I think “20 minutes ago” is a lot more useful than seeing the full date on every comment and having to do mental math. It does make it harder to see the precise date, but that’s a far less common use case, so the tradeoff goes towards making it more usable for the more common scenario. So I see that as the reason: it’s usually better. The full date is still available on hover, which seems reasonable to me.

I disagree with your premise that web developers “want to make it hard”, as that isn’t the motivation. The motivation is to make it easy to see when a comment was posted, which is far more useful as relative time. That it makes it harder to copy the full date is not the goal, but an unfortunate side-effect of the tooltip disappearing when you stop hovering over the relative time. Which I’m sure you could submit as an issue to the lemmy devs, because likely it just never came up, and isn’t some evil plot to “make it hard on purpose”.

Looking into git commits, the unselectable property was added by @dessalines@lemmy.ml, so maybe we can get an answer right from the source instead of guessing?

It’s interesting you say they “obscure it”, where in your example they went out of their way to make it possible to see the precise date and time when you hover over the relative time. They could easily not add the tooltip and yet they did.

Why is it not selectable? My guess is that most people would want to select the content of the comment but accidentally also select the time since it’s very close to it, so to make it easier to select just the content, they made the time unselectable. It’s a tradeoff but helps in more cases than it harms. Just a guess though.

It’s supposed to be outside the scale, like a fuel gauge before you start the car. Which I agree is not great, but I can see what they were going for.

Your answer to “how to harden SSH?” is “harden SSH”?

I know your two other points gave concrete suggestions, but it’s pretty funny you suggested to “harden sshd” when that is what OP is asking how to do.

Did anyone read the tweet? They are defending their decision not to change the name, because the change isn’t official. No, they haven’t “announced they will change the name”.

Yeah, you can logically conclude based on that that they will update it once it’s official, but the reporting is the opposite of what they said.

Remember, remember, the 5th of November

Since it’s end to end encrypted, Ente just sees some raw bytes, it has no way to tell if what you uploaded is an image or not. So in practice it supports whatever the client can display, so your browser for the web version.

You are right, not sure why I said “dark side”, I was thinking of craters that are in permanent shadow (a bunch of those on poles).

In space you need even more cooling, unless you put them on the dark side of the Moon or somehow keep maintaining an orbit that’s always in shadow.

You need to do that either way, cryonics has the goal of extending your life, not make you immortal, obviously. Even if somehow the tech works out, you are still going to die at some point, probably in a traffic accident.

According to the article police opened fire at the car because she refused to stop when they tried to pull the car over. Which is just as unacceptable (to my European mind it’s ridiculous police carry firearms), but contrary to the title there is no indication what she was wearing had anything to do with it. In fact the article says her windows were tinted so the police couldn’t know what she was wearing.

I guess he can ignore a court summons, but then he can never enter the UK again, which he might want to do at some point.