Lol. I keep saying that programming is great if you enjoy the act of using a computer.

Hardened libraries

Like log4j?

Ecosystems matter for sure, but any java “killer library” should be usable by other programming languages.

Of course. Code review doesn’t have to be a strict process.

A problem with code reviews is that sometimes it’s easier to reason about a problem as you work on it. You will likely end up with better code going through an iterative process working with your computer instead of trying to get the perfect solution the first time.

It’s kind of like math. We need to expand a problem out in order to solve it, and then simplify the solution once we have it.

After using Rust, I struggle to find a use-case for Java.

We have Python for the bad programmers.

I mean, at some point you have to realize that instructing an AI on every single thing you want to do starts to look a lot like programming.

Programming isn’t just writing code. It’s being able to reason about a method of doing things. Until AI is at the level of designer, you can expect humans to have to do the brunt of the work to bring software to life.

Yeah, but when they’re dealing with possibly hundreds of these fake profiles they probably just go for the lowest quality they can get away with.

Even something like storage costs can add up pretty quickly in a 3rd world country.

Eh, it’s more than likely a pig-butchering scam.

The groups that do these are rather unsophisticated and mostly don’t speak english. It would make sense that their poor internet connections only have low quality photos and this is likely just one of many scams with equally-bad photos.

it will succumb to all the same socio-economic pressures.

The fediverse’s decentralized nature means that while some parts of it will succumb (maybe even most), there will inevitably be parts of it that don’t (or at least to a much lesser extent.)

It’s quite possible that the parts of the fediverse that avoid commercialization, though, are the ones that allow things that businesses don’t want to be associated with, like saying the N word.

Could be a great resurgence of free speech, although you’ll have to tolerate people saying things you don’t like.

Agreed! There is no reason to congregate on lemmy.world.

They’ve already shown their “rules” don’t really matter; they’ll just ban whoever they want and keep whoever they want.

Seriously. Violence is the only way to fight back when the powers that be control every other means of resistance.

They know ideas are powerful, that’s why they don’t want us to have them.

All the rich people that perpetuate a power structure that kills poor people every day.

#killbill

The amount of damage the disparity in wealth causes is difficult to understate.

Hopefully more people will take action, but change is slow.

People need to realize what he did was necessary and we need more work like it done. We need more discussions, more alliances, more promotion of fighting back instead of being afraid of it.

Right now, the main fear among those brave heroes plotting to overthrow our oppressors are those being paid by the oppressors to protect the current power structure.

It’s a war. We’ve been conditioned not to see it.

Not that I’m advocating for violence

That won’t be the get out of jail free card that you’re used to having soon.

I, personally, have no problem with violence against rich people.

If they’re not making an honest effort to redistribute their wealth to those who need it, then they are part of a system that enables the most human suffering in history: exacerbating the disparity in wealth.