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I hear that anti-geometrists are trying to get the pythagorean theorem banned in schools now.

Mine is Eric and the Dread Gazebo.

From a legal standpoint, I sort of get it. One risk of the fediverse is that data is cached locally from federated servers. That could put server owners in legal jeopardy for hosting illegal content. However, if the server is actively moderated and owners respond responsibly to take down requests, they should be okay - in the US at least, and assuming current protections for service providers remain intact.

I think a good option (if technically feasible) could be to have the choice to de-cache communities or servers that are questionable and make it so that data is transmitted live from the federated server when requested by a client. That would add load to both the local and federated servers though, especially if volume is high.

If you don’t need the advanced features of photoshop, paint.net is a good lightweight and free alternative. It has all the basic layer-based editing features.

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your_mom is undefined

I’ve reached the point that I cringe at the mention of arrow functions because so many people seem to always want to use arrow functions.

Like I’m looking up something on stack overflow and half the answers are arrow functions that are that way for no other reason than to use the fun little =>

This post on programmer humor is now funnier as a result of your analysis. Everything is funnier when it is 100% accurate.

I’m here to spread the good word about JSONC. It is the way and everyone should adopt it in place of JSON wherever possible.

How precise are your scissors?

It’s not a request, it’s a challenge.

It’ll take 20 hours. Unless it’s harder than I thought. Or it’s easier than I thought. Or it’s exactly as hard as I thought except there’s one little thing that I get stuck on for 5 hours.

We’re all NPC’s in some grand simulation running on a server in a warehouse long forgotten about and abandoned by the gods.

Comments can also be useful for explaining what the code is intended to do when debugging.

“Hey this function says it should return the number of apples, but looks like someone, not saying who, but someone had a brain fart and typed oranges in one variable. Who wrote this code anyway?”

-Last edited by JonEFive in 2021-

Past me sucks.

Know your school handbook and acceptable use policy inside and out. Same with any other published guidelines they provide. My bet is that their AUP says something about not circumventing their security and monitoring tools. Booting into a live OS would certainly fall into that category. But knowing what the rules actually say is probably the first thing you should do since you don’t own the hardware or network. From there, you can decide how far you really want to go and if there are any defenses or loopholes in the rules.

Getting your own hardware is probably your best option in this case if you can do so.

Keep in mind that basic bots don’t render or process certain page elements - like javascript. So VPN plus noScript/uBlock plus obscured data plus no preexisting cookies and possibly unique fingerprint from all your previous interactions (depending on your privacy settings)… It all adds to possible bot behavior. In my mind, getting caprcha’d is a good thing. It may mean google has low confidence that it knows who I am.

Tell that to anyone running a website with a pubic facing form - including register and login forms.

use Ublock Origin,

Yep. I have a blanket “block all Facebook” rule. A lot harder to gather info if your browser refuses to load data and scripts coming from their domains.

So does the algorithm apparently

It used to be way easier to get people to switch before they eliminated SMS. No idea why they thought getting rid if their key differentiating feature was a good idea.