A specific practical objection to modern blocking culture
https://lemmy.world/post/11916592
A specific practical objection to modern blocking culture - Lemmy.World
Android prompts me to “Block and Report Spam” for spam phone calls, in both the
Phone app for regular phone calls and the Voice app for calls through Google
Voice. There is no way to report spam in either app without blocking the number.
Spammers and scammers change their phone numbers frequently. Daily or more, in
the case of sophisticated large operations. Those numbers get reassigned to
innocent users, who will forever be blocked from calling me. “Dumb” phone number
blocks should only last for maybe a month or a year, not forever. And we should
have “smart” blocks, that sync to phone number registration databases and expire
when the number changes hands. This is going to become an increasingly impactful
problem if we keep using phone numbers as identifiers while most phone number
users don’t keep the same number for decades.
Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools.
https://lemmy.world/post/10884639
Is It Worth The Time? XKCD 1205 updated for open source and shared tools. - Lemmy.World
People often ask why I contribute to open source projects or otherwise work on
building automated tooling. They see me spending hours to automate a task or fix
a bug that take seconds to do or avoid manually, in a way that the original XKCD
comic says won’t pay off. The disconnect seems to be that the comic and those
people only consider time it saves me, not time it saves the tens to thousands
to millions of other people who will use the script or patch or whatever when I
publish it. So, here’s a version of xkcd.com/1205 [xkcd.com/1205] updated for
making decisions that benefit a thousand people instead of just one.
What search engine can find this line of code on Github?
https://lemmy.world/post/8483831
What search engine can find this line of code on Github? - Lemmy.World
https://github.com/ocelot-inc/ocelotgui/blob/19349c7334347eb37ef61b9694390581ea5db238/ocelotgui.cpp#L16896C5-L16896C29
[https://github.com/ocelot-inc/ocelotgui/blob/19349c7334347eb37ef61b9694390581ea5db238/ocelotgui.cpp#L16896C5-L16896C29]
I need to find this line of code based on the keywords “tnt_select” and “2^32”,
without specifying the repository because I’m looking for instances of the same
bug in other projects. This repo is public, the file isn’t obfuscated, the code
is in the head of the default branch. I’ve tried Google, Github Code Search,
Sourcegraph, and BigQuery on the Github data set. I’ve found a few ways to
locate the .rst and .po documentation files that the bug was copied from, but
none that find even this single example of it in actual source code files.
Isn't it ironic, don't you think?
https://lemmy.world/post/4258189
Isn't it ironic, don't you think? - Lemmy.world
“When you fill out your complaint, provide as much information as you can.” “You
cannot attach documents to your complaint.” “0/250 characters” :/
Free copy of Ghostrunner on Steam
https://lemmy.world/post/2553341
Free copy of Ghostrunner on Steam - Lemmy.world
ZBI9F-ZMY8R-WI8DA E2684-51AB9-073CD Both keys have been scrambled the same way,
and the second one should be in order (012…CDE) Please comment when you redeem
it.
Anyone else playing on a 5-20 year lag?
https://lemmy.world/post/1007516
Anyone else playing on a 5-20 year lag? - Lemmy.world
I tried a couple of times to make https://www.reddit.com/r/cuttingedgegaming/
[https://www.reddit.com/r/cuttingedgegaming/] happen, but never reached many
people. This community seems to mostly folks playing 1-2 year old games, I
wonder if there are more of us who are playing older (but not “retro”) games,
particularly PC games?
Are there any Lemmy features, or clients or other options, for combining interaction with similar communities on different instances?
https://lemmy.world/post/228220
Are there any Lemmy features, or clients or other options, for combining interaction with similar communities on different instances? - Lemmy.world
TL;DR: I want to see posts and comments from https://beehaw.org/c/technology
[https://beehaw.org/c/technology] and https://lemmy.ml/c/technology
[https://lemmy.ml/c/technology] and https://lemmy.world/c/technology
[https://lemmy.world/c/technology] and https://midwest.social/c/technology
[https://midwest.social/c/technology] etc in a single interface. I like
federation, but I hate balkanization. One IRC channel dissolving into fifty
different Slacks/Discords all discussing the same topic is a story I’ve seen
repeat many times over the last decade. That’s what it feels like to come to
Lemmy and see a community named “Technology” or “Gaming” or “Politics” on each
of a dozen different instances. I know I can subscribe to all of them, but
that’s not really the same. It’s harder to manage, and still doesn’t give me a
way to see all the Technology communities without seeing the Politics
communities at the same time. Are there any features built into Lemmy on the
server or web client, or in any other fediverse clients that work well with
Lemmy, that will make interacting with these communities less jarring and more
seamless? Or are there any development discussions about improving this part of
the ux?
