“Solving the crisis … requires the private and non-profit sectors to join forces with the public authorities at all levels of government.”

So as long as everybody coordinates toward the same common goal, we should be okay.

…Welp, we had a good run.

LOL Right? The contempt is just barely contained by the Wikipedia voice and tone.

That art style is called “Alegria” or “Corporate Memphis” and it always makes me feel kind of nauseated, even without the cannibalism.

Nice. Imagine the lady in the post’s face when she learns that “oom badness” is how they decide which child to sacrifice.

What’s that from?

Idk, if you don’t get too flummoxed by “stranded preposition” and “relative locus,” the rest is pretty plain IMO.

Yeah lol I’m familiar with “kill child” in a process management context, but I’ve never seen the word “sacrifice” come up. Is that a thing?

Lol you just saw “stranded preposition” and bailed, hey?

Hack with benefits!

Is it really less secure than a password? How so?

Damn that’s wholesome.

FWIW, WeChat and 微信 are different apps. With a non-Chinese phone number and Google Play Store download, you’ll be using the international one (WeChat) instead of the Chinese one (微信). There are still privacy concerns, but it’ll be less invasive than what you’d have with the version that people in China are buying their groceries with and stuff.

I’m sorry I don’t have advice for how to actually protect yourself, though… I’ll be keeping an eye on this thread to see what I can learn.

Yeah, I’m wondering about how they characterize “bot activity.” It seems like “any traffic not proximally related to a user’s synchronous activity” is a little too broad.

I’m not sure if fediverse syncing is bot activity. Or my laptop checking for software updates while I’m sleeping. Or my autopay transactions for utility bills.

The title still works if you remove the word “scraping,” too. (I mean, except grammatically)

You can get in some pretty serious messes, though. Any workflow that involves force-pushing or rebasing has the potential for data loss… Either in a literally destructive way, or in a “Seriously my keys must be somewhere but I have no idea where” kind of way.

When most people talk about rebase (for example) being reversible, what they’re usually saying is “you can always reverse the operation in the reflog.” Well yes, but the reflog is local, so if Alice messes something up with her rebase-force-push and realizes she destroyed some of Bob’s changes, Alice can’t recover Bob’s changes from her machine-- She needs to collaborate with Bob to recover them.

Yeah, tbh the “no timezones” approach comes with its own basket of problems that isn’t necessarily better than the “with timezones” basket. The system needed to find a balance between being useful locally, but intelligible across regions. Especially challenging before ubiquitous telecommunications

Imagine having to rethink the social norms around time every time you travel or meet someone from far away. They say “Oh I work a 9-to-5 office job” and then you need to figure out where they live to understand what that means. Or a doctor writes a book where they recommend that you get to bed by 2:00PM every night, and then you need to figure out how to translate that to a time that makes sense for you.

We’d invent and use informal timezones anyway, and then we’d be writing Javascript functions to translate “real” times to “colloquial” times, and that’s pretty close to just storing datetimes in UTC then translating them to a relevant timezone ad hoc, which is what we’re already doing.

That’s what my rational programmer brain says. My emotional programmer brain is exactly this meme.

Except vegetables are good for you.

I think what most of these replies are missing is that for ADHDers, it’s possible to do something either every day, or totally sporadically and often too late… The “just pick a day every week” solution is a) obvious, and b) impossible.

It’s bad on its face, but to make it even worse: AFAICT, the definition would apply post-hoc, so anyone who has had such a conviction ever would be liable to have their property seized, even if they weren’t doing anything wrong today. Made a mistake in 1998? Terrorist.

Nope, today it’s you! 🙌

Well how else is it going to learn?