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I miss the reddit secret Santa :(
I was in it every year till the very end lol
@diondiondion @dukeboitans @Edent notifications about new answers fail to disappear after reading them. Before full loading of the page, the number of notifications happen to be 40 (hardcoded default??), then disappears.
I don't think it will ever got fixed, it looks and smells like a bloated ton of JavaScript stuff.
@torf The bug you're describing was reported before, but I've never encountered it or managed to reproduce, it seems to be very intermittent even for those who experience it which makes it hard to fix, but I'm sure we will, eventually. The 40 is not a hard-coded default.
in the uk, very occasionally, there is a feather or bit of chicken poo on your egg. nobody is really bothered or offended by this. american eggs, on the other hand, are power-washed to remove all traces of it, because in america, it is actually illegal to know about The Cloaca
@jk afaik that is also the reason why American eggs have to be refrigerated. The washing removes a thin waxy layer that keeps the egg fresh.
Taking a look at #scala 3 for the first time in years. Seems like the dust has settled now. Wondering if significant whitespace has become the default now. Most examples in the reference seem to be using it.
@raichoo it's a mix. Lots of people are using the white space syntax exclusively. Others in a mixed state with the other one, so mixing it with {}. Others use the new end markers... You know absolute freedom and silliness. Some disable the white space syntax and use the other one.
Even at work, for me, it's not consistent, something small some people put no {} others use () like on a .map, so .map() or .map{}, since now () also supports multilines inside 🤣🤣.
The rest is fine.
Are there any general recommendations for how to design the security posture for a program in respect to any 3rd party plugins you might allow the user to download?
Like, yeah, if a user downloads a plugin, they can now run arbitrary code within the program, and potentially do some harm. Should I just not fight it and hand the nuclear codes to the plugins, or should I be actually planning to somehow isolate the plugin from being able to do anything too ambitious?
Like, specifically we're talking about unvetted plugins, inside of a terminal-based app like maybe a web browser or something like that.
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004
reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).
the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.
another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.
size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.
Last year I had a conversation with a friend, who is about 10 years older, and we got to talking about celebrities who we expected things to come out about in terms of them abusing people. I had someone at the top of my list. She immediately guessed exactly who it was without any hint. Neither of us are in the TV/media industry. We have no insider info, only the very public output to go on. But we could both pick up something off. His decades of punching down. Something predatory that he exuded.
This is in no way about blaming his victims. This is me being very frustrated at people, in positions of power or influence, allowing and enabling predatory behaviour and then later claiming to have been unaware. Those who are commissioning programmes. Those choosing which celebrities to book. Those giving status and power to clearly predatory people.
hey @davidgerard the Denver Post stole your reporting! https://www.denverpost.com/2026/11/06/ethereum-suicide-pledge-lawsuit-mandate-boulder-crypto/
@adrienne before we wrote it, even!
When people ask why I refuse to eat sausages I explain that I used to work in a sausage making factory. People joke about lips and arseholes but that not the problem. The problem was that some of the meat was just so old when it got to us. It stank really bad.
@fesshole If you knew everything, you'd stop eating altogether.
@inthehands Amaaaaazing! Thanks for sharing! I have just installed it.
@tommi @inthehands adding to my interest list now!
My favorite are the folks saying rebooting a server was so easy he should have done it himself. Clearly, the robot cannot be trusted with simple tasks but just happens to be perfectly reliable at doing all the things too complicated for me to verify.
AG Rayfield Leads Coalition Urging Congress to Reject Giveaway to Predatory Lenders https://www.doj.state.or.us/media-home/news-media-releases/ag-rayfield-leads-coalition-urging-congress-to-reject-giveaway-to-predatory-lenders/
@lukas maybe another hot take: the disillusionment kicks in when we see the tiny code changes that slipped into our products that don’t serve us but serve the owners of the models we use.
What kind of code change do you imagine that serves the owner of the model?
I drive ten miles to the next town over to pick up my prescriptions because the woman who works at the counter in my local pharmacy is my neighbour and I don't want her to know I have haemorrhoids.
@fesshole They don't care a hoot.
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What is it?
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Years ago Reddit had a sister site called Reddit secret Santa where Redditors could sign up to be matched with other Redditors as an online global secret Santa and you could write down your interests, likes/dislikes, hobbies, fav shows, movies, food etc.
It was pretty neat, I ended up with a lot of foreign nic-nacks and snacks because I would sign up for worldwide all the time
Arf non mais le niveau des réponses. 🙄
Mais genre vous croyez vraiment que le but de la taxe ce serait de protéger l’écologie ou l’emploi ? 🤣
Les mêmes qui votent ces taxes sont aussi celleux qui font (au hasard) le forcing pour l’IA, et qui signent les autorisations pour construire des datacenters de partout, qui vont détruire l’environnement comme jamais, et dont le but affiché est de licencier toujours plus de monde pour tirer toujours plus les salaires de tout le monde vers le bas hein. 😐️
Ce genre de taxe c’est juste du protectionnisme de merde et rien de plus. Ça sert juste à nous forcer à donner notre fric aux capitalistes européen·ne·s plutôt qu’aux capitalistes chinois·es quand on a besoin d’acheter quelque chose, mais c’est tout.
(Capitalistes européen·ne·s qui font produire tout ce qu’iels vendent en Chine depuis des décennies, au passage, mais bon vous étiez peut-être pas au courant. 😐️)
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Sorry, best I can do to s Secret Satan
Wearing big shoes in honour of the fallen 😔
. . . are your blue trousers tucked into your big shoes?
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