jonathan7luke

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[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's the easiest way to switch instances? I didn't know any of this. I just wanted to get away from reddit and still engage with communities focused on my hobbies... 😔

[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

At best, that's reductive and at worst it's completely wrong. I get that this was probably a joke answer, but I feel like this misconception is unfortunate since it misrepresents ancient Egyptian culture and also undermines the impact of the unique evil of chattel slavery that was practiced in the US.

[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

It's an interesting concept, but aside from the scalability issues mentioned, I don't think demographics are necessarily an indicator of a judge's biases cough Clarence Thomas cough.

[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Would they though? In the war of "me vs annoying insects sneaking into my house", the indoor spiders I leave undisturbed seem pretty squarely on my side...

[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow, I came to the comments section to drop the word "lecherous" only to find you casually fitting it into a reply...

[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

If you're building a website, you'll probably want to stick to Javascript over Rust.

This MDN article does a pretty good job at introducing the concept of making network requests in Javascript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Core/Scripting/Network_requests. It focuses on the "fetch" API as the tool for making requests, which is the standard way to make network requests in Javascript. There are other tools like Axios that may make things easier, but "fetch" should be fine for your use case.

Another concept that will be relevant here is asynchronous programming: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_development/Extensions/Async_JS/Introducing. Basically, there will be some delay between when you make the request and when you get a response. So you'll need to write your logic in a way that does the "waiting" part correctly.

One important detail is that most APIs use some form of authentication. So when you're "grabbing the data" from an external site, the site knows who you are and that you are allowed to access that data. Getting authentication right might be a little tricky, but here is an entry point: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Authentication. Basically, you'll need to figure out what authentication strategy your headless CMS is using, and then make sure to safely pass those credentials when making your network requests. If the API(s) you are using are public, you won't need to worry about this.

If your goal is primarily to get data from an external source, this should be a good starting point. You don't necessarily need to get too deep into the backend or even the technical details of things like HTTP or REST. However, if you're interesting in getting a deeper understanding of Web APIs, the other comment talking about building a skeleton API would be a good exercise.

[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.ml 52 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I 100% agree with the idea that rap is certainly not the only genre to glorify violence, drugs, etc. But the specific song choice is not really a great example in my opinion considering the last verse is

C'mon you gotta listen unto me

lay off that whiskey, and let that cocaine be.

This song always struck me as a cautionary tale. Nothing about the song really seems to glorify the behavior.

[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

For this specific HN post, speedrunning is a bit of a misnomer. He used similar tooling to effectively add support for a physical keyboard and additionally a bunch of keyboard shortcuts that are capable of inputting custom text, songs, and fabric patterns.

There's a YouTube video where the author showcases this. It's pretty short and a really interesting watch: https://youtu.be/Yw8Alf_lolA

[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

I do have enough time, but I don't have the self control. If I could hold myself to an hour a day, that would be fantastic, but I inevitably get myself too addicted and end up spending closer to 4 hours a day. At that point, all my other chores aren't getting done. As a result, I haven't played video games in several years.

[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That's a fair point. I was under the assumption that they were still using the "invasion" thing since that was what they leaned into for the deportations. I can definitely see them going with "rebellion" instead.

Seems like there is some (temporary) good news on the topic at least:

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order Thursday directing President Donald Trump to return control of the National Guard to California.

The order, which takes effect at noon Friday, said the deployment of the Guard was illegal and both violated the Tenth Amendment and exceeded Trump’s statutory authority.

- https://apnews.com/article/california-immigration-national-guard-newsom-trump-lawsuit-aedf8cdd95ee899c9559d5e54a2e4833

[–] jonathan7luke@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I don't know if there's video footage of Padilla specifically preceding this moment of the press conference, but I think this clip captures most of what happened. Here's a description from AP News:

Padilla interrupted the news conference after Noem delivered a particularly pointed line, saying federal authorities were not going away but planned to stay and increase operations to “liberate” the city from its "socialist" leadership.

- https://apnews.com/article/alex-padilla-noem-immigration-protest-california-f67d220a0254473c53c16aa96f554239

In terms of why he was removed, the article also says this:

In a statement, DHS said that Padilla “chose disrespectful political theater” and that Secret Service “thought he was an attacker.” The statement claimed erroneously that Padilla did not identify himself — he did, as he was being pushed from the room.

Which is obviously a retroactive justification. From what I can tell they did it because it was "disrespectful" to Noem (which is not illegal) and they knew they could get away with it.

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