There dies the last remaining reason to use Android.

No questions right now. Just wanted to say thank you for your hard work.

I know y'all catch a lot of shit and get hammered with requests/demands, so I wanted to let you know that your work is greatly appreciated.

Thanks for dedicating your time and energy to making a non-corporate, federated social environment possible.

Being on Lemmy has been a breath of fresh air.

if you've ever sent a nude, they probably can.

“This is a new Democratic party. We’re bringing a knife to a knife fight.”

He says, showing up for a gun fight

This isn't even new, just getting worse faster than it used to.

The 15+ electron apps on my devices would like a word with you. I think I dislike JS more as a user than a dev because at least Typescript exists now.

The pressure to compete with the Soviet Union on improving the quality of life vanished.

Sounds good in theory.

But I've had so many issues with D-Bus fucking shit up on my systems that I'd be very reluctant to hinge my only way of recovering from failures upon something so brittle.

Granted, D-Bus hasn't given me any trouble since moving to NixOS. The hell of trying to recover my arch systems from a perpetually failing D-Bus would make me very apprehensive to adopt this. I could see myself using run0 by default, but keeping sudo-rs or doas around with a much stricter configuration as a failsafe until the run0 + D-Bus + PolKit is absolutely stable and bulletproof.

The primaries that definitely happened and had a diverse range of positions on Palestine.

No they won't. My favorite projects aren't Google projects.

Notice these same people don't come out of the woodwork upon the mere utterance of "El Salvador" or "Bukele" like they do with "Venezuela" and "Maduro" even as Trump is deporting legal citizens to CECOT.

The words "dictatorship" and "authoritarianism" are clue words for followers of western publications to turn off their brains. They want to sort countries, parties, and leaders into neat little "good guys" and "bad guys" bins. These words allow them to do that with minimal effort, circumventing the need to understand the societies involved. Questioning that framing takes research effort and "sympathizing with authoritarians" so they never do it.

She's not intelligent

part of the problem if you ask me

Found their missing admin!

Soup is an absolute moron with a nuance fetish.

Every matter must be super complex because it hasn't been solved...failing to recognize not everyone wants the problem solved because they benefit from it not being solved. NUANCE!

Either that or they're a Zionist intentionally derailing conversion by finding new "parliamentarian says no" situations for why the genocide must continue.

Notice that they circumvented democratic decision-making between moderation teams to force subreddits open. 1/10 mods wants it open = open. Why would they not do the same here with users, whom they respect even less?

I suspect they will do one or more of the following:

• selectively honor results based on when the users of subreddits opt to open them.
• never open voting in subreddits where mods choose to open the subreddit
• set voting window to align more closely with timezones with demographics that will favor opening.
• use their powers from hosting the platform to fuck with results (i.e. voting only working from new reddit or official app, shadowbans, fucking with login/voting of anyone who has posted the word "lemmy", etc.)
• All of the above.

This should be a lesson on how corporations embrace democracy within a system that they ultimately control to let people believe they have some form of self-determination.

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This will kill the FOSS app ecosystem regardless. Android forks of any form should be abandoned. GrapheneOS can be a decent stopgap though.

If I had formal experience with Java & qBasic, I'd become an electrician too

him frying shirtless is a funny idea though

All of these bring me a sense of dread, each in a unique way.

Java I have a special loathing for, but the ecosystem isn't too wild, just verbose and so XML heavy.

JS is its own hell because of the sheer number of permutations of technologies a given project will use. There's always at least one nonstandard framework or tool lingering around from an old trend.

Python reimplemented the same dep management wheels 5x each, and I have no idea what common stacks look like anymore, but every time I encounter Python projects, something is always broken.

C is nice and easy from what I've used (just GCC & make), but idk what complexity arises in bigger projects.

Just so glad I'm not a webdev anymore and work with mostly just Rust, cargo, and containers.