Snot Flickerman @ SnotFlickerman @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Megabonk, my beloved...

No worries, I wasn't as clear as I could have been, for sure.

MetaFilter literally used Adobe Coldfusion to put together their site and the site is still using ColdFusion as of 2025. There wasn't "backend development" in the same way there is for projects like Lemmy, Piefed, Mastodon, and so on. MeFi is only just considering rebuilding the site from scratch since 2024 and the main head of that exploratory project has been MIA for several months now.

You're right, it doesn't have to mean no development, I was really just referring back to MetaFilter as an example. A site can work without updates for a long, long time, especially if the core of the site is off-the-shelf stuff like PHP, CSS, and HTML, which is what MeFi largely is made up of.

This is the answer. Pretty sure, for example, MetaFilter is running bespoke code for their forum (which means no development at all), and it's been online since 1999.

Cancer at 42 over here.

All of this is so on the nose except the updates bit.

Sorry, mate, but if you skip an update because you don't feel like keeping up and it's because there's a massive security flaw that leaves your PC up to easy compromise, that's genuinely a bad thing.

Yeah, most times updates are just new features but if you're not paying attention you have no idea if it's a feature update or a security update, do you?

If only you have physical access to your computers and they're firewalled properly sure, maybe it's safe enough, but the vast majority of people don't have things firewalled properly at the very least.

I don't know, that's the only bit that seems a bit short-sighted to me, especially when it comes to more casual users.

When you do it for work, you log what you have changed each time you make a change to try to fix it, and you log what you revert, so you can keep track of what you have tried, what worked, and what didn't and have a clearer idea of what the solution was.

Sometimes it really does take a while to nail down though, and sometimes it isn't entirely clear why what worked worked. Especially if you're a junior network engineer without as much experience.

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That's amazing. I've got the same combination on my luggage!

Nobody:

Absolutely No One:

EMH:
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I don't break out in hives but I can guess being in that subway would immediately give me a sinus headache.

"temporary" and the court won't rule on it until after the election

I mean, one of my best memories if being stoned out of my gourd on mushrooms and talking shop with the guy who owned a local typewriter museum. He seemed like he had it together.

on his shitty Twitter

It's Mastodon though. They were publicly forced to admit that they used Mastodon and they're just not federated.

I am glad I kept around my old pirated copies of Rosetta Stone in various languages for this reason.

Good job!

No, Anna.

I knew Wasserman Shultz would be on here without looking.

Fair take but to also be fair the US is quickly running out of news sources not run by right wing yahoo billionaires.

It's not like Jacobin, Mother Jones, or even 404 Media can cover everything. PBS has been struggling with Federal government funding cuts meaning they have fewer staff and resources to cover everything, as well. PBS has also had its own share of conservatives running the operations through the years, it isn't like they've always been perfectly neutral either.

If a major news network with a right wing slant is the only place a story can be found, what then? Pretend like it isn't happening?

Trump: DEMOCRATS NEED TO BE HANGED!

Democrats: Yeah, fuck Bernie, AOC, and Mamdani!

Later, at the gallows...

why did you make this account to just ask this, and why did you make it clear you're a woman?

is this one more post that will be Permantly Deleted after it being clear that this some weird kink fantasy someone wants to roleplay in?

What even is this? Lemmy, we gotta get a grip on these kind of shenanigans.