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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I've had... thoughts on this lately.

I do social dance (wcs) as one of my several hobbies. And I kind of compare ot to church now. We go once a week, we do the thing, and we have a community around it, with community leaders.

The world might be slowly leaving religion behind, but I have to wonder of we're losing something else in the process.

(Find some WCA classes in your area, we're all weird as fuck, it's a often a community of introverts with a niche interest in common, and set rules of interaction (would you like a dance?))

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

1 or 3; maybe 4.

With several assumptions made, ultimately, they're asking for json, and we should still return json, but what that looks like is up to you. It should be static enough that the person on the other end can write:

If json.grtnode(error) == "unauthorized access"
Do stuff

Ifnyour going to be changing the text with some regularity to contain relevant information for the error (eg, an item ID, that is now invalid), then consider a code/text and additional fields.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

is it decades of hacky code, or decades of battle tested code?

I haven't touched wordpress in... many years, but I've seen far too many developers look at old code and call it junk... only to break things horrifically when they attempt a rewrite.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

Gotta ask yourself how Israel has hostages to exchange on "day 1" of "this" conflict

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

A port of a browser is relatively minimal effort. Typically, the changes are largely cosmetic, and occasionally skin deep.

There's a reason none of the ports of Chrome caught the recent snafu with Google having its own special addon that fucks your privacy.

Developing a browser, Firefox or Chrome, takes a huge amount of effort, and are on a similar scale to both Windows and Linux. It's a lot. There are a lot of places to hide things. Taking all of that, and making V2 continue to work... well it'll be alright to start with. It's probably a flag somewhere currently. But in 2 years time? 5 years time? It will take a lot to keep V2 working, let alone back porting V3 features that people may actually want.

Just use Firefox instead.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

People like to bemoan the funding model, as well as the Mozilla Foundations broad overview and general "business vibe"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lost me at 'Why do they need to be "rooted out"?'.

Welp, they're a piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

~~This comment really feels like a reply to something. Taking sarcastic comments out of context to paint a person badly doesn't feel good.~~

Edit: Source: https://lemmy.world/comment/11541457

Turns out, that they are indeed, a piece of shit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Ypu sre right in that the stock market, especially the US stock market, is a cluster fuck.

But it's a cluster fuck that mostly goes up, with solid returns over the last 10-20 years in index funds. I'm not going to cut my nose to spite my face on that, especially when the populous alternatives, like being a landlord, tend to have serious ethical concerns.

For examples of why the market is fucked, something your argument clearly lacked, the biggest indicator for me is that news of large buys/saells tend to move the market much more than the actual buy/sale.

(Personal theory, derivatives pretty much control the market, and a buy/sell doesn't interact with calls/puts typically, but the news of a sale gets people to interact with calls/puts)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I mean, that argument starts to wade in to the Mozilla foundation as a whole, and what their purpose is, and that's a giant kettle of fish.

Theoretical game. They lowball Google on how much Google pays them. How do people react? I don't see them doing that and say, "Man, I'm glad Firefox is reducing Google's influence over them". I see them making a thread about how Firefox is giving Google a discounted rate because they're all corrupt technofacists.

The core problem there still exists IMO. Funding.

What we really need is a reasonable way for open source, free, software, that exists for the good of the whole, to get money. But that has it's own kettle of fish, where does it come from, how big is big enough to get some, what if they charge for support, how open is open enough.

Something something, seize the means of production, communism, etc.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

The trick is to choose what to not give a fuck about.

Jack black doesn't give a fuck about others opinions of his appearance.

He does give a fuck about death threats.

Seems pretty sensible and reasonable to me.

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