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my base opinion is (was) that you shouldn't be reading TOSes without asking a lawyer, they're a legal document my realistic opinion is that TOSes should be written/presented as a collaboration between legal and marketing/PR/whatever-you-call-it

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

this is a common thing people miss when talking about stability, it's not a simple binary: you *always* need to decide what you do and don't consider stable otherwise even adding a brand new API can be a breaking change because it'll clash with imports or overrides!

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

there are, at this point, more people transitioning than there used to be, and i think one thing that people don't understand is that the rate of FTM transitions is now actually just as high as the rate of MTF transitions

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

someone (with actual legal expertise) really has got to write something on how to read privacy policies and TOS' and what common boilerplate sections really mean / why they exist, because im so tired of all the FUD every time a company changes their TOS

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

WE WENT THROUGH THIS ALREADY LAST TIME WITH THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

saw a CAUTION WINDOW WASHING ABOVE sign, looked up, there was no window washing, but did get to behold a pretty ceiling good trick, I'm going to put up signs like that everywhere to make people look up more

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

the C Standard Library is LYING to you. strcat DOESN'T concatenate strings. it creates a pointer to a stray cat. go pet it

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

FREY DON’T HAVE THE VOTES Aha-ha-ha ha!

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

problems i'm noticing with duolingo hindi: - they randomize interlocutors. which is fine, except hindi is gendered, so it's actively counterproductive in picking up how that works - their font isn't great and makes certain similar letters look similar - explicit viramas in many contexts

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Speaking of which, I’ve been wondering when the next new batch of interesting languages is gonna appear. Like it’s been ten years since the go/rust cohort came up. A lot of current up-and-coming languages have been up-and-coming for a while, when are we gonna see some fresh faces?

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

"democracy dies in darkness" turned out to be a mission statement huh

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments