I find I ask less questions now because I’m a better programmer and just visit the site less in general. I used to ask a lot. I actually don’t find that many duplicates though, usually when I have a question there isn’t already an answer… usually because when I have a question I’m doing something insane, I find I do that a lot lol.
Consistently? Not that I can think of either but there was that one judge in the Oracle v Google Java case that I believe learned enough programming to call BS on oracle’s claims.
Ngl when Nintendo got yuzu to fold I was like
Well I’m never giving that company money ever again
I’m usually mostly against piracy, not for legal reasons but because I think the creators should be rewarded for their hard work making content people enjoy…but Nintendo can go fly a kite…and crash it while they’re at it.
The legal definition of piracy in regard to digital content isn’t stealing. You cannot steal digital media as stealing by definition means the owner of the content is no longer able to sell it. If you steal an apple they can’t sell it because you have it. Piracy of digital media is only copyright infringement, which is still illegal but regardless of how you feel about piracy it is fundamentally not theft.
I replied to lazy guru below but basically I feel as though his argument about stifling innovation is a sorta win some lose some reason and allowing instances to go proprietary isn’t conducive to an open ecosystem. Basically the only way as a user to ensure you’re not inadvertently running proprietary code you might not want to run would be to host your own instance. Additionally to piggy back on that hosting your own instance might not be as feature complete due to wide spread use of proprietary or custom extensions used by other instances. A Lemmy extension betters the entire Lemmy ecosystem, a sublinks extension only betters the sublinks instance that developed it(unless they decide to contribute it back and hopefully they will)
I’ve thought sublinks was really cool, a lot of which because it’s Java and I feel like modern Java doesn’t get the love it deserves…but I am worried about it not being AGPL. At least for me the fact that Lemmy couldn’t have it’s codebase closed was a large appeal and this move doesn’t sit well since it would allow instances to close source their backeds if they wanted to. I feel like AGPL is a requirement for user freedom with websites as it’s the only open source license for the web.
ObjC has always been a language that’s interested me in the sense that it’s very unique and it just seemed interesting. That being said I’ve never been involved in the apple ecosystem, not open enough for me so I got my mobile start on Android with Java…then realized I loved java, hated android development and never went back to mobile platform stuff LOL. I still haven’t moved to kotlin and with modern Java as it is I don’t currently plan to. Maybe I’ll give it a try if I ever try android development again but for now I’m just a user on the mobile side.
The mention of iOS 16 having 66% of system binaries not using swift is very interesting. I’m actually curious as to the equivalent number on Android. How many system APKs currently don’t use kotlin?
🤔 my GitHub activity is like, 1 commit every 6 months. Low activity!! GitHub isn’t where I keep my code.
Me when this post has led me to find cute anime girl communities lol. I respect the decision to do it…but I’ll be subscribing to some of these