I can't believe this POS got away with lying about the developer of Apollo threatening to blackmail them. Why aren't these interviewers asking about that?

I have noticed this so much today. I pretty much lived in r/hockey for the past 5 years. They had a vote and decided to black out for the 48 hour protest. Once it was clear that the vote was in favor of blacking out (and that the championship deciding game could be played during the blackout), people started pleading to move the blackout to after the championship was decided, which completely defeats the purpose of the protest.

Well, during the blackout, the championship was decided. Now that it's open again, everyone is again flipping out about how pointless the protests were, and how we ruined their experience of watching the championship game.

What exactly does this mean? Like, I'm familiar with open source software, but I'm not super familiar with the x86 bootloader stuff, so I'm not sure what benefits we get from this.

He's trying to pit us against each other in hopes that we crumble.

If Lemmy/Kbin keep growing at this rate, I don't even care. I won't need reddit anymore.

I have been lurking on the GitHub, and it seems quite a few people want the ability to port your account from one server to another. It was initially dismissed and the request was closed, but people made good points, like what happens if a server shuts down? Folks on that server just lose all their history? Those comments got lots of thumbs up reactions, and the request got reopened.

Hopefully at some point we can get that feature and making the wrong early choice will matter less.

They said here that they will upgrade when 0.18.1 releases. The reasoning was that 0.18 got rushed out the door and dropped captcha support when their APIs changed. It will be added back in in 0.18.1.

If you want a cat, adopt one. Don't buy one. There are thousands of cats without homes that need one. Save one from being put down instead of buying one from a breeder that is exacerbating the problem.

Edit: fixed a typo

I posed this over a week ago as a test, and nothing seemed to happen.

Edit: lmao, I had no idea this was actually removed. It was links to the top 7 or so Lemmy instances.

This seems to be one of the most common questions. To me that means that this should be a priority to fix if it is affecting so many people.

No OP but number goes up equals dopamine rush. Same reason I played RuneScape for so long.

I mean, I sort of do that. I'm a software engineer. If I finish all my work early, I just stop working. Or I can start working on my task for the next day. My team works in three weeks sprints, so I get all my tasks for the next three weeks. If I finish all of those tasks before the three weeks are over, I really can just slack off. Usually I'll ask for another task, as it makes me look better when it comes time for raises (once a year), but for people who are happy with how much they are being paid, they can just do as little as required and work fewer hours than 8 a day.

After a few days, I gave up and just installed from GitHub. I had to delete the old version, because I guess they have different certificates. But all I had to do was sign in again, and everything was back.

I saw another post saying they vowed not to do that. I haven't read the interview, but I wonder how what he said could be interpreted in opposite ways by two different people.

Good. People are supposed to be inconvenienced.

Last Christmas. It's the Christmas one night stand song. And it just repeats the same thing a thousand times. Turn that shit off.

Not having to do a database rollback is a really, really hard problem to solve, and it would almost certainly need to be on the Lemmy developers side, not the server owner's side. And if I'm them, that's a low priority issue, and probably not something I even think about until 1.0.

Basically, they write code that says what to do in the event of a database version change. Usually this only handles upgrade cases, because that's what happening most of the time. One example of something you might do in a db upgrade is let's say you had a column where the data type was only numbers, but now you want to allow any alphanumeric character for some reason. You could have a line of code that converts the number to a string.

Okay, but now you need to go back to the previous version. Okay, your db change code runs, but it's the old version of the db change code, not some new version that you wrote. You unfortunately didn't have a crystal ball when you wrote this code and couldn't predict that you were going to change the data to strings, so you didnt write code to change it from a string to a number.

This is why most software doesn't support downgrades unless you wipe first. For example, if you updated your aging MacBook to the latest Mac OS version, then realized it slows down your laptop too much, you can only go back if you first wipe your laptop in the process. So it's just easier to just take a snapshot before an upgrade and revert to the snapshot if it fails. Some folks will even do "scheduled maintenance" time during the upgrade in which the whole system goes down for a short time so they don't have to risk losing data that happened after the snapshot.

It's not even just books for me. I can watch a movie a second time it's like watching a whole new movie. Like I completely missed half the plot and most of the details. I can also watch 100 episodes of a TV show and realize that I don't know the main character's best friend's name (the best friends who had 30 focus episodes and appeared in 86 of the 100 episodes).

Exceptions: if you live somewhere where you'll die in 4 minutes in a car with no AC.

Sent from Texas, where it is currently 88 degrees in the middle of the night.

Has that been confirmed yet? I saw one person saying it was happening, but the comments below proved they were wrong, and then they scratched out their comment and apologized for spreading false info.

What a fucking liar.