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CoderKat

@ CoderKat @kbin.social

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I write ̶b̶u̶g̶s̶ features, show off my adorable standard issue cat, and give a shit about people and stuff. I'm also @CoderKat.

  • How to create a decentralized kind of wiki?

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  • Yeah, to be clear, MediaWiki is open source and also has alllll sorts of really cool extensions. You also already can download the entire contents of Wikipedia.

    I think this desire to federate everything is going too far. Most things don't benefit from this and in fact just become over complicated. If you can host a regular copy of a site easily... that's frankly most of the benefits there.

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  • I'm sorry, are you saying you indent the braces? Cause if that's not unintentional, those are both horrifying!

  • Pride Month wrapping up, have you seen any company or organisation do anything remotely meaningful?

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  • Yeah. It might not be some massive move, but it does mean something. It's great to see your employer, other possible employers, your local politicians, your municipal services, and even just random businesses that you might use (or not) show that they're accepting, especially when the status quo is to keep quiet to satisfy bigots.

  • The Coup of /r/AssholeDesign

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  • If your employees (even if they work without payment) dont follow your instructions you search for someone who does follow them.

    If they work without payment, they're not your employees. And reddit isn't a registered charity either.

    It is their site so they can technically do what they want, but it makes them assholes and is not "ok" as you put it.

  • How does everyone feel about Oneplus phones?

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  • I currently have a 7T. It's not bad. Felt pretty impressive at the time that I got it. These days I feel like the camera is a bit lacklustre and every now and then something freezes. I'm gonna upgrade to something else soon. Probably something much higher end as I'm more comfortable spending money on a high end phone these days. But it's been a pretty solid phone, especially for its price and age.

  • Can I block posts about Reddit?

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  • Reddit definitely has better features. It's not even a competition. The reason we're here is because of the Reddit administration and because of future potential. Eg, the apps are so new right now that Reddit's official app is better. But in a couple of months, that won't be the case anymore.

  • GOOD games with female protagonists?

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  • Specifically the first game (unarguably the best one), its prequel, and True Colours. Life Is Strange 2 has two brothers, instead. They're all very, very good games that all have made me cry (some multiple times).

    They're also pretty gay if that interests you.

  • [REPOST] Won't Let Me Go To Jury Duty? Enjoy Being Questioned In Court

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  • You often don't get paid or don't get paid nearly enough. Too many people like paycheque to paycheque to be able to do that.

    And in extreme cases, you can get sequestered, where you're expected to basically put your life on hold for the duration of the trial, which complete bullshit and feels as if you're being punished.

  • Almost broke 2.5 million daily total users on Lemmy in the last 24 hours.

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  • You gotta stop counting total users. Only active users should be counted. We know there's utterly massive numbers of bots being created. Plus people have multiple accounts from trying out different instances even if they'll only use one.

  • TikTok Keeps Removing Abortion Pill Content

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  • Tiktok is the absolute worst at irrational censorship. It's a shame because the site is immensely popular and that means it is full of very interesting content. Yet, this is far from the first unreasonable thing they've been removing. It's well known how Tiktok users came up with alternative words to circumvent words that were likely to get their content removed (e.g., "unalived" instead of "killed").

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
    CoderKat @kbin.social

    I'd like to discuss Horizon Burning Shores

  • rule

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  • I'm not sure I see how that would affect the developer. The charge back would be only to the reseller, wouldn't it?

  • Cosmic pocket sand

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  • I honestly cannot describe it. It feels like a mixture of too many flavours to be able to quite put my finger to it.

    I love it, though.

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    CoderKat @kbin.social

    Parent threads, watch out for your children accessing things they shouldn't be

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    CoderKat @kbin.social

    Reign in your horse events

  • 📢Entire mod team on r/mildlyinteresting (and more subs) removed and locked out of their accounts after changing their rules upon community's request. (They're also switching subs BACK to SFW)

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  • Yeah. The unethical bots will just use scrapers, as they already do for the many websites that don't offer APIs. They're already violating ToS, so they don't care. Ethical ones won't have that option (at least not past the fairly low quota).

  • What niche phone features would appeal to you?

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  • I know some phones had already did this, but I always liked the idea of support for using your phone as a TV remote. The phone has replaced so many pieces of hardware that it feels silly that TV remotes haven't been replaced yet.

    I also specifically wish Chrome supported extensions on mobile. Firefox does it. Why can't the biggest browser do it?

  • Hey guys, this time I really messed up :/

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  • Lol, exactly what I was thinking. I can't imagine a Reddit admin posting something like this.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
    CoderKat @kbin.social

    Leg rule

  • rulescription

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  • I don't get what the alternative is supposed to be. You can't make stuff like blockbuster quality movies on ads and/or donations alone. And between ads vs subscriptions, ads are iffy because you end up with sketchy or unethical advertisements. Plus ad blockers make it hard to sustain a business on just ads.

    In an ideal world, nobody would need to "make a living" and we'd be able to offer more services for free. But we don't have that ideal world. Musicians, animators, writers, programmers and more all need to get paid somehow.

    It's admittedly annoying how fractured subscriptions get, though. I miss when Netflix was the only streaming video subscription I needed. Now there's half a dozen major services and they all want exclusive contracts to show certain movies and TV.

    Personally, I'm happy to pay for the stuff I use a lot. Which includes stuff that I don't even have to pay for (eg, I donated $20 to kbin). It does suck for stuff I only want a little of, though. eg, I don't have any news subscriptions because I only check news sites here and there and it's almost never the same site, too (mostly I get linked from sites like this). I want to see subscriptions become a bit more centralized, spanning multiple sites to account for this.

  • News @kbin.social
    CoderKat @kbin.social

    B.C. man questions 9-year-old's gender in 'gobsmacking' track-and-field incident

    www.cbc.ca /news/canada/british-columbia/kelowna-short-hair-girl-gender-identity-1.6875738
  • /kbin meta @kbin.social
    CoderKat @kbin.social

    Can the magazine subscribe option be made much more prominent?