a lot of people in agreement that the truth was out there, but bitterly divided as to what it might actually be.

This has been my take.

They’re not there for the truth. They’re there for validation.

This was highly effective when I used it in real life.

The conspiracy theorist got real mad demanding I name sources, I kept telling him to find it on the internet with fake search terms.

I forget who the author was but they said something along the lines of writing is fighting the urge to fix that weird spot on your shoe.

¥1590/month.

Rough $11/month in freedom dollars. That’s not bad!

Still pricey for a solo use. What is your use cases? Lurking or a frequent poster?

Good. At a company, you get your ass fired if they catch you using non-approved equipment on company infrastructure. It can lead to leaks and infiltration, and lost of revenue.

In the military, that’s people’s lives!

Every time I see this implemented, it always seems like screwing over the end user who is trying to join for the first time. Platforms like reddit and Tumblr benefit from a friction-free sign up system.

Imagine how challenging it is for someone joining Lemmy for the first time and suddenly having to provide trust elements like answering a few questions, or getting someone to vouch for them.

They’ll run away and call Lemmy a walled garden.

It’s reporting activity, not banning people (or bots)

When I was in college, the science department was a group of people at a table going, “Hey nerd! I bet you like computers, don’t you?”

And I did and I walked over.

Y’all remember Pidgin?

That proggie was the bomb for all your AOL, ICQ, MSN, etc so you can keep up with your homies while you update your live journal.

So… everyone instead just went to Bluesky and Threads where sign-up links were provided rather than directory links and manifestos.

Wild! This was my exact thought as I was signing up for Mastadon. I spent like 15 minutes figuring out what Mastadon is, what server to join, what each server means. Then I did the thing like I did with Lemmy and created half a dozen accounts waiting to see which server gave me my “Account Created” email first.

Android ecosystem is not so much better.

I’ve been a supporter of web apps. Unfortunately it cuts into app store profits so it’s often shit on.

Sorry those people sound like morons.

Work pays for everything for me. I work at a major tech company with thousands of employees nationwide.

I’m given a top of the line laptop. Im given a credit to buy anything I need to improve my home office. Their tech and purchases are theirs and when I leave, it gets shipped back.

Using personal equipment at your workplace? Triple yikes. If your company does something illegal, your personal equipment gets confiscated by police. If your company’s network gets infected, your personal info like banking/CC gets stolen too.

Yeah I can see it being pretty aggressive. It’s like being punished for something a neighbor did. It would not make them feel good and even push them to give the double middle fingers akimbo to Brazil.

WordPress core is pretty wild. But modern WordPress isn’t working purely in that. The latest WP uses PHP primarily as a backend, and modern JS as a frontend and passing data through filters->DB.

I won’t call it elegant. But it’s not the PHP experience from five years ago.

I see this all the time. People complain about WP but think the alternatives are better, when they’re just trading problems for others.

WP core is stable AF. I’ve shared in many prior comments how I spend so many more dev hours fixing other CMSes over WP.

And if you don’t even need a CMS, fuck it all and switch to static hosting and markdown.

It makes sense.

Supporting Tumblr backend with patches vs building on top of stable WP and improving it seems like a win win.

How so?

You’re not kidding. Public school in the city.

There were so many dumb things I had to memorize. Periodic table. Solar system moon and planets. Multiplication table.

Even worse is the people who see memory as intelligence because of that BS. I remember working at a office and the boss made Steve, the guy who knew 15 digits of Pi, his right hand man. Steve is currently still working there. Congrats Steve your superior memory apparently can’t get you out of your deadend job.

Ew. They should expand their skill set to using terminal/powershell.

I’m not knocking on GUIs but I will call out “IT professionals” who ONLY know how to use GUIs.

Yep!

Tech is absolutely a space where people who break the rules get rewarded. Every tech company I’ve worked at has had a situation where they turned the other cheek on laws. And if they broke it, the fine was just the cost of doing business.

A example at my old job (with fake numbers), they broke laws in some EU countries. It took them like a decade to finally catch up with them. And the fine was like $8 million dollars. But during that law breaking, they made $100mil in sales, while also destroying the competition and solidifying they position in the marketplace, guaranteeing more profits for another decade.

If they followed the law, they wouldn’t be this major player in the industry.

And the job I worked at is one of thousands of companies that think like that.