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It grinds my gears that someone who can’t be fucked with capitalization has that much money and power. I get that using the shift key occasionally is an inconvenience but we do it to help the readers. A conversation is give and take.

Mozilla claimed that it was rarely used

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=578967

Finally a situation where the wrong number of fingers is better!

Looks like CMYK support is coming, if I read the release notes right. That has been a sticking point for a loong time.

Organic Maps was put back onto the Play Store the next day day: https://organicmaps.app/news/2024-08-18/good-news-organic-maps-appeared-again-in-the-google-play-store/

Pretty good discussion about this on Mastodon - https://friend.camp/@aparrish/113053044485254385

I quite like how *some* of the arms of the stars touch but not all. The older pentagram gives the impression that everything can connect to everything which has been hard to live up to.

But the ship has sailed and the pentagram has become well established.

Lemmy and Kbin both got money from Nlnet. Mastodon too, plus probably other fediverse projects.

What is the relationship between NGI and Nlnet?

When listing an app on the app store, there is a footgun to watch out for. One of the questions it asks is “Is this app made for children” or “is this app intended for children” or something like that. If you say “yes” to this then that triggers extra stringent evaluation criteria. Many people will accidentally choose yes for their app because it’s a general purpose app which anyone can use (no porn, violence, etc) but that is a mistake. The intent of that question is to find apps that are ONLY for children to use and to evaluate them differently in order to keep children safe.

Private messages would need to be end-to-end encrypted. No ActivityPub-based platform does this. I’ve been mulling over how to do it but haven’t landed on anything solid yet.

Signs-ups don’t have to be open, they can be closed or vetted - it’s just a config option that can be changed with a couple of clicks.

PieFed has polls. But it’d be helpful to take inspiration from Loomio and add much richer functionality here to turn a poll into a proper group decision-making tool.

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You’re looking for meaning where there is none. Fascism does not want to make sense, it very intentionally rejects reason and logic. To fascists, force and power is the only real politics. Few people really grasp how deep the nihilism of it is.

The chaos is an end in itself.

Fake Jehovah’s Witness

I’ve seen a vanload of tourists happily taking pictures of sheep on more than one occasion. New Zealand.

The faircode model assumes that contributions from random outside people are minor and that the bulk of the work is done by the founder(s). To the founders there is little actual benefit from being an open source project, anyway. I can understand the attraction of the model in that situation.

My ideal OSS project would be receiving a steady stream of contributions from a wide variety of people without an elite sub group that considers themselves to be “the authors”, which would be obviously unsuited to the faircode model. Sadly few projects achieve that and are largely the work of one person.

IMO it depends on the situation/project.

In the comments on the article people have debugged their cloudflare/caching configuration for them and told them what they’re doing wrong.

You might want to discuss this in one of the communities at https://ani.social.

You could use a VPN to obscure your IP address. Then with the VPN enabled, create an email account using a privacy-focused provider like Proton and use that email address to create a Lemmy / Mastodon account. Then post.

Perhaps you can get more technical advice in one of the privacy communities.

It’s not a black and white thing - some reliance on experts is of course necessary.

Google “appeal to authority fallacy”, there are many examples.