No because they don't scream 🙀

I see folks mentioning going back to their dormant LFM accounts. The Metabrainz Foundation has a project ListenBrainz, a more open FOSS style version; if you're going to spin some scrobbling cycles maybe check it out:

https://listenbrainz.org/

(I stopped scrobbling years ago, privacy concerns)

He links it at the end, life imitating art: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817280

See here's the thing - to get the ability to downvote / flag articles, you have to say stuff in public enough times to get the 200 (400?) karma to unlock that. Well, how do you get that karma? You say the things that people on that site want to hear so they click upvote. Spot the curricular bias problem? It was intentionally designed this way.

Maintaining relationships with distant (geographic) friends. Everyone moves around going about their life, you slowly lose contact. Not intentional, "I'll text later" and so on and next thing you know it's been months or years.

The dichotomy here is you can't be famous hosting exploits on smaller forges. Gotta be on the big platforms where you can be starred and forked for social media cred to make news stories to impress your friends. IIRC I think HeartBleed (maybe ShellShock?) was the tip of this popularity iceberg...

GenX here, using the 80/20 rule 80% of my friend's marriages (probably higher %) have ended in divorce. Typically after kids are involved. :-/

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/footgun

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shoot_oneself_in_the_foot

My immediate thought: the paperwork system of the world would fail. Correcting an extremely unique misspelled name (let's say it's two letters transposed) falls into that weird bucket of "close enough typos" that the OP would never recover. I'd be worried most about the financial systems screwing me over.

IMHO, best to change to something clearly different so that the paperwork world is given a clear indication of intentional change. Broadcast the intent loud and clear to force systems to change and not ignore it as "some stupid typo." $0.02

edit: sorry replied to the wrong comment my bad, meant the parent

You're not going to like this answer - there's a bunch of different ways depending on the app(s) and the desktop environment. The Arch wiki goes over it in detail: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Default_applications

I would guess that focusing on the XDG spec and covering Gnome, KDE and Xfce (Xfce can be replaced with anything else like Cinnamon that comes with Mint, "non Gnome or KDE") is the best plan of attack for what matters to 80%+ of the population.

My best friend's band is objectively the best hardcore show you've never been to yet. :)

I have not tried/used it (yet?), but the kids are building Radicle for this very purpose. It gets a fair amount of techie coverage (blogs, comments, etc.) but sits in unique space compared to, say, Forgejo (classic self-hosted git).

So close! you have to do cat < foo.txt :-) (/s)

Feline leukemia (FeLV) snd aids (FIV) are a thing, I highly recommend a vet visit for tests before introducing to Paxton. A full blood test & vax shots, inspection can run $$, look around your area for rescue groups, call them and ask who they go to for care.

See here's the thing - the mascot and URL are serving their purpose to deter the software author's outsiders. They don't want your business, it is a social signal being sent and the reception from your coworker? - did it's job.

It's not entirely dystopian (just barely), we have newer messengers like SimpleX and DeltaChat (I/we use Delta) on the up and coming which deliver on all the same e2ee promises as Signal. It's just network effects as usual, getting people to try is the real hurdle.

What they share in common (mostly) is the architecture - they're built natively decentralized, utilizing caching relays with no single source of truth, or device of truth, to be used to create a profile of you like a phone number does. Encryption keys owned by the user and no single servers. Generally this is the Nostr design as well, so we have 3 different teams all focusing on the same natively decentralized architecture patterns.

Stars are just someone's bookmark (me included) because there's no simple "bookmark this because I'll forget in an hour and want to look at it later when I have time." If one trusts Stars, you're literally trusting a bookmark that I didn't put more than 2 seconds of thought into clicking because I have a bad memory. Many I know do the same.

I go straight to code history, show me what the commits look like. One can derive a lot about the project based on just the way the commit messages are written before looking at the code being changed. How the code is changed over time (process, communication, methods, etc.) adds more layers to the qualitative observation. I move on to Issues when I want to see how the devs interact with the users having problems, which is another story.

... "OK the hard way" or "I wasn't joking" hmm

100% - the game I play (Warframe) moved to hosting their own wiki, taking over from where it started on Fandom. Even with the entire gaming community trying to tell search engines that the new wiki is the source of truth, Google/Bing feed Fandom results. The Fandom wiki is "dead" compared to the real one and we use reddit/forums to tell people to not use Fandom.

My first thought when I saw this - "oh hey look, razzle dazzle clothes" which is my personal mental association of the famous scene in Stripes movie, with Dazzle Camouflage which I always thought was a neat idea.

In late May 2026 images appeared on social media showing Russian Ural and KAMAZ trucks painted in the classic dazzle camouflage. Supposedly the unusual paint scheme is to confuse Ukrainian drones controlled by artificial intelligence and disrupt their pattern recognition, and not to trick the human eye. Ukraine has experimented with AI for targeting as seen in Operation Spiderweb, and is conducting a deep strike campaign to disrupt Russian logistics.[72][73]

At the top of the Lemmy UI underneath your title is a row of option icons; the icon to the left of the last icon with the three vertical dots - looks like maybe the Copy icon, sorta - is the Crosspost option. Click it and follow your nose, the new community dropdown is at the bottom of that next screen.