I haven’t deployed new code since last Monday.

In this house, we do not take chances.

Although one of my team had an unfortunate incident with a live customer database and the SQL standards committee’s long running practical joke of not requiring a WHERE clause as part of an UPDATE statement… So that was some Thursday morning excitement for us.

The rules will really change when the first billionaire on a private jet gets taken out by a DIY suicide drone.

Nah, he just purchased the world’s biggest megaphone from which he could propel his ketamine fuelled opinions into the deep uncaring void of the internet.

Untyped horseshit.

Why does your whole country have like 500 stations? The UK has 5 times that and is a hell of a lot smaller.

If it came up in Geoguessr I’d say Mexico. But that’s probably just because it looks a bit of a shithole. I’d wager there’s plenty of the US like that too.

Yeah, that way nobody will understand it

This is one of the things that make me think the current “fediverse” isn’t going to be its final form. It’s a good stepping stone, but users and communities being locked to a single instance will become a bugbear sooner rather than later.

Yeah, I think a user shouldn’t just “exist” on a single instance and the same goes for communities.

And at the same time, an instance owner does need to be able to block things from being federated with themselves. You really do not want any CSAM on hardware you own.

It’s tricky to cover everything, and I’m not even going to pretend I’ve got the answers to it.

It is a problem, but I think it downplays the reason those platforms got popular.

1. No admin required. No updating of software to make sure you’re not going to get compromised by a vuln.

2. No account management. You don’t have to make a new account, and manage another password for every community you use. Also, no worrying about 1 when somebody like me can’t be arsed to update that forum software. I don’t want an account for everything.

3. It’s all in one place. You look at your “feed” of things and your stuff with a new post every week is right there with the stuff with new posts every ten minutes.

If you’re running a big community you shouldn’t be building it somebody else’s garden, but you do need to manage the garden yourself and it’s not super trivial and maybe your little Final Fantasy XIV group can make do with a corner of Discord and abandon it when it goes real shitty. If you’ve got 50,000 people, it gets a little trickier.

The Fediverse goes a little way to fixing things, but it’s all a trade off. Not having corporations involved is a damn good start though.

Ah, the 200 Go Fuck Yourself pattern.

I use HTTP error codes in my API, and still occasionally see a GET /resource/{“error”:“invalid branchID provided”} from people who don’t seem to know what they are.

Fucking Chrome/Electron is why.

I honestly wouldn’t mind that if they could all use the exact same runtime so the apps could be a few MB each, but nooooo.

Why do people use this when Jellyfin exists?

So I guess we’re doing away with crumple zones now.

People bored of still having legs after accidents or something?

Maybe applies more to regex, the write only language.

I’m sure the Tolkien nerds can convince Amazon to make an entire series about Tom.

I mean it can’t be much worse than Rings of fucking Power…

Or just make it into a park. We’re not so desperate for space we need to build on what little urban greenery we have left…

Certainly more than golf.

Jellyfin seems solid.

The only issues I’ve had are with dodgy media files. Obviously better player hardware gets you better performance, but transcoding eliminates some of those issues.

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/administration/hardware-acceleration/intel/