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Where do you even meet people anymore?
  • 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?))

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    What is your preferred API error response and why?
  • 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.

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    Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress
  • 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.

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    Was Nazi Germany a police state to its self declared "true" citizens, i.e. ethnically pure Germans?
  • It's a simple question, but with a complex answer that I'm not sure I have the tools and knowledge to answer.

    But I'll try.

    The answer has multiple layers, on the surface, yes, the "Aryan ideal" was what they strove for, and the picture they put forward was blonde hair and blue eyes. On the surface, it was purely cosmetic, you had those features you were probably the Aryan ideal.

    But that wouldn't mean they would take an American prisoner who met those ideals and ship him off to the breeding center to help pump out perfect babies. Because they were inpure.

    In another layer, in reality even, the "Aryan ideal" was used like a tool. You were pure if you stayed in line and supported the cause, and the threat of being found not pure was used to keep people in line. The threat of the secret police, was the threat of them turning up to whisk you, or your loved ones, away, at even the merest hint of dissidence.

    By the end of the war, everyone knew someone who knew someone who had at least been questioned, if not disapeared.

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    Was Nazi Germany a police state to its self declared "true" citizens, i.e. ethnically pure Germans?
  • To "pure" citizens? No. They weren't a threat.

    But they also decided who the pure citizens were.

    Cross a line, annoy the wrong person, take the wrong photo at the wrong time, and very quickly, you could be found to be not so pure.

    Then you were in trouble.

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    4 browsers that will continue to support uBlock Origin and other ad blockers with Manifest V2
  • Wait, librewolf isn't the only fork you would use?

    Are you still using Chrome?

    You'd rather use the browser that has been shown to actively fuck you over, than the browser he "fund" that makes "questionable decisions" trying to get away from said funding?

    You've got some marbles loose up there.

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    4 browsers that will continue to support uBlock Origin and other ad blockers with Manifest V2
  • 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.

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    [Transphobia Warning] Nutomic’s Stance on Transgender People
  • 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.

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    the stock market is a hot mess of nonsense and should not be utilized for retirement funding in absolutely any capacity
  • 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)

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    Firefox enables user tracking
  • 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.

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    Jack Black cancels Tenacious D tour and places future projects on hold after Kyle Gass comments on Trump
  • 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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    Firefox enables user tracking
  • Ok idealist.

    What is your alternative funding stream for Mozilla?

    It's bad.

    Is it worse than the advertising owned browser that gives your information directly to said advertiser?

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    Affinity’s Adobe-rivaling creative suite is now free for six months
  • DAM DAM?

    ACDSee even shows thumbnails for Affinity Photo project files

    You're telling me there's an image managing program out there, that works with Affinity, and for some reason people aren't talking about it?????????

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    New Zealand turns to the right | The populist National-led government is undoing many of Jacinda Ardern’s progressive initiatives, including environmental protections.
  • You thought France had a 1.2 million USD per capita GDP? At that rate their GDP would be... 82 trillion. Dwarfing Chinas mere 18 trillion.

    Interesting point - you also picked countries with significantly higher population in close proximity to major trade routes and markets.

    Honestly, I went to a country per capita list, and picked out some names that stuck out. I'm not sure if you could ever find a country that's really comparable, in many ways we are at the end of everything.

    Agreed- unfortunately low value bulky goods that fetch global price means it sucks for us consumers.

    One of my big pushes in the last year has been to pay attention to food miles when purchasing... and sweet fucking jesus. The cheap stuff we import, and then sell our expensive goods overseas for minor margins.

    Couldn’t agree more. 4 year election cycle, cut the crap and let’s get this country better.

    I think this is a trap. A lot of our problems come from how easy it is to change things, IMHO. I'm not going to go find a source now (eating my lunch), but our democracy is unique is how easy it is to change laws. A lot of other countries have more checks and balances than we go, eg a upper house. Though in comparison we have the check and balance of MMP and multiple parties having to form a coalition.

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    New Zealand turns to the right | The populist National-led government is undoing many of Jacinda Ardern’s progressive initiatives, including environmental protections.
  • A low GDP per capita economy

    Still higher than some countries who manage much more. We beat Korea, Japan, Spain, hell, we edge out France.

    significant logistics chains and costs

    Good thing we are getting some new Toyota Carolla Ferrys to help make those logistic chains better!

    low nation ownership of productive assets and banks

    The same party that is now claiming we need austerity, also sold of several of those productive assets.

    lack of economies of scale from infrastructure spread over a wide area with low population

    Fair. I think most of our main infra is pretty consolidated, but a large portion of our economy is based on farming, which by it's very nature, is spread out.

    surprisingly lack of accountability for project over runs…

    On this we agree. I also think that cancelling good projects, simply because it's the "other sides" project, should also have accountability.

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  • Community

    I've been looking for a photography community in the fediverse that isn't just a dumping ground of photos.

    Does anyone know of one?

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