bleistift2 @ bleistift2 @feddit.de

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*1900s. Max Planck famously pondered whether he should pursue physics or music and was told by his professor that Physics was “done except for a few minor details”. Planck then went on to invent quantum physics to screw over students the world over.

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-56594-6_11

This isn’t replacing a euphemism with another one. Dumb has a completely different meaning that’s not even close to ‘cannot speak’, while ‘mute’ conveys exactly that.

Me and my friends were still figuring out this new shooter. 20 seconds in, we were told we were on a quiet mission. Stealth was important. My friend was still testing what each key on his keyboard did.

23 seconds in, my friend found the hand grenade button.

I didn’t care about Boeing, nor will I (probably) ever, but John Oliver’s take was still amusing. He digs into the reasons why Boeing sucks now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc&pp=ygUSam9obiBvbGl2ZXIgYm9laW5n

I never understood this logic

You’re looking for logic in a joke.

Do you question why Donald Trump, the pope and a kid are the only passengers on a plane that’s about to crash?

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Problem → new ProblemSolverFactory().createProblemSolver().solveProblem();

When I first learned about this, I couldn’t believe the amount of stupidity that fits into people.

Basically, California has stricter rules regarding the toxicity of products and requires manufacturers to warn about them. But only Californians. So instead of simply writing “This product may contain harmful chemicals”, they explicitly say “To residents in California: This product may contain harmful chemicals”. How is this any better?

Isn’t that a rooster?

What’s creative about it? The silly walk they invented? The ‘fuck tonality’ music they came up with? Shiny blue eyes? Sand?

I love the tl;dr; bot because it:

• doesn’t pop up a ‘read our newsletter’ prompt that receives an auto-close click anyway
• doesn’t pop up a separate prompt to subscribe to the news site using payment methods I simply don’t have because I’m not a credit card addicted American
• doesn’t throw a consent form at me in yet another popup, in which I need to manually click away 308 vendors to which I do not want to sell my soul
• doesn’t include useless Facebook-Like buttons that collect data about me even though I don’t even have a fucking Facebook account
• doesn’t need 8 seconds of JavaScript execution to render fucking text
• doesn’t load a 8000×6000px image that contains absolutely zero information, but only serves to make me to scroll by one screen to get to the information I actually want
• relieves me of the burden to follow a link just to find that that content isn’t available ‘because you’ve already met your quota.
• provides the information concisely instead of using a truck load of unnecessary fill words just to meet an arbitrary 4000 word minimum.

then your public key is stored in the server

Did you mean private key?

The fines are only proportional for big corporations. Organizations without revenue can still be fined:

Infringements of the following provisions shall, in accordance with paragraph 2, be subject to administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher: (a) the basic principles for processing, […] pursuant to Articles […] 7 […];

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/

In this case, the processing of data hinges upon the data subject’s consent, which is detailed in article 7.

Also, this is not an issue for the developers, but for the admins.

Imagine a car manufacturer building cars without brakes and then saying ‘This isn’t a problem for the engineers, but for the retailers’. Of course the developers can’t be sued for this. But that’s not the point! The point is that this bug or missing feature or whatever you want to call it jeopardizes the admins upon which this whole ecosystem hinges. I can’t believe that that’s in the devs’ best interests.

To be fair, this is a bug that could be the end of lemmy. As soon as one malicious actor sues even a few instance admins, other will get scared and shut down their instances. As the reporter points out, this isn’t just a shiny feature that’s missing. Instance admins lack the ability to follow data protection requirements that their users have a right to. It’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.

I agree commenting that post under every issue was a dick move.

maximising profit is not why we grant them copyright

That’s the only reason copyright exists. Because society decided that if you’re the one to put work into developing something, you should be the one reaping the profits, at least for some time.

I found it interesting how the maintainers reacted to these issues.

Would you mind if we set some of your priorities also? You're asking us to do free labor for you, that you're unwilling to do yourself. Do not put ultimatums and demands on people making FOSS, or I won't hesitate to block you from these repos.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4433#issuecomment-1939275302

Has git never told you that you should use git push -u origin <branch> when you push a new branch for the first time?

But when you do need the comments, you usually really need those comments.

It’s nice to see you sharing my experience. My code is either uncommented or very severely commented with comment-to-code ratios of 10:1 or more. I hate the files that are soo green… :(

If it’s not in the git log, it’s not a comment.”

This is so incredibly dumb, though I’m sure I don’t have to tell you this. That comment will be buried in the git log if anyone ever fixes a typo on that line.