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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • I was thinking about this the other day. Because Lemmy instances keep defederating from each other, I don’t really experience Lemmy. I experience a fragment of Lemmy as determined by the admins of the instance I’m connected to.

    Even if I run my own instance, I guess there’s nothing stopping instances from defederating from me (or just refusing to federate to begin with because my instance is too small to bother with).

    Is there even a way to experience all of Lemmy, including spam and things some people don’t agree with?




  • But it’s genuinely what we were all doing not so long ago

    Jokes on you, my first job was editing files directly in production. It was for a webapp written in Classic ASP. To add a new feature, you made a copy of the current version of the page (eg index2_new.asp became index2_new_v2.asp) and developed your feature there by hitting the live page with your web browser.

    When you were ready to deploy, you modified all the other pages to link to your new page

    Good times!




  • It’s like rebrands.

    Most rebrands occur because the average marketing person is pretty average and “rebrand” looks good on your CV.

    A couple of million later, half way through, customers hate the new brand and the marketing people who started it have already left for greener pastures

    Redesigning a perfectly good design that everyone is used to allows you to put “designed Netflix user interface” on your CV, and since management has to spend a ton of money on it, suddenly your team is worth something






  • Well, we have one group of people saying “the treaty means this”. And we have another group of people saying “no, the treaty means this”.

    Which group is right? Currently it’s impossible to tell, because they’ve interpreted parts of the treaty in different ways. And there is some precedent in case law thanks to Waitangi tribunal rulings.

    Clarifying the principles removes the ambiguity and makes it clear for everyone.

    I understand the opposition though, Maori stand to lose a bunch of Maori-specific things they fought long and hard for if it’s decided that actually all citizens of New Zealand have the same rights and duties under NZ law