Most of the time they don’t.

2007. Maybe earlier. Apple and Android phones have been heavily sandboxed from the start.

Spoken like someone who knows nothing about how apps work.

A good filter can do wonders.

The size of my block list tells me there are plenty of right-wing voices on the platform. No everyone on that list is right-wing, but I’m fairly certain a majority of them are.

Good for you, but I like being invited to parties.

Guess what? I still use Reddit, too, because content on Lemmy is extremely scarce in comparison. Mastodon is likewise a fringe network. I’ve barely even heard the name Friendica so I can be certain there are approximately zero people I know there. Shopping local is great when local businesses actually put their prices and inventory online, but they rarely do.

For Xitter, BlueSky is drop-in replacement that’s superior in most respects. I’m not aware of any equivants for Facebook or Amazon.

Getting exposure to the language only once a week will definitely hinder you a lot. When learning a language, there’s a bunch of stuff you’ll memorize without even thinking about it if you spend time working on it every day, but it will be hard to remember if you spend a week between learning sessions.

I considered saying the same thing, but C# has been around almost as long as Java at this point, and I believe it’s commonly used for teaching, so I have a hard time believing there’s a shortage of learning resources. Starting with Java seems like a waste of time if your goal is to learn C#, because you can learn the concepts equally well in either language, but if OP starts with Java they’ll end up spending a lot of time unlearning Java quirks and APIs while learning the equivalent stuff for C#.

It rhymes with orange.

By blocking any kind is aid to then. In other words, killing them.

Gaza was the reservation. I’ll be very surprised if Israel doesn’t kill them all.

Not the economy, but “the economy”, i.e. corporate profits.

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They don’t do it well, but an attempt was made.

To be fair, that’s an issue in almost every imperative language and even some functional languages. Rust, C, and C++ are the only imperative languages I know of that make a serious effort to restrict mutability.

For those who, like me, have never heard of a .gitkeep file: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7229885/what-are-the-differences-between-gitignore-and-gitkeep

I understand wanting to unload one. Not so much the part where someone pays to be the recipient.

Yeah but they misspelled it, so they lose some points there.

Why are we looking for new technologies?

Why are we writing new software? There’s plenty already.