Punk ain’t no religious cult
Punk means thinking for yourself
You ain’t hardcore when you spike your hair
When a jock still lives inside your head

Nazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks: fuck off!
Nazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks: fuck off!

– Dead Kennedys

deleted by creator

and both the base URL needed to end with a slash, and each path must begin with one.

…so the respective library functions each sanitizes the input meets their requirement, pre- and appending slashes as needed?

…right?

Every reasonable programmer would assume that this is a mistake because the final path would end up with two slashes, but the library actually required that.

For fuck’s sake

I’m guessing they have two instances of string validation, the developer for each of which helpfully decided “I’ll make sure there’s a slash, idk if the other end checks it” and then a third function that trims the slashes from the parts and concatenates them with a slash for a separator.

But, man, is this ever stupid.

I sympathise with your username. I’ve picked up a habit of using dashes too, but because LLMs are apparently trained on the same writing style that I’m compulsively imitating, that habit tends to be mistaken as an identifier for LLM-slop—an understandable confusion, given that most people don’t casually use it, but I tend to fall into linguistic patterns with little regard for the context I’m writing in. I’ll accidentally use informalities in professional writing as well, but whereas I’ll make an effort to correct my tone in professional contexts, I just can’t be arsed to apply the same diligence in a casual one.

Assigned Male At Birth

When used in the context of gender dysphoria, it emphasises that the gender the person is dysphoric about isn’t a fixed trait (“born male”) but rather a property that has been assigned to them and can be rectified. It also conveniently avoids mentioning physical traits and sidesteps the complexity of Intersex people that don’t neatly fit the male/female dichotomy but usually get assigned one or the other anyway.

And finally, it’s just a convenient and pronounceable shorthand.

Its counterpart is AFAB, Assigned Female At Birth. Neither has anything to do with ACAB.

I feel like we ought to expand that traditional quote about the last fish being caught, the last tree being cut and all: When the last emotion is commodified, you will realise that you can’t buy happiness.

a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs

Year of the Linux Desktop! Any day now… any day… huffs copium

The fuck are you on about? We’re heavily critical of laws, capitalism, censorship and all. We’re critical of imperialism in all forms too, whether Russian, Chinese, US or Israeli. We know the reasons, and we’re not happy about it. Our meme community (ich_iel, originally a German twin of me_irl) is left-leaning enough that its sister community (wir_iel, literally we_irl) for communist memes is more of a subset than an actually separate community.

The instance owners just don’t wanna be held criminally liable for shit people post on it, so they take down comments that call for the death of Israel or otherwise become offensive beyond reasonable doubt. They’re volunteers providing a platform for discussion, information and memes.

What would you have the admins / mods do instead?

I mean, if you’re trying to avoid legal prosecution shutting down your instance, it’s pretty reasonable to, you know, obey the laws of the country you live in.

I heard one guy talk about the importance of cable shielding and connector material and shit once, but the ones I actually know just talk about the other hardware (speakers, mixing pults, lots of terms I couldn’t recite).

Recovering AMAB?

One thing I noticed and appreciated when I first tinkered with my computer was the whole “There’s only one place this can go” for the more critical cables. I did mange to mess up my fans, but that wasn’t a big deal.

As in, the CPU fan right on the heat sink? Yeah, that’s a pretty standard setup. I’ve got it on mine. The CPU came with that cooler combo.

The key is to actually put that cooler on the CPU, not the chassis.

Presumably because most end users are in deep with the “if you do nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about” crowd

I agree with other comments that this is probably an Executive issue. Decision-makers operating with missing information can make misinformed decisions. Whether or not end users actually are in that crowd is less relevant than whether the people making such decisions think the users are in that crowd.

In a game-theory framing, it’s a game with incomplete information. What you assume about others, including what you assume about their assumptions, influences your decisions. The sheer amount of players makes it a lot harder to model or predict.

Your initial comment above came off as hostile to UX designers, which is why I felt the need to reply.

Nah, I’m married to one. I just share her grief over grifters wearing the title without actually doing the job well and giving the whole guild a bad name.

Incidentally, that might also be why I’m so aware of the distinction (on paper) between the responsibilities. As you say, the actual job is usually fused from both responsibilities, which makes sense because it skips a step between UX analysis and UI design.

UX designers will be quick to point out that it’s a related, but separate role from UI. The experience you have with a product starts before actually using it and lasts after you stop.

For example, your product’s presentation sets expectations, and so does the context in which you look for it in the first place. If the actual product doesn’t deliver on that, it’ll lead to frustration, no matter how good it may be at what it actually does. (Of course, if it turns out to be great, that may compensate for the disappointment, but “they liked it anyway” is not exactly what you want to gamble for.)

UX also covers the flow of actions, such as reading comment replies and replying in turn. I need some way to know that there is something worth reading and replying to (which the UI then implements as a red badge), that intuitively leads me to the thing in question (so the UI puts the badge on the Inbox, which then opens to the unread messages) and enables me to do what I want (with buttons, gestures or a menu, or all three).

Often, good UX requires a good UI, and a good UI designer will have a solid grasp on the way users think and act too. They’re closely related and you’ll see many people fusing the two roles, because there’s a lot of overlap between “how do users think” and “how do I communicate what they can do”.

A corrupt government can also be bought off by the companies to not fuck with things so that they at least remain functional.

…for whose definition of functional? Because any additional overhead from having to bribe the government would inevitably impact customers. And while they’re at it, they might as well come up with more ways to be anti-consumer and the bribed government won’t stop them.

They might also just bend over to please their dictator instead of buying him off, so it’s not even a given thay they will keep him from interfering

I get your point about the current government situation though. I’m just not convinced replacing a corrupt private company with another not-yet-quite-as-corrupt private company from a different country would improve things in the long run.

Ogles ought to be more concerned about the kids he ogles than whatever some famous dude does at a sports show. Humping the air is tamer than humping children, so get on your dear leader’s case about that instead.

Using a Matrix room for our family, it has some built-in video call service (I think it’s Jitsi?) that works great for regular family rounds. It has its hiccups too, but nothing we can’t deal with so far.

Is it worse than private companies leveraging their dominance and effective monopoly to impose demands on all who depend on the critical infrastructure they provide, sidestepping all legislative processes and accountability to the public?

Besides, a corrupt government can just as well abuse regulatory powers to impose its will on private companies, since it doesn’t have to observe due process. A sane government, however, will have less power to force a private company to do business it doesn’t want to.

Privatisation is no protection against corruption, but a hurdle for public oversight. There are sectors where that is acceptable and the flexibility it provides may be worthwhile, but infrastructure isn’t one of them.