Oh well, I wouldn’t have been welcome anyway, seeing I’ve had the audacity to be critical of Israeli genocide defense, TACO and Daddy Put-it-in.

Guess I’ll go spend my tourist money elsewhere.

And don’t forget the US will again get to decide to arbitrarily discard any nuclear agreements, which is of course another great incentive for Iran to not start a military nuclear program.

Lemmy is the only social media platform where I have an account. No Facebook, no Reddit, no LinkedIn, etc. From time to time I do read a post on Reddit, when it comes up in search results. When you have an obscure gaming or Linux issue, Reddit can (unfortunately) still be a treasure trove.

Oh yes, time for a the Wizard of Oz reboot. Might as well bring out the stimulants and toxic make-up while they are at it.

Would be nice if they could first sort out basic stuff like keeping windows on the screen after coming out of sleep mode and connecting/disconnecting an external monitor. On X11 no issues, but with Wayland stuff always gets thrown off the screen, with just a sliver of the bottom of the window still showing. Having to move every open application back by right-clicking it in the taskbar, selecting Move and manually dragging it back gets old real fast.

For a fixed PC that’s probably not really an issue, but on a laptop that gets moved around a lot it’s really annoying.

In the Netherlands we stopped adding fluoride to the drinking water decades ago, amongst others because of a dramatic increase in reported migraines and bowel issues during the period we did add it. Stopping fluoridation didn’t cause any dental Armageddon, so it is definitely possible to get rid of it without adverse effects.

However, and here lies the issue I suspect, we actually have decent dental care, brushing your teeth is ingrained from early on and almost every toothpaste contains fluoride.

Ah, I almost forgot it was officially called Max, they kept the brand ‘HBO Max’ here. During the rebrand they found out we already had a public broadcaster called ‘Omroep MAX’, which is often shortened to just MAX in the names of their programs. Trying to claim that name would probably have not gone well for HBO.

From what I read that actually wasn’t true , at least not for the ‘you wouldn’t steal a car’ (or more officially: ‘Piracy. It’s a crime.’) clip.

I’m so glad crap like that isn’t valid in the EU.

If only he skipped Daylight.

I expect nothing else from ol’ Cheeto Face. He thought John McCain was a loser for getting shot down over Vietnam and being held as a POW, so I can only imagine what he would think of a bunch of guys drowning in a bog.

Thanks, I hadn’t come across the term, TIL.

Vibe… what now? Is that like coding in all caps when you’re pissed off or in a bastardised flavour of “CaMel CaSe” for those moments you want some spice things up with some sarcasm?

And although it isn’t LGBTQ+, it definitely looks mentally ill. Hopefully it will shed and slither back to whatever hole it came from.

Nah, it’s just hit or miss wether the freeze strikes or not. Can’t get closer to the thrill of real Russian roulette than this.

I let my password manager create 32 char passwords, that should be enough for a while. But of course then you have websites that throw you a ‘your password is too long’ message and have you find out by trial and error that they only accept 12 characters.

Or the off-by-one errors where they insist that 24 chars are the max, but in reality they accept 23. Probably never tested the limit.

Or websites that truncate your password after X characters when registering, but not when logging in, so you end up with an incorrect password and good luck finding out which limit the registration page actually uses.

but mysqli_real_escape_string() or any number of other similar solutions are indeed a thing that exists. A prepared statement would work, too.

You make it sound as if a prepared statement is a last resort. I would turn that around: as a rule always use prepared statements when dealing with user input. It’s very easy to forget a single call to mysqli_real_escape_string().

Ah, so he’s going to stop posting there? Right?

The song was stuck in my head and I couldn’t help myself :)

Thanks, it’ll be days before that infernal song is out of my head. There is a remedy fortunately:

I’m most certainly not. Oh look, time for The Two Minutes of Hate already. 📺