The question as asked: you can do it anywhere. Right here. In worldnews. Lemmyshitpost. Gardening. Whatever.

But I think you’re asking: where can I say whatever I want without consequences?

And that’s harder. Because if you have the right to subject other people to your opinions, that gives them the right to subject you to their opinions.

If you want to avoid being banned, create your own community. If you want to avoid your community being nuked by admins, create your own Lemmy instance. If you want a safe space for yourself, free from criticism about what you say, don’t federate your instance. You will be safe and able to howl into the wind without anyone troubling you.

Lester (the croc) on a molester.

I found code that calculated a single column in an HTML table. It was “last record created on”.

The algorithm was basically:

foreach account group
  foreach account in each account group
    foreach record in account.records
      if record.date > maxdate
        max = maxdate

It basically loaded every database record (the basic unit of record in this DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM) to find the newest one.

Customers couldn’t understand why the page took a minute to load.

It was easily replaced with a SQL query to get the max and it dropped down to a few ms.

The code was so hilariously stupid I left it commented out in the code so future developers could understand who built what they are maintaining.

“So what was the problem in the end?”

“Man, I don’t fucking know.”

• me, every goddamn time

I wonder what they spent paying people to implement and communicate this change.

At 600k for a company that size this cost them more money than just paying the extra 4 cents.

I’m a huge fan of Drysol. You apply it once every few months and it prevents you from sweating. It’s a little itchy while drying but after that you’re sweat free for weeks! Then you can go without a daily product, or just a light wipe of deodorant if you like the smell.

Also shout out to bathroom spray. Sometimes I want to smell shit and potpourri together!

I’m not sure if it automatically does the metadata lookup or if it just reads embedded metadata from the epubs I’ve downloaded. It for sure does a poor job of setting up the series name and book number fields if you read a lot of series.

I use a combination of calibre-web-automated for metadata management and calibre-web-automated-book-downloader for downloading from Anna’s Archive. Book read progress and status is synced from my Kobo.

It works really well but you need to manually request books one at a time. The readarr feature I miss was the ability to subscribe to a GoodReads list.

Also g gg if you’re feeling frisky.

You drew it backwards and your fire went out.

“It stinks!”

Please don’t test your hobby LLMs in production.

Waddaya mean “or”?

Polite: “Thanks.”

Less polite: “Thank you for your feedback.”

My fave: “UNSUBSCRIBE”

14.1 would be ideal.

There’s a few free vpn providers out there. You could do a little homework and see if they are a good option. I tend to mistrust free services like that (if I’m not paying, who is, and what are they paying for?), but if you’re in a pinch it’s something to research.

Another option is to look for deals. Sometimes VPN providers will have a super sale a few times a year. I think once I got a NordVPN subscription for THREE YEARS for like $60. It’s more expensive than a single month of anything, yes, but if you can afford a onetime expense it’s nice not to have to worry about a recurring monthly cost.

Your other option is to not use torrents. Usenet is still the grand daddy of file sharing and is pretty much anonymous. Most Usenet hosts are paid, but back in the day even ISPs ran their own servers. It could be worth looking and seeing if there’s any free or low cost providers there.

Wandering the desert?

Nay, vibe travelling.

They didn’t release their methods, so I can’t be sure that most of those aren’t just frustrated users telling the LLM to go kill itself.

Replaced by AI, ironically.