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And I specifically thank you for it. I didn’t know there was a meta reference going on. Upvoted @[email protected] for excellent joke craft on account of it
Six sided devops engineer and baseball fan
I am also @[email protected], but this is my primary and more active account. The slrpnk.net account is for ecology and lemmy.world stuff
https://keyoxide.org/BAF9ACFBBA5B9A51A680D77CEF152DAE039C5CF5
And I specifically thank you for it. I didn’t know there was a meta reference going on. Upvoted @[email protected] for excellent joke craft on account of it
Programming is a form of communication. When you develop a piece of software, it will intrinsically be biased to boost the kinds of messages you believe in. This is both because you as a person think about problems a certain way, and because the code you write is meant to convey to others how you were thinking about the problem you were trying to solve. Who heads projects and how they communicate with their community matters to what the product produced will become, not just because of how the leads will think about the problem, but also because people who don’t get along with them won’t wind up contributing. Beehaw requested moderation tools that the lead lemmy Devs didn’t view as valuable. The result is beehaw, reasonably, gave up on getting PRs merged and issues tracked in the issue tracker, instead choosing to look at Sublinks which was explicitly started in response to Lemmy’s devs not behaving well with their own development community.
And for anyone saying Sublinks is splintering the Lemmy Dev community, no, lemmy’s devs did that themselves
Letting fascists loose on github doesn’t make open source software more appealing. Look at how much worse twitter is to be on after relaxing the moderation standards. Now imagine that for open source. We need to make sure open source is approachable to everyone and that means being careful with our language and not being dismissive when someone opens a PR to make the language more approachable to all
Less hardware support than Linux without enough substantially better about it to make it anyone’s clear preference. Which isn’t to say it doesn’t have advantages over Linux. Just that the average BSD user is going to be able to easily swallow their pride and run Linux if things went wrong with a BSD install (trust me, I’ve literally done this, these people do exist)
By whom is by google. How I don’t know how to answer
Why are you doing all project management in Discord?
If someone’s downloading a github repo as a zip I’d consider that a sign they’re not familiar with github lol
Didn’t see any mention of dungeon crawl stone soup so I’m adding it here
I’m sure that if I make a folk replacing the flag with nyancat, [email protected] won’t come to tell me that I should change the license and make warnings to those who report it, but to delete worthless nonsense.
This is the only strawman argument I’ve seen in this thread
Mate. You’re the one who says this open source app isn’t relevant to a community discussing open source software. The burden of proof is on you to prove its not relevant. If anything this project is as core to open source as it gets. This person wanted to explore a part of their computer system, picked a target for how to make something happen, did it, and then shared it.
Concluding that you’re a homophobe isn’t based on ad hominem attacks or straw man arguments. Its based on that you have NOTHING substantial to say that this doesn’t belong so the rest of us have to figure out what the hangup is and the only thing we can figure out is that its controversial because its about LGBTQIA+ pride and you don’t like that. We’d love to reach a different conclusion but you haven’t given us a lot to work with
Sure thing. Just remember its better to do things you want to do rather than waiting for things to be perfect. Lord knows its something I need reminded of sometimes
Kinda seems like that’s everyone who has a hangup on this’ REAL hangup, doesn’t it
How is this not relevant to open source ideology?
I wasn’t joking. That shit hurts me deep. It shows a lack of understanding of my struggles that I really don’t try to hide. I forget things, always. They’re not lies. They’re not things that don’t matter to me. Its everything all the time
Nothing wounds me more than people saying if I cared I’d remember
Okay but does seeing the blender after the honeymoon period fill you with guilt about your lack of discipline to stick to something?
Which is a form of capital. Our politicians use that power for monetary profit. That shits just intrinsic to building an entire system with capitalism at it’s heart like we been doing since the late 60s
People miss that Adam Smith in his writing was arguing in favor of small enterprise and in favor of the government busting up monopolies
No one wants to ban technology outright. What we’re saying is that the big LLMs are actively harmful to us, humanity. This is not fear mongering. This is just what’s happening. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta are stealing from humanity at large and setting the planet on fire to do it. For years they told us stealing intellectual property on an individual level was a harmful form of theft. Now they’re doing the same kind of theft bit its different now because it benefits them instead of us.
What we are arguing is that this is bad. Its especially extra bad because with the death of big search a piece of critical infrastructure to the internet as we know it is now just simply broken. The open source wonks you celebrate are working on fixing this. But just because someone criticizes big tech does not mean they criticize all tech. The truth is the FAANG companies plus OpenAI and Microsoft are killing our planet for it to only benefit their biggest shareholders