Oooooh this is relevant to my interests!! After 20yrs doing web dev I crashed out of two jobs in 6 months completely hating coding. Can’t even bring myself to look at code nowadays.

What did you go into after quitting web dev?

What did you used to program in?

Tracking clicks on links with JS is pretty normal. I always implemented that with Google analytics for my e-commerce sites.

It helps you track things like downloads of files, email links, exit links, etc.

Obsidian + private GitHub repo hosting

Similar happened to me. I got banned from 2westerneurope4u and another mod unbanned me a few weeks later. So I commented again.

Permaban from Reddit for evading a ban.

Any time I created a new account it would be banned for ban evasion.

So I can’t comment on Reddit unless I set up an account with a VPN.

Fuck all that.

I ask my mate in Shenzhen what he thinks of China and Xi.

He hates Xi and so do most of his friends. His wife is even a member of the CCP.

If you don’t fully commit to the party line and pay increasing fees you don’t progress in the CCP. Sounds a lot like Scientology tbh and they see it as more of a tax. Because leaving is a huge no-no. She wishes she never joined.

I take his (Chinese) opinion of China much more highly than a bunch of angry Zoomer kids on Lemmy.ml posting puff-pieces by the CCP.

Nim is cool

“Just”

That one word has done a fuck ton of lifting over my career.

“Can’t you just make it do this”

I can’t “just” do anything you fuck head! It takes time and lots of effort!

It depends on the website hosting location. TOS, users location and relevant international copyright treaties.

It’s not a one-size-fits-all.

As a UK citizen I can’t claim my (US) first amendment right to call you a “cunt”.

It’s against the website TOS and I’m not American.

Putting a license at the bottom clears any ambiguity.

Funnily enough you’re only highlighting your own “Zoomer” naivety of law by making your “Boomer” comment.

That’s not how public domain works.

What’s AV1 compression like compared to x265?

He’s got a kid called MySQL?

Private Eye is so fucking depressing. They say they put the funny stuff in the second half to offset the corruption and scandals in the first half but I can rarely get through one page before I have to put it down.

learned

American LARPing as a Brit.

Colonies?! Colonies?!!!? I’m British you dirty Kraut! Wait, do you mean the Saxons?

Listen here you little shit! Don’t try and be funny. You’re German - it’s not in your nature!

I dunno why but they wanted you to comment your name, age and location in a welcome channel. I did and they screenshot and shared it in the main channel. Most of the people are around 16-19 with a few 20-25yo. I didn’t know that til I joined though!

I was very weird to be there apparently.

I just wanted to take the piss out of Europeans. There’s no age-limit in that.

It also seems to attract a younger crowd - I had to state my age to join one server and the mod screenshotted my info and everyone laughed calling me “boomer”. I’m only 40 (Millennial) and it wasn’t a gaming or specifically teen-server. It was a silly ironic European Reddit server.

The subreddit seems to have a range of ages. The Discord server is a bunch of kids commenting capybara and cat emojis like it’s funny. :/

1983

The greatest fucking year in the universe. Do you know what happened in that year?

Planets configured. Temperatures happened. Volcanoes contemplated. Wind occurred.

Yours truly was BORN!

Bow before me worms of conscience!

Remember IRC!

You’re unhinged.