No, I never said fame is the only thing worth pursuing or that it is even the most important or common. I would put scientific, medical, artistic or civic/political achievement before fame.

Sometimes having goals that are easier to reach can make you more happy.

See that I can understand, obviously I’m a no one from bumfuck nowhere, I’ll settle for living comfortably, having friends, a partner, a successful career and free time, and I think I can make peace with that.

But it doesn’t mean I wouldn’t throw it all away if I could swap to being an adored millionaire celebrity living in a mansion in Hollywood.

I do have the ambition, I’m just being realistic.

On the other hand:

And yes, there are many people who don’t have huge ambitions and that’s ok.

This I don’t understand. Of course it’s okay you numpty, I never said otherwise, I just said I don’t understand why or how this comes about, so if you’re one of those people I’d like to hear about your experiences and why you are the way you are.

I can’t imagine such a lack of ambition honestly.

Uh, Yeah? Who tf wouldn’t lol. To be loved and adored by millions, to earn millions from that, it defies comprehension that some even have it that good.

When I had a YT of like 2k subs and had an OF thing going, I had weird dudes who spammed me their life stories in insta dms day in and day out, I admit - not the most pleasant interaction - it was still a helluva an ego boost.

Fame is generally an amazing thing desired by damn near everyone. You ever seen the kind of crazy shit people do for 5 seconds of it on TV? I could never, but maybe that’s my loss.

Awe poor them, maybe they can cry into their fat wads of cash.

May they soothe the pain of something as awful and totally undesirable as fame. /s

Same, the irrational hatred of AI some peeps have is just crazy

This is correct, but that said if you’re doing anything Donnie don’t like, especially something you’ll likely be investigated for, your position can be actively tracked via cell towers, and software backdoors will happily record and transmit your GPS position over the internet, even disabling all this stuff you can never really know for sure, so keep that phone off.

Jerboa is very cool and works great

Not dev but I’m in IT/Cybersec mostly as it’s much easier to find jobs there and I use vim just about everywhere, usually with tmux and i3 with custom vim-like keybinds (super+j move focus right etc), I use vim even on my phone in termux, with gboard.

I don’t use LSPs cause CBA but I only use Python and C and maybe occasionally bash for homelab stuff and I don’t have large projects (😭).

If I’m doing any ML stuff from scratch (not refining or writing API for local llm model or integrating it with another API but just building classifiers etc) for fun I use Jupyter. Such a wildly different way of coding honestly ngl it’s wild, but great when you need to document what you’re doing.

At uni I used to use fucking Visual Studio with C# and Netbeans with Java, but I learned it pretty well. I don’t think they ever even taught us how to run code outside those 😂

At work I use gedit and gnome terminal for navigation cuz it’s company time unless I’m personally interested in what I’m doing.

I don’t know the answer. I’d also like to know, though.

Yeah great content, OP asks a simple question and every answer is a circlejerk of idiots telling him he’s wrong for even wondering about something. We did it Patrick! We saved the internet!

copyright violation

Copyright Violation is a good thing. Fuck the rich stop being a cuck for corpos.

Scarce developer resources

He wants to make it, his resources are his to waste. I wrote a bash script that sends cowsay to mail, it’s utterly useless, but i liked making it. I didn’t waste shit except my own time and it’s mine to “waste”.

Oh fuck off man let the guy do what he wants. Are you like literally upset by someone wanting to make somehing that vaguely looks like the logo of some website? Log off man.

“Contacts” is a very very different permission from making and managing phone calls, and is prompted for separately.

The former harvests data, the latter can be used to steal money directly via the same mechanism we used to text numbers to buy ringtones and J2ME apps back in the day.

Now I’m not saying that Rednote is definitively malware and I actually kinda like some of the content I saw, which I couldn’t say for TikTok (I’m way too ADHD for short form videos, it’s very unstimulating), but maybe just keep it in mind.

Thousands of people download this shit too.

But why would any legitimate app ask for a permission for which there is practically no legitimate use? I thought Rednote was a social media thing, not a Caller application, so why does it need to make and manage phone calls on my behalf?

What else is it doing that it doesn’t need to ask permissions for? Please think critically.

And yes before someone mentions It, yes this can be used for getting a phone number automatically, but It can just prompt for my phone number (which it doesn’t need anyway, unless you post), no legitimate need to ask for such a broad permission.

More to the point, why tf are y’all so chill about this? Surely this is like literally a sign of malware 101? Like I’m only a compsci & cybersec grad so what do I know, but this to me is equivalent to opening “not a virus.exe” from “veryrealmoviedownload.com”. Literally first malware I got as a kid on Android was like this.

I thought awareness of this was pretty commonplace. The below image is literally a Facebook-tier meme that even grampa probably knows.

Are y’all just that desperate for a win? Sorry, good things don’t actually happen in our hell world.

Is this a normal thing for apps to do these days? I don’t use any other SM apart from Lemmy and only F-Droid FOSS apps so i’d legitimately like to know. Does tiktok also prompt for making and managing phone calls?

Uhmmmm no thanks lol WTF

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If Starmer had any balls then he’d undo the Johnson assignment to the BBC chair and give it to someone who would kick out the TERFs and other cunts to at least dial it back to the passive-progressive era.

This isn’t even just a morally good thing, it’d be smart in a basic selfish way. Labour has done some very mildly good things internal policy wise with the trains and bills, but they’re getting fucked in the media with a country that’s full of hate constantly stirred by extreme Far-Right narratives.

God I hate respectability politics, anyone remotely decent takes the high road, and worse and worse people keep coming out of the woodwork and punch lower and lower and then they win. Fucking sucks.

You’d think with how often android is updated ridding us of this technical debt is very easy. Disable multicast DNS, add a hidden setting tucked away in a menu somewhere to re-enable it. Ez pz.

No it must not lol what? The RFC says “may”.

And more importantly the devices don’t, it’s very noticeable via wireshark. The only multicast traffic comes from Android, every other OS does not bother, ironically not even Mac OS, whom is responsible for the whole Avahi/Bonjour nonsense to start with.

That would make the names much longer but would protect me against some asshat buying .lan as a new gTLD.

Another user pointed out that .home.arpa seems to be reserved, thus hopefully protected from TLD hijack which is what I’m worried about as well. I’d make it .homelab. I wonder if one can restrict recursion on certain domains?

If one server is marked as authoritative, but to recurse for other things, will it recurse for it’s authoritative domain, or give NXDOMAIN?

I do own a domain name via cloudflare so I might just utilize that, but I don’t like it.