Not really a smart move on their part as that will lead to a lot of people marking them as spam. There are a few legit companies I’ve subscribed to and their messages end up in gmail spam because people use that instead of just unsubscribing.

I haven’t checked out the BIOS yet. The weird thing is it’s inconsistent… sometimes it sleeps perfectly, other times wakes immediately after shutting down. Just tested it now for instance and sort of like “hey mechanic my car makes this weird noise… oh uh, it’s not doing it now” it slept normally so there wasn’t anything to observe.

Cool, I’ll try that!

I’m sure their infrastructure includes various GOL software, like most tech/ecommerce companies. China is not known for caring much about copyright (or copyleft) and I doubt if they provide much information about that. I’m not sure why you think it would help indicate how much personal information they’re storing from people, and in any event, I think we can assume they at least store the same sort of info about customers and web visitors as sites like Amazon or Google.

Oh, I see what you mean. I thought you meant output HTML and templating vs server side logic, but yes, obviously I know the difference as the only front-end language is JavaScript and derivatives.

I’m more used to the terms ‘server-side’ and ‘client-side’ btw. Obviously PHP is server-side. But not all server-side is backend in my view. I consider backend to be application logic and things like database access. Templating can be done on the server or the client, and that’s front-end.

For the backend? Why? I could see PHP being better for the front end considering it’s basically a templating language already, and setting up Python on a webserver is much more complex, last I tried.

NO Sweden! Latvia? Forget it!

Wow, I’m surprised ChatGPT didn’t give viable plans for a nuclear reactor.

Is this the new “Millenialls killed!!” [something]?

I always called reddit anti-social media since it is anonymous by default, and few people choose to fully de-anonymize themselves. That’s one of my favorite aspects about this style of communication - while obviously some people still managed to get their ego involved, and that can happen even in brief throw-away interactions like 4chan, it’s not nearly as bad as facebook or twitter where online behavior and interactions are tied to ‘real world’ identities.