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And despite security recommendations, too many IT depts still force password resets every 90 days…

It could be for contractual or for insurance reasons. We have some contracts with government agencies that require it, and our cyberinsurance also does. Even though NIST has been recommending for years to do long passphrase + MFA and no reset unless you suspect compromise.

So yeah, the reason behind this might not be just plain incompetence.

Well you see, finding a way to reliably deliver ads via the API would have taken far too much developer brainpower for a company that can’t make a functional video player or a mobile app

It honestly wouldn’t be that hard at all. You deliver ads via the API alongside actual posts, as if they are an actual post, and forbid altering them in the developer ToS. If you want to be anal about enforcement, run popular 3rd-party apps in an emulator to verify that the JSON returned by the site is unaltered when it’s rendered in the app. You could put this together in a weekend.

Which really just speaks to quality of talent at reddit, or the management at reddit suppressing that talent. Or both.

His mind’s gonna be blown when he finds out about Mode averages.

Man, the code in that project is really something else. Looks like something hacked together in a weekend

I think I’m going to fork it and make it… not that.

The stock Pixel phone app has this. If you don’t use the stock phone app, you can’t use this feature.

That certainly makes me feel better for letting the Magic Smoke out.

I don’t think it became easier at all until it was forked off into Xorg and they started making dramatic improvements.

I think it was trial and error for hours at least.

It certainly was until I discovered the monitor I hadn’t fried had the modelines printed on a sticker on the back…

So I’m not the only one who fried a monitor trying to get X11 working…

and how hard it was to get x11 working

Oh good God. If you really want to test someone’s resolve, sit them down at an old computer with a CRT and no Internet and have them configure X11 from scratch. Seeing that default X11 crosshatch background for the first time was practically orgasmic after the bullshit I went through to make it work.

That’s one of those traumatizing experiences I’d completely blocked from my memory until I read your comment.

Traumatizing experience #2 that just came back to me was getting a winmodem working and connected to my ISP via minicom.

Just added it to the massive Google graveyard next to Stadia, wave, hangouts, plus, music, etc etc

I am shocked and appalled that Google Reader didn’t get called out in this list and is relegated to the “etc” category.

It deserves more than “etc.”

At work/for business, you can’t beat Veeam. It’s the gold standard and there is literally nothing better.

At home, Duplicity. Set it up once and then just let it go, and it supports a million different backup targets you can ship your backups off to, including the local filesystem. Has auto-aging/removal rules, easy restores, incrementals, etc. Encrypts by default too.

I think that this line of reasoning becomes less and less tenable when things like Swagger exist.

I just wished the Lemmy API docs were better lol.

Finnegans Wake makes more sense than Lemmy API docs. Even calling it “documentation” is a stretch.

I literally had to clone the Lemmy git repo and read the source code to find the implementation of an API endpoint and see how it worked for a script that I was writing.

Man I loved Encarta. I would spend hours in that shit just going through random stuff.

Then there’s the hostility if a post does get play.

I used to dread seeing that new message notification icon.

And here you are with 53 comments in 6 days.

Well, that explains all the trouble I had trying to build it for Android. I did get it to compile once, but it crashed immediately after launching.

Liftoff is a fantastic Android Lemmy client.

Run it in a Sandboxie sandbox. It can run any application in a Sandbox.

Or just spin up a lightweight VM. Could even run it in a Docker container.

docker (while you don’t need it to host things, it makes your life 10x easier)

…until you have a single extra space character hiding 20 lines into your compose file and the whole thing falls over the next time you try to bring the containers up.

Lint your code and configs every time!