Ecclesiastes. Strips away ALL the fluff and states exactly what life is about.

C# dev here. Quite frequently. When writing new code, instead of trawling the docs looking for what odd name the thing I’m looking for has been given, especially when it’s several layers deep in a structure where each layer has dozens of members, to see where in the data structure the value I’m looking for is, makes it a lot easier to determine the next few lines of code to write.

Somewhat yes, and still do. If I find a community I like the look of, there’s often a non-functional login page where after entering my details (correctly!) there’s just a spinner that spins forever without ever giving at least an error message, but if I prefer there are some !hier@oglyp.hics that look like an email address but aren’t, that I can bung into some search page somewhere that doesn’t always return anything but it might if I refresh it or it might not but if I keep trying then it might eventually but then it doesn’t for days so I start fiddling around with some other stuff and find that it suddenly works, but that other browser tab that still has that interesting thread open won’t register as subscribed no matter how much I refresh it even though the community works perfectly in the other tab, but then I can’t find the message I want to engage with in the tab where it works.

I’m a coder so I’m used to being persistent and working around bugs and poor UX, but your bog standard pleb isn’t going to be that patient with it - they just want to login, hit subscribe and it’s done (although to be fair that’s what I want too).

I’m sure there are good reasons for all this but when the Lemmy devs decide they have to prioritise a simple UX that Just Works no matter what context I think there’s a good chance it’ll be well placed to take over from previous chat communities. At least make that !random@ju.nk clickable taking me to a page that with just one click at most gets me logged in and linked; this copy and paste business where you can’t double click it cos it’s not a word and you can’t triple click it cos then you get the whole paragraph is just dumb - OK, correction - hasn’t been streamlined yet because nobody’s realised how important this bit of a distributed system is yet.

Reddit’s a US company and GDPR is EU law. Why would an American company be expected to follow EU laws?

(Not a shill, just genuinely interested. It wouldn’t occur to me as a Brit to demand Reddit comply with GDPR.)

Visual Studio, and I’ll use Community if I haven’t got access to Pro.

I thought it was a lemming, hence my choice of username

UK here, not in a city. There are no stations near where I live and no stations near places I want to go. The least distant stations from me all have lines that run exactly perpendicular to anywhere I would want to visit. So trains are a complete waste of space for me and due to poor road layouts and too much traffic, and the extremely annoying habit of oncoming traffic to be completely absent where I can’t overtake and densely packed where I otherwise could have, I get on my motorbike wherever possible.

Trains make perfect sense in London; if I lived there I’d be on the Tube every day, and I use it when I visit.

Not directly/automatically, no. But I personally don’t see anything wrong with the same article being reported on HackerNews, Slashdot, Reddit and Lemmy; that’s just similar sites doing similar sitey things.

Not really a horror story because I fixed it with reflog, but it was a bit of a shock when we all suddenly couldn’t push to the dev branch. Turns out one of the devs, who insists Git is just like SVN, decided to delete dev and push, and ignore the warnings. Apparently that’s OK in SVN.

My computer did that for the first time today but it was accompanied by a popup which said something like “do you want me to keep opening links in Edge or use the default (Chrome)?” I clicked Chrome and that was the end of that.

Are the people who are being forced to use Edge the same people who don’t or can’t read popups and who choose the most obvious “get out of the way” button?