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- Comment on BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says 1 day ago:
No alt code, you hold… Actually, I’m not going to say that for the good of the world.
- Comment on Truly innovative feature for breaking it 1 day ago:
Go tell vegan communities about their effectiveness. Or free software ones. Go on.
- Comment on BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says 1 day ago:
- They did it right now which is well after the fact was established, on Lemmy out of all places where demographics obviously lean towards people that know this.
- It’s mostly transcriptions of physical books and academic papers rather than people who digitally use the right alt key.
- Comment on BioWare Was Asked to Remove LGBTQ Flag from Canceled Mass Effect Game, Report Says 1 day ago:
Em dash…
- Comment on Truly innovative feature for breaking it 2 days ago:
Apart from the fact that it’s shown folding in a way that would make the screen collide with the camera…
- Comment on Truly innovative feature for breaking it 2 days ago:
- Comment on LET'S ALL TAKE THE PANDA PLEDGE! 2 days ago:
Sure do hope no panda will have any hot opinions after this pledge…
- Comment on mfw shitposting 2 days ago:
smells the pixels
Doesn’t seem black to me.
- Comment on These gas station pills are getting sketchier 4 days ago:
Do these actually exist? Apart from the whole elder scrolls thing. Can’t remember the last time I was at a gas station, but for sure do remember that some had sausages and motor oil on sale right next to each other, sometimes random convenience store crap like fake flash drives too.
- Comment on Anon's friend gets exposed 4 days ago:
When someone gets outed as a pedophile on 4chan it’s usually OP who is the pedophile.
- Comment on Don't Wait! 5 days ago:
That damn Concurrent Versions System or something… IDK I am not American.
- Comment on Lemmy users 5 days ago:
Yup a shitpost for sure
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Sounds like it’s fine if it’s US internal politics for some reason
- Comment on Anons text isn't green but that's far from the worst. 5 days ago:
Yay reaction images
- Comment on They are evolving 1 week ago:
It’s like LG TVs asking you to accept…
What is like that?
I was making an simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/analogy with those two paragraphs.
I assume you mean products, not brands?
Both.
Elon Musk. Haven’t seen anything about him or any of his companies or products in Hack Club, besides his name on a sponsor list somewhere.
Can’t be bothered to find the source but he quit a while ago because someone on Xitter managed to convince him that HC is in relation to anti-Tesla protests. Which is false because they would never bite the feeding hands for this exact reason.
Actually, Hack Club has their own free alternative to GitHub
You mean, git.hackclub.app? hackclub.app is the community hosting platform, so let’s use that argument against you. Filtering by not forks, not mirrors, not templates (but including archived), there are 6 pages full of 20 items plus 4 more. I don’t know how to filter out 1 commit ones, but there are 12 repos named “test”. Total:
$ bc <<<"6*20+4-12" 112
Now, lets see the page for some old event, like highseas.hackclub.com . The “last time we did this” portion is talking about an even earlier event, “arcade”. It says “5000” high schoolers participated, implying at least one project per each AND rounded.
and GH Codespaces
Using software maintained by Microsoft, promoting an idea basically only Microsoft is doing. It’s absolutely pointless even on most Chromebooks. Nice try.
AMD: They donated 16 of their GPUs ig?
…and the whole build using the Ryzen® AI thing.
The Thiel fellowship, Shopify
The bare minimum promotion via logo.
MIT, Girls Who Code, Open Sauce
Also non-profits bringing their own politics here.
NASA
Gotta love promoting US nationalism. Also, “talking to astronauts” actually means “talking to someone who will have to talk to 40 more people with their stupid questions to afford food”.
- Comment on They are evolving 1 week ago:
The point is that you claimed that Zach promised something that he never promised.
Implied promise.
He’s not a CEO. He’s the founder.
Blunder: two things may be true at the same time. hackclub.com/team :
Zach Latta: Founder and Executive Director
Wikipedia:
Executive director is commonly the title of the chief executive officer (CEO) of a company, a nonprofit organization, government agency or international organization.
The title may also be used by a member of a board of directors for a corporation {where} the role is usually contrasted with a non-executive director who usually holds no executive, managerial role with the corporation, but purely an advisory role.
It’s clearly not the latter (get it? "latt"er, eh? hah, heh heh). Quinn Slack (unrelated to Slack) says CEO of “Amp”, an AI company, not of Hack Club.
He isn’t a billionaire with 15 homes.
Doesn’t have to be for it to be bad. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petite_bourgeoisie
Also, the non-profit is an asset, so he is a millionaire by definition.
one community member made
Also employee during work hours.
- Comment on They are evolving 1 week ago:
he did not promise to work
No CEO does any work of course, someone else does
As for the Claude counter, look at the leaderboard. That’s slightly more than a single person.
- Comment on They are evolving 1 week ago:
Until a business donates, yes. I will be skeptical of Lemmy the similar way I am of Linux. Someone may make yet another fork, although I could try one of the many existing ones. It’s not my first account anyway, so I am used to migrating.
- Comment on Port to starboard! 1 week ago:
reminds me of this
“Using a racing engine in the Zastava Yugo” video with a thumbnail showing a marine steering wheel
(for context I have this and it replaces video previews)
- Comment on They are evolving 1 week ago:
Erm, but ackhually, technically you don’t have to use Vercel or whatever, it’s just because that everyone does that
It’s like LG TVs asking you to accept a bunch of technically optional 300 page license agreements and putting the cursor on “accept”. Technically you may decide otherwise, but you need to already be aware of this beforehand, and most people who would knowingly buy a “smart” TV in the first place would not know.
Hack Club is putting big brands of their sponsors everywhere. You may (sometimes) use more free solutions, but you would need to know these beforehand. And the biggest point of Hack Club is education. Most would literally not know and assume those are the only options.
- Comment on They are evolving 1 week ago:
paywall
Interesting, loaded fine for me the other day. Although the paywall is gone if I just disable scripting. UBlock Origin has a button for that, it’s the
\</>. - Comment on They are evolving 1 week ago:
That OpenCollective page doesn’t list any corporations, it’s community funded. Biggest donation of all time is 2.8k freedoms. Nutomic is a bit of an asshole, yes, but Lemmy may continue without him regardless in case of anything.
- Comment on They are evolving 1 week ago:
Yes, I plan on moving to BSD. I don’t use Plasma anymore.
Talk a bit on Lemmy, join a few communities, engage in comments. There’s no algorithm which will only show you stuff you like. Come back in a month and see if your opinion changed.
- Comment on They are evolving 1 week ago:
Yes, and you are now using Slack. You know what Slack is. It is a paid product. You are now more likely to suggest or vote for opening a Slack workspace for a team. And a few dozen other people, too. You are now less likely to use your skills to work towards alternatives, something that Zach promised back in 2016, and also in 2025 when he promised to fork MatterMost.
- Comment on They are evolving 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure that’s the only time they’ve ever done that though
Wrong. Most website YSWSes expect you to use something like bun.js and write so in the manual. Most tutorials expect you to use GitHub. Most 3D printing expects you to use Bambu Labs (and I would need an example where a 3D printer was offered from another brand). This event literally tells you that you will get less if you don’t use sponsored tools, instead of outright saying no or expecting otherwise. And as you may already note, they are normalizing Claude and gamifying it.
benefits the industry as a whole
Diminishing effect.
- Comment on They are evolving 1 week ago:
Also, how are they advertising through Slack? I’m active on there and I haven’t seen that.
It is flying over your head that you are on Slack in the first place while you otherwise wouldn’t.
- Comment on They are evolving 1 week ago:
Do you have a spec of evidence for this supposed “circling money around”?
I recall there being an extremely specific Wikipedia article but I couldn’t find it, unfortunately, but it was political theory. Instead see: simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_capital
In general, there are a few greedy friends who own Microsoft, AMD and so on and so forth. Each worker in the chain does their thing, produces something, gets a paycheck (usually) smaller than the worth of what was produced and then all of the differences add up so that the people up top may buy another yacht. When they do that a similar thing happens but that’s not relevant. It may seem they only take a little, but together the difference is like 1 to 360. Imagine 1/360th of a pizza, like one metric degree of a circle.
Anyways, the stuff they have is called capital. They want more. One way to achieve that would be to have more people be aware of their products (because selling analytics…), so they look online (actually just hire someone who will hire someone else to look online but that’s not relevant) for ways to do that. They find a non-profit, then they offer to give a little bit of this amazing shiny capital but ONLY if they put up a logo or something. Cool, they now have some guarantee that people will see their “good” and use the stuff. Now, inside of the non-profit (ahem), they need themselves to advertise to fulfill some of the goals of the partnership. To do that, they buy themselves some symbolic capital in the form of the influencers. They go hi, I am person X, therefore you should like and subscribe. Nerds go cheering, and go to the non-profit, then see that and go to for-profit aiding them to make money, therefore making a circle. Meanwhile the influencers themselves end up using the stuff by the for-profit as well and make a circle themselves.
My bad if true on Jabrils. I did speak to him when I was bored, his take was that “well I was just asked to be there by open sauce lol, I will see though”, and he wasn’t there so I naively assumed it was related, but I guess not.
- Comment on They are evolving 1 week ago:
11 hour account hmmm…
Anyways, that is kind of the whole point of the sponsorship. Companies want AT MINIMUM a giant logo shining on some page if it looks like it’s for some cause (in this case kids education). Products related to sponsors are usually put up as prizes and/or have events built around them as constraint. Example quote from blueprint.hackclub.com/prototype :
Build your most amazing AI powered hardware gadget using:
- An AI PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI processor
- A Hugging Face Le Robot arm
- Any additional hardware you need to customize your project
and use it to solve a challenging problem
- Comment on We thought it could never get better than this 1 week ago:
It was expensive in most parts of the world, though.
- Comment on I'm tired 1 week ago:
Chances are, they didn’t write the text.
