Not a dumb question at all. A gem is a package format for a dependency in the Ruby programming language. It’s just packaged Ruby code.

It’s analogous to a Rust crate, a Elixir hex package, a NodeJS module and so on. Most languages use the word package or module these days to refer to the same concept. 20+ years ago we just called them libraries though (C and Java)

If you own a PS5, depending on your firmware you may be able to exploit it, enjoy your favorite titles, all while giving Sony the middle finger.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/ps5-exploit-guide.613891/

https://gbatemp.net/threads/ps5-exploit-guide.613891/

Isn’t that what they announced when deciding future titles won’t be on discs? I thought that was them plainly telling us, “we will be harassing the consumers of our products going forward”.

This is just the follow up where they’re saying “we won’t let you harass us back, because we are a big scary powerful corporation, and you are just a weak small individual.”

This is a weird thread to share this in, but whatever. I’m working on an alternative platform based on At Protocol, it’s called https://caterpilla.rs/

Still early days, haven’t open sourced it (yet), but plan to. Just a fun side project for me.

And Zram is about to get much faster too

https://www.phoronix.com/news/In-Kernel-Zstd-BMI2-Probing

I use it regularly and enjoy it, especially in the food, comedy, gaming, and programming communities. If you give it a go I highly recommend trying the “For You” feed. You pin it to your list of feeds, and it produces such shockingly relevant content. It definitely has a mixture of folks on it though, despite that people claim it’s one group on one platform and another group on Bsky.

I actually find the mixture of takes to not be all that different from Lemmy, just less pro-Chinese posts, and maybe even more anti-AI stances than I’ve seen around here.

If you want to hide from politics though, “For You” can definitely be a bit of a bubble. Being a left or right swipe away from escaping your bubble is a nice compromise imo.

I hear you, but these are solve-able human problems, not code problems:

Manager: Jose revert your commit, thanks. Jose: okay, it’s been reverted, I won’t do that again, thanks for explaining to me why exactly what I did was the wrong thing to do.

I’ve had this exact conversation about this topic at least a half dozen times over the last decade.

When it comes to legacy code, almost all auto formatting tools I’ve used allow you to ignore whole directories and files, which can be very handy for legacy areas of the codebase not yet ready for this transition.

As for scenarios where large rewrites are necessary, it’s best to separate from any actual work, so the blast radius is focused, and that commit can be marked properly using .git-blame-ignore-revs which completes fixes the history issues that are common amongst those who don’t know what they are doing.

Definitely a painful process it can be, but it’s better to fight this battle than it is to try and get 1,000 humans to agree on something as vague as “style”

These days it’s very common to write whatever code you want, and a formatter automatically rewrites it to conform to the projects rules during precommit.

Which is great because it allows you to focus on intent instead of format, and completely avoids any team disagreements or change rejections for trivial bullshit.

Often this is the correct pragmatic power user solution in UX design. Trying to solve it by default for everyone is much harder and will ultimately alienate some user.

But when people get bothered by an experience it is much easier for them to find the hidden setting that makes them happy again. It also preserves the existing experience, while allowing for greater customization in the long term.

Once a decent compromise is identified, that’s when it’s time to flip which setting gets to be the default.

We in this forum are a specific type, few use lemmy, and few invest in Arm directly.

SpaceX and Arm aren’t comparable, f.e. I know a college student investing in Space X, as well as an Elderly man, a cousin of mine who works in marketing, etc. It’s normal joes who want in. That never happened to Arm, and I’d be surprised if it ever does. It won’t be mainstream. I don’t know anyone personally who invests in Arm other than myself.

I’m talking about norms and sensationalism, not the state of a technology.

Notably ARM was not mainstream when it IPOd either, meaning it was a safe® bet at the time.

Most IPOs have become sensationalized to drive up interest, which is terrible for everyone except a select few.

They’ll create more mandates that you have to use AI to meet quotas or else, and then fire you anyways

Actually it technically does get irradiated by neutron activation, but the half life of Nitrogen-16 is only 7 seconds, so by the time it reaches the filters it’s already poof decayed away. (Very small amounts)

Just search for “cpu binning”, anything that slips through the cracks of that process are exactly this.