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JackbyDev

@ JackbyDev @programming.dev

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Any pronouns. 33.

Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

I'm using a new phone keyboard, please forgive typos.

  • Maybe someday

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  • If someone is so fragile that the colors of a logo tangentially related to a service make them believe the service is woke, then I really don't care about getting them to adopt it. It's also something like a pentagram. I don't care if this scares evangelicals. Both of these are such insane stretches that it would be foolish to accommodate them.

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  • I don't think there are any experiences on the fediverse right now that are comparable to TikTok. Loops is still beta, isn't it? If Reddit was banned and people clocked to some Chinese forum I could agree with this meme.

  • Alabama and Mississippi will also honor Robert E. Lee on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

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  • But if you're going to get rid of the two holidays and only have one and celebrate it on MLK day, why not just call it MLK day instead of insisting on still celebrating Lee? Hell, it's almost worse the more I think about it. If they had some random holiday that celebrated Lee and kept it around mostly just to get a day off you might have a point.

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  • "It's like ham and hamster. Totally unrelated. But that's just JavaScript, other BlahScripts are related. There was this crazy advertising push for Java back in the '90s that they took advantage of for name recognition."

    Still a very succinct and straightforward explanation.

  • "TikTok is stealing your data."

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  • You're literally the one not recognizing it, but okay.

  • Bumble's new CEO is already leaving the company months after killing its signature feature

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  • This just gave me the (shit post) idea of an app where VC funders can swipe on projects they want to invest in or not

  • Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

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  • It doesn't have to be the whole explanation. It's not like you get a singular sentence to talk to someone lol.

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  • I'm not splitting a hair, I'm just telling you I don't feel that strongly about it because I'm not the one who made it. I'd never heard it before.

  • "TikTok is stealing your data."

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  • My point is that you saw this image and immediately concluded that OP didn't know there was any sort of data privacy adjacent thing in the law, but in reality it could be that OP knew that but wanted stronger protections or just didn't consider those clauses "data privacy."

    When people think of data privacy they generally don't think of "selling data to adversarial nations." They usually think of "selling data to anyone" or "the right to request their data be deleted."

  • Sweeping Cyber Security Order

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  • Look, I genuinely get what your saying, and I'm not saying people should be allowed to say whatever they want on Twitter. I'm certainly not saying the first amendment protects them. I'm just saying a lot of forms of online communication are critical in today's society.

    Like, if I got banned from Twitter for saying I dislike Elon Musk, does that sound okay? I know it's currently legal, I'm not saying it isn't. But it certainly feels like an unjust restriction of my speech. Not "free speech" in the protected first amendment sense, but certainly "free speech" in the sense that people should generally be allowed to say things. The response of "just build your own website and you can say what you want" is missing the point of the reach and power massive websites have. When people say "big tech restricts free speech" this is the sort of thing they're trying to get at, but it sounds wrong because "free speech" is a pretty loaded and ambiguous term. Treating everyone saying free speech as if they mean something about the first amendment feels disingenuous to me.

    And again, let me be perfectly clear, I'm not trying to insinuate that everyone should just get free reign to post whatever hateful content or misinformation they want wherever they want. I'm just saying that private companies being able to silence you on a global scale with no recourse or way to protest it feels very wrong. I don't have a solution and don't know where the line should be, but corporations shouldn't just be able to gag people arbitrarily.

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  • Your hamster analogy falls apart here because it only describes an exception, not a rule.

    It's not my analogy.

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  • They need to fix the minus syntax/feature. That's my singular complaint.

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  • How is it dumb? Ham and hamsters are two totally different things but sound similar. Java and JavaScript are two totally different things but sound similar. It's a way to immediately explain to a non technical person in a way they can grok.

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  • Sweeping Cyber Security Order

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  • The elephant in the room with statements like this is that many communication enabling technologies are more akin to utilities. Where that line is and how close to utilities they are is debatable (do we include things like Twitter? Or just low level stuff like email. Are they utilities or merely similar to them?). Especially when you consider their necessity to operate in modern society and impossibility to rebuild yourself from scratch.

    I get your point. I'm not trying to suggest corporations should be forced to allow 100% actually true free speech on their platforms.

  • Bumble's new CEO is already leaving the company months after killing its signature feature

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  • Yeah. I used the BFF version for a bit to try and find folks in my area to hang out with. It's a really horrible app. When someone messages you, you have 24 hours to respond. If you don't then the two of you get unmatched. I can understand something like unlatching after some time period without responding, but just 24 hours? Ick.

  • "TikTok is stealing your data."

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  • It's not even a "loophole" it's literally irrelevant to what people generally think of as "data privacy." Something like GDPR is an example of data privacy.

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  • Something like GDPR would be the sane, non-strawman take.

  • "TikTok is stealing your data."

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  • just look at the number of pro TikTok memes being shared right now, there's something fishy happening.

    If by "fishy" you mean "the ban is going into effect so people are expressing frustration", sure.