JackbyDev

Having read ucc 1 308 and info about it I’m even more confused. Seems like they’re saying they can write “under protest” on a ticket and not have to pay? But that law isn’t about people driving. It’s about business transactions. Or maybe they’re saying the car isn’t related to business? It’s not like they’re logical though lol

I believe that’s implied in the “hubris” bit.

Gerard will remove Unreliable Sources en masse with terse explanations and with little consideration for actual content, digging in with elaborate justification when pressed.

Emphasis mine. Is the author really complaining that Gerard provides little explanation but also saying they provide a lot of explanation when asked for explanation? I don’t see the problem.

CS degrees, at least in my experience, prep you for a bunch of things that honestly don’t matter too much. Like, I don’t think knowing what P versus NP means really helps me at my job. I think learning to use build tools and frameworks rather than just the language itself would’ve been more useful.

The best professor I had in that regard at college was younger and also working at a “real” company while also teaching (I believe he was getting a master’s degree). He taught us about Spring and Maven and had us make a REST API. The only downside is that this course was about making GUIs and the majority of it was about Swing which nobody really uses. I have a feeling he added the other assignment because it was.more relevant to things most folks do with Java.

Chromium is open source. Google Chrome is not open source.

Yes, though they could remove it. If they’re open source then you could check easily.

I agree, but… This was in open source software. Chromium. Not just Google Chrome. https://github.com/chromium/chromium/commit/422c736b82e7ee763c67109cde700db81ca7b443

hangout_services/thunk.js (via) It turns out Google Chrome (via Chromium) includes a default extension which makes extra services available to code running on the *.google.com domains - tweeted about today by Luca Casonato, but the code has been there in the public repo since October 2013 as far as I can tell.

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/9/hangout_servicesthunkjs/

It’s possible former Redditors don’t realize you can edit the title of Lemmy posts.

Lemmy does not offer any sort of SSO so I wouldn’t worry about it.

different Lemmy accounts on different instances?

Those are different websites though.

Yes. Under 17 U.S. Code § 102 (a) (8). Blueprints might be under (a) (5) too but I’m not an expert.

(a) Copyright protection subsists, in accordance with this title, in original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device. Works of authorship include the following categories:

• (1) literary works;
• (2) musical works, including any accompanying words;
• (3) dramatic works, including any accompanying music;
• (4) pantomimes and choreographic works;
• (5) pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works;
• (6) motion pictures and other audiovisual works;
• (7) sound recordings; and
• (8) architectural works.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/102

That’s fair enough, but “the X giant” in particular I see so often. It feels like an in-joke amongst journalists or something.

I read it as Microsoft will provide it by purchasing it once.

I will forever maintain that on a purely hardware level that the Zune was better than the iPod. iTunes and later the App Store for iPod Touch is what made iPod won. Zune had no apps.

The Redmond giant

One of my least favorite things in journalism. Idk if it is SEO or what but it’s so bizarre.

Microsoft’s much-heralded Word app was storing documents as unencrypted DOCX files leaving them viewable by any malware.

You know, it’s sort of an interesting thought. If China uses my PC as part of some bot net that would suck, but that’s probably the worst that would happen. In the US though, the three letter agencies could “disappear” me. Not that I’m worth disappearing, but… I highly doubt China would send agents after me unless I visited and I don’t really plan on it.

They say they already use it to manage GitHub issues so it’s definitely more than “point 0” right now.

I see ads pretty much everyday in Windows. They’re not as attention grabbing as traditional ads and I think this is part of why some people don’t see them.