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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Will do. I dislike some of your CSS changes but we'll see what happens. I think they regress mobile, I can fix them in the responsive styles.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

If you want to walk some of my changes back that’s ok. The comment css does seem a little finicky. But the post expands code is good I think. We’re at least in the ballpark

[–]wizzwizz4 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

(cc /u/d3rr)

Documenting everything you touch is probably a good principle, if you plan for other people to help with the code long-term. I haven't been doing that because I don't have wiki access / wouldn't know where to document it, but if you want me to I can start.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

There's no way we can document all code changes. We have already made hundreds, it'd be like 4 pages of solid gibberish documentation by now. The code base can be diffed.

[–]wizzwizz4 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

No, I mean document the parts of the code – as in, what the code does. So, you could have a section "media" which has a brief summary of the client-side and server-side media handling systems; given that finding the code is probably the hardest part of #23 and other similar things, this would make similar changes in future significantly easier if such a page is filled in when that issue is resolved.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I see. Not a bad idea. You are welcome to start a wiki page for it, it a GitHub wiki page, or another markdown document in the repo itself.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Switzerland is still sounding pretty legit. I guess the takeaway from these is that you can still get searched/seized via a government warrant, but it happens much less frequently than in the US, and the Swiss are most likely more transparent about it?

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, that seems to be the case. Also in switzerland there are no "drag-net" operations where they scan millions of website and phones all at once, like the NSA is already known to do in the US. It seems in switzerland, every surveillance order MUST individually go through a court and be signed off by a judge, and there's no "batch orders" like there are in the US, where they sign off on thousands of requests at once. So there's just less surveillance in total, and the surveillance that does happen is much more documented. I think it's about the best that exists on planet earth right now.