Mostly because Linux doesn’t get in my way and I don’t need to think about it.

Mind sharing your reasoning?

llama3.1 (8B) by Facebook:

>>> what does the I in LLM stand for?

In the context of natural language processing (NLP) and artificial 
intelligence, "LLM" typically stands for **L**arge **L**anguage **M**odel.

A Large Language Model is a type of machine learning model that has been 
trained on large datasets to understand and generate human-like language. 
These models are often used in applications such as text classification, 
sentiment analysis, question answering, and even chatbots like myself!

I'm glad you asked!

>>> but the I !!!!

In the specific case of an LLM being a Large **L**anguage **M**odel, the 
"LL" part doesn't explicitly mention the letter "I".

However, in the context of AI and ML models, there are other types of 
models that do involve the letter "I", such as:

* ILM: Image Language Model (combining computer vision with natural 
language processing)
* IMLM: Interpretable Machine Learning Model
* MLM: Masked Language Model (a specific type of LLM)

And then there's also...

* DALL-E, but that's a different story!

But in the case of the original LLM, it typically stands for Large 
**L**anguage **M**odel.

Usually something like this would be enforced once in a centralized location (in the data layer / domain model), rather than at every call site.

True. Although not every endpoint is the same, nor is every website or service.

This gets tricky because in many jurisdictions, you need to ensure that you don’t just delete the user, but also any data associated with the user

GDPR specifically mentions user identifiable data. I don’t know about others.

None of these require your account to “exist”.

It’s actually much more technical than theoretical. When you delete an account on a website, that is being kept for a little while longer, it merely has field in the database that gets updated. (often with a removal date as well for the automatic removal after x amount of days). This field needs to be checked everywhere the account is used. And account recovery is mostly a part where this is forgotten, or possibly not even wanted.

And to claim this as fact, I just realized that the website I work on allows recovering of banned accounts. (Removed accounts are completely removed though because we don’t need to retain any data).

This is the only valid reason. But even then this could be stated so that the user is fully aware.

Keeping the records for a little while longer is actually implied to be known. It’s in their privacy policy, and is legal.

Whether or not services should make this easier to know exactly what is happening I definitely agree. Personally I think post history without user identifiable data should also be removed, but this is even less common practice (and is why tools exist to delete all your reddit posts for example).

By the gods

Many services have a grace period. Mostly it’s 30-90 days where they keep your data, just in case somebody else decided to delete your account or you were drunk or something. But it could also be for legal reasons, like websites where you can post stuff for everybody to see, in case you post something highly illegal and the authorities need to find you. Another example is where a webshop is required to keep a copy of your data for their bookkeeping.

You mean mDNS/Zeroconf are using a tld that was already being used.