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Lemmy cookie expiring and forgetting everything?
  • Thanks for looking into that, and for the reply - this would explain a lot.

    Coupled with mlmym issue 104, noting that those settings are always stored client-side in the cookie, it explains what I'm experiencing: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/issues/104

  • Lemmy cookie expiring and forgetting everything?

    Posted this to AskLemmy (https://lemmy.world/post/17088629), but thought it worth posting here:

    I use old.lemmy.world as my interface and I've noticed that roughly every month I'm:

    • Forcibly logged out and have to do the re-auth dance for no apparent reason.
    • Everything I've set in Settings is forgotten: Default Listing reverts to All, Default Post Sort reverts to Hot, and so on.

    My browser is set to retain cookies and such, so it's not PEBKAC/PICNIC. Why is Lemmy doing a nuke-from-low-orbit every month (roughly) despite me using it as recently as the day before? Why aren't my preferences being retained between logins?

    I suspect the recent update (https://mastodon.world/@LemmyWorld/112706805419064266) explains the latest event, but the questions still stand.

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    Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media
  • I once wished for this, especially back in the days when there were next to no laws regarding it, but there's zero chance as the money and attention has moved to it. There's political capital in demonising online discourse.

  • Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media
  • s/country/world/: FTFY

    "Think of the children" is somehow the gotcha for so many of the hard-of-thinking amongst us.

  • Lemmy cookie expiring and forgetting, well, everything?
  • Thanks, and for that Issue link. As you say, I expect it's just nuking the cookie and everything related to it just disappears.

    At least it's on someone's radar. :)


    Edit: I sent a message to support, as suggested by slazer2au, and got a response pointing out that 30 days seems to be hard-coded into mlmym: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/blob/a518844b005179623d0d7a31f45966cd8a6b8a96/routes.go#L794

    That and those settings all being stored client-side explains everything. Not sure why those choices were made, but now I know why.

  • People who still wear masks (and aren't immunocompromised)...
  • If I'm sick in public and don't know the cause (i.e. could be COVID), I'll wear a surgical mask. If I'm in an environment where COVID/similar may be likely from others, I'll wear an N95 mask.

    I have boxes of each, left over from the coronalypse, so it makes sense to me.

  • GOG Summer Sale has arrived
  • Staggering that Myst is at that price. Sure, it's great, but it was one of the first CDROM games and its gameplay reflects that.

  • What specific variety of some fruit do you prefer? (A particular apple, a certain mango, etc.)
  • Bananas. 30 minutes later it's "hello fibre and potassium, time to visit the loo!" But seriously, there are so many great fruits.

    Some from me: Blackberries are my hands-down favourite (and available everywhere in the wild in the UK autumn), raspberries, apples (so many varieties), navel oranges, mandarins, dragon fruit, watermelon, pears, rockmelon/cantaloupe, soft peaches (rare; most need a hammer and chisel), plums, damsons (in jam), and grapes.

  • Lemmy cookie expiring and forgetting, well, everything?

    Apologies if this has been asked before, but I didn't find mention of it. I use old.lemmy.world as my interface and I've noticed that roughly every month I'm:

    1. Forcibly logged out and have to do the re-auth dance for no apparent reason.
    2. Everything I've set in Settings is forgotten: Default Listing reverts to All, Default Post Sort reverts to Hot, and so on.

    My browser is set to retain cookies and such, so it's not PEBKAC/PICNIC. Why is Lemmy doing a nuke-from-low-orbit every month (roughly; haven't measured it) despite me using it as recently as the day before? Isn't this bonkers practice?

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    Edit: I've just seen https://mastodon.world/@LemmyWorld/112706805419064266 which may explain it. Either way, the questions stand.

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    Now that Mozilla will start selling ads what is the best Firefox alternative?
  • Most level-headed reaction to the issue I've seen to date. Thanks for saying it.

    If a company has had a decent record to date, I prefer to wait to see if they hang themselves with their own rope rather than rage quitting on insufficient information.

    They've done some questionable things in the past that can be explained by over-zealous PMs and such, so I'll wait to see how this plays out.

  • Webp Discourse
  • Linux users: People have problems with web(p|m)? Huh, TIL.

  • Pride wins!
  • An important question, usually conspicuous by their absence with confirmation bias-related posts. But in this case, the source is provided. You can check for yourself and let us know, if you have a Xitter account to see the replies.

    Unless Elmo's added yet another layer of enshittification. It's hard to keep up.

  • Google avoids jury trial by sending $2.3 million check to US government
  • “This is illegal!”

    Bung in the post

    “This is legal… for a fee!”

    If the punishment is a fine, it is targeted at those who can’t afford the brib—I mean fee.

  • NSFW
    Getting Lost Chapter working under Linux
  • I mean... what kind of person tells another that they're having fun the wrong way? 🤷🏻‍♂️

  • POPPY GAME INSULT TO OUR WAR DEAD [Ahoy on Amiga game Cannon Fodder]
  • Great video. (For those unaware, the video's title is just copying the one used by a UK newspaper when the game was released).

    Parallax was one of my favourite C64 games, and Sensible Soccer and Cannon Fodder were my favourite Amiga 500 games. Just amazing.

    Growing up outside the UK, I was completely unaware of the Daily Star's manufactroversy and the RBL's IP-related histrionics.

  • What happens when councils take control of buses?
  • Was just chatting about them recently with a a mate who lives in London. I've long held that PFI has almost universally sucked - over and over again - but Reading Buses are an (the?) exception.

    Listed off their initiatives, features and service and his mind was blown. Even with the changes north of the river to routes 22-24, it's still really good. It's a low bar, sure, but RB are doing something right.

  • Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running
  • The whole full circle thing aside, I’m delighted we’re still able to do this 🖕🏻 with the current protocols.

    My choices > your shareholders.

  • Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut - Launch Trailer | PC Games
  • As someone once said about director's cuts with films: they're a double-dip scam.

    If the cinema and home media releases were the same, they're just trying to make you buy the same thing twice by pretending that this is what the director really wanted it to be. The distributor really likes your credit card.

    Having said that, Taylor Swift has something like 28 versions of the same album out and her stans are going crazy for it, treating them like they're Pokemon.

    Whatever floats your boat. 🤷‍♂️ Don't let this old dude yuck your yum.

  • Americans using anything but the metric system
  • Same with me on the water. I grew up Australia.

    Since moving to the UK, I'm still trying to get used to medieval bollocks. Gimme analogies, because Stones used to be 1 Stone of wheat was a different weight to 1 Stone of, say, actual stones. Mental.

  • YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers
  • I definitely admire the integrity and the effort.

    But, economically speaking, you get what you incentivise for: if you can game the system and get the click/eyeball ratio, then they're going to do that.

  • Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app
  • Nice. But as a BitWarden user, it's useless to me. I've never put all my eggs in one account basket.

    Passwords on one service, MFA on another, email on yet another, etc.

  • What's the most fucked up movie you ever watched?
  • Saw that in the cinema and went into real (medical) physical shock at the kerb-stomping scene. I'd never thought of or seen that before. Holy crap, it shook me for hours after as I warmed up again, etc.