pirate526

While I agree with some of the premises here, I personally disagree that comments are even mostly a problem (a code smell). IMO they’re just as often bad as code is. A developer in a rush, or simply not taking enough care in their work, can produce both bad code and bad comments.

Perhaps someone who is trying to take care can do more harm in the comments area, when they should be perhaps looking at writing self documenting code, but in my experience they usually go hand in hand.

I use quite a lot of comments in my code and I wouldn’t regard it as code smell or even messy. I often use comments to logically separate more complex sections of functionality… or discussing how it works and why it’s necessary to exist in the first place. Code can’t always tell you why it’s there…

I also use docblocks in some libraries, even though types are available, as the published package benefits from having an API document published alongside it. The comments there facilitate its construction.

I know this article wasn’t bashing every use of comments in code but I feel like it didn’t account for all the positive uses of them either. Teaching developers that a language feature is just mostly bad is irresponsible - we should be encouraging good comment use alongside clear code.

Who the fuck is Ana de Arm? /s

Veracrypt and use a hidden encrypted partition so you have plausible deniability. Remove the app after. If it’s encrypted it’ll be fine so long as it doesn’t look obvious.

I’ve never heard of border guards checking devices, ever… and definitely not randomly. If you’re paranoid the cloud is a safer option of course, as others have said. Backblaze is great for cost etc… but definitely encrypt before upload imo.

Absolutely goddamn pitiful. Fuck Reddit.

I run a second Unraid server with a couple of backup-related applications, as well as Duplicati. I have my main server network mounted and run scheduled jobs to both copy data from the main pool to the backup pool, as well as to Backblaze. Nice having the on-site backup as well as the cloud based.

I occasionally burn to 100gb blurays as well for the physical backup.

buttercup.pw

Disclaimer: I’m the developer

Exactly. You’re being fed HTML etc and then deciding how to render it (or part of it in the case of ad blocking). This isn’t piracy. There’s no rules that come with the HTML in terms of how to render it. Different browsers can render it a number of different ways so how is not rendering part of it any different?

It is indeed a ludicrous idea.

I’d highly recommend these - they’re not all strictly electronic but I feel there’s overlap at least:

• Sasha - Scene Delete
• Jon Hopkins - Immunity
• Daniel Avery - Drone Logic
• Bonobo - Black Sands
• BT - This Binary Universe
• Boards of Canada - Tomorrow’s Harvest
• Hugo Kant - Far From Home
• Bicep - Bicep
• Sub Focus - Sub Focus

Bonobo spans genres but he’s probably my favourite artist right now. His Late Night Tales entry (not electronic) was one of the best albums I’ve ever heard.

Yes! His “Selected ambient works” are out of this world!

I second BT here… most of his albums are great imo. I like all of them but currently loving “_”

Wasn’t lemmy created by tankies? Avoided it for kbin (I’m aware of the federation) due to this.