Yeah. We were there! Or close enough… It was a glorious week where everything lined up perfectly… Then we overshot and we are in this clusterfuck of nonsense.

Technically true, but if you can be kicked for no reason, you can be kicked for any reason.

Seems like some third-party hosting is in order to support any Rebellion Russians.

Then you should know better.

I agree with you mostly, and thank you for giving such a passionate and important response.

The problem is not the people though. Placing the “blame” or responsibility on the victims of this invasive behaviour is not the correct conclusion. These settings are deliberately obfuscated and people are uneducated on privacy and how it relates to technology. This is not their fault. Life is far too complicated to place yet another burden on the individual who already has so much to think about. The change needs to come from the people, yes, but it is not the people who need to change.

Of course it is.

You’re not. Jetbrains users are just a lot more vocal. It’s like vegans or people who vape. They will let you know 😉

You could always start switching over then give up half way through. Then you’d be like your Grandpa England.

Depends on their style of emotional investment I guess. Not all romantic relationships are sexual, so physical intimacy isn’t necessarily required. So it reasonably could be the same emotional attachment to the AI as it would be for a real person. Whether or not that is healthy is an entirely different topic, but having a virtual boyfriend is very possible.

We should start doing charity style TV ads.

“You, too, can help us build page turners and save the lives of dozens of archivists. Just £2 a month will allow Margaret to finally rest.”

It’s a meme, it’s not actually saying not to use async:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stop-doing-math

Implying that there are bad dad jokes? Pft.

Yeah, this screams ArcaneOS 2.0

It’s fine as long as you have proper source control. Run it and check the diff before committing.

Why in the ever loving fuck would anyone want Teams in their car?!
I even don’t know a single person who wants it on their computer.

It is wrong to sell addictive substances to addicts.
Sure, adults have the right to smoke if they want. They are, of course, adults. But that doesn’t make it okay for tobacco companies to advertise harmful and addictive substances to anyone, least of all the people who are already addicted.

if you care enough about climate change to not have children you should have adopt children.

This will reduce the population increase, while at the same time help children already in the world and being dealt a shit hand. It’s not an easy role to take, but if it makes one child happier then it’s worth it.

It’s about sending a message.

This image reminds me of a junior dev who used fixed position for everything because he “couldn’t make it look like the picture otherwise”.

In JS a Boolean has 4 states.
true
false
undefined (where the key is set to undefined)
undefined (where the key doesn’t exist on the object)

if (obj.value === true) {  
    console.log(1);
} else if (obj.value === false) {
    console.log(2);
} else if ("value" in obj) { // key "value" is in the obj, but it is set to undefined 
    console.log(3);
} else { // key "value" is not in object
    console.log(4);
}

You’re welcome.