Hi! I'm a software developer!
I love games, and, more often than not, my posts are about them.
I mainly post in Portuguese! Though I am looking for cool people to talk with regardless of language
| Pronouns | he/him |
| Languages | English, Português-BR |
| Github | https://github.com/Lummidev |
quando você pesquisa sobre algum componente ou um processo de um sistema linux típico, é bem mais provável que você vai encontrar informações confiáveis do que não, principalmente com recursos tipo a arch wiki
em contrapartida, se você tenta descobrir algo sobre o windows e joga o nome de algum processo que você não reconhece na internet, os resultados vão estar inundados de sites insinuando que o negócio pode ser um vírus logo no título
also, this is kind of related I guess, I really don't like that one feature on youtube's mobile app that keeps fading in and out comments that have the video's current "timestamp" (for example "6:58 LOL"), I've been spoon-fed the stupidest things I've ever seen someone write because of this
In practice this just serves to show you the thoughts of some impatient commenter that hasn't finished watching the video
I really don't care if this happens on videos produced by content mills, because then that wouldn't be the root of the problem, those kinds of videos have no real substance to talk about and they're a whole other problem
But even in videos that have something actually worth talking about most of the comments feel like they've been produced by content mills, they're repetitive, say a whole lot of nothing, are sometimes dumb and most of the times purely composed of memes
I feel like youtube also does this in some fashion. I just can't put it on words exactly
The whole "competition" to see who gets the most likes on their comment is something that exists since forever and I feel like that would be a great opportunity to figure out what comments (and what type of comments) to show to generate more engagement.
I've been thinking about how nowadays every single element of (evil) social media is designed to behave like "content" and keep you addicted, even the comment sections
What made me realize this was when I opened the comment section on some tiktok and the app asked me if I liked the comments of that video
...I really don't see why that would matter if this wasn't the case
And it's one of those things that once you notice it one time, you start noticing it everywhere
I'm writing a JSON parser as an exercise, and i just realized (after some testing with Node.js to see how their interpreter behaves) that for a value to have a single backslash as its key (or vice versa) you gotta have FOUR backslashes in the actual string.
It makes sense when you think about it, but it's really funny seeing it