Yeah, and that’s sad and dumb as fuck.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure 15 minutes after this post OP was crawling barefoot in HVAC ducts.

No, a bêtise is when a kid spills her milk or breaks a toy.

In this context I think they use the word as an euphemism for cheating on your spouse, as that’s the defense of most of the accused: they thought it was a kink and that Gisèle Pelicot had given her consent.

The point is also to minimize potential damages caused by a bug in the software. Just this year there have been multiple data-destroying bugs in publicly released software. If the app runs as a server it’s usually trivial to have it run as a dedicated user, with just enough permissions to do its job.

It’s just good practice, even though the risks might be low why risk it at all?

For a couple of people I know, the answer would be: “This is obviously terrible, yes, but we need to preserve our traditional values at all costs, otherwise Muslim immigrants will replace us”.

Yeah, if a game needs online activation it doesn’t matter which medium you buy…

If they have interests in pharmaceutical companies or health insurance, they’d lose a lot. They’d have to stop price gouging and make a good profit like everywhere else, instead of criminally insane profits like in the US right now.

I don’t know, I’m far from being an expert but from what I’ve read immigrants have been sold a paradise and are under immense pressure to succeed because their whole family or even village pooled their resources together for the wonderboy to go to Europe and make it. When they call back home they don’t give bad news, they just say everything is great even if they spend their days begging under a bridge. And so the cycle repeats.

Anyways, it’s been this way for decades, if the free market had any influence on the human trafficking industry it would have kicked in by now…

Economics works there too, though. More passages means lower ticket prices, and at some point people will actually be able to demand “luxuries” like standing room, or else not use that guy.

Nah they already paid upfront, they’re scared and disoriented, and even if they knew of another smuggling outfit there’s no way they’re demanding anything. Smugglers beat or even kill their clients for the pettiest shit, to make an example and make sure everyone behaves.

“Donating boats” to human traffickers won’t fix anything, they already have the resources, they’re just scum who provide the absolute minimum without regard for human life.

If you want to help (and piss off the far-right) you can donate to sea rescue NGOs.

OK so this is most likely by design, impressive.

Does the timer “jump” to the correct time after you dismiss the window ? It’s also possible that they didn’t bother testing the app when logged out, and that the popup blocks the UI thread while it’s displayed. In short it could be bad coding and QA instead of intentional enshittification.

That’s because he planted a backdoor into GIT, and now he reviews your bad commits every night.

E-cigs are regulated in Europe, or more precisely e-liquids are, which is what determines the amount of nicotine rather than the device itself. Of course you can DIY liquids with stupid amounts of nicotine, but what you can buy off-the-shelf, including those terrible prefilled single-use e-cigs (which should be banned IMO) won’t deliver you more nicotine than regular cigarettes.

Pretty sure the French far right straight-up ripped off this conspiracy from the US alt-right. Same as the trans hysteria.

I guess it depends on your country, but he’s not obsessed with immigration and Islam so as far as French people are concerned he’s conservative but not far right.

Well he’s not really far right, but he sure is far-right compatible.

Even more hilarious is the amount of people who believed Macron when he said he wasn’t right wing.

Same as Windows and MacOS, really. You can follow best practices and conventions, or just install your software wherever you want.