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@BaardFigur My dude, I understand and celebrate the memes, but please understand that linux first time using is a sensitve period in people’s lives and the reach of modern social media means there is some x% of users who will have a bad time, because they saw that meme and took it seriously.

It’s a statistical guarantee.

@wgs I really hope you’re trolling. Don’t do that.

Yes, this is expected and means the regular safeties are working. Don’t turn those off please.

@wgs

Generally, don’t just copy paste things you find online.

Something else to be aware of and stay away from is “rm -rf /” which will delete everything on your computer, including your operating system. Naturally this will crash the computer and you will not be able to start it again.

(You should be able to boot from a usb stick though.)

@HKayn This may sound cold hearted and I swear I’m not:

There is no obligation for the world in general to pay someone for open source software. (right now)

Everyone should think long hard about writing software and donating time and effort because of this.

I don’t like this state of things, I would prefer some kind of “general usefulness” tax financed grant thing.

@ebits21 #PySimpleGUI #python #opensource

🎶 Another bites the dust. 🎶

Moves like this are a bit… strange? It was on github. There are 1.8k forks, with intact LGPL. What is happening here? Is their dev work worth 99$/year ? Not saying people don’t deserve to get paid for their work. I’m just not seeing the business case for this.

@bl4kers @floofloof I think it’s interesting that it’s just a 30 something dude.

The things he’s found aren’t super detective stuff either, he’s taken an interest, found a few pictures that look suspicious, looked some more and wrote about it. Something anyone can do.

I find that motivating.

Agreeing with @mister_monster here.

COVID was an information clusterfuck. Nobody knew anything, how it spread, what it does, which measures where effective.

I remember reading about it in December, January '19 and there was no way to know whether it was a real threat or no issue like birdflu.

Even if official info had been correct and timely, which it wasn’t, there was still enough misinformation around that you can’t blame people for picking up the wrong things.

@db2

@oshitwaddup @yogthos can’t find the source anymore but I saw a video that basically said “the closing of twitter was so chaotic you can claim whatever you want, they can’t check whether you are lying”

So if you are already on board with lying your resume… That? Former “senior backend engineer 5years”?

Obviously don’t put stuff they can just check, like claiming skills they can just test you for.

Also maybe not lead positions those people might be too famous.

@diamat this is only surprising if you approach #academia and #science with a positive bias instead of objectivity.

I have not seen an actually convincing quality control or publishing standard.

It’s all undocumented, learned behavior that gets approved or denied through unelected councils.

At least it’s not e.g. students or readers of papers who do the voting.

Not saying there aren’t good people doing good things. But the thing as a whole is incredibly and obviously shady.

@agelord

As in, where things are, why they are there and how it works as a holistic thing, isn’t being talked about.

Redesigns are graphic or graphic subsystems.

But nobody touches aspects of which settings make sense to put where, taking the education level of the user into account.

And there is no at least semi centralized group that organize that some setups actually work and are well explained. E.g. Sound, If you run into an issue there, good luck finding a support contact or manual.

@agelord

My main problem is that I have “legacy” games that don’t work on Linux as well as Linux ports and native Linux builds being worse than their Linux counterpart.

#limuxgaming has come a long way and I’m curious and excited to see where it goes, but ease of use simply doesn’t have parity. I want one click installs with identical performance.

The bigger issue with the #linuxdesktop in general is that no distro actually thinks about it as a product. 1/2

@peter @argentcorvid algorithms aren’t evil, the important part was always control over how it works.

The fediverse is in an excellent position to first recreate the problem of having too much and then someone will take one for the team and develop some easy to configure filter that weights things properly.

Give it 6 months…