I don’t think the CEO or anyone else was at fault, one of their teams picked people for the company to support, it was either before bad behaviour became apparent, or ignorant of it, then the community complaints and they fixed it

What’s to complain about?

To take the voice of the other side

Age verification is a thing that’s becoming more important

It’s expensive for all the companies if they have to do age verification, apple and Microsoft are huge so they can easily absorb the cost, so if we make those companies do it, it takes the load off the other companies

It’s not that they’re open source hostile, it’s that they’re open source blind. I think they’re also using corporate versions of windows so they don’t get the worst of it, so they’re not incentivised to find alternatives

Linux is going to have a lot of trouble funding ID checks in the handful of jurisdictions where it’s necessary

I wonder if Linux should be presented as business software (since most Linux installations are servers) that should not be bound by that law, what does a server care about the age of the worker who set it up or the company that owns it

I think I knew it was a clit mouse before I was looking on the internet for porn. IBM laptops were well respected and highly available on the secondhand market - I got my university machine from an excess (obsolete) business equipment auction for something like fifty bucks and looking up the machine on Usenet introduced me to the term

https://xkcd.com/303/ vs this guy who thinks 20 seconds is a long time

Following computer security stuff makes every smart thing suspicious

Socks are built to lowest cost. If you want good socks, get wool or cotton from a small company

Lower quality? Modern houses here (Canberra, Australia) typically have all the energy stars (compared to my '70s place’s half a star), are much larger and are proof against termites

A 2026 house beats mine in every respect

Sometimes documentation doesn’t help. My workplace used to be waterfall and we still have systems analysts producing documentation

One piece of work came to my team as “this calculation fails in this case and we can’t tell why”

Looking at it there were two updates in the documentation showing updates ten years ago the first fixing that corner case with the second fixing a side effect of the fix

Why didn’t it work? It was never built, or perhaps built but never merged

On the good side we have an excellent plan for how to fix that corner case, on the bad side we aren’t funded to do that amount of work so we have to half arse a solution

Sorry, you were hired as a prompt engineer, your prompt wasn’t good enough to make perfect code, so you are fired

I have had that experience, then I realised I used oauth on that site. CTRL+refreshed the page and it did the auto login. No idea how I got a log in prompt that one time; probably clicked login before the page finished loading

The site had disabled password login for users who had changed to oauth

When one provides correction for someone is much better to do that than to reply “*whose”

You don’t need to read it if you don’t want to

It’s very tempting to use that (maybe with several random usernames to select from) as the insufficiently strong password error message

It’s probably just a little too user hostile though

Many of those will progress to password even if the user doesn’t exist

Which component of Debian is an operating system for this purpose? The desktop environment? The system service? They come from various third party providers

You don’t need a GUI to use a mouse, we could even use a mouse in command line MS-DOS

Profanity is against the rules here? It doesn’t say so in the sidebar

Probably a low quality cable

It’s even allowed to be randomly unplugged while delivering maximum power

Chat GPT can work in perl. It has eaten the entire CPAN so had had a lot of examples

I don’t subscribe to tracking how long something has been worn. I wear the same shorts or jeans for days in summer and months in winter

I judge them on whether they still look and smell good