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CombatWombat

@ CombatWombat @feddit.online

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In the fediverse since 2017. I mostly talk sports. If something on the internet doesn't spark joy, mute it.

Do not yell at me simply because I am in front of you and the people responsible for the problems are not. It is extremely unpleasant.

  • Where .env Went Wrong

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  • These sloperators don't bother to learn anything about software development, and then act like when they make a mistake, it's somehow unknowable mystery due to an architectural failure. A value in a .env file is: required, secret, not safe to commit, restricted to only one service, and available only in the current environment. If you have prod keys on your dev box for multiple services, you got it wrong, and that's not the .env file's fault.

    KEY=value cannot say whether a value is required, secret, safe to commit, available only in production, or restricted to one service.

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • I would be much more persuaded by this argument if someone could draw a connection between my internal experience of anger and a Palestinian's internal experience of being chill and happy. Do donations made in anger count double or something?

  • What are some of your favourite niche or hobby-based Lemmy instances, and which ones should be avoided at all costs?

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  • Most of the hobby instances I like are mastodon instances. I particularly like dice.camp, the ttrpg instance.

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  • I think if ATProto implements communities in a way fhat is compatible with threadiverse communities, we'll see a huge influx on the strength of Bluesky advertising.

  • I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem

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  • To each their own. I’m glad you posted it because I enjoyed reading it.

  • Future Problems [Ryan Rds.]

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  • Dexterity is dodging when someone throws a tomato at you for telling an unfunny joke at open mic night (and also successfully weaving your tomato plant into a cage or trellis).

  • I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem

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  • It’s a good article and a poor match for this community, imo.

  • For people who pay extra to buy clothing that features brand logos, why?

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  • I’m assuming when you say “sports equipment” you mean for players, rather than fans, but if I’m wrong about that you can safely ignore me.

    I like being a big billboard for my favorite sports teams because other fans stop me and talk to me about my team, the league, and the sport. It’s like socializing on easy mode. I was wearing a Sounders jersey in Vienna and a group of guys stopped me to ask how Andreas Ivanschitz was doing for us, and it was the most genuine interaction I had with an Austrian on my whole trip.

  • What's a silly pet name or term of endearment I can use for my partner?

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  • I’ve always loved mon petit chou chou which is roughly “my little cabbage cabbage” from French. I also like jannu, which I think is “my soul” in Urdu? Also solnyshko, little sun, from the Russian, is very fun.

  • What's that thing the internet insists you be outraged about but you just can't bring yourself to care?

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  • It's more that the internet demands that I'm constantly outraged, but I want to spend the majority of my time being chill and happy. I can get my dander up for most things the internet wants me to be mad about, I just... don't.

  • What is your favourite fast food burger?

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  • I'm assuming to the UK, and feeling somewhat jealous (and also your display name is incredible)

  • What is your favourite fast food burger?

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  • Threadiverse Major Defederations Graph

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  • On the one hand, I know that the long tail of smaller instances are important to the health of the fediverse, but on the other it seems like it would be fun to see my instances on the defederation flowchart and the alt text leaderboard and stuff. Plusses and minuses, I suppose.

  • ‘OnlyMarms’: Marmots Are on OnlyFans to Raise Money for Research

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    Historic Scottsdale Taco Bell gets second life as Filiberto's

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  • Never change, Arizona

    "Like the Roman Catholic Church taking over old Rome ruins"

  • Big Tech Isn't Hiding $1.65T of Debt

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  • Okay, technically they are correct that liabilities and debts are two different parts of a balance sheet, but the original piece is a pop economy piece intended for a general audience, and it gave that audience a good intuition about what the underlying economics are. This is just splitting hairs about how jargon is deployed when talking to laypeople

    The five balance sheets do add to $1.3500 trillion, but only if every liability is treated as debt.

  • Meet the man whose groundbreaking book is being devoured by the left

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  • It's surprising how much the word "clickbait" has changed over the years. On lemmy today, the word "clickbait" just means "the article tried to get me to click through, rather than only reading the title." It used to be that if you put everything you had into the title, we'd call it "clickbait" because you were baited into clicking to see more when there was none.

  • If the Fediverse became more popular, wouldn't it fall under the law's "Age Verifications" rules too?

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  • Perhaps they could. I'm just not clever enough to know how you would draft the legislation or enforce the law -- how is a complaint instance supposed to identify a noncomplaint instance, short of checking everyone's id again?

  • Kalshi’s New Midterms Hub Comes With a Felony-Sized Asterisk

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  • I’m sure Kalshi will work very hard to inform their users that participating renders them ineligible to vote

    “We want voters to understand that they cannot legally make a bet on an election and cast a ballot in that same election,” WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe said in a news release. “We are not able to police someone placing a bet on these platforms, but it’s important for voters to understand the consequences if they bet on an election outcome.”