Yeah, I’m just saying that the benefit of using such a regex isn’t massive (unless you’re building a service which can’t send a mail).

a@b is a syntactically correct e-mail address. Most combinations of letters, an @-symbol and more letters will be syntactically correct, which is what most typos will look like. The regex will only catch fringe cases, such as a user accidentally hitting the spacebar.

And then, personally, I don’t feel like it’s worth pulling in one of those massive regexes (+ possibly a regex library) for most use-cases.

Yeah, I love to rag on languages with weak typing, because of the potential for a bug, but seeing it play out in reality, directly with user input, that’s certainly something else.

Well, and remember: If in doubt, send them an e-mail. You probably want to do that anyways to ensure they have access to that mailbox.

You can try to use a regex as a basic sanity check, so they’ve not accidentally typed a completely different info into there, but the e-mail standard allows so many wild mail addresses, that your basic sanity check might as well be whether they’ve typed an @ into there.

It’s like back in the 80s, when games had amazing hand-drawn covers and then the graphics was just text or simple shapes, but now with gameplay.

Probably around 14 or something. For whatever reason, people will often name DD as a large bra size around here. It also doesn’t exist in our bra size system. Some girl pointed out that non-sense at school.

Well I,m, glad because, I, do, put a, lot of, them,.

One time, I had to hand in English homework, 1½ pages, and later got it back from the teacher with the feedback that I had only written two sentences. The first sentence spanned the whole first page, which wasn’t intentional.

Interesting. I almost guessed that variant, too, but figured it would be a bit too wild for a country to auto-adopt most laws that another country implements. 🙃

I stopped using Reddit a few years before the whole stupidity, because the culture was fucking with my head.

Then I did the Mastodons for two years or so, with Lemmy eventually entering the mix. And then as Lemmy got more users and content, it took over as my preferred platform.

I’m more surprised that it even got offered there. There’s some legal hurdles to clear for selling in a new country, and I guess, one of their distribution platforms decided it was worth it.

I guess, the Vatican might not have a ton of laws, though…

Codeberg also does have Pages.

Still uses Git, but yeah.

I guess, the joke is that clipped toenails sometimes catapult off so far that they might as well have launched out of orbit. You won’t find them again either way…

Neat, thanks. 🙂

I have been thinking, with how closely inspired lots of Pokémon are from real animals, that you could probably come up with a collectible card game or such, using real animals.

I mean, maybe I’m just being an old person and kids wouldn’t find that cool, but I certainly felt at some point, that I would’ve spent my time better, if I had learned about biology rather than made-up Pokémon stats…

A few years ago, I worked in a warehouse and one of my coworkers wanted to call for a Dennis across the warehouse. She’s not a native speaker, so she didn’t know which syllable to emphasize, so she shouted “DENNIIIIIS”, which ended up sounding like “Denise”.

That is all. 🙃

Yeah, the formulation is a bit off here. With opt-out, you have no way to measure consent, because you can’t discern between people who actually consent and those who just haven’t opted out, for lack of knowledge or other reasons.

These societies have simply weighed up the two options and decided that saving lives is more important than leaving personal freedom intact at all costs.

Codeberg recently held a translation event where projects could sign up, if they wanted help. You can still look at their resources here, or I guess, you can just pick out a project and start translating over here: https://translate.codeberg.org/

Depending on your file manager, you may be able to hold Shift while triggering the delete to get a hard delete.

Shift+Del is pretty much standardized as the keyboard shortcut. And here on KDE, I can hold Shift while clicking the “Move to Trash” menu entry, too (well, it actually replaces the menu entry with one for permanent deletion, but that’s effectively the same).

It’s not getting updated anymore, unfortunately, but this is a cool webpage to get a feel for that: http://www.their.tube/

If you want it to just not recommend things, you might prefer switching to an RSS feed, or to something like NewPipe.

Problem is that none of the algorithms actually care about showing you things you like.

Ads try to sell you on things that you wouldn’t otherwise buy. Occasionally, they may just inform you about a good product that you simply didn’t know about, but there’s more money behind manipulating you into buying bad products, because it’s got a brand symbol.

And content recommendation algorithms don’t care about you either. They care about keeping you on the platform for longer, to look at more ads.
To some degree, that may mean showing you things you like. But it also means showing you things that aggravate you, that shock you. And the latter is considered more effective at keeping users engaged.