Programmer Belch

I don’t think coding in C is basic stuff, depending on the IDE, you can learn about using the terminal, compilers and if the course gets far, memory allocation, a really important tool in Linux programs.

How I wish a chat privacy law could be passed to make more difficult to continue eroding our rights.

I’m eyeing a fairphone or a pixel (graphene) when Europe makes swappable batteries the standard. Until then, I hope my phone keeps on working, I don’t change phone unless my last one dies.

I really hope swappable batteries make a comeback to ditch the portable batteries and just swap a fresh one.

Hey, I like sailing the high seas as much as the next one but shouldn’t those links be relegated to the megathread?

Not your keys, not safe encryption. As simple as that

I agree but I find blockchain technology too costly hardwarewise, a simple anonimizing network may be enough

Well then, just use an anonymus service to distribute magnet links (i2p, tor, blockchain)

You don’t need blockchain to accomplish what the internet archive is, just a network of computers that share a part of their disk space to the other computers. This is just a torrent network at the end of the day

For the void to point back at you just dereference the NULL pointer

I also have my reports in latex inside a git repo, complete with a makefile to generate graphs from csv containing simulation results. However I am too ashamed to publish the entire version control to a public repo

French dead link?

It’s been foretold that after a year without touching grass you can harness one-handed vim

Are there reasons for the reduction in IQ in those places like lack of funds, political instability?

Is it falling because of those changing averages or its going down using some kind of absolute measure? IQ is just a relative measure so saying it’s falling requires also what you are measuring it against

The average IQ has been rising ever since the tests were made, the scale has to change so that it marks the current average.

I don’t think we need to change genetics to get less gullible or stupid people.

If you want people to be less stupid or gullable, the answer is founding education programs to teach them scepticism.

About the irrationality, I think it’s part of what makes us human, biases can be overcome with some knowledge and humility but some things about humans like doing something for no reason or just because it fells good will never dissapear.

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As far as I know piped gets the video from youtube and serves it to you so that youtube only sees traffic coming from the piped instance you are using. Using adblockers would give you the same benefits as using piped except for the anonymity. As long as tor gives you a good video quality, it is a better option than the frontend because you don’t have a piped instance knowing your traffic.

I don’t like my traffic being fingerprinted by youtube but can’t handle the slow tor connections so I ended up using a frontend for youtube. The one I use is called Invidious.

We’ll wait until 7.7.7 so all of the religious folk switch to linux

For me the archwiki is for getting started with a program. I use the gentoo one when I want to customize the experience