I was surprised he wasn’t from lemmy.ml

Awakening has been my ringtone for years.

I have never seen them used well. I expect there IS some use case out there where it makes sense but I haven’t seen it yet. So many times I’ve seen factories that can only return one type. So why did you use a factory? And a factory that returns more than one type is 50/50 to be scary.

Yeah, I went through the whole shape examples thing in school. The OOP I was taught in school was bullshit.

Make it simpler. Organizing things into classes is absolutely fine. Seven layers of abstraction is typically not fine.

OOP is great, and can be much simpler than what you’ve seen.

It’s Java culture that’s terrible. The word “Factory” is a code smell all on its own.

Just like any tool, don’t overuse it. Don’t force extra layers of abstraction.

Honestly I’ve never thought about it this much. I’ll have to make an effort to stop writing in past tense.

Usually just start with the verb.

“fix a NULL pointer dereference in …”

Especially on mobile.

Mumble is another strong, open source, self-hosted option.

If Lemmy had the numbers Reddit does, we’d have more bots. I expect our admins are more responsive and more willing to take risks (like banning legit users when they’re a false positive for a bot). But the APIs available also make bots easier.

The longer term solution is probably a paid instance and/or identify verification. A one-time fee of $5-15 would significantly hinder bots and help the fediverse to be sustainable. It means bans stick much better, and slows cheap bots from having infinite attempts to achieve indistinguishably.

Identity verification comes with its own problems, but they may be workable. People don’t want to post under their real names, but that information doesn’t need to be revealed. It could be possible to have regional instances that verify and publish only your general location, such as state or county.

I don’t know that Ukraine could have done this well in 2014, even with help. They had 8 years to prepare for the next round that they knew was coming.

I’ve heard Kursk has the gas pipeline to Europe.

Yeah, no. Life doesn’t work like that. You can have empathy for Russian soldiers while still hoping they lose the war.

It’s very much a “sucks to be you, but you shouldn’t be there” situation.

Guys, guys, guys. I know a surefire way to get Ukrainian troops out of Russia immediately. Putin, call me.

It’s the Olympics and they’re near the end. Almost nobody else is taking serious precautions at this point.

How do you think he caught it? He’s not the only source of Covid at the Olympics.

I don’t think there’s much that can be done for Russia using nuclear missiles on their own territory

It’s a great way for Russia to instantly lose the war. How fast do you think the EU gets involved when they have radiation on their borders?

This isn’t created for a US audience. There are other reasons to segregate US news.

I’m trying to say your mum’s made of water.

You… you know, right?

Meanwhile Trump’s syphilis riddled mind is sharp as a tack?

The dude literally wears diapers.

Eh, sounds like a conspiracy theory. It’s the kind of thing that would look really bad if it got out, but doesn’t have much upside.

If it signifit affected profits, maybe, but this doesn’t register there.