TheDoctor [they/them]

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  • Technology is great to discuss because it’s just logic and facts and objective arguments. But bring in politics and it becomes a mess and that’s the problem with this divide in the privacy community.

    Good post in general, but I disagree with this in particular. All technology is political. Not in a Democrat/Republican way but in a “how do we distribute resources within society?” way. Not to mention a big selling point for privacy tools is that they can be used by political dissidents. I think a problem does arise when a community manages to fool itself into believing it’s apolitical when what it’s really done is develop an orthodoxy to shut down political discussion.









  • TheDoctor [they/them]@hexbear.nettoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.mlDebugging
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    1 month ago

    I did both of these at once last week.

    Added a breakpoint. Debugger didn’t break.

    Added an echo "here";. Debugger didn’t print.

    Added a throw new Exception('fuck');. Debugger didn’t throw.

    Stepped through. Debugger wouldn’t let me step in.

    It took me almost an hour to realize it wasn’t the debugger’s fault and that a variable I thought was guaranteed to be truthy at that point was actually falsey due to upstream changes in a spreadsheet parser. I felt kind of stupid for not trusting the debugger at that point.