I would suggest that anyone who says modern social media isn't damaging to people in general, but particularly young people, either (a) has never used it; or (b) is being deliberately disingenuous.
From that point I would view social media essentially like alcohol.
As an adult you can choose to (ab)use it if you wish, but it's arguably the government's responsibility to protect children at large from social dangers like this.
It's absolutely a thing that people are asked to prove their age to buy alcohol, or even to enter a licensed venue that serves alcohol. I don't think I've ever heard anyone except underage teenagers complain about the invasion of privacy to hand over your ID for beer/etc.
Does the implementation around safe proof of age need work? Probably. Does that mean the whole thing is a not-so-subtle attempt to fire you for swearing?
I don't fucking think so mate.
People are already fired for saying stupid shit on social media, they're already debanked for being out-and-proud White Supremacists.
Given the current political situation in the USA and how it got there, if you have any illusions of a continuing democracy, you should be champing at the bit for anything which reduces social media use.
> It's absolutely a thing that people are asked to prove their age to buy alcohol, or even to enter a licensed venue that serves alcohol. I don't think I've ever heard anyone except underage teenagers complain about the invasion of privacy to hand over your ID for beer/etc.
If they reported verifying my ID to the government every time I bought a drink I would complain about invasion of privacy.
Apple’s analytics probably support this which is exactly why siri still sucks. But ya, everyone will continue to think they somehow know better and apple is wrong and poorly executing
Oh good. Thank fuck that one of the dozens if not hundreds of terminal emulators isn't going to be a "rug pull".
It's a completely fucked situation when it happens to fairly unique/obscure software like say Terraform or Packer or Vagrant.
But if it happened to some software that's so common it's literally competing against built in apps on every desktop OS, I just don't know what I'd ever do
I don't remember my first steps with subversion, mercurial, or git too well, but I don't think any of them were any more intuitive. My understanding is that jj is supposed to be easier to use for day-to-day version control. I'm very comfortable with git, but that was hard earned and I don't see that level of confidence with most devs that I've worked with over the years. Hoping jj can be more accessible to the average working software engineer than git has been.
Yeah being new to a tool it's expected that you'll have a learning curve.
But some stuff is just ridiculous.
Ok you use the mercurial model and have bookmarks not branches... oh wait you also didn't create a default bookmark when you initialised the repo.
Ok you also have the mercurial model where there is no staging of files... but now you've added in a whole new command to solve the problem that mercurial solves by just letting you name files on the command line.
Everything about it just feels like it's being different from something for the sake of being different, not for any actual benefit.
Most web application servers have already equipped to be able to easily parse parameters out of the URL path for many years, of course, it's definitely nothing new, it's just that historically, people reached for URL query parameters for this sort of thing. After all, making a request with query parameters is basically built into the browser; you can do it with <form> and anchor links with no JS needed.
Presumably, because of that, many pages will continue to use query parameters for the foreseeable future. I think that's fine, but at least for APIs, the QUERY method could eventually be a very nice thing to have.
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