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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Mastodon is a piece of software. I don’t see anyone saying “phpBB” or “WordPress” has a massive child abuse material problem.

    Has anyone in the history ever said “Not a good look for phpBB”? No. Why? Because it would make no sense whatsoever.

    I feel kind of a loss for words because how obvious it should be. It’s like saying “paper is being used for illegal material. Not a good look for paper.”

    What is the solution to someone hosting illegal material on an nginx server? You report it to the authorities. You want to automate it? Go ahead and crawl the web for illegal material and generate automated reports. Though you’ll probably be the first to end up in prison.






  • Being easy to understand is one of the primary goals of any programming languages.

    The problem with Javascript is that it isn’t easy to understand. Javascript is easy to write.

    That’s why it’s easy for novices to pick up and why it ends up being spaghetti code. It’s very unrestrictive and allows writing very poor code that works based on assumptions and breaks when the assumptions aren’t met.

    It made sense at the time because it was just a scripting language for some minor website things, and you didn’t want your site to crash if your script ran into a problem.

    Now it’s being used to write full fledged applications and it’s past design choices are still haunting it.










  • Sugar itself is not particularly harmful. Most foods we eat naturally contains sugar.

    What’s really harmful are sugary drinks, such as regular soda, fruit juices, and sweet coffee based drinks.

    The problem comes from how quickly the sugar is absorbed into the blood stream. Regular foods containing sugar such as fruits release the sugar slowly as they are broken down and digested. Sugary drinks however are pure dissolved sugar which is absorbed incredibly rapidly.

    It causes a rapid blood glucose spike which is followed by an insulin spike. Having that as a regular occurance is devastating to your body, and can lead to some terrible conditions like non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and diabetes.