FishFace
@FishFace@lemmy.world
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 33 seconds ago:
You don’t seem worth talking to.
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 1 hour ago:
Why is that good?
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 1 hour ago:
Until this I used it as my daily meme scroller
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 1 hour ago:
Well done for not reading the post
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 1 hour ago:
It’s not accessible with a pc either.
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 1 hour ago:
Probably not directly, but we don’t know because Imgur has unprofessionally decided to return an incorrect raw JSON error message instead of explaining the block.
There is a message from the ICO noting the block and that it was considering fining them for failing to take user reported age as part of account creation. This is different from the OSA age verification
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 1 hour ago:
What they are being fined for (potentially) is not asking for users’ age during account creation. Not whatever you think (in spite of op being clear)
- Comment on Cops have now arrested over 2,000 peaceful Defend Our Juries protesters 1 hour ago:
Because the government feels threatened by direct action protest. News footage of vandalised jets is very embarrassing.
The huge sympathy for Jews and consequently for Israel does not switch off the moment Israel bombed the first hospital two years ago, in a conflict which has seen many innocents killed over many decades.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 1 day ago:
That is not a point you have made. You just started talking about those things. You didn’t relate them to the post in any way
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 1 day ago:
How do people who know how to repair gadgets and laser cut foam deal with things that lie outside their areas of expertise? Car trouble, plumbing problems, heating broken? No-one is able to do all of these, because each requires a certain amount of time and financial investment to get to the point of being able to fix most problems.
When you can’t fix it yourself you find someone who can. This may involve paying them to fix it. Fixing it may mean just buying a new one.
- Comment on How Do The Normal People Survive? 1 day ago:
What the fuck are you talking about?
This isn’t about AI, or Palestine, or healthcare.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 1 day ago:
If it were about “surveillance capitalism” then we wouldn’t be hearing about this as unauthorised breaches.
It is enough that the people who demand these systems are ignorant.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 1 day ago:
I held out for a return to IRC for a long time but the days of only getting messages when you’re online, or of setting up a bouncer or other solution, are just long gone.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 2 days ago:
Progressive Web-apps are a particular kind of web-app. The person you replied to just referred to “webapps”, not this special kind of web-app. Firefox has always supported web-apps.
The nature of progressive web-apps means that you can use them even if the browser doesn’t explicitly support them. All that explicit support does is wrap the web-app in an icon and reduced browser window.
- Comment on ugh I hate these notifications 2 days ago:
I hate that it bypasses your system volume setting and blasts it at 10,000 decibels
- Comment on I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying 2 days ago:
HTML rendering collapses whitespace; it has nothing to do with accessibility. I would like to see the research on double-spacing causing rivers, because I’ve only ever noticed them in justified text where I would expect the renderer to be inserting extra space after a full stop compared between words within sentence anyway.
I’ve seen a lot of dubious legibility claims when it comes to typography including:
- serif is more legible
- sans-serif is more legible
- comic sans is more legible for people with dyslexia
and so on.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 2 days ago:
I don’t know what that button does but I’m fairly sure it’s not about support for web-apps. Firefox has always supported web-apps, because web-apps are just interactive websites.
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 3 days ago:
They’re being precise about their terms, while everyone else is being sloppy. Not stanning
- Comment on Has this ever happened to you? 3 days ago:
Obviously not for the person who replied to you, nor for many others
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 days ago:
Webapps are now supported on Firefox? Holy smokes!
- Comment on Kemi Badenoch pledges to scrap UK climate law 3 days ago:
Thing is I read recently that the thing people like the least about Farage is his ties to the fossil fuel industry, so this seems a strategically poor thing to copy.
- Comment on Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine 4 days ago:
That’s true, but the age assurance they’re talking about here seems much lighter than the age verification mandated by the OSA. This page has information from the ICO on this - searching through for “age assurance” it seems clear to me that the ICO is talking about either taking an age field on account creation, or on using some other algorithmic means to estimate users’ ages.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 4 days ago:
I know how to use parametrised tests, but thanks.
Tests are still much more repetitive than application code. If you’re testing a wrapper around some API, each test may need you to mock a different underlying API call. (Mocking all of them at once would hide things). Each mock is different, so you can’t just extract it somewhere; but it is still repetitive.
If you need three tests each of which require a (real or mock) user, a certain directory structure to be present somewhere, input data to be got from somewhere, that’s three things that, even if you streamline them, need to be done in each test. I have been involved in a project where we originally followed the principle of, “if you need a user object in more than one test, put it in
setUpor in a shared fixture” and the result is rapid unwieldy shared setup between tests - and if ever you should want to change one of those tests, you’d better hope you only need to add to it, not to change what’s already there, otherwise you break all the other tests.For this reason, zealous application of DRY is not a good idea with tests, and so they are a bit repetitive. That is an acceptable trade-off, but also a place where an LLM can save you some time.
If you’re writing complex mocks frequently, there’s probably room for a refactor.
Ah, the end of all coding discussions, “if this is a problem for you, your code sucks.” I mean, you’re not wrong, because all code sucks.
LLMs are like the junior dev. You have to review their output because they might have screwed up in some stupid way, but that doesn’t mean they’re not worth having.
- Comment on Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine 4 days ago:
The title is completely in line with the known facts. This is the ICO statement which does not mention anything about age checking.
There has been widespread speculation that this is related to age-verification but so far I’ve seen no evidence of this, and the fact that the investigation started in March makes it seem unlikely.
- Comment on Imgur blocks access to UK users after proposed regulatory fine 4 days ago:
Ignore for a second the law in question. Suppose Temu started importing harmful goods into your country in the knowledge that they were going to poison kids. (This doesn’t seem too much of a stretch…) Should it be OK for Temu to just say, “OK, we’ll just stop importing to the UK then”? Shouldn’t they face the consequences for breaking the law?
I think this take is motivated by disagreement with the law in question (although it’s not actually clear exactly what they’re alleged to have done - the ICO released a statement saying it relates to an investigation from March, so before the age verification requirement).
- Comment on Imgur blocks UK users after regulator threatens fine over child data use 4 days ago:
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to have both. Alcohol and tobacco should not be freely available to children while relying instead on “conversation”.
UK law already allows blocking websites; the technical means is there. So I don’t know what you think the increased risk of censorship down the line actually is.
- Comment on Do we have a deal or what? 4 days ago:
Because imgur is incompetent. They’re returning the wrong error code on the homepage, and should in any case be showing an explanation instead of returning raw JSON.
- Comment on Young boys and porn - 1940 version 4 days ago:
I’ve only ever seen cub scouts wearing hats like that IRL
- Comment on Imgur blocks UK users after regulator threatens fine over child data use 4 days ago:
Imgur was my daily time-waste app. It has way more content than Lemmy and the memes are fresher (sorry).
I have a self-hosted VPN but its IP range is heavily throttled/blocked by many placces making it of little practical use. Also it is in a country which has also implemented fairly draconian age-check laws.
It seems to me that this age-related stuff could always have been implemented as a layer alongside HTTP(S) which declares whether the user is 18+. The legal aspect of it could be to force sites to comply with that declaration and block mature content to users who don’t declare it. Locked-down devices for children would not be able to declare the user is >18, but adults’ devices would. (Of course it would be bypassable, but what isn’t)
The remaining issue is catching sex ed in the 18+ net. However I don’t think that can be technologically be separated from porn, and it does seem likely that extremely easy access to porn (and content promoting suicide or violence or anorexia or…) for children is a bad thing.
- Comment on Imgur blocks UK users after regulator threatens fine over child data use 4 days ago:
The bullshit annoys me nearly as much as the regulatory overreach. Imgur isn’t over capacity; my connection is being throttled due to its IP range.