milicent_bystandr
@milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 6 hours ago:
Yes, but as pointed out elsewhere,
- it works out about 2% of your donation, if that
- the devs would be entitled to spend their salary on personal projects anyhow, it’s an effective salary not ngo funds
- .ml serves as a useful test server and public beta for the rest of Lemmy
- it’s effectively funding every instance, by providing the software - by that metric, the opposite .world gets the larger share
- because of the small scales, ordinarily there’s not a lot of sense to separate .ml funding because it’s so small. It’s not like the devs are being devious
To me, that stacks up fairly.
- Comment on Sorry I'm not sorry 19 hours ago:
Speedrunning the divorce here.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 2 days ago:
As Dessalines replied, your assertion of losing donations is wrong.
But yes indeed, their views, those of .ml, and how both handle them, are driving some donors away. You’re asking them to lay down their views, hide or change their opinions, separate from the vocal community on their server (noting that .world is just as vocal, self-righteous and self-assured), in order to develop the software that you use freely (well, that you might then donate to).
Honestly I feel that makes sense and nonsense at the same time. I can see it making sense in some circumstances; but personally I don’t think so in these. Maybe the rhetoric I see on .ml just doesn’t impact me the same as you?
But as an overarching argument that for the sake of Lemmy they should change… That just seems too much to ask, over the internet. Maybe to ask politely and accept a no. Maybe in person, one might argue and counsel strongly. But people are entitled to their opinions and the internet isn’t actually such a good place to change them.
So if the devs keep devving Lemmy, let them. They’re providing a good thing for us, and I hope more people donate.
As to the technical aspects, it just feels like an emotional outburst. FOSS projects’ maintenance is always hard, and there are always difficulties. We do our best. They are trying to. And if a community came along that loves Lemmy and wants to develop it, they could either contribute or fork. Perhaps their fork would last longer? Perhaps not. But for now this Lemmy is here, and is Free, so we are glad to use it.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 3 days ago:
I’d like to join my voice with those saying it’s worth donating even if you disagree with the devs personally. My impression is they’re decent about making Lemmy a tech project not a personal political platform, and treating the Internet respectfully as a forum.
The Lemmy software supports so many communities to communicate, including the huge lemmy.world that famously hates .ml. Because the software is open, it can do that freely.
You who hate capitalism, do you donate your ad data to capitalists so they can grow sickeningly rich off your use of their software? Then you might at least let these devs live comfortably off your use of the software. And if you pay in ways you see, instead of ways you don’t, does that trouble you so much?
You don’t have to agree. And you can still use Lemmy freely! But since this software has been such a blessing to us wanting a non-reddit platform, I hope many will be happy to bless the devs back - and they’re only asking for a modest salary.
- Comment on I have a shamefully dark question for firefighters. I'm sorry but I'm just too curious to not ask... It's about the smell and how that affects life. 5 days ago:
I assumed you were also meaning about getting to your nice steak some days later and getting a whiff of memory of the burning-to-death person, and being put off by the trauma from that.
The answers I’ve seen here (really good ones! Thank you guys!) don’t seem to address that directly, but it sounds from them like mostly if you work in that job you learn to push away the horror one way or another and get on with life, and steak-vs-man turns out not so different - even with, as you say, smell being particularly evocative of memories.
- Comment on Sugarcrete: An open access, eco-friendly and remarkably effective building material 1 week ago:
One day we will make gingerbread houses reality.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 week ago:
Then why are you here?
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 week ago:
If you’re still on Lemmy…
…you’re supporting the solution!
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 1 week ago:
I wanted to recommend go, but you said single player… there’s always Katago to play against.
I guarantee you’ll never truly ‘beat’ the game!
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 1 week ago:
Right. There’s so much we do automatically, behaviours we’ve picked up from our culture, or are condoned by our culture, that we don’t realise are discriminating.
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 1 week ago:
In the UK recently there was a ruling about the definition of “woman” as it relates to trans women. But no definition of “man”. Why!
I think that’s also largely because it’s women who feel vulnerable with men in their ‘intimate’/‘private’ places like bathrooms or sleeping spaces - not so much for men. So questions like, “will the prison rules make this person share a room with me on the basis of their self-identification as a woman” are more of a concern for women than for men.
And of course efforts aimed at elevating women in e.g. STEM. If you have a women’s tech group, or a women’s gaming group, giving special help to women because their gender puts them at a disadvantage, do you, should you, must you, include trans women? That’s going to come up about women not about men. Men’s groups of these days tend to be much less relevant.
I agree the ruling should have considered both genders equally though. Actually, does it not? Or was it just the discussion, not the actual ruling, that was all women-focused not men?
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 1 week ago:
Now as a man I struggle to notice when I’m getting special treatment. Even with my prior experience.
Thank you for sharing this. I’m usually in communities where - as far as I know - people treat women equally. (Or in different culture communities, so that’s a whole different area.) So I tend not to notice if there’s special treatment for men. This will remind me to be more aware.
- Comment on Annoyed ChatGPT users complain about bot’s relentlessly positive tone 2 weeks ago:
ChatGPT thinks everything is brilliant.
Awesome. Everything is awesome.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
Eldritch Monstrous Amalgamated Common Software
On a real note, though, it had a great Haskell mode I much miss now doing Julia in Vim. Being able to write code snippets in the editor then shunt them into the interpreter in the other pane is so good. Every now and again I tell myself I’ll learn EViL and check out Emacs again. And it still starts faster than some electron-based ide.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
Ah, the ecumenicalist.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
Like comparing Microsoft Office to Markdown.
ducks😶🌫️
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
+1 for Inkscape. I have no experience with the commercial competition but I’ve found Inkscape awesome, and used it for things it was probably never intended for.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
I’m also looking forward to trying Immich, but I’m slowed down because I decided I should learn podman and use that instead of docker!
I do a lot of photo organising myself with file structure and timestamp filenames, but it looks like I can have Immich see my ‘proper’ library of files, and for the family it’s hopefully a helpful tool.
Does anyone know how well the iPhone app works? I had problems with the next cloud app, which otherwise was great for connecting my general web of tech with an iPhone.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
… tja and Tja; are these your alt accounts?
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
Especially on mobile FOSS often makes a big difference to user experience cleanness, not just privacy/freedom that you’ll be glad for later.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for bringing this up. I almost thought to try Joplin again, from this post. But for me, having my files as files for me to use as I please etc, is too important. I guess the Joplin way works for some.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
Vi! Vi! Vi!
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 2 weeks ago:
Yes!!
Love Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection. I’ve enjoyed it for years; these days I use the hardest setting on the 6x6 towers puzzle when I can’t get to sleep: see if I can solve one or two without any intermediate notes (just fixing each actual tower number, and without trying out and going back) before my brain runs out and is ready to sleep.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 3 weeks ago:
I think if it comes to it they just flee, drowsily, with full bellies of honey - so they’ve got energy to fly and something left over to start the new hive.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 3 weeks ago:
1-2% is more than I’d have imagined!
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 3 weeks ago:
Nah-ah, that makes it a dinosaur!
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 3 weeks ago:
However, what I’ve heard from a beekeeper is that the smoke triggers a flight response in them (from fire) so they consume honey ready to flee, and that’s actual what makes them docile/drowsy.
- Comment on Bees don't have lungs. 3 weeks ago:
TIL
- Comment on It's a fun new game 3 weeks ago:
“And we will be sending your new credit car in the mail sometime next week, sir.”
“Sorry, do you mean, credit card?”
“I didn’t misspeak, sir. How big is your mailbox…”
- Comment on It's a fun new game 3 weeks ago:
The worst is it costs a $2.64 surcharge each time to open, and then the luggage asks you to tip it!