lurch

@lurch@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Building personal software is now Practical⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  that only works to a certain degree tho. and modifying a growing codebase with AI usually breaks it. it works best when statring a completely new project

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Building personal software is now Practical⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  it has always been practical. even before i started working as a software developer 25 years ago, i had made numerous games, programs and scripts for myself, family or friends. from simple backup scripts to remibder apps and interesting graphic hacks. it’s not that hard. most languages are very similar, so the most important bit is to choose the best language for the task, like i would choose Java for automatic layout management in the GUI, for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You earned some more dislikes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that depends on what you think is honest. maybe the ppl think repeating this discussion again is boring and they dislike it. don’t take it personally. you are not your content.

  btw mastodon and bluesky don’t have downvotes. i think ppl who are here instead on those, decided this way is better. i for one left mastodon in favor of lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You earned some more dislikes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “only upvotes” don’t help as much, because you get a gap where ppl don’t like it. you can only use ppl who like it to sort, which may be much less than ppl who dislike it.

  also, once downvoted from many ppl, fewer ppl see the content and it gets less downvotes.

  actually downvotes give less “power to aasholes”, because otherwise ppl can post their evil shit like on xitter and they and the algorithm assume silence=agreement, even though agreeing takes only one tap while disagreeing requires writing a comment. this emboldens the “assholes”. they get littke to no feedback ppl don’t like it. on top of it, there are ways/algos to sort by number of comments. so if ppl actually dislike it so much to write a comment, it pushes the bad post up on these rankings, shoving the horribke stuff in even more ppls faces.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You earned some more dislikes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t forget that downvotes mostly help with sorting. they don’t mean “this is wrong”. they mean the reader didn’t like it and it should be sorted further down or even start collapsed. it can just be a highly unpopular or disgusting truth ppl want to swipe under the rug. it can also be totally irrelevant or link/quote sites ppl don’t like and want to reduce traffic to or be forgotten (reddit, xitter, fb come to mind)

  it’s just a quick feedback that can help the community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Current Situation (Sorry Americans)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We gotta learn what we can now, so we can prevent the 5th Reich later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Explosions heard, low-flying aircraft seen over Venezuela's capital⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  trump, that backstabbing bastard, has used bombs against another nation, he should have sent to Ukraine. He has proven, just like putin, that any country need nukes now. This is a horrible escalation. We will enter a new multi-front cold war era bevause of that shithead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this true for Germans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  3rd quarter of 2025 Germany had 64.1 % renewables and rising and imported only 8.2% more than it exported. Source: www.destatis.de/DE/Presse/…/PD25_436_43312.html

  Also, it’s building giant battery storage: heise.de/…/Energiewende-Europas-groesser-Batterie…

  Unfortunately the CDU is currently ruling and they’ll try to slow it down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this true for Germans?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not continously true for Germans tho. When the green party makes it into the ruling coalition it always feels they care and a few good things happen for the benefit of most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My life has been way better since I started keeping a cursory view of headlines once a day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the thing with reddit is that karma has a function. for example new users can’t post in most communities until they somehow get a lot of karma and posts from users with lots of past karma get pushed by their algos.

  that’s why immaginary internet points are very serious on reddit and accounts with lots of it can (illegally) be sold for thousands of dollars to advertising companies.

  this is the reason, i think it’s important to have votes in lemmy etc only matter per post/comment and only for sorting/displaying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan prepares to restart world's biggest nuclear plant, 15 years after Fukushima⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  godzilla bless

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not like that Timmy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some aren’t fingernails. It’s a left hand. And I think the lighting plus the effect/filter applied to make the lights in the background flare circular, also makes the bright areas on the fingers more shiny. Not sure though. Could be they just soothed the fingerprints away and since they knew there aren’t fingernails, never noticed ppl could see it like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not like that Timmy!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  nah, it’s from <2012, just not a top quality edit.

  does this link work? tineye.com/…/91c2cd3813b9cafb0d5c84355cdb1b5b1354… it has even bigger versions; less cropped.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is eyemaxxing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  5 crosseyes and 10 squints per day should do the trick

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists Say Sea Urchins Are Basically Brains With Spikes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that headline is so stupid. everyone who has found a sea urchin skeleton on the beach knows this is way too oversimplified.

  Sea urchin anatomy: generalized anatomy based on Arbacia from Wikipedia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨to my expierence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not saying Google is good, but it’s more on point when you add “-reddit -facebook -instagram -tiktok” (without quotes) and select “Search tools”->“All results”->Verbatim

  Hope that helps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lloyds used data from 30,000 staff accounts in union pay talks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  creepy af. first thing i’d do as an employee is make an account with another bank and set up monthly transfer, so the contract is fulfilled, but all they can see are those big transfers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People in my LinkedIn feed right now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Zoolander still from the funeral eulogy scene with part of an empty speech bubble indicating the comment above was what would be inside it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not impressed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m an animal too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The word "slop" has been taken full circle⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  always has been

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X-Files '90s promo shoot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Little did we know that’s a glance of the real inner Duchovny surfacing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This man⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  thots and players 🙏🙏🙏

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This man⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s a big room

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There will definitely be ppl offended by “death to Russians” and I find it highly questionable, because there are a few hundred good russians who haven’t been killed in the gulags so far and they do not deserve being slaughtered with the rest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anime titles be like⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Every writer of short stories knows the struggle. You can’t name them all “Nina” or “Summer Camp” 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anime titles be like⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Silliest I’ve seen so far: Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sex offender who sparked UK asylum hotel protests released by mistake⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh wow, what a blunder. don’t they like double check? you know, like four-eyes dual control principle, like we do at work for everything important?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm 5, who are you??⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh god oh fuck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure, I’m an animal too 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh god oh fuck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The biteyness increases when one gets moved out of the zone one can breathe in.