black0ut@pawb.social is right, you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Open-source software development can be very slow sometimes. It’s not about speed, it’s about expertise. Like I said previously, they likely hold a day job besides developing Lemmy.

I’ve been in the open-source scene for about a decade, it takes a LOT of developers or a corporate sponsor to do any work long-time. Products live and die because volunteers run out of time and / or interest.

Again, I invite you to fork Lemmy yourself and maintain it faster than the original devs could. Put your money where your mouth is.

Fork it, it’s free.

I’d love to see you try to maintain the codebase. That’s not free.

OP doesn’t like the devs’ political opinion. I, too, hate tankies, but their work is not less valuable due to their opinion and they are allowed to seek monetary donations to help them do further work in the future.

This is very standard in the open-source world. No matter what you may think of the developers’ personal opinions, their work is valuable.

Also, asking for donations is not “profiting off of us(sic)”, nor is it a salary, it’s just a text prompt hoping you’ll give the devs a kickback for their contribution. You can just ignore it and go about your day.

They likely don’t make enough to live off of from those donations.

Correct, thank you!

That’s awesome, thanks The Onion!

It’s the “cyanide” part of “C&H”

Stop using services that don’t care about their users for

fuck

's sake

vorewhat?

Absolutely, they get shafted the most.

Yes precisely, and merchants increase their prices to account for those unknown processing fees since it varies wildly from card to card.

If you carry a balance, you will pay interest, hence reducing the value of your rewards.

Those benefits are usually your own money + the money of those who fail to make payments since merchants have to increase their prices to compensate for credit card fees.

They indirectly steal from you, launder the funds and present it back to you as a “benefit”, but only if you’ve been a good boy.

This is a similar principle to modern loyalty programs. In exchange for your personal information and your eyes (advertising), you get to pay slightly above the regular price and accumulate ✨points✨ while other schmos get a jacked up price that pays for your points (or the value of your points is built into the price of the items you purchase).

This legit looks so much better than the other AI slop, despite the lack of pixels.

/s?

I apologize for the attack, I just felt the 8 hour delay was unfair, I was intending to do research and get back to you, which I can’t really do during my workday.

Here’s another example:

This one’s from SharePoint, my previous picture was from Planner.

Nah, it has AI artifacting all over it. The UI designers would have had to be deliberate about it, this is just Microsoft eating their own dog food.

Yeah, that’s called having a life, you should get one.

Microsoft hasn’t said anything one way or another, but AI generated icons are pretty easy to spot by their artifacts. The shadows are messed up and the gradients are wonky, I use Microsoft products every day and they changed the splash icons in a bunch of their products to this mess.

Here’s another one:

The design language is all over the place, elements bleed into each other and the resulting design is nonsensical.

Off-topic, I really hate the new AI generated icons Microsoft is using.

Yeah it’s a first for me as well

He’s been saying this for months at this point, and it was part of Project 2025, which he seems to be following like a computer runs code.