And before that, where did people think money-grubbing, morally-bankrupt billionaires vacuuming up all their data was going to lead? This was all but inevitable, especially when, without outrage-based engagement algorithms there is no President Trump. These scumbags prop each other up. Don’t give them a dime or let them profit off your attention.

How does one keep their system secure with pirating? A large mkv of a new movie seems like an effective container to deliver a payload.

4 years later and I look down like I’m even higher up.

Yeah, but those with the competency to remove the bloat still get this look for not choosing the bloat-free option.

When I was at my lowest, in an intensive outpatient program, our homework was to go for a walk, outside in nature, for 20-30 minutes a day. Treat it as a must do. Like if the only thing I did was get outside and walk, that was a successful day. Try it for a few weeks. If you miss a day, just try to get out there the next day. It can help stabilize your mood and gives you time and space to process and develop a sense of direction (literal and metaphorical, of course).

I definitely miss the sense of community and building relationships that I had in forums. In particular, one forum I was on was a great size, diverse members with a shared interest, but we rarely spoke about the topic except to reference it. The off-topic section was where we spent all out time.

Lemmy/reddit feel more distant. I like it but it’s a different medium. There are people here I find so smart and funny, but interactions are akin to striking up a good convo while waiting in line at the store, wishing you were friends with them, but knowing you’ll probably never see them again.

It’s not like these platforms have been around that long. I hope one day a new platform/medium comes along that fills that need.

That or Giraffe Interchange Format

Every few updates my Pop_OS! suspend would break (sleep and not wake, or sleep and wake immediately). I could never figure it out beyond knowing NVIDIA was the source. Worked around it by swapping my graphics card to a comparable AMD card-- now my machine sleeps like a baby.

Can’t easily verify on mobile, but iirc last time I inspected the html that site had a google tracker and there’s a commented line acknowledging the irony and challenges you to fight them. I could have it mistaken with another, similar site, though.

Edit: Sorry for the misinformation. The site was https://motherfuckingwebsite.com/ which contained the html:

<!--  yes, I know...wanna fight about it?  -->
<script async="" src="//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js">

Bonus points for purchasing on bandcamp fridays (more money goes to the artists). Two left in 2025: Oct 3 and Dec 5.

Surely there’s an outlier. A record-breaking “oldest” dog older than-- Nope

My username comes from “pemptagonist,” the fifth most important character in a play (after protagonist, deuteragonist, etc). I thought it was funny, but maybe there’s something in that because I don’t trust my luck one bit.

Maybe, but if so, I bet it’s negligible. When it comes to discovery, there’s so many places I’d look for FOSS projects before going GH. Except maybe to check awesome-lists, but you don’t have to be on GH to be linked on one (and I’ve seen them popping up on Codeberg). GH’s design in general doesn’t seem to promote stumbling across new projects. Even if I’m wrong, one could always mirror on GH.

As for contributing, if someone is willing to go though the trouble to contribute, I’d hope they’d go through the trouble of signing up on a new platform. Maybe there’s a non-zero number of contributors who would not, and that’s an unacceptable for some projects. There’s also potential for more contributors if they trust a project is living FOSS principles and less at-risk of vender lock-in. The fosstodon thread shows people care about where a project lives. The arguments in favor of staying on GH seemed mostly inertia-based.

You’re right. I don’t mean to minimize the effort required. The effort required is a big part of the argument in favor of moving, or at least aspiring to move to a platform with more open and interoperable values. I can’t imagine MS will make that transition any easier as time goes on despite forgejo and others best efforts. I’ve no problem with an OSS projects using GH but I’d hope they’d take the risk more seriously in a discussion about it.

Edit: I also don’t think the effort is wasted or insurmountable. Regarding broken links, I’ve stumbled across many projects that have changed their GH repo to a mirror and link to their new platform. And RE logistical v philosophical reasons, I consider avoiding vender lock-in to be risk management and part of a project’s long-term logistics.

I agree, and I can forgive OSS projects still using it, but if they’re inviting a discussion about it I’d hope they’d be more sensitive that:

1. github is not static
2. being on a Microsoft platform carries a significant risk (embrace, extend, extinguish).
3. There are plenty of successful OSS hosted elsewhere and each one helps the whole system grow.

They seem to think github’s PR, CI, etc features are head-and-shoulders above the rest, and are hand-waving concerns around vender lock-in. They’re also saying it would be painful to move because of the aforementioned vendor features that have them locked in. Really seems to miss why many go FOSS in the first place.

I use and donate[d] to OrganicMaps. I think they’re great, but I paused donations around the CoMaps split and have been waiting for the dust to settle. Their responses in the fosstodon thread seem so tone def: They’re asking about github on a mastodon instance and responding that it’ll be a worse product if they move. Thinking it’s time I give CoMaps a shot. [edit: add 2nd link for context]

Barefoot, shirtless, through broken glass. Linux is one helluva drug.

Too smart for capitalism where cheap > efficient

It’s why a vast majority of buildings in the US are designed without the local climate in mind (ie using passive heating and cooling systems for that climate). They let HVAC handle making the same design hospitable for all regions. It’s the lowest cost design and build for the highest sale price. All energy and maintenance costs after sale are the consumer’s problem. Relevant podcast episode about how dumb our building designs are due to AC. It has some staggering figures i don’t remember offhand.

I do this, but now I have 10k+ bookmarks, fairly organized, but the bookmark manager is trash. It is slow and getting slower. Also, searching history feels like '90’s web search: hopeless if you don’t remember exact keywords.