There was this business analysis someone wrote about years ago trying to nail down which programming language was the most successful, which they measured by how many business problems it solved.

The winner? Visual fucking Basic.

Because it was so accessible that people in businesses the world over used it to implement simple and sometimes complex solutions to problems without reuquirkng a big dev team and all the complexity that comes with writing “real” software.

I see JS in the same boat. It’s a mess. But it’s so widely deployed (free with a web browser!) and used for so many things that in reality it’s one of the top dogs, even though everyone who knows it well enough to understand its quirks thinks it’s a pile of shit.

It was actually supposed to be if/ifn’t, but they had too many problems trying to escape the apostrophe when building compilers.

Last time I looked into this the answer was no - it’s a permanent chemical change you can’t heal or stop or cover.

The best thing I’ve found was to keep using alcohol wipes to scrape away the gooey top surface every once in a while. ☹️

Best I’ve found is yt-dlp against YouTube Music. Their catalog is pretty complete but there’s definitely more legwork involved than point and click.

Yes, but…

A package can only be insured for the amount it’s declared as. So if a shipper sends you a PS5 and says it’s worth $5, and that package is lost or destroyed, the insurance will only cough up $5. And it’s the receiver that’s fucked, not the merchant.

I’ve gotten tons of packages over the over that were “USB accessory” with a value of $1.05. It was all kinds of shit worth under 5 bucks. Shipper being lazy because it didn’t matter. But when you go over that, they have always been more accurate about what they put on the label in my experience.

I download cars.

Sure explains why Plex was so cagey and uninformative when they emailed everyone to update their servers a couple months back. Not so much as a CVE report or change set.

A vulnerability? No…. 4 of them. And they stack.

I love how the article seems to equate “failure of the state” with police running out of ammo and not ending the violence quickly enough. Not the decades of policies that led to thousands of people feeling like they need to destroy infrastructure.

Practically every sport can be boiled down to “2 groups of people disagreeing where a ball should go”.

If we’re being very lazy with few tools, a pair of pliers will do it. Pinch the wire close to one of the joints and bent it back and forth a bunch of times. The wire cable will eventually snap. Do it for a few of them and it’ll open a big enough hole.

Or, uh, return it to the store where you found it or alert the local police so the local corporate retail site gets their, uh, property back. Yeah.

There’s also a joke about sexy fishnet stockings but I’m having trouble completing the joke.

There’s nothing in the article suggesting any of the people facing deportation voted in favour of brexit, is there? This doesn’t feel like LAMF.

But the tone of all the people quoted in the article… holy shit. Big “these rules should not apply to British people” energy.

Give an example of one that was fraudulent and one that was a fake.

I’ve been building a DIY home assistant in my spare time and have been looking for a good wake word to use. Alia is great!

Don’t overthink it, and don’t over explain yourself to him.

“That sounds illegal and I’m not going to get involved with it. Talk to your bank. Let’s chat again in 10 years. Bye.”

NextDNS or similar custom DNS.

You can run a PiHole or similar at home to block ads, but that doesn’t work when you’re on the go.

Once in a while I need to turn it off because a link in an email doesn’t work (blacklisted tracking domain, but also how you unsubscribe) and for that brief moment, seeing the full, unblocked internet the way regular people see it is shocking.

I went through all this with my home washing machine a while back. The culprit in my case was trying to DIY laundry detergent and not knowing what the fuck I was doing.

I would skip the citric acid. I don’t see that moving the needle.

If your clothes stink, it’s probably biofilm left on them because the washer didn’t properly rinse off all the detergent. That comes from 2 places: too much detergent you added to your wash, and excess detergent stuck all over the washer internals from other people.

You’ll know that’s the problem if your clothes smell “ok” but if they get slightly damp it suddenly smells like wet dog.

One-time symptom treatment: make a strong mix of oxyclean and hot water in a bucket. Soak all your smelly clothes in it for at least 4 hours. Then drain and wash them normally.

If it’s in the machine, you’re in kind of a shitty position because the machine ultimately needs to be cleaned. If you have the time and are willing, run the washer empty with a cup of bleach. You might need to pause the washer and add it after the cycle starts - my machine drains when it turns on and pumps out the bleach, but if I add it a minute later it stays inside. Run the load with hot water.

Another thing you can do is run the machine with a cup of washing soda. That’s apparently better at removing biofilm, but imo bleach does a pretty great job on its own.

Moving forward, make sure you use the recommended amount of detergent. Too much and you’re back in the same place. Too little and there’s not enough detergent to actually clean your clothes (but the biofilm will still cover everything).

Voyager on phone for regular use. Then once in a while I log in on the desktop browser to save all my Star Trek memes and dump them on my company Slack.

It looks pretty good everywhere I’ve seen it. It’s a leg up from old Reddit, which was plain but stood the test of time.

I follow the “oh, shut up” rule.

If someone comes across so disjoinedly to what I wrote that they just sound like a screeching jack off without an argument, into the trash/blocklist/downvote they go.

I think giving users the ability to delete other people’s content is a nuanced issue. A reply to a Steam review is different from a top level comment on a site like Lemmy.

This is how you become impossible to google.