Even if that is your opinion, why share it? What value does that provide to anyone, including yourself.

Shitting on things for no reason stopped being popular after the 90s.

Ublock Origin + Firefox

YouTube started detecting and complaining about that yesterday (for me).

Reminds me of the old mp3 player days before the iPod came in and dominated that market.

but they don’t want to come out and tell you about it.

It also doesn’t require a code change to continue blaming the user when you invalidate all current passwords.

It’s a couple database queries to move all current passwords to old passwords, and change current (hashed) password for everyone to “deadbeef”. Nobody can guess a value that adds to their salt and hashes to “deadbeef”, and you get this behavior.

Yeah, that’s a terrible idea.

It’s taught me that bigger standard libraries are better. You still have similar issues, but at least nobody’s importing LeftPad. And your remaining dependency probably isn’t importing LeftPad either.

Wait til you hear about npm.

We know it primarily from context switching. It’s a thing very specific to headline-speak

Ironically when looking up “context switching” I got programming results. Apparently Wikipedia refers to the language thing as “code switching”.

This is so dismissive.

I spent a full year posting to !leagueoflegends@lemmy.world and interaction there is still minimal to dead.

It’s not really the starting of communities that needs help. We need more people to be the second and third person to join and help communities that someone else is trying to start.

Some tea bag brands are really proud that they’ve moved from petroleum based plastic on their bags to PLA.

What the fuck. It’s still plastic, guys. There are a few brands that don’t have any plastic. You have to look them up brand by brand though.

I’m not super paranoid about plastic, but I have been trying to avoid it a little more. And the biggest place to avoid it is soaking it in near boiling water that I’m about to drink.

What’s a tw3?

Some people can’t see the train coming until they get hit by it.

The delete key asks what you’d like to delete.

Unless I tell you otherwise, I always want to delete the contents of the cell. If I wanted to clear formatting, I would have done something more than just hit delete.

I absolutely did not want a menu.

Most Internet services don’t run at the scale of Reddit with its real time demands. Reddit was notoriously unstable for a decade with a team of engineers.

Didn’t they basically invent Cassandra?

Mbin is in PHP. It’s doomed. Weakly typed, garbage collection, effectively deprecated language. There’s no way it’ll ever scale as well as Lemmy.

It’s not only the tech I have an issue with, it’s also the fragmentation. Just like we didn’t need a dozen and half Lemmy clients, most of which would die, it’d be incredibly helpful for more people to be putting effort towards Lemmy. If Lemmy devs refuse to accept PRs, they can even decide to fork. Part of the reason I’m okay with all this is that the current Lemmy devs really don’t have all that much control over it. The biggest pull that they have is that they’ll continue to give us their work. If they prevent as much work as they accomplish, then their influence can disappear overnight.

Rust is a better language. It’s better tech. It’ll scale better. It’s a growing language instead of a dying one. For those less in the know, it’s roughly the difference between using C++ and, well, PHP. Except Rust is straight up better than C++, so much so that the US government has projects to migrate shit from C++ to Rust.

In a decade it’ll probably be the same price it was last year.

Here comes the Steam defenders.

I started on .ml exactly for this reason. It was the dev’s instance and seemed like the default. Though that was the time of Reddit’s API debacle, so it’s been .au e a couple years now.

… I didn’t stay on .ml once I realized how it was moderated.

Not primarily, of course. You have a local and QA instance, but some things only come out at real scale or with real data. You can’t think of everything to have it added to testing. Having your own, real instance that gets to serve as beta and accessible telemetry really helps.

LW functions at the opposite end of the spectrum. They try to maintain the most stability, which also makes sense.

Oh. What countries are socialist?