join south africa and (sorta) japan, use YYYY-MM-DD as a default - sorts well, zero ambiguity.. at least until some joker starts popularising YYYY-DD-MM, anyway

I don't agree with your dichotomy, but ignoring that for a second, saying "the punishment as bad or worse than the crime" makes it sound like you think someone losing their job is "as bad or worse" than genocide - maybe reconsider

correction: it was both! fedbook chat also supported xmpp at first, they never federated but you could at least use it with a jabber client. then when they had enough market share they killed it.

fun semi related fact is that, at least a couple of years ago, was using modified ejabberd (ie an xmpp server) as the backend - so arguably they helped with EEE too.

you might enjoy this https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/episode-101-the-false-universality-of-common-sense

I don't defend any war criminals. You could have saved yourself looking like a clown by taking a quick look at my comment history: https://lemmygrad.ml/u/triplenadir/view/Comments/sort/New/page/1

i hope nobody's trying to invite that war criminal onto the fediverse..

if you see a cookie popup, it's because the website operator decided to use third-party tracking cookies on their site; they could have easily spared their users the banner by using privacy-friendly analytics, or no analytics instead. blaming the EU for inconveniencing users with these warnings is doing free PR for the worst parts of the advertising industry.

dear comrades living and dead, please help give me the self control not to try arguing with all the "Lemmy is anti human rights" takes polluting the fediverse rn 🙏

in b4 the meta "redundant posts about redundant communities across the fediverse" 🙃

what do you mean? you only need to sign up on one, then you can follow and post in communities on any instance

"It runs Android 12 and will be supported for three years of monthly security updates"

so it'll be e-waste before 2027, roger that

YYYY-MM-DD? easily sortable and sidesteps the US/UK culture war about it 🙃