I didn't get that it's hiding anything. says it right there in the blurb:

The agency said it cannot ban personalized pricing under its current authority, but it will pursue enforcement action against companies that fail to meet its disclosure requirements.

Unless I'm missing something, I understood that to mean exactly what you said.

Google says pause ads on YouTube are getting a very positive reaction from advertisers

Bc screw the users and their reactions 😄.

We really need a good YouTube competitor. This is beyond ridiculous at this point.

Right, and what's even as bizarre to me (as an engineer) is that they're bots posing as people.

That's arguably the most deceptive and malicious way to use a bot on a site meant for real people.

But they'll quickly block any helpful bots anyone else tries to integrate on the platform.

"Our bad bots good, your good bots bad". What a crazy world we live in.

I dont want any parts of Threads. But if they're gonna federate, at least do it 100%. This half-ass, piecemeal approach where they release an itty bitty teeny weeny change every month is weird.

Take that, Stack Overflow! Programming.dev on deck!!!! Let's gooooooo

Yup. And instead, they make us pay them for it. 🤡

These were great in their day, but it’s time to move on to something better and safer.

How is it "safer" when contributing to the codebase or filing and discussing issues will now require creating an account and giving up personal information to one of the most privacy-invasive tech companies in the world? 😳

Not condoning it, but all I can think is how terrible Facebook is for "coordinating" stuff like this. I mean, if FB or the feds wanted to find out who these people are, track them down or something, they can do that pretty easily. People who do stuff like this aren't too bright, though. So not surprised, I guess.

Dude, who in their right mind would add scheduling infra to a client like that? 😆 I'm going to need these Lemmy devs to have a tad bit more experience before they start being so dismissive, especially to someone who's just trying to help.

As an engineer who's worked on very large codebases over two decades, I've realized that this is so much easier said then done.

If people want to fork Mastodon, great. But they'll quickly realize that what they may think are straight-forward "improvements" will lead to them having to address bigger architectural issues.

Many design decisions that were made when building Mastodon may not be perfect, but they address a lot of very complex decentralization and federation issues.

There's no such thing as perfect software. What some may think is an improvement, others will think is a terrible choice. Each decision is a trade-off and will have downsides. We just have to decide which of them we're comfortable with living with.

This is 👍. For those wondering, RFCs have been around for years in software engineering--since the beginning of the internet, practically.

As a software engineer myself, I can confidently say they're a great way to build complex software in a more democratic way.

They require a certain level of agreement and consensus, which makes them take a while to ratify. But you almost always end up with better software in the end.

This isnt the first time Nutomic has reacted in such a egotistical way, especially when someone points out a flaw in the software. I've seen a few issues that were actual issues with the software--not feature requests--that he's closed and dismissed. One of the issues were mine. He definitely needs help with maintaining the software but I dont know how he expects anyone to help with the way he's been acting.

Not surprised that Tech debt is among the biggest. There seems to be a lot of complexity added to apps unnecessarily these days-especially web based apps. It's almost like companies purposefully force their engineers into creating web apps so bloated that users have no choice but to use the native app version.

So we're gonna keep defederating instances every time a user of an instance acts crazy? Until every instance deferates from each other? This is getting absurd... and feels more and more like... high school.

I never really understood how cross posting works here. You mind telling us the benefits? Does it consolidate all of the discussions in each cross post into one big long thread? 🤔

It will be fixed. It's gov. So baby steps. The EU is working hard and it's going to be a while before we get everything we want.

Yeah but note by "public" they really mean "if the post doesn't require you to login". They recently implemented a feature that lets users choose for their posts to be "public" but still require a login to see it.

Hey OP, I'm doing some research. You mind sharing that link in the description of your screenshot?

And probably not as intentional as most people think it is vs just laziness and maybe a lack of planning.

I feel the same way about RSS feeds. It's a technology meant to keep up with updates on nearly anything across the internet. Even social media sites. It's been available for ages. But no one is pushing for sites to provide them. 🤷‍♂️