF.
That’s truly mind-blowing, and fraud must be rampant! I have accounts in several different banks in several different countries, both inside and outside of the EU, and I have never ever encountered a bank that would rely on SMS “authentication” for security, not even in the distant past when online banking was new.
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Android@lemdro.id•No banking apps on your custom ROM? This new initiative could help.English
4·5 days agoIt’s quite common for people to feel hurt when they feel ignored.
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Android@lemdro.id•No banking apps on your custom ROM? This new initiative could help.English
1·5 days agoI should say, if anyone knows a bank with proper modern online security protocols I am willing to listen.
I’m personally quite fond of Wise.
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Ask Lemmy•What is your oldest living presence on the World Wide Web?
3·5 days agoThanks! 😁
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Android@lemdro.id•No banking apps on your custom ROM? This new initiative could help.English
71·5 days agoI appreciate the effort but my banking apps still rely on 2FA through SMS.
And you trust them with your money!?!
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Android@lemdro.id•No banking apps on your custom ROM? This new initiative could help.English
2·5 days agoAnd I still have no idea why Micay has started lumping iodé in with them, because I have been following that project closely for many years and no one there gives a shit about GrapheneOS.
I don’t know, but it seems to me that you might have a rather good guess as to why right there.
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Ask Lemmy•What is your oldest living presence on the World Wide Web?English
14·5 days agoI have a URL that’s 30 years old this year and it’s still valid and it still redirects to my personal homepage.
(Bonus: The oldest Internet Archive snapshot of it is from 1997.)
Funny thing that, a personal homepage, I first created one 31 years ago, at a time when it was rather unusual to have one. I still have one, and now it has become rather unusual to have one once again.
The fun fact part is, this is could actually be pretty damn efficient if done well.
This is essentially how diesel–electric locomotives work (since almost a hundred years now).
The minimum legal age for drinking beer or wine at a pub or restaurant is 16 years in Germany and many of its neighbouring countries so, yes, it’s not at all unusual around here to drink before turning 18.
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Not The Onion•Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leadersEnglish
11·6 days agoOK, then you’re just wrong. Sorry.
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Not The Onion•Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leadersEnglish
1·6 days agoCreoles aren’t even considered fully fledged languages, which is why there is a word for them as a concept, so including them would be wrong. Many of them are also just a mix of a local language and English. They might disappear, or evolve to full languages.
You must have gravely misunderstood many things here, for you can’t possibly really believe that the language of Haiti (to take a very obvious and well-known example) isn’t a “fully fledged language” (whatever that’s supposed to mean) or that it has any risk of disappearing (greater than any other language).
I don’t know the Maltese language, but that description is still more coherent than what has gone down with English whose grammar rules are all over the place.
While it’s true that also English has borrowed some grammar from other languages (as most languages have, to varying degrees), that has, as far as I’m aware of, all been from related Indo-European languages, not even close to requiring the amount of duct taping of Maltese. Can you think of even a single example of an English grammar rule that doesn’t come from another Indo-European language?
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Not The Onion•Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leadersEnglish
1·6 days agoMy personal favourite, which goes much, much further in the duct taping department by taking essentially the entire grammar from one language and a majority of the vocabulary from another, together with uncountable other influences, would be Maltese.
But there are many others, not least all the world’s creole languages.
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Not The Onion•Hegseth declares, 'I only speak American' to room full of foreign leadersEnglish
12·6 days agoEnglish is the most duct-taped together language,
I’m sorry, but if you truly believe that, then you must have a very limited knowledge of the languages of the world. English is not very unusual in this regard.
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Linux@programming.dev•Matcha - A powerful, feature-rich email client for your terminalEnglish
2·11 days ago“All mail clients suck. This one just sucks less.”
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Contributing to OSS without technical skillsEnglish
10·11 days agoSimon Tatham wrote this several decades ago, but I still think it’s all excellent advice:
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Contributing to OSS without technical skills
33·11 days agoEven if you’re not technical, it should be possible for you to learn how to write a good bug report if you’re interested and as a longtime developer I can tell you from experience that a really good bug report is a real delight to receive.



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