Oooooh this is relevant to my interests!! After 20yrs doing web dev I crashed out of two jobs in 6 months completely hating coding. Can’t even bring myself to look at code nowadays.

What did you go into after quitting web dev?

What did you used to program in?

Tracking clicks on links with JS is pretty normal. I always implemented that with Google analytics for my e-commerce sites.

It helps you track things like downloads of files, email links, exit links, etc.

Obsidian + private GitHub repo hosting

It depends on the website hosting location. TOS, users location and relevant international copyright treaties.

It’s not a one-size-fits-all.

As a UK citizen I can’t claim my (US) first amendment right to call you a “cunt”.

It’s against the website TOS and I’m not American.

Putting a license at the bottom clears any ambiguity.

Funnily enough you’re only highlighting your own “Zoomer” naivety of law by making your “Boomer” comment.

That’s not how public domain works.

Why does this feel like an AI comment?

What’s AV1 compression like compared to x265?

He’s got a kid called MySQL?

Private Eye is so fucking depressing. They say they put the funny stuff in the second half to offset the corruption and scandals in the first half but I can rarely get through one page before I have to put it down.

I don’t think we need anymore games.

learned

American LARPing as a Brit.

+1 for Raindrop. Not sure why it gets a low-ish rating cos I find it A* best ever bookmarkign plugin and I’ve been using various ones since early Delicious and Diigo.

You’re unhinged.

Bunch o puffs, lezzas and scallywags.

bad actors know how to manipulate or dodge the content moderation to avoid punitive consequences.

People have been doing that since the dawn of the internet. People on my old forum in the 90s tried to circumvent profanity filters on phpBB.

Even now you can get round Lemmy.World filters against “fag-got” by adding a hyphen in it.

Nothing new under the sun.

I think I sound reasonable talking. On recordings I sound like the gayest, campest homo in the fucking universe.

Even though I’m gay it’s still cringe af.

It’s fucking hilarious to think I went years denying being gay but when I listen to my voice it’s like “WTF - it’s SO fuckign obvious!”

Mash into a thick paste and smooth over wholewheat bread with a dash of salt.

Fist in Anus protocol.

Rule 5 (“No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda”)

That has the problem of blocking genuinely stupid questions that could be used to educate away ignorance. Instead the only people willing to answer their questions are nut jobs with an agenda. E.g.

Do black people sun burn?

Would get downvoted for being racist cos everyone must know the answer to this (I don’t)

Where does the ‘Jewish conspiracy’ originate from?

Everyone would assume you’re antisemitic instead of educating you on conspiracies by Nazis and Russian slike The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. But you know who does answer? Those conspiracy theorists who are more than happy to give you (wrong) answers!

Do women get horny?

Everyone assumes an ‘incel agenda’ cos it’s OBVIOUS what the answer is. No it’s some poor 13yo kid who’s unsure about things so they asked. But you know who does answer (wrongly) those questions liberally? Andrew Tate is FULL of answers and sends them down a very dangerous rabbit hole.

I can’t help feeling a lot of the modern shift towards alt-right bollocks is an almost elitist attitude that everyone has an agenda and there’s no such thing as ignorance anymore. I’m sure that was QAnons next level goal. Sow distrust in people so they refuse to answer questions (downvote, shutdown, ignore) while providing (wrong) answers to people themselves.

As I’ve gotten older I’ve come to realise Hanlons Razor covers SO much more than people realise.

Stop assuming malicious “agendas” behind everything. At the least don’t downvote things. At best answer people genuinely.