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Cake day: June 15th, 2023
  • pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoVegan@lemmy.ml•Vegan at a hospital: not respected
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    2 months ago

    I am sorry to hear that your dietary choices are not being respected by the hospital staff.

    What country are you in? I would have assumed hospitals in most developed countries should be able to cater to different dietary needs. What would they do if someone had a sever allergic reaction to certain ingredients? Tell them to just starve?

    I don't have anything helpful to say. Hope you get better soon.

  • pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoProgramming@programming.dev•Building an affinity-based imageboard site - feasible for a hobbyist?
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    6 months ago

    … an average hobbyist programmer …

    and

    … create an MVP?

    are at odds in my opinion. Are you looking for a hobby project or are you trying to build a product that you can sell/persuade investors with?

    If you are interested in building such a thing because you care about the idea, go for it! Even if you abandon the whole thing after a few months of consistent work, I'm pretty confident that you will gain something in the process (insights, learnings, an idea for an actual product etc.).

    However if your goal is to build something that's commercially viable, I would do some market analysis (see what's out there, what you want to do differently) and maybe talk to people who have already launched products or started companies before, instead of basing my decision on the responses from strangers on social media.

  • pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoProgramming@programming.dev•Good Developers are Always in Demand
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    7 months ago

    The thing is, it works like this in certain countries. At least in Switzerland and Germany it is possible to make an apprenticeship as a programmer. This means there is a structured path for the vocational education that must meet certain regulatory criteria. Normally this takes 3-4 years to finish and includes both, working at a company as well as visiting vocational school. College is often done after finishing one's apprenticeship to broaden the understanding of more complex or advanced topics like security, architecture, project management, advanced math etc.

    I don't understand why this system is not more common in other places. Programming (not CS) is very much like a craft and to large degrees can be taught as/similar to one.

  • pinchcramp@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Mozilla Firefox 120 Is Now Available for Download, Here's What's New
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    7 months ago

    Firefox now supports a setting (in Preferences → Privacy & Security) to enable Global Privacy Control. With this opt-in feature, Firefox informs the websites that the user doesn’t want their data to be shared or sold.

    This sounds like Do Not Track revisited. The only difference that I can find (only skimmed the website) is, that there seems to be some legal support for this in the state of California.

    Now you can exercise your legal privacy rights in one step via Global Privacy Control (GPC), required under the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA).

    I wonder:

    1. How does this differ from DNT?
    2. Does this this have any real chance to take off? From what I've heard, DNT has been rather counterproductive as it can be used to fingerprint users.