I mean even if it made them more money to platform confirmed shitheads, it’s still the wrong thing to do. Like ethically. It doesn’t also have to be wrong from a business or even legal perspective.

If a company can’t take that kind of stand I don’t want anything to do with them.

I am actually kind of thrilled that I have substack subscriptions, including paid, that I can pull as my little protest to this platform. Luckily my paid subscriptions have both confirmed that they’re ditching substack as well, so my support will follow them wherever they land.

I really hope that substack lets writers have access to their email lists, so they can easily take them with them.

I basically only go there when DDG hasn’t indexed the Stack Exchange/Overflow Q&A I’m looking for.

Also decentralized SE/SO when?

Heh, cool.

Yeah I’ve seen this happen in real time. Maybe a little slower, but still inexorably.

My grandma who owned a diner used to say the same thing, but about cops

A flawed democracy is still better than no democracy

It’s not over yet, friend. There are still things worth fighting for, and still so, so much more we could lose. Don’t give up hope.

I think you can disable taskbar notifications. Nice wallpaper :)

I mean technically, but it’s not like it’s trying to be subtle about it. From the page:

I believe that Facebook represents one of the gravest threats to democracies around the world […]

The point is to discourage instances from federating with threads.

Obligatory Office Space “What would you do if you had a million dollars?” link

E: fix url EE: pls stay fixed

https://programming.dev/c/programmer_humor is leaking.

They’re both standard for the format of dates and times, like 2023-12-13 15:52:21. I guess one of them isn’t free, though? TIL.

Meanwhile programmers will be like, fools, clearly 2(n) is a function 😏

Highly recommend throwing --patch on any git commands you’re used to using. You will have the prettiest, most atomic fkn commit, I’m serious people will love you for it.

I mean many people won’t care, but the quality folk will notice and approve.

Not aware of any of these, which is nice, but iddqd caught my eye since that’s a Doom reference! Overall I always thought the Doom community was pretty positive (at least going by Doomworld forums, and various Doom streamers, as I remember them). I thought surely it must be some misunderstanding! Oh maybe they didn’t reply quickly enough to take down some drive-by hate speech, but that was it.

Anyway, holy shit, do not go to that lemmy instance. It’s rotten to the core. I’m going to go take a shower and play through Episode 1 to cleanse myself now.

git rm -- \.*
git commit -m "be better"
git push --force origin/main
shutdown now  # take the rest of the week off - you've earned it

I can just imagine something in the middle being like

`We couldn't log you in because ${getReason(e) || 'the network failed to do its network thing'}.`

Programmers are sensitive enough. All you have to do is raise your voice slightly, and they’ll think you’re yelling. You could probably make one cry just by saying their patch isn’t good, without having to resort to aggressive language.*

I don’t know the whole history, but this seems highly unnecessary, and typical Linus. Didn’t he resolve to be better a few years ago?

Ah found it.

*Source: am programmur

Also that urgency is rooted in job insecurity, not even customer impact. They just don’t want to look bad.

E: which I mean fair enough, me too, but still.

So just to translate for non Americans: Social Security is a kind of guaranteed old age / retirement pension, by the looks of it.

I love a tortie