frezik

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash wants you to lobby Congress instead of just employing you⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably that they would be paying it without the tax benefits they do for actual employees. So they never bother. In their mind, not getting a tax benefit is the same as banning it. They believe this because they are stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Funny ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not true, but the way it plays out makes people think otherwise.

  There are tons of first gen atheists who came from deeply fundamentalist families, and often believed everything well into adulthood. To name two examples, Bart Ehrman and Genetically Modified Skeptic.

  What won’t happen is changing someone over the course of a single debate. They will come up with all sorts of mental gymnastics right on the spot. However, conversations like that do add up over time. An otherwise inquisitive mind will find a way eventually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Title of your s*x tape⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that’s why the Bible says babies are delivered by storks. Sex was invented in 1960 by feminists who wanted to chop your balls off so they could superglue them on and transgender themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When life gives ya lemons.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In a more general way, other creatures don’t experience taste the same way we do.

  Bird poop is really nutritious to seeds. It makes sense for those plants to be eaten by birds (with the seed passing through the digestive tract untouched), but avoid other creatures.

  Enter capcasin. Mammals find it intolerable (except for one subset of a goofy bipedal species), but birds love that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chad NATO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And nobody especially objected to it. Not even much from outside of NATO, excepting Afghanistan itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chad NATO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor Russia, had no agency at all. Had no choice but to become an ultranationalist shithole because NATO forced them to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chad NATO⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The rest of the world were willing participants in Afghanistan. The US didn’t have to do anything to “force” them.

  Iraq and Afghanistan are interlinked stories, but the way they played out with world support was very, very different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chad NATO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you aware of the actual reason that NATO bombed Yugoslavia?

  Oh, .ml, that explains it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨heaven⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, we all agree that you’re very smart for passing a logical reasoning quiz.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Rocks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my answer to people who are sad that FTL space travel is probably impossible. There are wonders right around you that you don’t even know about. Space will always be there for humanity to explore. We don’t have to be in a rush. Tons to learn about right here. It’s not worth going to space if we leave a burnt cinder of a planet behind us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This and the ballroom are Trump trying to leave a permanent mark on the White House behind. If nothing else, he’ll die of natural causes within the next decade, and he knows his name will be cursed from then on. If you have to call it “The Donald J Trump Ballroom”, then he still has something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Piss Post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The hypercube of gross.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Roger Moore

  FUCK YOU I WON’T TAKE IT BACK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨preferences⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you can still find it mentioned on the product detail stickers or the PCB silkscreen or such. They still have the name in a few places, probably to maintain the trademark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fiber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was looking at fiber supplements on Costco’s web site, and there was one where the guy had more or less the experience above, but after just one. He said he wouldn’t touch them again after that.

  I can’t help but think that if this is what happens after taking just one, you really, really needed to be cleaned out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It has nothing to do with SEO. We do server side rendering because it’s the simplest thing that works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon witnesses excellent security⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s more common than you think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a fundamental problem with web apps having access to GPU resources. There’s obviously games that can benefit from that.

  In general, I don’t have a fundamental problem with any of this being there provided the attack surface area can be managed. Which it isn’t, but that’s another discussion.

  I have a problem with the tools being applied indiscriminately. I’d almost say that every site should start vanilla, and you’d have to specifically justify any use of JavaScript.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  JavaScript is needed to actually build anything useful

  Not even close. I wrote a management system for the keyfobs at my makerspace. I had some JavaScript in there previously for things like loading up logs with pagination over ajax calls or searching for members by name. I took all that out and made it straight server side HTML. It’s fast, takes minimal browser memory, and the back button works with zero fuss.

  Just try making an application that way sometime. Yes, you can find places for targeted use of JavaScript, but every web dev should at least try making a project without it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a web dev, I’ll say that yes, it is achievable. The problem isn’t what’s possible, but that we’ve trained new frontend devs in certain ways and given them certain tools. Those tools are being used in places they shouldn’t, and those same new frontend devs are failing to learn the fundamentals of HTTP and HTML.

  React, for example, is a JavaScript framework that’s become incredibly popular in recent years. It’s meant for “single page applications”. I once made a control panel for a vacuum former with it, where you could turn on zones of heating and get the temperature updated in real time. You’re not expected to navigate away from that page while you’re using it. I think this is a good place to use React, though you could make the argument that it should be a native GUI app. (I’ll say that it isn’t that important; this thing runs fine on a Raspberry Pi 3, which is the target platform).

  React is not a good option for an ecommerce site. You want to click on a product to check out its details. That means you’re going between very different views (pages) a lot. React increases complexity with no clear gain. An argument can be made for the address/payment/finalization steps. The money people like that because there’s a strong correlation between streamlining checkout and how often cash ends up in their hands.

  A lot of those sites use React, anyway, for everything. Why? Because we’ve trained a bunch of new frontend devs so much on it that they have no idea how to make a site without React. This overspecialization has been detrimental.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  JavaScript is directly related to almost everything that makes browser tabs take up more RAM than a typical PC in 1998. There are ways to use it in targeted ways that improve responsiveness (objectively or subjectively). The web as it stands is so far beyond that justification that it’s almost laughable to even bring it up.

  I run a personal blog with zero JavaScript; just HTML, CSS, and some pictures. Firefox’s memory snapshot says it uses <3MB on the homepage. Amazon’s homepage is currently giving me 38MB, and this comment section with the Alexandrite frontend is giving me 30MB. Those two may even be at the low end of what’s out there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon witnesses excellent security⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s “more secure” because there’s a specific company to blame when it goes wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Miner Wars 2081 has similarities. Same people who made Space Engineers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if H₂O is so great why isn’t there H₂O₂⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a difference between allow by default and deny by default. One of them is necessary for a healthy society while acknowledging that you need to keep certain groups away from you. The other is culty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨crypto investment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eth doesn’t take much power like that anymore if that’s what you’re thinking. Other crypto does, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perfect honestly ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could be AI slop, but probably just compression artifacts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re doing the FSM’s work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They even got their own island⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sometimes, there are downsides to being on an instance that disables downvotes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think OnlyFans had to do much of anything in the end. There was just enough media stink about it to make it go away.

  Credit card companies don’t have to set a consistently applied set of rules the way a government of laws does. They can make it all up for each individual site if they wish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism is creating a level of censorship that exceeded what the US government was ever able to do. Parts of this have been there for a long time. You can drop f-bombs on cable TV all you like; the FCC can’t do anything about it since it’s not over public airwaves. They generally don’t do that, because advertisers don’t like it.

  YouTube has put this idea into overdrive. You can’t make a straightforward, monetized video about the Holocaust anymore, because the language you would have to use would violate YouTube’s written and unwritten rules. Meanwhile, actual fucking Nazis have had little issue using YouTube to spread their bullshit.

  Credit card companies have had issues with porn sites in terms of fraud reporting. Not necessarily because of actual fraud–if the site you use is under CCbill, it’s fine–but because some guy’s spouse sees the card transactions, asks what this particular line is for, and he lies and says it’s probably fraud and he’ll call it in. Get more than a few of those, and the processor will always be flagged for review.

  They do stop some of the more fringe porn. Bree Mills (of Adulttime) has said that they get limited by the credit card industry far more than the government. All the faux-incest videos go out of their way to mention in dialog that everyone is a step family and over 18. You won’t find scat on Kink.com, again because their payment processor won’t allow it.

  That’s been the situation for a few decades, but it has gone beyond that in the last few years. Tried it on OnlyFans, and the company maneuvered things to show why that’s an incredibly bad idea, and then the card companies backed down. But they’re trying again elsewhere, and they’re starting to be successful. I severely doubt they had any significant fraud issues on Steam or itch.io, NSFW items or otherwise.

  Ultimately, this stuff is a tiny slice of their revenue. If they want to shut it all down on a moral crusade, they will barely notice the hit to their numbers.

  On a side note, I’d like the advocate that you should pay for porn if it’s within your means. You’ll often find better quality stuff at sites that properly run their sets with consent. If you like queer porn or unconventional body types, there are a lot of sites for that which just don’t show up on PornHub.