Cryxtalix

joined 1 year ago
[–] Cryxtalix@programming.dev 39 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Someone watched an old Bond film.

[–] Cryxtalix@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

The permission to do admin things is given by the root user, to your account. So you have to verify your identity by entering your password.

Isn't that how it is? I though that was analogous to how almost everything worked IRL. Whether withdrawing funds from a bank or engaging government services, you prove your identity as a customer/citizen to get the relevant services. At no point do you login to bank or government computers with full privileges.

[–] Cryxtalix@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

More like 5 divided by 0 is infinite.

[–] Cryxtalix@programming.dev 0 points 7 months ago

Doesn't that guarantee you'll die of cancer instead? Or gruesome accidents. Or both.

[–] Cryxtalix@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Is it the bug where voyager crashes? My account on discuss.online is crashing voyager webapp and jerboa on android. As much as it's the fault of the lemmy server code, apps shouldn't be crashing due to a backend server bug to begin with. It couldn't even give me an error message before crashing.

[–] Cryxtalix@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

I tell people it's like signing up for a newsletter with your email, except the newsletter is also your social media feed.

[–] Cryxtalix@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does returning errors mean? I had a main account that I tried migrating away from lemmy.world, only to have it return errors from lemmy.world. I can't see two thirds of the comments I can from this programming.dev account.

[–] Cryxtalix@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The youth have an innate pressure to follow trends and their peers. They need and crave social acceptance while still lacking the means to be independent and "go their own way", so it's not viable to expect younger users to form the bulk of pioneering users of an unproven platform like the fediverse.

Older user will generally be more confident and independent, especially when the craving for social approval is not as powerful as it was in younger users.