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I wonder how amazon.co.jp is doing i18n such that *parts* of a sentence can be untranslated.

@thomasfuchs I really feel like a keyboard that looks like that should have the noisiest switches possible.

Most of the time, DDG is amazing. Great. An indispensable tool.

But sometimes… bless its heart.

Being asked by a recruiter if I'm familiar with deploying applications on a "public cloud."

Had to look it up. I guess it's a term which includes both VPSes and those framework/language-specific deployment thingies like Heroku?

I will say that, at least in the US, I don't think you can be convicted for possession of CSEM on a hash alone. They have to prove that you really have what they think you have. And if it comes down to it, if you have to defend yourself in court, these stories of hash collisions, if true, will help your defense if the prosecution can't cough up the actual files that you had. But IANAL.

We'll see how this goes, I guess. But I just can't get as angry as some people over it, at least not yet.

Here's my take on the whole "Apple scanning your photos" thing.

I see both sides of it. There's a presumption that my data in Apple's cloud is encrypted and secure and not subject to being viewed by entities (human or otherwise) on the system. On the other hand, I'm betting an unspoken story here is that government agencies worldwide want to read everything that touches Apple's servers. Pledging to fight CSEM might be a way to meet them in the middle (but if you give them an inch…)

https://www.egov.sc

The Seychelles apparently has not updated the design of their main government portal since 2004 or so.

They've even got the three squares arranged in a triangle for pseudo-bullets! How nostalgic.

If you shoplift a $500 gift card, but it's one of those cards that needs to be activated before it's valid and your shoplifted card was never activated, and you get busted and arrested, is the value of what you shoplifted $500, or just the few cents of the plastic card itself? Has this ever been decided in court?

So you use a PSR-4 implementation to instantiate a PSR-17 factory to create PSR-7 implementations to integrate with PSR-15 implementations, but you can also use them for PSR-18 implementations.

PHP standards have a naming problem.

@mibzman "Serviceable" is charitable. :D I'm a UI stickler who would prefer to see standard OS UI elements instead of, e.g., tabs which have the "close" widget on the wrong side. This is also why I'll keep using Safari instead of whatever cross-platform Blink wrapper is trendy this week. But, yes, even with all my complaints, it's still better than yet another Electron blob…

(It also won't automatically connect to Discord accounts even when marked "Auto-connect." That bug's been there forever.)

@mibzman As an Electron hater, I've been using Ripcord for some time. It's crap. There's no proper Mac notifications and the UI in general is weird, and I don't even bother trying to do voice calls through it. But between something with a crap UI and poor OS integration which uses Electron and which doesn't use it, I'll happily use the latter most of the time and Ripcord is a case of that.

Also, congrats on leaving the cult of VSCode.

AKA: tfw you deploy to production but

https://mastodon.social/@breakfastgolem/106779081974423870

Holy shit, SiriusXM. Boundaries.

Alternative snarky message: How to Get Your "Unsubscribe" Link Clicked And Possibly Your Marketing Messages Flagged As Spam (2021, Colorized)

(I actually clicked "unsubscribe" earlier today, before the two most recent messages came.)

@thomasfuchs Amazon product name keyword stuffing is a real problem issue hazard conundrum item title key word (Blue Teal Cyan Turquoise).

GitHub sends me an email notification when someone replies to an issue in a project. However, I do not get a notification when someone edits a reply.

This is especially a problem when "ok, everything's fine, thanks" becomes "no wait everything's broken plz fix immediately."

This is a slight exaggeration of a repeated communication problem I've been having with one of my clients…

Please use edits for clarification or fixing typos. Please use new replies for entirely new or changed information.

Look. I don't like how the whole Freenode/Libera split went down, and I held out hope that Freenode would survive in one way or other after the split.

But aside from the channels becoming graveyards, Lee doing things like proclaiming Freenode to be "digital territory of the Joseon Empire" and "Replace Services Authentication with Fiat, Decentralized Blockchain Based Authentication" (whatever the hell that means) does the opposite of inspire confidence in the future.

https://freenode.net/news/on-power-to-the-people