Imagine the chaos that a strike on us-east-1 would cause. Failover management for all of AWS is centrally located in Virginia, redundancies would not activate.

A lot of commerce would come to a grinding halt. Many banks and credit exchanges would just stop working for weeks, to say nothing for the plethora of businesses who do not have redundant systems.

The right has figured out that they can keep queer kids (especially trans kids) in the closet if they don't let them learn what their "difference" actually is. It's "don't say gay" applied to the internet.

Lemmy is serving my former reddit needs quite well.

I felt the exact same way in pretty much the same timeline, and then burned out hard last year from trying to force myself to work when all the joy had already fled.

Personally, I think it’s a systemic problem with the industry as a whole, which has been made even worse by the rapid pivot towards LLMs. Somewhere around 2018 I realized that I don’t actually like writing software for other people any more. The projects no longer excite or challenge me, it’s just more of the same.

The drug keeps me from binge eating, which is huge, but if I take enough to actually lose weight then I have weekly bouts of food poisoning because the sugars in my gut start to ferment. An entire day sitting on the toilet while holding a bucket because it’s coming out both ends.

For messaging, I hadn’t put a much thought into it, but one could establish end to end encryption based on mutual validation signatures. Theoretically. Encryption isn’t my strong suit, but as long as the encoded body is unicode, it’s just as easy to transmit as any other text.

But, like, I also don’t know of any dating site that professes to be encrypting message contents.

ActivityPub even has the mechanics to facilitate it through publishing Person records. There is MASSIVE space for innovation, especially if you prioritize on non-monogamy, non-heterosexual, non-gender-conforming needs.

Dating apps are a REALLY hard space to get into, however. You need a cumulative mass of users in a given area before they’re useful, and monetizing it inevitably means making the app less useful. There’s a reason okcupid went to shit after it stopped being a non-profit.

And then there’s the moderation problem…

My brain broke last Friday, I couldn’t think about even the most basic programming concepts without a lot of struggle and developing a nasty headache. I’m now in the exact same place as OP, and just told HR today that I need to file for temporary disability.

I’m scared, I fear my career may have just come to a screeching halt.

I regret not listening to myself months ago.

I had a pet project for a while where I was extracting all the assets from Lineage 1 so I could try to recreate it.

Basically the server sends a multipart content type header, never sends a content size, and simply doesn’t terminate the connection, so the browser just waits patiently for more parts and renders them as they come. My team experimented with it a bit back in 2000 for doing what would eventually be termed JSONP Streaming. It was really cool tech, but we didn’t have a practical application for it.

The fact that both twins are autistic has nothing to do with it!

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