ISPs already do that here in the states. The court case is to decide whether they should shut off access.

I don’t think Lemmy would count as social media but that said, you can easily create a dummy account that just, for example, posts pictures of moths or beans or bread or whatever.

It’s almost like old school Google front page.

I’m a JavaScript developer. But it is fully possible to create a site with no frontend JavaScript

Like many things, you should use JavaScript if you need it. If you don’t need remote data sources or live refreshes, pure html and css work perfectly fine and, I would go so far as to say, may even be necessary for resistance web pages.

This is especially true if you’re using tor. JavaScript can leak your IP address and sites will work more reliability if you have static content that’s refreshed on the back end than using a bloated next.js app taking up RAM.

trying not to poop

Why…were you trying not to poop? Or was this a meme I missed? I remember the beans.

Yeah, Lemmy had absolutely been great over the last year. 6-hour Top sorting is absolutely key here.

Is it a one-for-one replacement? No. There are a lot of communities that haven’t been able to come over effectively. But the main core communities have and it’s been fantastic.

There is a linear line from incel to alt-right neo-nazis. The ironic thing is that it happened before the rise of Nazi Germany and it’s happened again here in the US.

This is, unironically, what conservatives think.

¿Por que los dos?

It’s not about blocking porn.

It’s always about control. Conservatives want to control how you consume sexual content.

Our entire Internet, the backbone of all encryption, all runs on open source software.

It is more secure because people can see and audit the code.

Let me flip what you wrote:

Our military equipment already is vulnerable. We just don’t know how badly because it’s not open source.

Prove it’s secure by releasing the code.

I could only watch this show after Trump first left office. TV is meant to be an escape, not a documentary.

I want to watch the last season but I’m going to need to wait until after the revolution.

I implicitly trust FOSS more than closed source but because that trust has been earned through millions of FOSS projects.

On occasion, I will dive deep into a codebase especially if I have a bug and I think I can fix it.

You can’t do this with closed source or even source available code because there is no guarantee that the code you have is the code that’s been compiled.

“We have changed the terms. Pray that we don’t change them further.”

It really depends on the ripper. I’d say 9/10 times captions are included on most of my downloads.

It’s that 10th one that is super annoying and I have to wait for jellyfin to download them one by one from open subtitles.

two former VW engineers

Yeah, unless they are Chief Engineers, these two are just people who got caught in the churn.

Wake me up when the President of US Operations gets sentenced to prison. Hell, I’ll even be okay with club Fed.

Linux doesn’t protect you from other people you’re having conversations with.

I had this one user who kept using an old report. It used a terribly provisioned db account and had to be changed.

We created a v2 that was at feature parity to v1 and told users to move off of v1. Slowly but surely it happened.

Except one user.

We put up nag screens. Delays on data return, everything we could go “carrot” them to the new version but they stuck with it.

Eventually I called the guy and just asked him, “Why are you still using the old version?”

His answer, “no one ever told me about the new version.”

I asked him if he got our email. He said no. I forwarded it to him.

“Oh.”

I asked him didn’t you read the nag screens? He said no.

I asked him, “The page doesn’t allow you to move on until you wait 90 seconds. Why didn’t you read it?”

“I didn’t think it was important.”

I learned an important lesson that day: never wait for all users to move. Once you have enough, start doing scream tests.