I’ve been wondering why not window.chrome == true or Boolean(window.chrome), but it turns out that the former doesn’t work and that == has essentially no use unless you remember some completely arbitrary rules, and that JS developers would complain that the latter is too long given the fact that I’ve seen javascript code using !0 for true and !1 for false, instead of just true and false because they can save 2 to 3 characters that way.

Why the double negation?

In my experience public toilets are so badly maintained that I’d rather avoid touching any porcelain besides that of the sink. That’s one of the main reasons I go for urinals. It’s also often the most direct way to achieve my objectives if my only goal is to urinate, unless there are other people in which case I hover around waiting for one urinal to become less crowded or just use a stall if it doesn’t look disgusting.

It’s literally 3:43 AM for me now. And I also had the intention going to bed early today

“We are raising prices because prices are being raised”

Maybe going outside but with another human to distract you could help?

I think someone once wrote a tampermonkey script that automatically hides lemmy posts that mention certain keywords.

Whenever I see such situations I’m glad I have created an account on hexbear after they federated, because I know they don’t tolerate this shit. All the ex-reditors on those instances tell each other scary campfire stories of the things hexbears did when they were federated with them (or as is the case .world, the things they could do if they were hypothetically federated), but as can be seen from the upvotes on that post, they are the people who would most benefit from being haunted by them for their takes.

Oh to see a medieval peasant’s face after reading them this headline.

People say he’s the greatest footballer of all time.

Is this a new lemmy feature? (the embedding of the news article)

It isn’t just a server thing. Discord can request a phone number from you if they think something unusual is happening. Trying to create an account while using tor will make them ask for a phone number, and they reject those numbers offered by shared number services.

Last I checked I could only share specific windows, not the whole screen. Later there was also an update with a window or screen selection dialogue that didn’t work at all, I think. After that I stopped using it on wayland.

I don’t see a reason to spell it phonetically when it is a real word (forge in esperanto). A phonetic spelling would also only be more digestible to readers who know the language the phonetic spelling is tailored at (phonetic spelling is language specific as different languages use different ways to represent different sounds).

ĝ is simply the english sound of the consonants in the following words: “john”, “gem”, “jar”. And j is pronounced as the y in “yes” and “yoink”

The diacritic would clear up confusion, because “g” without the diacritic has different sound (like the g in “gamma”, “girl”, “go” in english). The diacritic as a bonus would also makes it clear that it isn’t supposed to be pronounced it as if it were in english, because english does not use the ^ diacritic. It would also extinguish my annoyance at seeing a misspelled word being used as a trademark.

I hope that someday they decide to add the diacritic to clear up the confusion (Forĝejo (/forˈd͡ʒe.jo/) is how it’s supposed to be pronounced). It’s 2024, there’s no reason we should be afraid of non-ASCII characters.

just like how they moved from hexbear and grad to ml

Hexbear wasn’t even federated to begin with. It’s not like defederating from them made them move to lemmy.ml. lemmy.ml was always a leftist instance (though I feel like it has gotten somewhat poisoned towards the right with the reddit wave).

Huh. I must have mixed it up with another instance then

Note that .world has never been federated with them.

(actually they were for a short while, right after hexbear started federating with other instances (hexbear had until then been completely isolated from the rest of the fediverse as their fork of lemmy didn’t support federation). that was a very chaotic time though)

Those “idiots” are the developers of lemmy.

At least with hexbear you should be able to stop any further responses by stating within the comment that you wish to disengage from the conversation.

https://hexbear.net/code_of_conduct :

Any discussions may be opted out of by disengaging

However, do not add anything else as hexbear’s disengage rule only applies if you don’t use it to have the last word in the matter.

Also, while some hexbear posts may sometimes contain nudity (though I have never seen any pornography on there and it’s probably not even allowed), it should be labeled as such. Anything potentially triggering or unwanted should have content warnings in the title.