Same here. I left my small town at 18 for the next town over, a few years later moved across the country. I have no idea what’s happened with anyone in my class since we left high school.

I’d probably do a bunch of MDMA and just head to the beach or somewhere in nature and have a blast.

I haven’t done drugs in over a decade and probably won’t ever get back into them, but man if I knew I only had 24 hours left I’d be back in a heartbeat.

I would sure hope not

Me too, and it’s worse because it’s not secure.

I keep saying this a lot but I don’t know why recently (the last ~5 years) everyone is jumping on SMS-based 2FA. I remember this was really big around 2010 and as a developer all the tools for SMS-based 2FA are deprecated or unmaintained (at least in my programming language). It seems like all these websites that jumped on board 10 years late have very poor security practices.

…and that’s the point of the /s, as you never know who your audience is and/or you don’t want to be taken seriously as you’ve so done with the people downvoting you.

I’ve had them for a few years as well because their coverage is rock solid.

However their backend is a serious wreck. I had an Apple Watch for about a year but it never worked due to janky NumberSync. I went through it over and over with customer service but the watch never had cellular service longer than a few hours; never had crazy problems like this on other networks.

I found out recently that for about the past six months all incoming calls went to voicemail with no indication whatsoever the calls were coming through (no ring, no missed call notification).

And at one point I had to completely pay off a device just to port a number in to replace the existing number. Apparently their database is so fucked that they use the number as the database primary key.

On AT&T, you have to put in work to keep your devices on network.

Generally when telling a joke out loud it’s obvious it’s a joke based on the speaker’s tone and other facts.

With text-based communication it’s much more difficult to do the same without resorting to /s, Emoji or some other signal.

Stole some clothes from Hot Topic; had to remove the ink tags later by hand. I skipped school with my crush at the time and it was a rush.

I’ve run into issues with SMS-based 2FA (yikes) on some websites because my phone number was a landline number I purchased then later transferred to my wireless carrier.

I bring this up because I’ve noticed some websites have the typical “we’ll confirm your information with your wireless carrier” verbiage, but those generally mention they do so to determine whether the number is a landline or wireless.

I’m super unsure of what’s going on in this case, but when I first saw this screenshot this is what came to mind.

Where do you draw the circle?

I miss spaghetti but I’ll never eat it in public. Yeah I know all the ways you can do it without looking like a slob, but I don’t want to still be scooping around that shit 40 minutes after everyone else finished eating.

Right, but if you’re telling the software to encode a file as UTF-8 maybe the software should actually encode it as UTF-8.

Oh don’t get me started on SQL Server either. That’s the most maintenance-heavy, hands on approach I’ve ever seen. “Do one thing and do it well” doesn’t apply, you’ve got to manage every dumb knob that shouldn’t matter to you as an end-user.

Yet as a developer I’m expected to deal with crazy stuff like ASCII, weird encoding standards for email, Punycode, etc. but MySQL developers couldn’t figure out how to encode characters properly while dumping the database?

I guess what gets me is that it’s writing to a UTF-8 file so you’d expect that file to contain UTF-8 only. Hell, I’d take UTF-8 with Base64 encoded data for binary data over the hodgepodge .sql file coming out of the thing.

Oh I completely agree, but I’m tasked with dealing with a variety of database servers in my work.

This is great but I don’t understand the six inch Subway sub reference

It’s a pet-peeve of mine and I haven’t forgotten

I’d love to add something original to this post, but you’ve pretty much covered it.

To your point about corporate overlords: many of us loved Reddit until we realized it was a cesspool (for any number of reasons) and moved on, and it’s almost a shameful thing to admit we ever liked Reddit at this point.

To put it more simply: we just love federation and we love the format. We could always jump ship to Mastodon or any other federated platform, but long form discussion is what I believe drives adoption of Lemmy in particular the most.