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New comment by hummingly in "Small Strings in Rust: smolstr vs. smartstring (2020)"

hummingly — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 21:59:34 +0000

When you call to_owned, it creates a Vec. This must then be truncated due to the call to into_boxed_slice. The documentation says this could potentially mean a re-allocation depending on the allocator. When this happens the old allocation needs to be dropped too. You could try using a different allocator but before this I would recommend to replace those two calls with Box::from(s.as_bytes()).

New comment by hummingly in "IEEE no longer accepts Lena image containing submissions from 4/1 onward"

hummingly — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 19:16:42 +0000

That's an interesting thought. In high school I met many girls that were actually interested in informatics but had a hard time keeping up and thus did not pursue a career in tech. The women who did end up studying with me were either:

* extreme gamers

* close to parent with interest in tech (me)

* mocked by males as too stupid to learn informatics

* generally adventurous and did not care about appearance

* highly ambitious/great work ethics

In general, all did have a good amount of self confidence. Maybe it is just easier to end up in the adult industry if you are taught from an early age you are an sex object rather a human being with interests. This might sound extreme but I met males that pretended to treat me as a friend but never thought of me as a human. It is then freaking scary to be all alone in a course with them and without backup like other women.

New comment by hummingly in "Introducing GNOME 46, "Kathmandu""

hummingly — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 18:24:45 +0000

It took me almost half a year to figure out that Firefox was missing the minimize/maximize button because Gnome by default hides them. And I only figured out after having to install Gnome Tweak tool because I moved to Gnome temporarily...

New comment by hummingly in "It's OK to abandon your side-project"

hummingly — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:58:06 +0000

This sounds more like high school than a workplace. You're really not at fault here. But I also understand how real life work can kill passion. It is why I went to pursue computer science instead of art. Don't let others take your joy away. It takes a long time to recover.

New comment by hummingly in "Microsoft keeps shooting itself in the foot with Edge"

hummingly — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 11:13:45 +0000

Does it stop when you disable credit card auto completion in the settings?

New comment by hummingly in "YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet"

hummingly — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:19:53 +0000

YouTube does not provide the same value as it used to and therefore paying for it seems only to block ads. These days I rarely find new content creators and content creators are probably struggling even more. The recommendation algorithm is totally biased towards some screwed sterotypes and clicking I do not want to watch this content creator's video never helps. Some ads are so offensive/dangerous you do have to use an ad blocker just to protect your mental health.

It is like someone peed into the free lemonade and demands money for it.

New comment by hummingly in "YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’ is turned off"

hummingly — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 01:05:30 +0000

> My email address is linked to several hundred accounts which I use to run my life, manage my household, do finances, etc.

Any reputable service allows changing email addresses. For less important services like Amazon you can use an email alias. Tutanota and Proton are nice email providers whi do not read the content of your emails and and not scan files.

> My email address is, of course, the primary means of communicating with me other than phone.

If you have a phone, can't you just install a messenger? Session does not require a telephone number nor a smartphone, I think.

> I also use Sign In With Google on dozens of the above accounts, so they are a definite dependency on the Google account.

In your Google Account settings which accounts use Sign In With Google. Go to each account and change authentication to email and password wherever possible.

> I own an Android phone and a Chromebook. I operate 3 personal accounts, and my employer relies on Google as our primary business platform.

Does not prevent you from using a secondary email for your personal important stuff like government and financing.

> My Google Calendar and Tasks are my sole method of scheduling everything I do in life, from daily tasks to events I attend and everyone's birthdays.

> My Google Contacts contain all contacts of everyone I know and is the sole repository of that data.

Should be exportable as ics files I think. Make at least a backup once in a while.

> Google Docs and Sheets are my sole word processing and spreadsheet apps, which I use to great effect for writing letters, managing household, etc. etc. I know them like the back of my hand, and I also use them every day for work.

Get an offline editor like LibreOffice. Online editors are crap when your internet connection is off or need to make a ton of content.

> All the photos I've ever taken since 2015 are stored only in Photos. Not many, of course, but some I'd miss.

You can download them for offline use, make a backup and then print out the ones you really care for.

> I'm increasingly using Wallet and GPay for financial transactions and event tickets. I even hear tell that my jurisdiction is putting driver licenses on Wallet now.

If you use GPay, it is even more important to not have any content stored in your account. See the case of a father sending his doctor a picture of his son for diagnosis. It was falsely recognized as child porn and the father had no way to get back the account. If your account gets suspended, you are out of luck.

> So could you rephrase your advice to me please? Which $20/year service replaces these apps, and permits easy import of all my data from Takeout?

> If someone used 365, would you demand that they GTFO Microsoft and junk their Windows systems? What should we run? A PDP-11?

Noone said to nuke your Google account. In fact you're being very passive aggressive despite not having made any effort on researching alternative apps. Don't tie your whole offline and online identity to one provider who doesn't care about you except for your (and people close to you) money and data.

New comment by hummingly in "Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium"

hummingly — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 20:23:04 +0000

Whenever a new device needs to be setup for my parents, I just install whatever I use (Firefox in this case). Then I show them the things they need on a day by day basis. The problem are people who did grow up with tech. They will say things like it will take too long. In cases like this you need to manipulate them based on their personality.

New comment by hummingly in "Critics are getting less cruel. Alas"

hummingly — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:03:42 +0000

I think current Hollywood is a prime example of doing objectively bad art especially live action movies. They ignore the source material to make it fit their political agenda, which has always been a thing, but it becomes problematic when it breaks the characters and rules of the world. The stories become so inconsistent that you just cannot get immersed. Knowing more about the writer than the characters is really bad writing.

I also consider the all knowing character very popular in webtoons to be just a form of cheating. I've seen it done well, e.g. knowledge as a double-edged sword, but mostly poorly to the point it could have been removed and the story would have been the same. In general adding superflous elements because it is trendy is really shallow writing.

New comment by hummingly in "Five billion phones are dead in drawers – carriers want to mine them"

hummingly — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 12:42:04 +0000

I wish the pledge systems for bottles would also be applied to technical devices. So far the only company I know of is Shiftphone.

New comment by hummingly in "Johnny Decimal"

hummingly — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:35:17 +0000

I've never tried it myself but the README mentions several other tools.

https://github.com/dpc/rdedup/

New comment by hummingly in "Killing Community"

hummingly — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 22:11:03 +0000

Unlike Reddit, most of Meta's apps are commonly used on mobile. Furthermore, all the apps you listed actually bring long term value in the form of real life social and business relationships. Emotionally and economically Reddit has not nearly as much of an impact.

New comment by hummingly in "A developer's view of Vision Pro"

hummingly — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 21:15:25 +0000

Every headset I have seen looks really unfashionable. Even the Vision Pro looks kind of bad. It is too bulky for the relaxing atmosphere Apple was going for in its adverts. And too rounded to appear more edgy. It is not commiting to anything, kind of like the new Macbook Pro design. This stands in contrast to Airpods (small but bold shape) and the Apple Watch (practical and elegant).

New comment by hummingly in "Mark Zuckerberg on Apple’s Vision Pro headset"

hummingly — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 14:18:08 +0000

When I was in high school, they installed the first generation of smart boards. The resolution and quality of pen input was quite mediocre. But it solved an actual severe problem for teachers and students. Back then we used sponges to clean boards but this can lead over long period of time to skin diseases. Furthermore, the sound of chalk on a board was torture. An alternative would have been those smooth boards but they get really hard to clean over time and pens seem to be always empty. Lastly, you actually get to the material from previous lessons and can even upload them. I think those smart board need to be iterated on more. If displays are to difficult to repair, maybe e-ink paper might be an option in the future.

New comment by hummingly in "Sextortionists are making AI nudes from your social media images"

hummingly — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 13:37:57 +0000

To a certain degree it is true. More and more people know how photoshopped influencer posts are. Sadly, that is not the majority and even if they knew, they would not care. Those who want to oppress will shame others to exercise power, which is why the mindset of guilty until proven innocent is still prevalent. The cure to it is to reduce the power imbalance in society. How is difficult as violence has many forms and hidden behind a friendly facade (e.g. toxic positivy, forced diversity). So, from my perspective nudity itself is not the problem. As an example where nudity is accepted are nudity beaches in Germany.

New comment by hummingly in "The Case of the Missing SIMD Code"

hummingly — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:58:22 +0000

For a moment I was confused why the text sounded so familiar, but then realized the author is Larry Bank and I read the post on his blog https://bitbanksoftware.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-case-of-mis... before.

New comment by hummingly in "Sextortionists are making AI nudes from your social media images"

hummingly — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 01:11:06 +0000

Every society has different norms. The society I live in objectifies nude people, especially women and sex workers, as loose and not respectable. So, for us it is humilating and degrading (see how victims are talked about after sex tape scandals). It is worse when it shows you intimate with someone else. I've been looked at as an object of desire before instead of a human and it felt terrifying. And I was wearing clothes. All in all, nudity is not the problem but what happens after.

New comment by hummingly in "People who die by suicide want to stop suffering, not to stop living"

hummingly — Sat, 20 May 2023 13:35:43 +0000

That is a depressing view on aging. At some point kids becomes adults and can support themselves and if they were taught any form of responsibility, they will support their parents. These days my parents hang out with their friends or go once in a while on vacation which they pay or my sibling and I. To me it sounds like someone enduring a life style they dislike but accepted because they believe this is how life should be.

Maybe it is a culturally thing but as a kid I had to complain to my parents to get home and by then it was 1 am.