IMO, it would be better if every github issue had a corresponding Lemmy thread. Or if this thread were about awareness that github exists and issues should be mentioned there. Users could use their github account to thumb up the issue on github and make non-tech comments on lemmy. Otherwise, using your thread is quite difficult. Put yourself in a dev’s shoes:

• they have to be aware of the threads
• they have to deduplicate comments (many things are mentioned multiple times by different users)
• they cannot assign a status to anything (valid, invalid, pull request welcome, in process, done, …)

I believe there are a large number of feature requests on Lemmy’s GitHub page, making it difficult for developers to prioritize what’s truly important to users. I propose creating a periodic post on Lemmy asking users to list their complaints and suggestions.

Github has a way to mark things as important to users: users have to give the issues a thumbs up. No “+1”, no simple “this affects me too” comments, just a simple thumbs up on the issue. Then anybody can sort the issues by emotes.

Also, the amount of people complaining vs the amount of people actually willing to help is phenomenal. This is opensource software. You can contribute:

• money
• code
• documentation
• translations

How can we trust our eyes if what they see isn’t real?

It’s a two-edged sword: yes, you’re probably doing great work, but on the other hand it might come off as annoying and give science a bad name.

I wouldn’t mind some random knock on my door once a week or so by someone who wants to sit down and teach me some random scientific principle or spit out fast facts. One would have to watch out for false priests though. “did you know that vaccines are nanobots injected to support Bill Gates?” or something.

Trump will still be able to pay his debts, right?

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It’s probably legal, but very dumb thing to do if you want to keep investors on board. It should be up to the investors to demand that money back.

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It would’ve been great if the new, Indian, TikTok alternatives had been federated. They could’ve all built up a network together. I wonder why they didn’t do it. Money? Greed? Ignorance?

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I know next to nothing about it, but isn’t it created and owned by the dude who created twitter? I don’t trust it one bit. There must be some trap somewhere.
Only one entity develops bluesky. AP has many implementations and room to grow. My expectation is that there’s a plan to make a change to the protocol once they have enough marketshare that will make it much less open.

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But but but… they’re USAian and thus better than foreign services that do the same. Also, they are “job providers” so we can’t fine them too harshly

US justice system probably.

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I remember reading about a bus network in Germany going full hydrogen - without anywhere to refuel. By the time they had the refueling stations (within a year), they had signed a new contract to get a new fleet of diesel busses, which arrived after the refueling stations were built. So they had 2 fleets of busses to use and guess which one they retired…

Hopefully, this doesn’t go the same way.

Edit: now that I’m done with the article, wow. This is awesome. Pity it’s proprietary (aka no opensource), but really great nonetheless. If this were hydrogen it would be even more amazing for the island.

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We live in a messed up world. Research regardless of whether it’s successful or not should be making researchers some of the most highly paid citizens of our society. Documenting how things don’t work should be as valued as documenting how things do work.

Labtechs shouldn’t be making the equivalent of Mc Donalds workers (even though Mc Donalds workers should also be paid more).

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TIL

Wow, this is actually published. I thought it was a joke. Journals like these should not be respected. What a joke

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This is a conference with mandatory presence! So what if it’s a climate conference? We’re not in a pandemic anymore. Grow up! /s

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Who knew scientists could be this funny?

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This is the OS and infrastructure our governments use and are connected to 24/7. They have the keys to all our data and for some reason that’s fine.

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Unfortunately, I don’t think it’ll do anybody but hackers much good. Nobody’s going to write a windows clone and copied source code found in a code base is just a ticking legal time bomb. Fat chance of anybody dumb enough to do that. Hackers however will enjoy finding exploits.

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I don’t agree with the tone of the Lemmy devs, but they are right: it’s opensource being worked on mostly in the free time of people. Do not treat the devs like they are paid to do your bidding, because they aren’t. If you donated and have expectations, you don’t understand the meaning of a donation.

Imagine if the author had a woodworking workshop on their compound where they made things out of wood; figurines, furniture, tools, sculptures, and so on. Say they opened it up to the public so that guests could have a look, play around, spend some free time there, and maybe even use the equipment there. But then guest started demanding the author buy newer equipment, make sculptures more to the guest’s liking, made the workshop more accessible to invalids, put up the national flag, play the radio, and a host of other things. All the while not footing the bill for anything, not helping clean up, not volunteering to help in any fashion.
Then the author refused and invited the guests to help. But instead, the guests went off and made a blog saying the author was selfish, cold, self-centered, egoistic, rude, and what not.

This is what the author of this article and people in that github discussion come over as. If those people came into my workshop and told me how to do things without helping out in any way, I’d rightfully tell them to fuck right off.

Articles like these that are practically demanding change will not and do not improve the dialogue. They are actually bad for opensource as a whole because they give people who don’t understand opensource the feeling that they have the right to complain, the right to demand, the right to expect, the right to be entitled to an opinion and an outcome.

That’s a thumbs down from me dawg.

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Quite ironic.

Not sure why, but peertube with lemmy is still quite broken. I can’t see a single video of any of the channels you posted.

https://programming.dev/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com kinda kinda worked, but it doesn’t show any videos younger than a month. Additionally, not a single video has comments on lemmy, but posting comments works.

Probably the lemmy team has more important stuff to do right now.