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  • Lemmy.world is currently the most popular large instance, Lemmy.today is another one. There are A LOT of instances to pick from if you’d rather connect to one closer to your region or attuned to your personal tastes, and they can all access posts from other instances so if you think an instance is run by people you can trust then feel free to make an account there.

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  • Mass Layoffs

    AI Focus

    End of Support status for FireFox on windows older than Windows 10

    Removal of many settings such as browser.privateWindowSeparation.enabled

    It’s a company. Mozilla Foundation has nonprofit status but the Subsidiary Mozilla Corporation is for-profit.

    TBH I’m biased af because I just liked it better before all the recent updates.




  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todaytoProgrammer Humor@programming.devEvolution of C
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    Fun fact, C didn’t have a lot of things like Classes and was often distributed or stored alongside various libraries so it was C Plus (as in addition to) Libraries before it was C++, and somebody decided the next iteration was C with 4 pluses, which forms a #

    Source: Bjarne Stroustrup, I forget which edition of his C++ book.