“Zionist genocide whitewashing group StopAntisemitism has been named antisemite of the week by Everyone With a Goddamn Brain”

I learned Python after I already knew C, and I will forever be grateful for that.

I took an Operating Systems class in undergrad whose first assignment was to implement a simple web server in C, and it was fine. Later, I took the same prof’s grad-level class and had to do basically the same assignment again, and all I could think was “wow, this is incredibly tedious: this whole thing would be literally two lines of Python.” Python absolutely ruined my patience for writing C (or at least, for writing C socket code that has to manually juggle IPv4 and v6 struct addrinfos and whatnot).

Ha, you haven’t lived [in Hell] until you’ve tried to maintain a Jython build, with Python package dependencies (not just Java ones), in a production environment, in the 2020s.

I don’t recall the reasons for the addition but /media is newer than /mnt.

Something to do with hard-coded mounts in /etc/fstab vs. dynamically-mounted removable media (USB drives etc.), I think.

I’m going for the Dr. Venkman combo: “Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!”

it’s soulless car-dependant suburbs that are like Windows!

Some suburbs are nice, too.

It’s precisely the streetcar suburbs that are nice, and they are nice precisely because they are not car-dependent.

No, because a kibbutz (planned intentional community) would be the “cathedral” in that analogy, and the city (incrementally developed community) would be the bazaar.

Linux is the communal kibbutz, Windows is the corporate city.

I was 100% with you until you decided to go and diss cities.

Cities are great and neighborhoods within them can have plenty of sense of community; it’s soulless car-dependant suburbs that are like Windows!

And that’s before considering that it’s also radioactive!

The only way to stop having an abusive relationship with your computer is to ditch the OS for something that isn’t Microsoft.

Damn who imagined that gaming would be the topic that made the FOSS OSes relevant.

Frankly, that’s been obvious for a pretty long time now. I’ve been hearing “but I need Windows for gaming” as people’s primary excuse for not switching since literally two decades ago.

C++ for kids - fine
Javascript for babies - call CPS!

That’s the thing, though: I’m not talking about being banned from the sub. My account was suspended site-wide because the snowflake mods reported me to the admins for “abusing the moderation system” (again: for reporting comments as misinformation because they actually were, in factual reality, misinformation), and the admins upheld that suspension even on appeal.

Reddit’s admins actively support spreading fascist misinformation

My account was “permanently suspended” for “mod abuse” because I reported misinformation in r/conservative.

You’re using the wrong browser. Good browsers display an infinity symbol.

The real reason all the companies are coming up with forced arbitration clauses is that it kills class-action lawsuits.

You can’t store that info in a link without it being monstrous.

Sure you can, if your backend is designed reasonably.

How? You put a timestamp (or equivalent) in the URL and filter the search to only operate on the records that existed at that time. Assuming your search algorithm is deterministic, it should find the same results.

It would not fix it. I also want to be able to do things like send the URL to someone else and have confidence that it would load the same content for them, too.

That’s not really the issue. The issue is that it doesn’t give you a proper URL with enough information to uniquely identify the set of results it loaded for you, so if you reload the page it re-runs the query and you get a new set of results instead of the same set you had before. That fundamentally breaks how the Internet is supposed to work: any particular URL should always go to the same resource.

The fact that Youtube also does lazy-loading infinite scroll bullshit makes it even harder to show examples about, so I’ll switch to Lemmy now. Take this URL, for example:

https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&pageCursor=P115f329&sort=TopSixHour

(That’s from navigating to page 2 of my feed, which is set to “all” and “top 6 hours”.)

If I go to that URL now, and then I go to it again, say, six hours from now, it ought to still show the same list of posts. But it doesn’t. Instead, it re-runs the query and shows me the new results from six hours in the future, which is an entirely different result set. That’s not what I want! I want to be able to keep navigating back and forth through the old result set until I explicitly ask for a new one e.g. by clicking on the instance logo or choosing a new search from the [posts|comments], [subsribed|local|all], and [sort type list] controls.

• go back
• video gone

That part is the worst. I am sick and tired of websites breaking the back button! When I click back it’s because I wanted to see the thing that was there before. If I wanted it to just refresh from scratch I would reload the page instead!

It’s not just YouTube, by the way. Even Lemmy does that shit too!