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Congratulations! Must be a weight off your mind, medical bureaucracy is an unpleasant prospect at the best of times. Wishing you a successful surgery and a smooth recovery!

There really needs to be granular NSFW settings on Lemmy, or more correctly I need to improve my Rust so I can go and implement it myself instead of bitching about it!

I’m not anti-porn but I don’t want it mixed in my normal content. Other non-sexual NSFW stuff is fine 24/7, artistic nudity is fine 24/7, but I don’t want to see outright porn unless that’s what I’m specifically looking for!

I am having whatever the programming equivalent of the reverse Midas Touch is this week. PRs that break things despite extensive testing beforehand, PRs that somehow break the infrastructure due to some obscure bug on their end that requires lengthy calls to Azure support, being left with no choice but to craft janky regex-based solutions to people keeping their data in inconsistent formats, and oh my god as much as I love IntelliJ I wish it was a bit more reliable about warning me when the config has a typo because our app does not start in a hurry.

I’m sure the programming gods will favour me a little more next week, but it is only Tuesday!

I hate to be glib but that ‘someone’ is us, you and me.

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Introducing Snoo Platinum where you pay £8.99 a month and Huffman doesn’t edit your comments to say boot-licking things about the admins.

Talking about terraforming in our day and age is like Romans talking about steam turbines. Yes they did have one toy example so the idea clearly existed but it was absolutely no good to them whatsoever. The technological leap from the Romans to us must be far smaller than the leap from us to being able to terraform a planet.

🌍🔥🦊 is encouraged though, especially if you like ad blockers.

The same harm the inhabitants of the henhouse would come to if they decided to hear the fox out.

Hail Eris!

I have a complicated relationship with religion. I was raised in a very hardline and honestly kind of culty ‘born again’ environment so I have a deep-rooted distaste for conservative Christianity, but I also don’t really love the fairly shallow ‘atheism, monism, logical positivism, and physicalism’ that’s taken as the default for most people these days. I’m open-minded to spirituality but I’m cautious about taking a leap of faith directly into oncoming traffic.

Personally I wish they’d never been invented, I don’t let any apps send me notifications other than chat apps and even then with no sound and all group chats are muted permanently. I can’t stand the constant ping of apps trying to get you to engage with them, I want to engage on my schedule not anyone else’s especially some Silicon Valley product manager’s. Even in this much quieter state not having my phone feels exactly like not having my baccy felt when I used to smoke, until I got into the Fediverse I was tempted to pull the plaster off entirely and throw it in the sea.

I’m also a bitter and cynical software engineer who should under no circumstances be consulted for UX advice, so it’s probably wise for Lemmy to implement them.

Cool, cheers! I’ll give it a go later sounds well worth the £2.

Yeah as much as I wish I could use some mobile form of Gecko as I’m still hanging on to Firefox in the face of the Google juggernaut there literally is no point in alternate browsers on iOS so you may as well pick the most native-feeling. I’ve been using AdGuard but this is the first I’m hearing of Vinegar, is it reliable?

Yeah this is like comparing the Titanic with one of her lifeboats.

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The fact Boris Johnson who advertised himself as ‘Mr Brexit’ has just had his career undergo a controlled demolition courtesy of his own colleagues marks the start of the UK changing I think. We might (and probably will) improve things somewhat by rejoining the single market further down the line but we still have to contend with the absurd regional inequality, the absurd generational inequality, the property market violently strangling the rest of the economy to death, the dependence of many British businesses on cheap and often exploited foreign labour rather than training school leavers or automating anything, and an entrenched class system that acts a huge drag on meritocracy and gives our system of government a blind spot to shameless demagogues like Boris Johnson as long as they have the right accent and background.

Brexit was like a depressed alcoholic going on a bender, we can sober the man up and give him a shrill moralising lecture about how shit he is but at the end of the day the very legitimate reasons he was drinking himself to death to begin with are all still there and need to be dealt with. Interesting times.

My ‘methadone’ for mobile Reddit is using old.reddit.com through the browser. No toxic algorithmic feed and ‘nag nag nag app nag nag app app’ interruptions but it’s so fiddly to use I spend less time there.

I’m going to have to read up on how the protocol works in detail to be honest before I’d be able to say with any confidence what could and couldn’t be done but that would be a good feature I think. There is much less risk of ‘eternal Septembering’ smaller communities by swamping them with outsiders like /r/all does on Reddit here on Lemmy because affected communities can defederate at will.