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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I don’t actually think eclipse is completely terrible (just saw the opportunity for a meme). My main problem with it is that unlike intelliJ, the UI buttons don’t scale with the font size, making it pretty unusable on my HiDPI laptop.

    For now I’ll just stick with IntelliJ/idea IDEs (I have access to an education license for ultimate) and then if/when Idea ruins it I’ll probably just try to integrate my Java workflow into either VS Code or an nvim setup










  • The problem with chat apps is that as much as I would like to switch to other ones, I don’t really have a choice. The people I know use text, so even whatsapp is a stretch, let alone signal, xmpp, or matrix. When it isn’t text it’s normally Discord for my friend group, and I’m not going to attempt to explain Matrix to a bunch of non-technical people who just want to play games.


  • Unfortunately depending on the level of extremism they have a point. When you can’t even agree on what’s reality and what isn’t, it’s pretty hard to change someone’s mind.

    I originally heard this quote about using the Internet but the general sentiment applies to any extremist politics as well.

    Generally, people don’t log onto internet platforms to be proven wrong

    Extremists don’t talk about politics to change their viewpoints, they do it to rant and convince others (IMO)

    (At least this is often the case for US extremism, not sure about elsewhere)



  • The developer doesn’t owe us anything, but if they’re creating an online community like Discord there are inherent responsibilities that come with that. If they don’t want to moderate, then they shouldn’t create a Discord/Matrix/Whatever server.

    Just like how even if the developer doesn’t owe us anything, that doesn’t mean it’s fine for them to push malware as an update to their previously fine code after they’ve established trust.