The article went out of its way to not mention Lemmy

If you're on nightly, you should have the relevant patches.

It was originally a strain, now it's just used to describe any super smelly indica with a high THC content.

I don't think so

Summary

According to the video, open source software is not necessarily as important for servers and IT in the modern world as it was in the past. This is because software updates are now delivered electronically over the internet, making it less important to have access to the source code. Additionally, companies typically pay for service agreements with software vendors, which means that the vendor will fix bugs and update the software for them. Even if a company has access to the source code, they may not have the expertise to fix the software themselves.

I believe this is a perfect example of what I believe is called the Dunning-Kruger effect. In the same way that I'm glad amateurs are given a platform, I rue the fact that amateurs are given a platform as a little bit of research would've prevented them making themselves look so stupid. "Servers don't need open source" with 97% of the top 100 servers running Linux looks like an odd position to take. Maybe they're trolling.

Sometimes ideas are ahead of their time.

You're not wrong. But remember that with the new law, third party apps can send and receive WhatsApp messages now.

I'm pretty sure the answer is yes

Couldn't we do that with x86?

How does it differ from Codeberg and Forgejo?

Framing libraries as cheat sheets is hilarious

People will pirate no matter what and for various reasons. That's fine. Gloating about it publicly is just weird to me though.

So Kaspersky are starting to make Linux viruses then?

Meh, just put your question and wrong answer in a meme and post it anywhere, within an hour everyone will correct it with the right answer 😂

Lemmy is growing. Not exploding, but showing steady growth. It's interesting because Lemmy tends to grow in sputters. The good thing is though, is that the growth is organic and after a bit of friction, we get new people that stick around.

Honestly, we should be paid for every CAPTCHA we complete. The amount of free labour big tech steals from us is astounding.

Nice

Google under Sundar Pichai is a terrible company that only succeeds based on its size and monopoly. Let's be honest, they're saying that search results will become secondary as they push their service. How do you, as a CEO and board, sign off on an idea that kills most of your (ad) revenue pursuing something that you haven't even figured out how to monetize? Make it make sense.

Congrats Dull. As someone that's been reading contributions from your first pull request, I can say it's well deserved.

That said, I would like to say that despite the issues with the ML administration, I feel the centralization of communities on WORLD is a far greater and thus more urgent issue for me.

A few of the bigger instances have been very open about the fact that they're anti-piracy, anti-porn, etc and removing this community is par for the course with such a stance.

What does that mean for the average user? It means there's more incentive to move to better instances. It's when instances have such a monopoly on users and communities that people should not only move, but advocate for other people moving to smaller instances.

Also a major benefit of not being federated by large instances is that there's less surface area for search engines and thus resources last longer.

Decentralization is good for everyone.

Besides Tor, I'm yet to see a Firefox fork that makes sense

Didn't we do this yesterday?

You start out by bemoaning the onboarding experience and then move on to portability and then speak up the idea servers should just be relays and browsers should be the new world order.

Yes, onboarding definitely needs to be improved.

Yes, portability can be improved. Lemmy falls short of Mastodon and not even Mastodon is perfect.

But, what mastodon does so is foster does do excellently is foster the idea that social media is a tool and that users shouldn't be overly attached. Also, perhaps if we learn to value servers, so not treat them as mere relays, perhaps we'll be able to teach value and independence.

The problem is, too many people keep trying to think, how can we make the Fediverse relevant in the modern world? And the better question is, how can we redefine the modern world? How can we normalize the idea of cooperative servers? Whether friends, towns, cities, etc. How can we make it so the people running the servers that host our communities are committed and engaged and not running them at a deficit? I would even go as far as to say that there should be government schemes to repurpose old computers into mini servers and that governments should give everyone a domain like NAME.TOWN.CITY and everyone can run a personal server and get used to it and then they can grow from there.

It's not about power tripping, it's about philosophy. When I left mainstream social media and decided upon the Fediverse, decentralization was very much at the top of the list. I was happy to be part of a world where one corporation wasn't in control of our lives. I'm just uncomfortable with the way that people are so eager to foster that in world. We shouldn't have to see them misbehave before we apply what we learned from previous mistakes.

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More info

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I'm caring, compassionate, empathetic and considerate. If that's ultra woke, then yeah, it's on purpose.

I've been screaming about this since I found out Re:CAPTCHA was using us to train AI. We should definitely be compensated.

You mean, like cable?

I remember trying to play with I2P back in the day and it being slow. Now I wouldn't even know how to access it. Is there something I can read or watch that can reintroduce me and teach me the basics?

Surprised people aren't moaning about systemd being too big already and still wanting to do more.

My favourite is the alt text support. I love seeing Lemmy being inclusive and accessible to all.

I'm surprised that Slack beat Discord to it.

But yeah, you're right. We need to invest our time, energy and support into self hosted solutions.

I'm sorry, but this sounds… you are aware you're asking people to run a social network just so you're not inconvenienced, right and why would the developer just relinquish control of their flagship to appease you?

I just don't understand how you got there ahead of finding another kbin instance, switching to mbin? Switching to Lemmy?

I think you're conflating a couple things here.

Firstly, the notion that Lemmings are xenophobic is false. While there's evidence to support this claim, on closer inspection you'll see the issue isn't about embracing new platforms, but the type of platforms. This attitude goes beyond the Threadiverse and is in fact one of the fundamental attitudes of the fediverse, as exhibited with corporate instances getting fediblocked on mastodon.

To suggest that everyone is petty because they're not embracing corporations is a giant stretch.

Counter to the outright lie that's being peddled here is the excitement about NodeBB and its ActivityPub implementation.

Secondly, people hate Facebook and rightfully so.

Thirdly, BlueSky is still a corporation who, doesn't implement ActivityPub and have built a platform that pretends to give people power while hoarding all the real power for themselves.

They recently just changed to stiff the artists even further.

https://www.nme.com/news/music/spotify-confirm-songs-now-need-at-least-1000-streams-to-earn-royalties-3546548

I can see in the comments that most people are in support of the tooter, but I think they come across extremely rude and arrogant.

The fact that a CEO took time out to try and engage and discuss this users fears and concerns should be applauded.

Regarding the overarching issue that AI is being folded into everything. How is anyone surprised? A few years ago, it was machine learning and now it's AI. There's a lot of very clever people doing clever things and shoehorning them into our lives in dumb ways. What does that mean for the average person? That they are forced to accept it or go elsewhere, because the reality is that if all competitors present AI summaries when you do a search, consumers expect that.

Hell, I expect my keyboard to know what I'm trying to say when I vaguely press along a single line and get upset when other keyboards can't do it. And if at any point, I felt empowered enough to write a scathing blog post, I'd have the decency to have a conversation about it. But that's just me.

Be better Lori!

So then he went back to Twitter? 😵‍💫