Can you force the browser to send a cookie header to the DuckDuckGo website? I think there are plugins that add headers to specific websites.

I tried them with a few different cameras. They sucked. They wouldn’t reliably connect to Wi-Fi, and they didn’t reliably upload images.

Debugging. It’s a whodunnit where the victim, murderer, and investigator are all you.^(apologies to Filipe Fortes)

That’s the way I read it as well.

He’s a c-list celebrity and genre author. I generally agree with what he says and enjoy his writing, but I’d be surprised if any of his usual audience joined a platform specifically because of him.

Edit: I am surprised that some of his usual audience joined a platform specifically because of him.

As someone who has tried to make useful and accurate progress bars: fuck progress bars.

it’s on us the fediverse for really failing to communicate the value of instances as well as making them easy

A bunch of people came over to Mastodon when Elon bought Twitter, but they left because it was missing features. The big ones I saw were

1. a lack of “trending” list - that means journalists and other people who want to know what’s happening right now didn’t have a way to find events
2. no suggestions for follows. As a new user, how do people know what to follow?
3. no suggested posts. Once I scroll through all the posts from the people I follow, the system doesn’t provide me with new posts.

I thought those were for only when shit is seriously wrong and execution can’t continue in the current state.

That’s how it starts. Nice and simple. Everyone understands.

Until

some resource was in a bad state

and you decide you want to recover from that situation, but you don’t want to refactor all your code.

Suddenly, catching exceptions and rerunning seems like a good idea. With that normalized, you wonder what else you can recover from.

Then you head down the rabbit hole of recovering from different things at different times with different types of exception.

Then it turns into confusing flow control.

The whole Result<ReturnValue,Error> thing from Rust is a nice alternative.

yes please

At one point I got fed up with their bullshit propaganda texts and just responded by trolling them back. I know it’s a bot, but it was cathartic.

Sometimes yelling at a cloud makes me feel better.

The amendment was narrowly passed via a statewide ballot initiative in 2022 despite claims by opponents that it would force wealthy residents and businesses to leave the state.

Props for getting it passed.

That’s the unsung hero of all this. A friend and I were able to build RC planes with the help of a couple of YouTube videos and a printer. It would have been possible before the Internet, but it would have been harder and more expensive.

It seems to me that many more people are now confusing their uninformed opinions with scientific knowledge. There is no other way I can explain this strange hostility towards science that a not inconsiderable number of people are displaying - this is a phenomenon of the recent (internet) past, or is my impression wrong?

I don’t know. My bias is that human nature is constant over time. As such, I think we’re using the Internet the way we used other resources in the past: cherry picking statements that confirm our existing beliefs, and dismissing statements that challenge them.

I grew up at the end of the Cold War. Without the Internet, people were able to convince themselves climate change wasn’t a thing, planetary annihilation with nuclear weapons was an ok risk, and smoking was yucky but got an unfair bad rap.

The Internet hasn’t caused people to be idiots, it’s just given idiots another platform.

Content-wise, I think we aren’t in a bad spot. There’s a tonne of information available online that wasn’t accessible before. Wikipedia is a pretty great example, but the millions of howtos scattered across Instructables, YouTube, and other sites are also pretty amazing. Yeah, there’s monetization and SEO crap, but I think (hope?) it’s a net positive.

Application-wise, I think we’re also in an okay spot. Almost anyone can publish videos, text, and opinions on corporate publishing tools. If you want, you can spin up a private server with just a credit card, and do whatever you want with incoming traffic. Web browsers aren’t quite Neuromancer/Shadowrun decks, but they do allow anytime to run untrusted code safely on a local machine.

Did all this free information bring us together? No. Not yet, at least. But I think that’s what the early tech utopians got wrong. We aren’t insufferable jerks because we don’t know any better, we’re insufferable jerks because we know better and choose to do it anyway.

Ugh. This is only going to backfire and feed the tHe DeEp StAtE Is OuT tO gEt Me narrative.

If he’s convicted of something that automatically disqualifies him from running in every state, yes, deny him. Otherwise this is playing into his tiny orange hands.

What about snorting it?

Thanks but the type of people I’m into don’t go out into the world.

plz no

rounding errors

Everyone here is saying “I didn’t see it” while some of us needed to stare for a couple of seconds to see the actual image.