They could be upgrading hosting infrastructure - sometimes this requires servers to be shut down or restarted. They might also be applying database changes such as migrating data from one server to another, or updating the structure of the database to improve performance or support new features.

Honestly, there are quite a number of reasons for planned downtime.

Unplanned downtime is a different story. Usually that's because something unexpected went wrong and there will be engineers trying to get things back up and running ASAP.

They can still reject the proposal. Just because they're built upon Chromium, doesn't mean they need to utilise or retain every feature Google adds to it.

Agreed. News about X is not news about technology.

It really does, doesn't it!?

Do people even use Pinterest nowadays?

I'm always staggered by how regularly it appears at the top of search results.

Exactly. The fact that "disposable" vapes even exist is mind-boggling. And now they account for more than half of the electrical waste going to landfill. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Why do they even exist? Can't they be banned?

It's like buying a USB battery pack to recharge your phone - and then chucking it out after it's run out.

Screen and tmux are your friends in this situation. They can keep your vim session alive when your SSH connection drops, so you can reconnect and continue where you left off.

Asking for a friend, of course...

The decentralised nature of it makes that much harder. But also much less likely to be required.

For example, could you imagine a scenario where emails "go dark"? It'd require individual email services to go dark.

I've also found this post to be really helpful:

The growing list of subreddits going to be dark, but these are Lemmy or /kbin equivalents

In the UK it's a "builders' bum"

Is this really "world news"? 😕

I mean, what's new? We've known for years that companies are collecting our personal data online.

I do think Firefox gets a degraded experience on some websites.

For example, Google Meet supports virtual video backgrounds and 3D face filters for Chromium based browsers.

And Google Search serves up an older results page design with fewer features to Firefox users. Someone has literally had to create a Firefox addon to make it pretend to be Chrome so it gets the modern results page.

I realise these are both Google-owned websites - but I don't think it's accurate to say that the average user isn't going to come up across these differences.

Instructions unclear. My pasta is now decentralised.

Yep, I was just about to say this. The next release of Lemmy should remove this.

The pages auto-update using a technology called WebSockets. It's cool tech and very effective for some uses (e.g. chat apps) – but in this case the implementation causes stuff to jump around the page as it updates.

But as has already been said, WebSockets are being removed from 0.18.0. So that'll mean no more auto-updating page content / comments / notifications too.

I saw it mentioned here under the 'Call for testers' heading: https://lemmy.ml/post/1232795

Exactly this. In the same way I expect to be able to email the government, but I wouldn't expect to send them a message on Facebook Messenger.

Open platforms over walled gardens.

Hello 👋🏻 fellow AdGuard user here. This extension never gets much mention – people seem to prefer AdBlock and uBlock Origin for whatever reason – but I'm very happy with AdGuard and have used it for years now.

I don't have any issues reading articles online. I wonder if we're subscribed to different filter lists.

I believe there's a filter called "anti-adblocker" or something – I would suggest you enable that if you don't already have it enabled. My understanding is that it'll block scripts that check if you have an adblocker – resulting in fewer of those "please disable your adblocker" banners.

I kinda like that comments and notifications auto-appear 🤔

..but I agree that it's a bad user experience when stuff jumps around on the page when you're not expecting it

looking forward to finding a proper solution

To the contrary, I think you have a solution in search of a problem.

Your solution is smart contracts, and you're asking us if we agree that your cloud storage example would be a good use case for that solution.

I don’t like some background of Lemmy devs that I was reading about, but I’m still not sure what make of it…

@pound_heap@lemm.ee – out of interest, what have you read? 👀

I'd love to see some of the existing Reddit client apps pivot over to Lemmy.

I'm a long-time user of Reddit is Fun and would love to continue using it!