I’m using my old Nokia to this day. And why? Because “suddenly being stopped even after a few feet” wasn’t “difficult to mitigate” for Nokia. In the last 15 years this thing must have survived more than 100 drops, sometimes down a staircase. When I pick up the back cover, the battery and the SIM card, it’s as good as new.

You transport the dishes, sure, but do you eat from them while standing? I was specifically referring to handheld devices.

Uh, not really what planned obsolescence is.

You’re right, but I couldn’t think of a short term for this. I found ‘bad’ design too broad, and it’s not ‘hostile’ design either.

Thank you very much for your kind words, my dear sir.

puberty is sorta like this but idk, it doesn’t feel as dramatic

I really wonder what happened in your puberty to be “sorta like this”

First, the caterpillar digests itself, releasing enzymes to dissolve all of its tissues. If you were to cut open a cocoon or chrysalis at just the right time, caterpillar soup would ooze out.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/caterpillar-butterfly-metamorphosis-explainer/

That’s when you set the intern’s IDE to preserve the line endings.

And again this was when I was starting and out learning this through experience and I showed incompetence and this point and he just found me guilty and charged me a fine.

I have no clue what they’re even trying to say here except for the highlighted parts. Is there some legal shenanigans that I don’t understand as a foreigner? What does any of this have to do with the judge’s “operating in his private capacity”?

When the industry “overhires” how come games are always shipped with 3/4 of the promised features and buggy as hell?

This isn’t replacing a euphemism with another one. Dumb has a completely different meaning that’s not even close to ‘cannot speak’, while ‘mute’ conveys exactly that.

I didn’t care about Boeing, nor will I (probably) ever, but John Oliver’s take was still amusing. He digs into the reasons why Boeing sucks now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc&pp=ygUSam9obiBvbGl2ZXIgYm9laW5n

I love the tl;dr; bot because it:

• doesn’t pop up a ‘read our newsletter’ prompt that receives an auto-close click anyway
• doesn’t pop up a separate prompt to subscribe to the news site using payment methods I simply don’t have because I’m not a credit card addicted American
• doesn’t throw a consent form at me in yet another popup, in which I need to manually click away 308 vendors to which I do not want to sell my soul
• doesn’t include useless Facebook-Like buttons that collect data about me even though I don’t even have a fucking Facebook account
• doesn’t need 8 seconds of JavaScript execution to render fucking text
• doesn’t load a 8000×6000px image that contains absolutely zero information, but only serves to make me to scroll by one screen to get to the information I actually want
• relieves me of the burden to follow a link just to find that that content isn’t available ‘because you’ve already met your quota.
• provides the information concisely instead of using a truck load of unnecessary fill words just to meet an arbitrary 4000 word minimum.

The fines are only proportional for big corporations. Organizations without revenue can still be fined:

Infringements of the following provisions shall, in accordance with paragraph 2, be subject to administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher: (a) the basic principles for processing, […] pursuant to Articles […] 7 […];

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-83-gdpr/

In this case, the processing of data hinges upon the data subject’s consent, which is detailed in article 7.

Also, this is not an issue for the developers, but for the admins.

Imagine a car manufacturer building cars without brakes and then saying ‘This isn’t a problem for the engineers, but for the retailers’. Of course the developers can’t be sued for this. But that’s not the point! The point is that this bug or missing feature or whatever you want to call it jeopardizes the admins upon which this whole ecosystem hinges. I can’t believe that that’s in the devs’ best interests.

To be fair, this is a bug that could be the end of lemmy. As soon as one malicious actor sues even a few instance admins, other will get scared and shut down their instances. As the reporter points out, this isn’t just a shiny feature that’s missing. Instance admins lack the ability to follow data protection requirements that their users have a right to. It’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.

I agree commenting that post under every issue was a dick move.

maximising profit is not why we grant them copyright

That’s the only reason copyright exists. Because society decided that if you’re the one to put work into developing something, you should be the one reaping the profits, at least for some time.

I found it interesting how the maintainers reacted to these issues.

Would you mind if we set some of your priorities also? You’re asking us to do free labor for you, that you’re unwilling to do yourself. Do not put ultimatums and demands on people making FOSS, or I won’t hesitate to block you from these repos.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4433#issuecomment-1939275302

US police officer shoots at unarmed suspect after mistaking acorn drop for gunshot (YouTube)

[Meme transcription: 3 orangutans sitting on an interview couch. One asks, “Where acorn?”]

Has git never told you that you should use git push -u origin <branch> when you push a new branch for the first time?