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Is there any open-source project that serves the same purpose of Duolingo that can be self-hosted? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

I made a PHP-based one a while ago before Duolingo offered Swahili. It probably needs a little upgrading, ha. A cool project and you can do it for most things. Oh plus it’s raw PHP so snappy as heck you youngins. https://github.com/ryanchausse/githeri

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George W. Bush apologism has reached a point of absurdity (lemmy.world)

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Recently, Mr. Bush has been allowed to rehabilitate his image, particularly on Reddit. My belief is that this is happening because of younger generations commenting in a contrarian way on his presidency, perhaps some of which is influenced by the absolute state of the Republican Party today.

For most of those of us who lived through his presidency, it was always clear that Bush was a religious and sexual bigot, but not a racial one.

It was always clear that the evidence for invading Iraq was scant at best. The war was protested by the biggest international collaboration of protesters ever.

Days after 9/11, there were plenty of us ACLU types decrying the USA PATRIOT Act. Many of us felt that Pelosi, Clinton, etc. had few inviolable beliefs about civil rights at that time. Russ Feingold and Bernie Sanders voted against it.

Bush was the worst possible president, so I had thought.

Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is truly the Signs of automobiles

Tesla Cybertruck turns into world's most expensive brick after car wash in c/technology@lemmy.world

Blockchain: the wave of the future in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

IMO, blockchain technology is good for one use case: illegal transactions.

I think all else can be achieved more efficiently by using a trusted third party write-only database, such as the ones available on AWS, and you’d also have the benefit of being able to go to court to seek relief. Some blockchain markets are basically reinventing banking systems and preexisting financial law - systems that have been built over centuries and have quite a bit of knowledge baked in.

I do like the shift to proof of stake from proof of work, but this tech is silly to me.

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Blockchain: the wave of the future (lemmy.world)

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Bush The Elder (lemmy.world)

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Goya endorsement (lemmy.world)

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Head injury (lemmy.world)

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What are you doing, step-response? (lemmy.world)

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Reddit seeks to launch IPO in March in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

I think what may buoy them is the fact that you must append “Reddit” to searches, however, ChatGPT, DuckDuckGo, and Kagi are giving them a run for their money

About 75,000 Deloitte staff have been given access to a generative artificial intelligence chatbot to create PowerPoint presentations and write emails and code in an attempt to boost productivity in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] themaninblack@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I really hope this goes through, because the pile of dogshit they sold my municipal government can’t fairly be called code.

It’s astonishing. I will never ever deal with that company if I have the opportunity in the future because of how utterly incompetent they were creating a “microservices architecture” for us which is in effect a series of AWS Lambdas running random Python that do not coordinate, suffer from race conditions, and in many places do not do the thing in the first place.

It’s the second worst code I’ve ever seen. The first was home grown at another public sector job.

The cost for this shit that could have been replaced by a simple Flask app? Or even a well structured, in-lined Python script? $1.5 million. Ongoing costs in the hundreds of thousands per year.

This should be a $20-50/month EC2 instance.

Absolute garbage.

No, I am not underestimating the complexity requirements nor the communication overhead/competing stakeholder interests and all other manner of externalities.