So two gays could just come in and say they are friends and get two free beers?

But straight women couldn’t get it for free

I guess it’s more: “we only want men”

We saw other similar news from China which turned out to be a bunk. I wouldn’t hold my breath. I would love to be wrong though.

Apologies, I misinterpreted the word “party” I thought it was a party in the conflict like Israel vs Gazans. And that Israel supporters don’t see it as controversial.

Unlike Hollywood movies, things aren’t always black and white. It is quite possible that both sides are. Neither the Hamas nor Nethanyahu government are the good guys. Both sides try to exterminate the other side. Both sides also don’t mind killing innocent people in their way.

It is a fucked up situation, and with recent developments it looks like it is turning into Israel’s Afghanistan. Biden was right warning Nethanyahu to not make the same mistake at US did after 9/11.

Yeah, even if you support Israel, this is really in bad taste.

That’s how I understand Mastodon’s meant to work. You have your instance like you do a mail server, then you have full control over it.

Corporations don’t always have to make sense it looks like during a meeting they concluded that games don’t generate significant profit so they decided to exit that entire market. They don’t want to have any employees to look over the account, or having to update is something or have any lawsuits (perhaps have offended someone, or formatted computer), I am not saying those could happen or make any sense, but essentially execs say they don’t want to have ANY liability and the lower employees comply the best they can.

Execs don’t care about users, to them this is just business.

If users were priority company for example could just make the games public domain, but that would be too much work, and no way back if (in very unlikely case) they wanted to bring the games back.

Those are more to punish companies and change their behavior, which I think is what was desired here.

Of course they are a gold mine if you are a lawyer.

That sounds more like what class action lawsuit is supposed to be for.

I wonder if that would hold in court. They could simply use “rent” or “lease” in their ads, but they purposely are trying to mislead to imply permanence.

There is a saying that if civil engineers would build houses the same way as software engineers build software, the first woodpecker would destroy the whole civilization.

In reality it is not easy to build good software and it can be fragile even with good practices. This approach allows anyone’s code merged without much supervision.

Another thing is (and I even noticed myself doing it, even though normally I think of myself as perfectionist) is that when one contributes a feature to a project that they don’t maintain. They just think only about the feature and the easiest way of implementing it, which isn’t necessarily the best way to implement something long term, adding complexity, makes harder to add more features and much easier to accidentally create bugs.

Third, preventing security vulnerabilities is hard even with good practices, someone could accidentally (or purposely) introduce a security vulnerability.

Hmm… the app is indeed a great sounding proposition.

After I posted it, I found another discussion where it looks like mbin policy is that anyone can merge anyone else’s PR.

As a software developer, that actually sounds really scary.

I guess I missed it. Why there was a need to fork kbin? Are there issues with it?

What about kbin (well it is connected with Lemmy, but technically it’s not Lemmy) and tildes.net?

Since hand soap is for hands and body soap is for the entire body the only logical conclusion is to not wash hands as we don’t know what would happen if you would use body wash for that part of the body.

I’m sure the system is rigged, and a lot of people who shouldn’t, go to jail, but in the case of this particular individual the judge was 100% right and the defendant showed it loud and clear that her reasoning was right.

Isn’t it really how well your home is insulated and whether the heat pump can keep up with the escaping heat?

Yeah. Little known fact, they named their company after their original product, but struggled with how to turn in profit, so they created a Google subsidiary which invented a search engine. True story.

Sounds like a question asked by someone who already knows the answer.