Lemmert

@Lemmert@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A small moment in gaming history⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I remember playing Fortnite back in high school and asking a friend if he could play via the in game chat. The problem was that I wrote “Kunt ge?” so the whole thing got censored

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are datacenters in space more lucrative than on earth?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Data processing in space can be useful, albeit not in the way that Musk seems to sell it. I spoke with some people from a space startup (edgx) at a jobfair in Belgium half a year ago.

  Their thing was that they did some data processing in space to cut down on bandwidth. I also remember specifically asking them about cosmic rays and they told me it’s definitely manageable because their computers fly in LEO. (They already have a computer in space)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How no-techy/"common" people know if a Open Source code is secure?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally when I install some software I generally look at popularity (like stars if the code is hosted on Github), whether an audit has recently happened, it is recommended by someone I trust, and whether the permissions it needs are reasonable (I’m on Silverblue so I only install Flatpaks)

  When I used to use Arch I also looked at the pkgbuild beforehand since they’re generally fairly small en very human readable. I also looked at popularity there and whether the developer maintained an Arch package. But that obviously doesn’t say anything about the code itself.

  I definitely don’t consider myself non-techy since I’m doing an an engineering masters with a CS track but those things shouldn’t require any programming knowledge.

  But I think most of the more common users don’t really care and install the packages they need without thinking too much about it. Unless the source seems very untrustworthy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the strangeness I do have with German as a native Dutch speaker. But that’d made sense since I’d obviously know when a word isn’t Dutch, like you’re alluding to.

  Though I’m assuming it’s not to the same extent you have with Spanish and Portuguese, since that description fits more with what I have with Afrikaans.

  But I only learned some basic German in high school for an hour per week so I definitely don’t have the same experience with it that you probaby do. Neither do I have any push to use or learn it, compared to French at least there wasn’t.

  Still really cool to hear the perspective from someone like you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn that’s cool!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The more you know! German as a Dutch speaker has always been a bit of a special language (I’m assuming the other way around as well).Like some words are similar (like gevonden/gefunden). Which makes sense, but then some German composite words sound funny. Because we do understand what a bahn (baan) and hof (also hof) mean. But we call a bahnhof a station.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do non-English speakers learn to code in English, or in their native language?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  False friends usually aren’t homonyms since the word comes from different languages.

  To give an example: an English speaker might look at “rare auto” (Dutch) and might translate it to “rare car”. But “rare” means “weird” in Dutch. So rare is a false friend in this case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only one country⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As Belgian, I can explain that with the fact that we are short kings

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a bit surprised this was mentioned so far down in the comments. Especially since the article is sparse on the details for obvious reasons.

• Thoughts on Darktrace or MS Sentinel?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m severely alarmed by the amount of people arguing whether or not Steam is a monopoly. You don’t need 100% of market share to have monopoly position. Pure monopolies are extremely rare and are almost always state-run companies like for public transport. No anti-monopoly legislation is written in a way to only break up firms with literally 0 competition.