Huh, put a wig on that monkey and you basically have Trump.

Visually at least.

Omg, wtf is up with Link’s arse? Is that some ‘improved’ horse saddle invented by Mr. Garrison from South Park or what is that shit?

I hate to admit it, but I do work with Oracle Apex quite a bit. 15 years of experience to be precise. I’ve created several big applications with it which are running in production right now.

And still, if I had the choice I’d avoid it like the plague. This is 100% vendor lock in with very little benefit.

The only reason I’m using it is because it was already in use when I came into the picture and there was some know how in the team already. But guess what, those people left and now I’m the only one who really knows what’s going on and has meaningful knowledge and experience in PLSQL, which you absolutely need if you want to create anything non trivial with Apex.

And of course finding people who actually know PLSQL at the level required to maintain those systems is very’hard. Who is going to learn an archaic procedural language which will only ever work within an Oracle database? Nobody within their right mind.

We tried introducing several rookies into this - all of them run away.

Another big reason to avoid it is that if you ever have the need to do something which is outside of what the generator accounts for, you will be fighting the framework constantly to still make it work and pray to the gods that no Apex update will break whatever you had to hack in.

There is really no reason any sane company should introduce this. It is not cheap. It is not easy outside of trivial things. The vendor lock in is huge.

Avoid!

I hate it to break it to you, but buddy, you are the neighbours that are crazy unstable. Your people shoot each other in the face constantly.

And Trump absolutely does have access to missiles he very well might be pointing at your ass at some point.

It’s hilarious that there are people from the US who would think that you’re serious.

Just recently I followed a discussion where multiple Americans thought ‘we are the champions’ is an American song and obviously about America.

Gothic 3 with community patches right now. Works great and looks great on the OLED. A blast.

Sorry, you are not making any sense to my little European brain.

You can see how the current US government is doing whatever the fuck they want, right? You can see that for Trump the constitution means absolutely nothing except when it benefits him or his narrative, right? How the POTUS controlling the SCOTUS leads to a situation where there are no consequences for them?

You can see that your interpretation of free speech is being abused constantly and benefits those who have money and spread misinformation and hate, right?

I have no idea what western, civilized countries you are talking about where you apparently are not allowed to protest - you can’t possibly think this is a worse situation than what you have in the US.

And mind you there are tons of pro Palestine protests in countries I have on my radar. The only thing that’s not allowed is glorifying the attack of the Hamas on Jewish people.

But yes, I am not saying there is no way to abuse this. Given a government which is shitty enough and courts which are not independent, obviously it can be abused.

But in no shape or form is it worse than the free speech interpretation in the US, where defamation, hate and lies are literally constantly spread by those with enough power and reach.

This 100% enabled Trump and the disgrace you call ‘political debate’ over there - which is nothing but political mudslinging non stop.

So yes, I think the small chance of hate speech exceptions being abused is absolutely worth the upsides.

Your freedom ends where the freedom of others begins.

This is pure and obvious defamation and is illegal in many civilized countries. That’s how it has to be.

Only in the US people are so obsessed with ‘free speech’ that they actively protect hate speech.

Without this delusional interpretation of ‘free speech’, what Trump is doing most of the time wouldn’t be acceptable or possible.

Of course it is too late when you already have a fascist, authoritarian government.

But to such a government it doesn’t matter anyway. They will do whatever the fuck they want. They will introduce new laws if they feel like it. Putin had no problem to introduce a law which effectively lands you in jail for calling the war in Ukraine a war.

So I don’t buy the implication that even hate speech has to be protected as free speech because the government could abuse it. The real world shows us very clearly that such governments do whatever they like, so that’s just propaganda and wishful thinking at best.

Is that your ‘freedom of speech’, America?

This right there should land you in jail.

It is shaping up very nicely! One more nitpick: cloud that button say something like ‘Join Lemmy (instance name)’?

So that any fool understands what it does. Join instance name has the potential to confuse some people, because they don’t know what joining instance name means - especially if some instance is chosen which name is more on the cryptic site.

But anyway, very nice!

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Ok so I think it would be best to have two ways: One really completely foolproof way, where the user does not need to know a single thing about the technologies involved. 0 upfront homework for the user.

And then a second way for users willing to take the time to do a ‘manual setup’.

I created an AI slop clickable mockup real quick as it’s easier to bring the idea across than describing it with lots of words. This only covers the foolproof way.

https://jsfiddle.net/da9m4nuq/

The main idea being to remove all possible friction for users who are the opposite of tech savvy - which imo are the absolute majority of all users.

The tricky part is preselecting a server for them. This will probably need a more or less manually curated list of servers which most people will be okay with - so no extreme opinions, not technical, big enough so they don’t seem empty on first sight. Done in such a way that the people get more or less equally distributed, so we don’t create one centralized instance.

But I think it is crucial to remove any friction for the users. Don’t let them do homework before they even know what Lemmy is and if it’s worth it at all.