Case in point

See I get that but I also feel like Lemmy in some ways has more hostile discourse. Too many people with incredibly entrenched opinions about something incredibly niche who then proceed to shout down anyone who doesn’t partake in that niche.

Like at least on Reddit the aggressive circlejerks tend to align with mainstream thought. Like you don’t have to point out things like Linux isn’t actually perfect and there are reasons Windows may be better in some circumstances or that invading a foreign country because of something they might hypothetically do is not a nice thing to do.

Yeah my only issue with WebOS is that it feels like it should have Chromecast built in but doesn’t.

There is an argument that tankies aren’t exactly ownership by the people.

Like you don’t look at the USSR and think "oh yeah the people really had ownership over their means of production*.

Ownership by the people implies the people have a say.

Would have been nice to have amended the headline to reflect the actual story.

Oh in our company the CTO still has cloud resistance… But at the same time also feels comfortable sharing sensitive documents over Skype, Outlook and Teams…

Yeah but compared to British plugs that have a bajillion safety features.

I mean we do, but blaming them doesn’t make Linux more viable for high end GPU applications.

American plugs terrify me.

I suspect it’s a case of they thought they were getting a good deal out of this when they signed the contract but didn’t realise how much Taylor was going to take the piss until it was too late. Likely when the contract expires it probably won’t be renewed.

And not just the instance admins would be at risk as well. Any time you view an image your device is making a local copy of it. Meaning every person who viewed the image even accidentally is at risk as well.

… I can think of one possibility - an instance known that lemmy.world recently defederated from.

And the command prompt uses the directory terminology anyway with the dir command.

Let’s be honest this is how it actually usually plays out:

1. Be a huge company

2. Make your employees sign an NDA

3. Make your code closed source

4. Use GPL code and not give a shit because you’re a huge company with a legal team bigger than your Dev team

The problem is it’s not that simple from a climate perspective. Solar and wind are great but are incredibly variable which is not good when you need a guaranteed baseline electricity production. There is no situation under which a large nation could reliably just use wind/solar to power the country. Currently nuclear is the only renewable, clean energy source that can produce a stable output.

Yeah I was going to say the reason there hasn’t been significant progress on a HIV virus isn’t because it isn’t possible but because for the longest time the bodies that could provide funding for the research thought HIV killing ‘the gays’ was a desirable outcome…

Firefox mobile used to have mobile add-ons but it was separate and naturally therefore more limited.

I believe this is part of the “don’t make the good the enemy of the perfect” thing. Because we’re not good in all ways it is assumed that everything we do is for evil. You see it even some of the responses to my post - that we’re only providing support because it fuels our military industry profits. And to be honest, that is probably true. But like it’s still doing the right thing, even if it’s for the wrong reasons.

Yeah it’s the one thing putting me off the platform. Like I’d describe myself as pretty hard left, and a pacifist. But Russia is a fascist state performing an unprovoked attack on a neighbouring nation. Just because many NATO nations have right wing problems (and tbh I feel a lot of people on the left haven’t heard the expression “don’t make the good the enemy of the perfect” - shit is bad in the West but it’s nothing compared to life in Russia) doesn’t undo that fact and Ukraine has the right to defend itself and it’s right that we support that.

The fact that some may consider NATO’s support to be hypocritical given the middle East doesn’t mean it’s wrong.

Yeah I feel like I live in a different world because I’ve never had windows force an update on me. And that’s not because I did anything special I just flipped the option of “let me choose when to install updates”. But then I do run update once a month anyway because likely they would have worked out the main bugs with the update within a month of it and it’s probably a good idea to patch security vulnerabilities.