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Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Programming@programming.dev•Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 - Plans move to Rust, with help from AI
16·22 days agoI have witnessed companies make this exact mistake before - they have a legacy system written in $LanguageA that they either cannot find developers to maintain, believe is badly written, or does not support some new feature they want to implement (or some combination of the three) - and decide to solve this by taking the existing codebase and porting/transpiling it to $LanguageB (which is more modern, performant, is easy to hire developers for, etc) - without actually rewriting or rearchitecting anything.
What they are actually doing is substituting one kind of tech debt for another. The existing code that was poorly written and/or not well understood is now just bad code written in a different language. Fixing bugs or implementing new features now takes just as long, if not longer to account for the idiosyncrasies of how the code was ported.
And now this is being done by AI with even less oversight than usual? Recipe for a maintenance disaster.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What the heck is this stain by my window?
14·4 months agoAs others have said, 100% a leak.
I would advise to stand on a chair or stepladder underneath the ceiling and check to see if it is still level. If you see an obvious deformation around the stain, this will be being caused by water pooling on top of the ceiling plasterboard. In which case, once the leak is sorted, you will likely need to drain the pooled water, cut out the damaged section, replace it, then replaster and repaint.
We had exactly the same issue in our last house. It was in a difficult to see spot hidden behind our kitchen cabinets. We only realised the severity of the issue when the ceiling boards gave way and fell on my head.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Technology@lemmy.world•Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment ratesEnglish
8·5 months agoThere are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’…
I dunno, I reckon ‘DRAL YAES’ goes harder
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Those of you that back your vehicle into parking spots, why do you do it?
2·8 months agoBecause, unless you’re driving a forklift, the point of a vehicle’s rotation is in line with the rear wheels, meaning you can take turns at a much more acute angle when reversing than going forwards. Which makes backing into spaces much easier.
Notice that most of the half-assed parking jobs you see are generally people who have driven forward and left the car parked at a diagonal half out of the space, because getting the vehicle lined up in that situation is more difficult.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
News@lemmy.world•Amid its worst ever crisis, Tesla offers discounts on its best-selling car just weeks after new Model Y launch
6·8 months agoThe main issue was a catastrophic failure of the VC_FRONT module which is one of the critical onboard computers that manages things like the 12v battery and low voltage power distribution (basically a “smart” fuse box). Without it the car is bricked and cannot be driven.
That took several weeks and some back and forth around the extended warranty to resolve, and then even after that module was replaced, on my first drive after the repair it went straight into limp mode and then spent another week at the service centre having that diagnosed.
During this time I decided it might be time to start looking for a new car, ended up selling it a few months later and took delivery of a new Polestar 2.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
News@lemmy.world•Amid its worst ever crisis, Tesla offers discounts on its best-selling car just weeks after new Model Y launch
8·8 months agoI’m not sure why anyone expected a new facelift would improve sales. It’s clear the overall decline is associated with Musk going full mask-off fascist, given this, driving around in a car that looks unlike any previous Model Y just makes it completely obvious that you knew this and decided to buy one anyway. If they want to bolster sales, maybe they should have kept producing the pre-facelifted versions for a while.
Full disclosure, I used to own a Model 3. I had it for 5 years and was generally very happy with it - it was a great daily driver, cost very little to run and maintain, and (aside from a few issues later in my ownership, which was one of the reasons I decided to sell it) in general it was very easy to live with.
There are clearly some very skilled engineers at Tesla who know how to build a great product. It is a shame their efforts are being undermined by a fascist lunatic with a narcissist complex.
Old? Check. Male? Check. Hung out on Epstein island? Check.
Seems like a perfect match to me.
2017: covfefe
2025: cvefefe
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet?English
3·10 months agoRight now none of the native clients support SSO. It is a frequently requested feature but, unfortunately, it doesn’t look like it will be implemented any time soon. As with many OSS projects it is probably a case of “you want it, you build it” - but nobody has actually stepped up.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet?English
29·10 months agoFor web access, stick it behind a reverse proxy and use something like Authentik/Authelia/SSO provider of your choice to secure it.
For full access including native clients, set up a VPN.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Technology@lemmy.world•Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domainsEnglish
361·10 months agoOh fuck me, HOW in like 25 years did I not get that pun?!
I think you may have Europe confused with Japan.
Our cat ushers us into bed when it’s near bedtime. If one of us is playing games late or otherwise up past midnight she will literally meow non-stop and chase us into the bedroom, it’s mildly annoying sometimes but very sweet haha. Then she’ll spend a few minutes with us in bed making biscuits before buggering off elsewhere, job completed.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosted solution for phone photo backupEnglish
2·1 year agoAs a developer myself I’m not sure if I would trust any application to safely handle a configuration that has become invalid due to a breaking change, especially not an app that is still under active development! Better safe than sorry.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Self hosted solution for phone photo backupEnglish
19·1 year agoImmich has completely replaced Google Photos for me, love it!
My only bugbear is that it is updated very frequently (what a nice problem to have!) which in my case requires a manual once-over of my docker-compose file every time in case there are breaking changes.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
World News@lemmy.world•Tesla sales are tanking in EuropeEnglish
27·1 year agoI have a Model 3 at the moment. I’ve had it for almost 5 years and it’s generally been great - cheap to run, quiet and comfortable on longer trips but still fun to drive on back roads.
Recently it had its first major breakdown, and although Tesla service did manage to take care of it, it’s got me browsing for new EVs - but now, buying a Tesla is not the foregone conclusion it once might have been.
First, they have been making some truly stupid design choices in their latest facelifts (deleting the indicator stalks and gear selector).
Second, their CEO has now gone completely mask-off fascist.
Third - after a few years for the competition to catch up, we now have genuine alternatives from other marques which are just as good if not better EVs than Tesla’s offerings.
I think my next car will likely be a Polestar 2.
Rookeh@startrek.websiteto
Technology@lemmy.world•Tesla releases API pricing, dev says would cost $60 million per year to run his 3rd-party appEnglish
29·1 year agoNot at all.
Lemmy is overwhelmingly militantly anti-Tesla, which is understandable considering who owns it, but it does mean that users tend to interpret any neutral or factual statements (basically anything that is not outright criticism) as having a pro-Tesla bias.
In this case, all I am stating is the fact that this specific change currently only affects corporate users. That could of course change in the future.
There is a rich history of cloud based data providers pulling the rug from under users with no warning. Look at what happened to Nest users when Google took over.


You are assuming that they have a personality to begin with.