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A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world

Lord Wiggle @lemmy.world

2w ago

I pressed "Keep off"

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Errors are dystopian?
- The inability to disable a tracking feature due to an error is dystopian.
  
  Isn’t 500 a http error?
  Internal server error: A generic error message, given when an unexpected condition was encountered and no more specific message is suitable.
  A misconfigured server isn’t really dystopian.
  
  A temporary server error while trying to save settings to a server is not dystopian
  
  Nah

All the development time went into the option that requires the user to agree to more surveillance. Did they even attempt to do QA on the “disagree” option?
- 500 errors may be transient, possibly because the app isn’t connected to the network.
  It may well work fine a minute later or for someone else.
  
  Backend Dev here. 500 is an HTTP sever response, so requires a working connection to happen. If the app isn't connected to the network, in almost all cases, you would experience a different error, such as connection timed out, but not a 500.

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