If I’m doing something in a language I only half way know and rarely use in depth I’ll use them more. Like bash scripting I use them all the time. For Java I basically never touch them because I don’t need them.

Not to sound like a Steam simp, but they put a lot of faith in Steam Guard. Gabe Newell shared his password. This is old information and he may have changed it, also I don’t know if there were problems. https://www.escapistmagazine.com/gabe-newell-gives-away-personal-steam-password/

It’s not a good comparison, but it is funny to talk about. The founder of LifeLock trusted his product so much that he put his SSN on billboards and television ads. His identity was stolen 13 times. https://www.wired.com/2010/05/lifelock-identity-theft/

When some finally got back in stock we got some but it was awful quality. We got some better stuff a little bit later. So we have a box of single ply in our garage still lol. I can’t imagine using it now though, probably covered in cobwebs and dust.

How do I know which do? (Genuine question.)

Paid employees of Reddit (admins) almost certainly have better tools available than moderators.

My omega is gonna be cute, one way or another.

I’ve had text books that have page numbers in the corner as chapter-number. It’s not unheard of. When I was in JROTC in highschool the cadet field manual had pages like this. I’m sure others did too but I specifically remember that one more because I was there for four years. (Had to be there for riflery team.)

For admins? Surely.

I nearly joined Beehaw when I first joined but I’m really glad I didn’t in hindsight.

If instance A stops existing, instance B doesn’t have any specific knowledge of that versus it no longer federating. Existing posts and comments will stay. My instance is no longer federated with some, but I still see the communities from them.

How do you not know? Do your due diligence lol.

One of my biggest gripes about the fediverse (and honestly any online community) is people making increasingly niche places to discuss things before there is a need to split things due to size. I’d post that to something like a general hobbies group. I’d also say mods need to be less strict about what is and isn’t on-topic while there isn’t much traffic in their communities.

That’s better than requiring a subscription fee but I’m so tired of pretending like this shit is okay. Run ads, fine, I get it, but let me see your damn articles. WSJ is the worst with their whole “democracy dies in darkness” slogan.

For fucks sake, why is every article pay walled? Just let me read!

Not doing what aboutism, just trying to explain what their point may have been. I’m a different person than brought it up, so just guessing. Yes, schools have real problems too.

Well that can’t be because I call my nonbinary wife Daddy!

It’s short for Michaelael.

CVE-2025-j - Data leak due to uninitialized variable for children of non-binary parents

Children referring to non-binary parents may use uninitialized variable in speech when referring to the parent. This can expose personal information when referring to the non-binary parent. All children who are users of the English language are potentially vulnerable. Children who already have a preferred title for their parent are unaffected. To mitigate this the parent and child should discuss what preferred title the child should use.

Due to the extreme widespread usage of the English language and the difficulty with patching, there is unlikely to be a comprehensive fix for this soon.

Tangential, but my wife is nonbinary and I still call them my wife. They’re okay with it. And I don’t mean to be lewd, but in bed they like to be called Daddy instead of Mommy. My point is that it’s probably a case by case thing without a universal and some nonbinary folks don’t mind some gendered terms. It might even be context based.

I think Astrobot is an example of what you’re talking about.

Also really good observation about FNAF. I’ve noticed the same. What’s interesting is that the longer the franchise go the more they push Purple Guy/Afton as the main antagonist and even make Freddy into a hero at times. It’s like this big unexpected success and they need to make it more acceptable but sort of painted themselves into a corner over time lol.