It’s because an instance ban is a major action usually reserved for bots or pedophiles spreading bad things. If every single admin had to remove that user and their posts it would allow bots to spread things like wildfire and for CSAM to stay up for an indefinite amount of time.

It’s much better and safer for the entire fediverse that instance bans propagate deletions.

I’ll give my reasoning. Or at least one story from a compendium of many.

There is an OSS library called ktlint for Kotlin. It is a “no bikeshedding linter” that was supposed to be based on the default rules from JetBrains. That is, if a rule existed already from JB then ktlint would enforce it and if the rule wasn’t specified it would make and enforce a new one that the community agreed on.

That was all fine and dandy until I and some others pointed out that one of the rules was the exact opposite of what JB had specified. When called out the owner of the repository didn’t care, until too many people were against his choices that he couldn’t ignore it anymore. He made it configurable.

So the rule was fixed. Until he sold the repository to Pinterest. Pinterest just wanted to own ktlint so they could control the rules. They immediately changed it back and made it non-configurable. When pressed on it, they just refused saying it wasn’t going to be that way anymore. They didn’t care what the community wanted they just wanted to control the rules for themselves.

The repository is open source, but they took the most widely used Kotlin linter and essentially stole it from the community. Getting enough people to switch because of one rule will never happen.

They declared they have no AI features. The features in Firefox are still AI features. They aren’t needed. They’re a waste of development time and are useless.

I literally say this as someone that has contributed to Firefox.

I use it probably ten times a day!

Lemmy world uses cloudflare. Cloudflare blocks problematic IPs. Someone on that vpn IP has been doing naughty things and so the IP was flagged. Just switch your location in the vpn and try again.

Good opportunity for him to say he doesn’t have the money right now, can she buy him the plane tickets and get himself a nice little free trip to LA. She’ll obviously say no, and boom he’s out of it.

Not a joke, that person tried to take over a Colorado sub from my wife. We both saw exactly what he was doing and refused.

Am I the only one that has noticed the massive increase in buggy software across almost every domain? Like, EVERYTHING has so many more bugs now. Things just break constantly. AI isn’t one shotting fixing bugs, it’s one shotting making hundreds of new ones.

it's not subversive. it's a string, it has no effect on the code output. Only a rogue bot would interpret it as anything except a string. No human user would ever encounter an issue.

the amount of people that do not understand how big of an improvement passkeys are is really saddening. They think that somehow these tech companies are utilizing this in some nefarious way, rather than the very very simple explanation that ... tech companies don't want to be responsible for more breaches.

Passkeys are so simple and such a huge improvement that it's literally all upsides and no downsides. Either you use their passkey managers like you would their password managers and it's safer for them, or you use your own password manager with passkeys in it and it's still safer for them.

You have a vast misunderstanding of why passkeys aren't transferrable or usable outside of those providers. It had nothing to do with lock-in, but because every implementation was different. And no, you do not 'depend on the site' to let you use that option instead of a major provider. There's a standard now and everyone is following it. If you can use a passkey you can use your password manager to manage that passkey.

Not unique to you. Been using Github every day for over 15 years and it wasn't until I started using Refined Github that it was easy to find the releases page. Horrific design.

These were exactly the things that drew me to Svelte as well. And yes, the author is right. If they had claimed that you should use Svelte for everything I would have immediately stopped trusting them.

Svelte is very nice for backend engineers to use for a frontend framework. It makes way more sense from a mental model, and it's incredibly lightweight, at least from what I've seen in other frameworks.

It's the exact same way I feel about Ruby. You definitely shouldn't be using it for everything, even most things, but the stuff it's good at it beats Python by a mile. And it's so much more pleasant to use.

Scrapers yes, but the majority of AI bots hitting programming.dev do announce who they are.

I’ve only partially read over you wrote and am heading into the mountains on vacation, but I will try to read over what you’ve written here sometime this weekend.

AI bots will sometimes get stuck requesting the same URL over and over again for no reason. Make sure you check the user agent of the requests.

I did. Didn’t function at all. Had a ton of issues with the sound card and the nvidia graphics driver also shit the bed multiple times and many games didn’t work. Same for mint though.

I mean sure, but you can say the same about any resolution possible. At some microscopic distance on a 42k display you will be able to see the difference. Your scenario here is pretty much “if you use a display in a manner it wasn’t intended then you’ll be able to see the difference in resolution when you compare it to a display that is used in the manner intended”

But that could easily be due to the quality of the projector rather than the resolution. Everyone in here saying they notice differences is completely missing the point. You’d need to compare against the exact same panel type, manufacturer, model year, etc with the exact same manufacturing processes in order to come to this conclusion yourself.

I mean that part makes sense. This is essentially the exact same community. Linux users will spread to any “general” Linux community on the web.