People who say PHP is shit haven’t really used it and are just repeating the memes. It’s a perfectly fine language and there are a number of excellent tools and frameworks for it. It’s reputation is a result of it’s easy entry and widespread use. A whole lot of people who knew just enough to be dangerous made a whole lot of stuff, and it ended up causing a whole lot of problems. But for some reason devs shit on the language instead of shitting on the devs who put them in a mess.

Meh, whatever. Even if the fediverse were to never get any bigger, it’s still a win. This place is big enough to be stable and generate it’s own content and culture. All that matters is if you’re enjoying it here and actively trying to make it a better place.

Oh yes, I know, hence my final words “even in jest”.

Meanwhile a psychologist who isn’t independently wealthy can’t express controversial opinions without risking his livelihood

Oh fuck off with that. The opinion he expressed was, and I quote, (about child deaths) “it’s just poor children, and the world has too many people on it anyways”. A licensed medical professional should never say something like that, period, even in jest.

How do you prove someone in the central government didn’t take a bribe and tamper with the records? What if you’re from a country where the central government is less than stable? How would you prove ownership if something were to happen to that database? How do you prove that someone is who they say they are? How do citizens and businesses access that database? Is there a standardized format for it? Does it use some proprietary software built by the lowest bidder?

Not saying that blockchain has all the answers or that it is the right tool in all cases, but these are some of the problems it is trying to solve.

the film companies filed a motion to compel Reddit to respond to a subpoena demanding “basic account information including IP address registration and logs from 1/1/2016 to present, name, email address and other account registration information”

who the fuck fills that in on account registration anyways? do they even have a field for your name?

A Hat in Time!!! It’s like an old school n64 platformer, but so solid and well polished. Both my 11year old son and myself have 100s of hours in it

I don’t see how this is a particularly meaningful finding. Republicans hate Biden, and Democrats loathe Trump, so it’s unlikely ANYONE on either side would be hoping for a rematch.

What do you think is more likely to release before we all die? TESVI or The Winds of Winter?