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Who is McLaren?

People. Ever heard of Jesus Christ? I like the word. Its very clear.

If you’re using gas, you’re already the asshole

My commit messages are paragraphs. Drives me crazy when people don’t leave useful commit messages

RIP nature

idk, sounds like an ad for Linux to me

Just don’t be an investigate journalist or do politics and u good

I don’t like the expectations around gifts in my culture, I don’t like surprises, i despise consumerism, I am a minimalist, and I don’t like gifts being wrapped. My friends know this.

Usually my response when someone hands me a wrapped gift is to frown and ask what it is and why they got it for me. The feeling is usually “damn it. How many wage slaves suffered for this thing?” And “ugh, now I have something else that I have to lug around and figure out how to find it a new home where it won’t end up in a landfill”

If they want to give me something nice (eg cook me dinner or hand me a flower), its appreciated. But not on some strange cultural expectation or wrapped in a dead tree or uncompostable plastic single use trash.

Not rate limiting is bad. Hate them because of that, not because they’re a bot.

Some bots are nice

Yes. Teeth braces are strange body modifications. This is something very few people do to their bodies, but its fairly popular in extremely rich places

I think a common nginx config is to just redirect malicious bots to some well-cached terrabyte file. I think hetzner hosts one iirc

Hospital, not Doctor.

A doctor visit in the US is a partial paycheck. A hospital visit is tens of thousands to millions of dollars.

Usually the process is:

1. Go to SA bank. Be very clear about all of the data fields that my bank is asking me, and ask them to tell me EXACTLY what to enter. Get assurance that anything is fine.
2. Send transfer
3. Get transfer back to my bank
4. Call my bank and ask what went wrong. They blame SA bank
5. Call SA bank and ask what went wrong. They blame other bank and tell me that something they told me was wrong, and maybe I should try changing X from Y.
6. GOTO 2 about 4 more times until it finally goes through.

This is fine. I support archiving the Internet.

It kinda drives me crazy how normalized anti-scraping rhetoric is. There is nothing wrong with (rate limited) scraping

The only bots we need to worry about are the ones that POST, not the ones that GET

Just because you like to have strange body modifications doesn’t mean you should demand that others make the same strange body modifications to their bodies.

Also, do you realize how much it costs to run a US presidential campaign? Certainly his competition is spending more than his net worth by at least 2 magnitudes

If you use one of those accounts, someone will just take over your account after some weeks/months

Have you tried wiring money to South America?

I want to be able to search for a URL and see what others have said about it. This is important for assessing credibility.

Its absolutely necessary in an age of disinformation

Obviously I shouldn’t be able to read posts that are marked as “private” (eg only visible to people I follow), but the default “public” toots should be searchable. And not just site-wide, but fediverse-wide.

Yes. We should not be recommending it here in this community.