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- Comment on The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices. 1 week ago:
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regex → regeges?
- Comment on The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices. 1 week ago:
is a dead suffix
sure, if you go with that attitude!
- Comment on The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices. 1 week ago:
Furthermore, it should be pronounced like it was a Greek philosopher.
- Comment on The plural of Kleenex should be Kleenices. 1 week ago:
Brands are nouns and can (and are) thus genericized.
- Comment on Best approach to selfhosting Synapse (Matrix)? 1 week ago:
Doesn’t synapse need like, a server cluster to run? The self-hostable service is supposed to be something owo, I think.
- Comment on conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued 1 week ago:
Hopefully no one is asking developers to be virtuous (even tho, to be fair, if we are going to be asking that we should also expect the code to be wholly bugs-free!), but how many times they actually “keep their beliefs to themselves and focus on technical issues in the project”? On whichever side. It’s just not a thing that can reasonably be avoided all the time between humans.
But the reality of these times is that behaviour outside the field of programming is representative and/or predictive of behaviour in the field of programming, when it comes to literally working with other people. And this is not only about the act of commiting changes or filing PRs, it’s about the why of programming and the ways of delivery as well. Someone who strongly associates with barbaric beliefs is less likely to want to spend their spare time working in peace for all, and more likely to be wanting to work on software that at least in some way carries or represents those beliefs, for example in capturing and using user data, or in aiding systems used by the military to kill children of “non-citizens”. So being “absolutely” uncaring does not really make sense.
- Comment on Self-hostable bookmark app Hoarder has been rebranded to Karakeep after a long trademark dispute 1 week ago:
Nah, I chose DDG and got a better result, but thanks!
- Comment on conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued 1 week ago:
Good olde Conversations for Android, as well as Monocles. Can’t speak for ios, I am not paid enough to touch that dev crap (literally – they expect you to pay to even touch their dev crap).
- Comment on conduwuit, “featureful fork of conduit” (Rust Matrix homeserver), is discontinued 1 week ago:
What does “empathy in communication” have to do with a software project?
Not having read Stein’s work, I can only mostly guess it’s related to the emphasis on the “communication” part as it applis to effective communication of duties, milestones, failure modes and reactions in a project. Torvalds’s tirades for example were awesome and most of the time well-deserved for the idiot trying to accidentally the kernel, but are quite more of a bummer and a momentum-killer when looked at at a project-wide scope.
I’m all for empathy, don’t get me wrong, but ideally software projects are more focused on technical correctness than feels
(Not) sorry to say, that age has long sailed. Remote teambuilding, capitalism and AI have made it that we now need to actually care and be watchful why or how something is being made to work, on the technical sense. Just look at the situation with Mozilla or Signal (offering systems that can be described as free, but are being offered so in a rather adversarial manner).
- Comment on Self-hostable bookmark app Hoarder has been rebranded to Karakeep after a long trademark dispute 1 week ago:
linkedin
Good try, but I don’t read MBA hallucinations or AI slop.
- Comment on Self-hostable bookmark app Hoarder has been rebranded to Karakeep after a long trademark dispute 1 week ago:
Is this even true or just a myth? From what I know, law doesn’t actually mandate people to be jerkasses. Also at least in sane countries, you can’t trademark words that are in the dictionary like “hoard” or “hoarder”, since by definition they have prior art.
- Comment on Would you use a self-hosted, AI-powered search engine for your favorite sites? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want AI slop from big corpo and you think I am gonna want AI slop that’s just as wasteful and harmful just because it’s “locally produced”? That’s Republican-ish crap line of thought.
- Comment on No matter how you write it, today's date is messing with my dyslexia 3 weeks ago:
Shout out to !iso8601@lemmy.sdf.org !
- Comment on Would there be any potential problem of hosting public and/or private (vpn) services in a school office? 3 weeks ago:
It seems they don’t care.
Then get that in writing.
- Comment on Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances - fiona fokus 4 weeks ago:
The entire point of the fediverse is to federate. Not federating by default kills discoverability and the potential for discoverability among other things
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
This pretty much. At some point one has to accept that the people who want to be saved can be saved, and those who don’t, can’t. We shouldn’t (reasonably or not) waste ourselves for the latter in spite of the former.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
Excuse me, Jabber / XMPP is about as old as I am!
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
XMPP / Jabber is better.
- Comment on [Discussion] What would it take to selfhost some of the backend that Tesla's connect to? 4 weeks ago:
Just sell the car to a derby demolition show. We all win.
- Comment on So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy? 1 month ago:
I think you’ve pretty much nailed it. KFC can’t ban you from buying a Burguer King that McDonalds is secondhand selling.
- Comment on So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy? 1 month ago:
This meme could have been an email!
- Comment on How To Migrate A Mastodon Account From One Server To Another 1 month ago:
It could be conditioned to revision. If you want to have your posts moved, they would be checked over by the moderation at server B.
But the fact that not even that is an option in the first place means this is a nonstarter for anyone who is interested in keeping the history of their presence.
- Comment on How do you keep track of vulnerabilities? 1 month ago:
Regarding things like dockers and flatpaks, I mostly “solve” it by only running official images, or at least images from the same dev as the program, where possible.
But also IMO there’s little to no reason to fear when using things like flatpaks. Most exploits one hears of nowadays are of the kind “your attacker needs to get a shell into your machine in the first place” or in some cases evn “your attacker needs to connect to an instance of a specific program you are running, with a specific config”, so if you apply any decent opsec that’s already a v high barrier of entry.
And speaking of Debian, that does bring to mind the one beef I have with their packaging system: that when installing a package it starts the related services by default, without even giving you time to configure them.
- Comment on LibreWolf team has joined Mastodon 1 month ago:
Yeah! They were so close to start fixing things!
- Comment on How do you keep track of vulnerabilities? 1 month ago:
I don’t.
Yeah, hot take, but basically there’s no point to me having to keep track of all that stuff and excessively worry about the dangers of modernity and sacrifice the spare time I have on watching update counter go brrrr of all things, when there’s entire peoples and agencies in charge of it.
I just run
unattended-upgrades(on Debian), pin container image tags to only the major version number where available, run rebuild of containers twice a week, and go enjoy the data and media I built the containers and installed for software for. - Comment on LibreWolf team has joined Mastodon 1 month ago:
Oh if only Proton could learn this power!
- Comment on How To Migrate A Mastodon Account From One Server To Another 1 month ago:
This sounds nice and all, but it’s 2025 and it still can’t migrate posts.
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic 1 month ago:
The screw-ups keep mounting like they want to be Google.
They (and we)'ve got to admit, the solution is not going to come from within their (managerial) ranks.
At this point I’d be happy to offer my services as a BDFL for Mozilla, at but a small fraction of the wages of any of their C-suites.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I don’t think mutual aid can work well like that on the internet. Works great in person,
That can be an incredibly privileged position to be in to say. Some people are in situations so bad in their meatspace life that “the random internet” is actually more trustworthy.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Careful! Might be a bobcat.