Also Kotlin devs!

Agree! And if the devs are responsible enough, not only should they guide you but also improve the existing documentation/wikis, because a build issue or a doubt about anything unclear that affects one person who speaks up can potentially be affecting a lot of other people who do not even dare to ask.

Needless to say, in neither case the discussion originated from a technical issue, both times we were arguing online about politics.

Once I was told that I deserved to be fired and, another time, I was told that I am unable to think properly so I shouldn’t work as a software developer.

Both remarks were quite painful because they were not questioning my ideas/opinions but my professional abilities. I confess that in my “down” moments those thoughts tend to pop up even years later.

I am a complete disaster, sometimes errors slip in even when I have a UI done by a designer because I am totally “blind” to certain aspects.

In my personal projects I try to follow guidelines and best practices for dimensions/typography/colors/placing of elements/etc but the results are “meh” of course, since apart from my layout-blindness I am more tolerant to small sins, since it’s not work after all.

If the project gets to be used by a few people (of course not the faint of heart) I collect feedback and iterate over it to improve the UX.

I’ve already added it, it’s in the latest stable release 1.9.0, you can access it from the profile screen under “Upvotes and downvotes”.

There are Lemmy APIs for it and some apps (like Voyager) allow to see all contents you upvoted or downvoted. Depends on which platform you are on and which client you are using.

The first time some random user files a sue in court the admins of their instance will be in trouble.

Lemmy devs are not affected, but instance admins are and according to the GDPR they are considered “data controllers” and are responsible for the processing of users’ data.

As far as I understand it, this lacking feature is an open “challenge” to existing regulation and legislators, maybe also to open people’s eyes about the fact that privacy claims are often not enforced even by those who claim to do so.

That’s a known bug which has been partially solved in the latest development build, have a look here. There were issues with markdown rendering when there were both text and images.

This.

In general I would argue that he has a good reputation, due to good marketing mostly. A great lot of people see him as some sort of “illuminated visionary” who fosters innovation for the Good™ and will save humanity with SpaceX, Tesla, etc. [I don’t agree personally to any of it but that’s another story].

Obviously I don’t approve of any of it, let it be clear… Lemmy for me is a sort of “therapy group” where I find relief from that toxic environment.

I come from a super-right wing family too (but from Europe) and they really are in love Elon because it’s like “a dog being out of control” in the billionaire group, the one who is brave enough to go against the rules, defying the “cancel culture” and the unidirectional thinking imposed by political correctness.

As a software developer, I’d recommend them to switch to semver, having three digits to separate major, minor and patch numbers. This makes it easier for customers to identify if the new version has just minor fixes (an ingredient removed), breaking changes (eg the menu changes) or major changes (all the waiters were replaced) compared to the previous one.

Programming aside, where I live in Southern Europe we have a tradition according to which leap years bring bad luck. After 2020, I don’t know what to expect… nuclear apocalypse maybe?

No, I just cross posted it. Now the original post on blahaj has been edited but this one retained the old image. So I uploaded a new one here with the source.

I cross posted it light-heartedly assuming the original poster had not infringed any intellectual property. Thanks for the emendation, content should not be stolen online.

Oh no I’ve been discovered! This is not a safe place any more…

Needless to say, raccoons (in Southern Europe).

Some of them would be recommend even for non-Linux users, apart from being entertaining, they are extremely informative about open source/tech topics in general.