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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • Men: Mars
  • Women: Venus
  • "AI": Europa
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was a professional, and I didn’t have a backup of my personal system for about 2 decades. I just didn’t have another 4TiB of storage to copy my media library onto. I’m now on backblaze, but there was a long time there when I didn’t not have a backup even tho I knew better.

  Also, even in a professional setting, I’ve seen plenty of “production support” systems that didn’t have a backup because they grew ad-hoc, weren’t the “core business”, and no one both recognized and spoke up about, how important they were until after some outage. There’s virtually never a test-restore schedule with such systems, so the backups are always somewhat suspect anyway.

  It’s very easy to find you (or your organization) without a backup, even if you “know better”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code deletes developers' production setup, including its database and snapshots — 2.5 years of records were nuked in an instant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  /s ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If the bug doesn’t already exist / is included under an existing bug scope, yes.

  I don’t think I will, but I probably should.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they are turning it into a HTML ordered list, and the Lemmy CSS isn’t set up for that.

  A bit of browser inspection, and I can basically guarantee it’s because the li::marker CSS is sized for no more than 3 digits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I never had a conversation on geocities, but I do remember you could do some SSI stuff, so maybe it was possible. I think lost my last geocities site password and didn’t care to go through the effort of resetting it in '96 or so.

  You can telnet into the HTTP port basically everywhere that doesn’t auto-redirect to the HTTPS port (and start/resume a TLS session), and there could be stuff in the HTML source (or headers) that a browser might hide from you, at least by default – but I can’t think of how you would use that in geocities to “see private messages”. (In theory you could manually start/resume a TLS session, but a proper telnet client might break on some of the bytes received, and you’d definitely have to figure out how to send some non-ASCII bytes.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I was on social media before web browsers existed. I am Legion.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ICQ 514984 checking in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there is a special place in hell for these scientists⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shadowrun used the term “bioware” instead, do you like that better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fidelity, Banks, Coinbase (before I got out of cryptocurrency entirely).

  But, basically, only when government regulation does (or SHOULD) impose KYC requirements.

  Age and ID verification might be good in a very few cases, but it should definitely be a deviation from the norm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bold words⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  :.|:;

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bold words⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I learned the lessons from that language 12 years earlier than I did. I still prefer to write personal code in that family of languages, and it made me a better coder even in Java, JavaScript, Python, even C.

  Also, that year is actually the first year it was available and my first year in college; it might have focused me enough to actually go to grad school and start a PL research career. I don’t know if that would be better, but it would be different.

  The people calling out BTC is also a pretty good idea, but I made a little money on BTC, and I’m not sure too much more money would be a positive change in my life. It could be, but I think it might have made me more covetous and more isolated.

  But, I often choose to program instead of playing video games these days, so it’s clearly something I enjoy, even if I don’t currently monetize it.

  Thanks for asking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bold words⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t figure out how to prevent 9/11 in 3 words. So, I’ll just say “Programming Language: Haskell”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it fits...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that it probably should be legal-ish. I think maximum curb gaps are a great idea, and minimum curb gaps are probably a good idea in areas where curb cleaning might frequently overlap with parking. But smarts and cycles should almost already be allowed to double-up within the same F-150-sized space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it fits...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  right wheels need to be within 12" of the curb

  park nose first

  rear passenger wheel still more than 12" from curb -> ticket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  women are too stubborn to pee with the seat up

  I think that’s sarcasm, unless you actually meant to communicate that women are stubborn.

  In any case, I think due to Poe’s Law, you’d have gotten better votes if you included “/s” or “j/k” or another marker. (But, votes might not be a concern to you.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, the old PieFed RooSwitch!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ^ /s ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I too prefer the commercial oval/egg bowls to the to residential round bowls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Video is unavailable in my region, but thanks anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d have to re-watch those segments. The part that remains stuck in my mind is that they found fecal particles on a toothbrush that was in a closed drawer.

  I don’t believe closing the lid helps that much, and I grew up with (and still have to deal with) a toilet that sometimes but not always needs a second (or third) press of the handle, so I keep the lid open so I can be sure the water really got flushed. (It drains the tank into the bowl, but sometimes it just slowly, but steadily, flows through roughly maintaining water level instead of crossing a pressure (?) threshold and flushing out the bowl and then refilling.)

  But, I’m all for closing the seat and the lid when you are done. It keeps pets and dropped items out of the bowl, if nothing else. If we have to leave the lid up, I still say seat down; that’s the “ready to use” configuration for all female and some male uses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mythusters found fecal particles everywhere even when the lid was down. There’s no escape from gross, just finding an acceptable level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … the best kind of correct.

  Are the new winners listed of the Indie Game Awards site?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not going to uninstall or demand a refund, but I fully support the Indie Game Awards decision on this and will not refer to CO:E33 as a winner of any of the Indie Game Awards. I will still call it IMO the best JRPG in many years, but I thought that before it started receiving awards.

  I hope this event serves to scare game studios of all sizes from the mere appearance of using AI at ANY scale or part of the process. Hell, I hope it causes the whole damn bubble to burst, but it’s just not that important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨for a better future for ur children⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What? The green revolution doesn’t deserve anti-aircraft capabily?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Santa is working on those lists⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ho, ho, ho. Ho.

  This Santa has one extra.

  (j/k)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I do have some control over my DNS and can create arbitrary TXT entries, I can’t to that in an automated way easily. I’m using Gandi.net to host my DNS rather than running my own DNS sever(s).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably the comment has federated to lemmy.world, but the deletion of the comment hasn’t yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like autoincorrect did a s/CRLs/Carla/ for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically my renews aren’t automated. I have a nightly cronjob that should renew certificates and restart services, but when the certificates need renewal, it always fails because it wants to open a port I’m already using in order to answer the challenge.

  I hear there’s an apache module / configuration I can use, but I never got around to setting it up. So, when the cron job fails, I get an email and go run a script that stops apache, renews certs, and restarts services (including apache). I will be a bit annoying to have to do that more often, but maybe it’ll help motivate me to configure apache (or whatever) correctly.

  Debian Stable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, I don’t even like using the word “cheat” to describe customizing a single-player gaming experience in a way not blessed by the developers. Terrafirmacraft (and maybe even just Gregtech) isn’t cheating at Minecraft; certainly the experience isn’t “easier”.

  So, yes, I will play the game is whatever way makes for the most fun for me, whether that’s “cheating” or not to you.

  For experiences that aren’t single-player, including (e.g.) anything with a global leaderboard (even at third-party one), I can understand why someone might choose to cheat, but I think I could deny myself those temptations. But, I’ve never been a “simple” cheat away from the top of a leaderboard or any other sort of acclaim or reward.