Which programming language will you use?

Yes and no, it is your instance’s backend that is responsible for this behavior. Once your instance is up-to-date, you should not see these old results any more. No need to wait for all other servers 😉

Wow, that is incredibly annoying! I can’t imagine they wouldn’t get forced to take it down.

Great idea, but the money they have is barely enough to make a dent in the development scope they are aiming for.

Sure, but that isn’t how it works under GDPR. You don’t need to prove the information should be deleted, you need to prove the information must be kept. To give an example, the company I work for deals with long-lived contracts (often 20 years or more), and once they end we are legally allowed to keep the information for about 5 more years. After that we need to remove it.

Something like this might have to be done to comply to GDPR. I’m not sure about the details, but I do know a company cannot keep personal information for longer than they need. At some point, I guess that would probably translate to removing old and unused accounts.

Are you expecting a developer to test everything every time they commit? Thoroughly testing even a small application or feature subset will take up quite a bit of time. You also want devs to commit often, so it is easy to roll back an approach that didn’t pan out, or just to go back and figure out what change caused something to stop working. If you end up committing only a few times per week because everything needs to be thoroughly tested, I’m not convinced it is a good approach.

What would be the probability of u/spez being behind this attack, in an attempt to sabotage lemmy?

My pleasure! And unless the rules are different where you live, you don’t need to see a doctor or get a prescription. Here (Belgium) you can easily get them from pharmacies or online.

Welcome to the club of lactose intolerance! If, like me, you really like dairy, there is a very easy way to cheat the system… (Seriously, how would anyone survive without cheese?)

You can get lactase tablets. Those are little pills full of lactase, which is the protein that breaks down lactose into digestible simple sugars. All you have to do is take a lactase tablet when you eat anything with lactose, and you can continue to live your life like before.

Lactose intolerance is not black and white either. You may have some tolerance left, which may be enough to eat your cereal with milk, if that is the inly lactose you have during the day. Your tolerance can also fluctuate over time. For example, the first time I had an issue with lactose it only lasted a few weeks.

Thanks for the reminder, I still had one of those messages waiting for me…

Same! As an introvert it is not easy though.

While I agree that advertisers go much too far, the 650k labels figure used here is a bit manipulative. They make it seem like the advertisers have 650k different bits of information on everyone, but clearly they don’t.

The examples they provide of labels show that they are combinations of multiple things. For example they show a label “France + Land Rover”, which really are two different bits of information combined into one label. If they would have an exhaustive list of all countries (about 200) and the most popular car brands (let’s say about 20), that would be around 4000 labels, or 0.6% of the 650k labels. If they add a third characteristic, that number would explode.

We are exploring unknown depths of beans here!

Am I the only one who thinks of maggots when I see this? Thank you, you have ruined my pooping time.