The unfortunate truth here is that Reddit is a company and Lemmy instances are usually run by a few individuals.

We just don’t have the politic barrier or resources to stand against the pressure

Yeah, +1 for bottom. Love myself a nice ASCII graph

Another warrior finds their way to our fair Colosseum. Ours is the final destination for all seeking trials of intense and deadly combat.

The best way to validate an email address is to sent it an email validation link.

Anything outside of that is a waste of effort.

It depends on the application.

I don’t remember all the specifics but this is the blog post I refer to when this topic comes up

https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/

The only time using UTC breaks down is when any sort of time change gets involved.

If I say I want a reminder at 9am six months from now and you store that as UTC, a day light savings change will mean I get my reminder an hour early or late depending on where in the world I am

Facebook doesn’t do anything that doesn’t make Facebook money so excuse my skepticism.

That’s pipenv. Pip just has the capability to read and write from a requirements.txt, which is a step that must be taken manually

input("question").lower().startswith("t") is my go to. More fault tolerant and gets the job done