python is IMO the closest thing we have to a platonic ideal scripting language: it’s pseudocode that actually runs and you can just slap together libraries with minimal mental effort until it works.
Great for gently getting into programming so you quickly see results without having to learn arcane incantations, and for writing small tool programs; not so great for writing a kernel in.

i still do not fathom how mastodon is difficult, do people just expect the platform to read your mind and do everything for you? How is it any more difficult than youtube?

import yhwh  

def interventionSort(unsortedList):
    sortedList = yhwh.pray(
    "Oh great and merciful Lord above, let thine glory shine upon yonder list!", 
    unsortedList
    )  
    return sortedList

that explains why it took god 7 days to make the universe

they mean the wake agenda, all these boats disturbing the water’s surface are going to bring an end to society

there’s a very trivial solution that always works actually, it’s called “stop being a prude”

ultimately the people responsible are the ones giving people tools that can be misused, you don’t hand a gun to a child.

this is what peertube tries to fix: everyone watching a peertube video (by default) will help server the data to other watching, so instead of the server needing to send all the data the viewers share the load.

i love how people bend over backwards to justify the placement, and STILL the best you can come up with is “it’s not THAT bad”

i don’t think the current situation is even that good, they’re not repackaging themselves they just straight up ship in the small flour bags all the way from the factory.

another thing no one seems to bring up in these discussions is that we don’t have to package things in the way we do, we could be selling things in bulk and have customers bring reusable containers that store staff will fill with the amount they want.

It’s not even optimal for customers to buy things in the way we currently do, you generally either have to buy significantly more than you actually want or you have to buy several packages and just be pissing away money paying for the packaging materials…

with per-weight bulk sales you can get precisely as much as you need and pay proportionally to that, and you get soooooo much less trash to spend energy on managing.

except here in sweden we’re verifiably recycling a significant percentage of our plastics, and have like… the world leading recycling facility.

It’s clearly doable, countries just opt not to invest in the facilities to actually do it, and rather than reaching the obvious conclusion of “just build the recycling facilities” people conclude that plastic apparently cannot be recycled (despite evidence to the contrary).

that stupid huge amount of packages is honestly a pretty big UX issue, at least personally that just makes me chuckle at their optimism and close the page as every bit of energy i had vaporizes from the thought of figuring out what to download.

what have i got to hide?
my relationship with your dad

they’re SSDs compared to hard drives

almost like it has box in the name for some sort of reason

also worth pointing out that fdroid supports reproducible builds, which helps quite a bit with being trustable.

and judging by user numbers the answer is matrix lmao

do you know what the average mobile app looks like? lmao

we really need a proper beginner-friendly language that has no maths