It was my first Lemmy love.
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Han Solo - I think my eyes are getting better. Instead of a big dark blur, I see a big light blur.
Wood frog - There's everything to see. The forest is beautiful and rich and vibrant, bursting with life. I love it.
Han Solo - You're gonna die here you know.
Wood frog - Han, WTF? I thought we were having a moment.
Fair point. I also code useless silly things as a hobby, so I guess maybe I'm no one to talk. But I also don't have the skills to peak around the Linux Mint errors list and just give one or two a go, which, selfishly, benefits me as a Mint user.
Horse feet are so strange. Actually, horse fingers and toes. Most of what you can the horse "leg" is what would be your finger.
With a big beefy nail that looks like horror when born, and smashes and rubs into place in their first day.
If they don't give you nightmares, you don't understand how they work.
I feel the same way about Linux distros.
There's something like 500+ actively updated distros. 39% (according to some random article from 2020) are used by less than 0.1% of users.
Y'all... Spend that time and energy other open source projects that need the help!
All us babies here smoking cigars and betting on horses like some Fediverse Baby Herman army.
Uh...I mean 225 backup plans! Yeah.
And 2 to 5 backup plans.
Taylor Lorenz had a great interview with Eric Goldman on Power User about specifically why this literally accomplishes anything but protecting kids. It's just cramming a surveillance state into Web 2.0 platforms, and will likely have worse outcomes on kids overall.
Has it been so long since Hamilton came out that you kids forgot this was even a plot point there?
https://www.history.com/articles/how-did-the-american-revolution-influence-the-french-revolution
After a significant amount of:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/France_in_the_American_Revolutionary_War
French elites and non-Arisocrats got familiar with the American revolution enough to both see the post-Enlightenment period ideals as socially palatable, and also see that an internal conflict supported by an external power could be successful.
Expecting reciprocal aid from the Americans (womp womp), the French Revolution started, and the Americans stayed out of it because they still saw their support as from the Kingdom of France despite commonalities of both reasons and even people involved in the French Revolutionary side.
There's 2 separate universes here.
Devs and tech companies care only for UX, convenience, and reduced friction to use any service. They would put their granny's home address and SSN in the headers if it made a page load 10ms faster. Their incentives are all short-sighted to hit the next goal to outcompete other devs/companies and ship their end of history killer app that will solve all problems - and that will still get bloated and enshittified within 18 months.
Then there's us, a subset of rational people educated about how much data gets transmitted, who are horrified by the general state of being online, and are hard to impress when it comes to more than just saying "privacy!" when promoting anything at all.
IMO, we have to DIY and cobble together so much of our own protection, we're closer to artists that live a strange life that few people understand, seems weird from the outside, but we love for the peace of mind. Which is not enough to be any appreciable segment of the market to move the needle on any product worth real money.
I've modded some small but active enough to need real coverage subs on reddit. It's a real job. People are too weird to self-moderate.