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This might help explain the spectacular launch of Threads

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Yeah this Threads issue is getting into the tin foil delusional territory now. Just as you said. They literally say "well use your Instagram acccount" of you bother to read their disclaimers they literally tell you that they are literally using your Instagram account. It's "Threads by Instagram". When you first log in it ll import all your Instagram contacts and you cna "follow" them. And if they don't have it yet it'll say "you'll follow as soon as they join threads" there is no "Shadow Threads account, because they are using the Instagram account.".

You can definitely be against threads and Meta. I Personally am not super thrilled about it. But there is way more than enough to hate a out meta and threads without making stuff up.

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Oracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To

This is hilarious considering one of the main reasons IBM is clamping down on RHEL is because they are literally taking RHEL, changed the stickers to "Oracle" and calls it a day to sell their own propietary shit. Of course they are against RedHat closing down RHEL, they need it to compile Oracle Linux.

I don't like what RedHat is doing (or IBM, however you want to see it) but cheering for Oracle on this particular issue is just wrong

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Lemmy is CEO-proof. After Digg, Reddit and Twitter, that term should be a thing

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Yes they do. This is why some FOSS goes to places like Apache, why there's a Python foundation, Spark has Databricks, Kafka Confluent and Trino Starburst.

The good thing about open source is that it allows everyone to contribute code to the base. The bad thing about open source is thay it allows everyone to contribute code to the base.

You need repo maintainers, developers that are constant contributor, code reviewers, people maintaining CI CD Pipelines, etc etc.

Yes it's less than having proprietary, but it's nowhere near "0".

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Lemmy is CEO-proof. After Digg, Reddit and Twitter, that term should be a thing

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That's a bit like saying "Yeah so we don't care what reddit does, because you can always go somewhere else"

It's the biggest instance, so it's where most of the community and content would be etc etc. Just like what happened with beehaw could happen to world as well. This is only true for a mature decentralized federated ecosystem with a lot of redundant communities so that if one goes down you can easily consume the same content from a different instence. Is that the case now? I would say no, so it's even less leader-proof.

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Does anyone have a good list of small, handheld, battery powered mini synths, grooveboxes, effects and other noise-makers?

Read the title and came in to say... "weeeeell you might be interested in a Dirtywave M8!!" then read the rest of your post :D

My .02 OP-Z it has a specific sound but it's great for sketchign ideas and the sequencer is pretty fun and can be pretty chaotic.

Norns seeems like it could be portable, but you would need a midi keyboard, powerbank etc. It can be pretty limiting by itself.

NTS-1 seems like a must buy if anything to have as an FX box but I don't have one.

Not mentioned but "fits the bill" of portable stuff is the Circuit Series. I have a Circuit Tracks and it doesn't get as much use as the M8, but it's pretty fun wiht the pads to come up with different loops and ideas

A pack of Kastl 1.5 + Kastl Drums might be fun to hook up together.

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Bitwig Studio 5: The Browser - Deep Dive

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I'm with you, the new browser is just , so different? collections was just there so I had my collections set up, now it opens in a default I rarely want, then I have to do multiple clicks to get where i want. The whole mixing presets with instruments in the same spot is really annoying and I think the only "upgrade" I can see is their packs browser which I rarely use.

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Oracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To

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If we're going about what's technically permitted, then RedHat is also permitted to change licence, close it down and stop any new versions from being open or free. All their development goes into the upstream so I don't even know what Oracle is trying to say here. Except "we want open access to RHEL, not just upstream sources like CentOS".

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Any M8 mates on here?

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But that's my point, what exactly is that "feature" USB-C is so important. I'm not trying to say you're wrong or anything like that I'm just curious about what make USB-C so important that it's a dealbreaker for you? Mostly in the hopes that I'm missing something and learn something new.

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20k users joined the last days ?

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Good to hear, saw the cloudflare error most of the day today and was worried because several small instances were being hit. Would it make sense to enable captcha and email verification to the signup process so you don't get hit by more bots?

Seems like some actors would like to slowly cultivate bot accounts on smaller instances that fly under the radard of bigger ones