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Confirmed—only journalists would have the audacity to place spaces around an otherwise fine em-dash.

you mean the Nord Stream?

I would have little respect for a journalist who didn't know how to use an em-dash, so I don't think that proves anything. But I agree that there is a lack of coherent thought throughout, though that's something humans are also fully capable of.

But yeah, fully agree. Never mind that network connection speed is not really the relevant bottleneck for most office situations these days. If Germans are less productive due to technology it's because they still use freaking fax machines over there, not because employees are stuck with five year old smartphones.

It's all over the place. In the middle of the article they suddenly talk about how software updates, modularity and repairability is important so that old devices can be made to keep up with contemporary demands, blaming the fact that this is an issue on big tech.

Then again, other parts are completely nuts.

Germany's foreign policy towards Russia, approximately 2019. Colourized.

Vi trenger absolutt en ekte Europeisk nettleser. Jeg holder en knapp med Servo, som utvikles under Linux Foundation Europe.

https://servo.org/

Jeg begynner å tro det er mer realistisk å starte på nytt enn å redde FireFox. (Dette ser ut til å være konklusjonen i tråden på mamot.fr også)

I'd say it's a useful reminder for users and for developers alike.

For the users, make sure you throw a bit of money at open source projects you benefit from. I personally have a philosophy of spreading out recurring donations very thin: My liberapay is full of somewhat insignificant contributions. If even a relatively small share of people benefiting from open source software did the same we would be in a very different position. Currently 14 people support PieFed on LiberaPay, averaging at 0.8 USD per week. Personally I contribute by dragging down this average quite a bit. Do the same for projects you care about—think about how much you can give without it really affecting your financial status at all, and set up recurring donations of small amounts. Don't stop yourself from giving just because you feel like you couldn't contribute a meaningful amount: Organizations often stress that small recurring donations are as valuable if not more than larger one-time donations, as they value financial stability. Personally I cancelled my Dropbox subscription for a much cheaper one based on Nextcloud, and I save quite a bit of money every month that I'm trying to distribute to open source projects.

For developers, if money start trickling in, think about the project beyond yourself. Even if you're doing great now and you enjoy maintaining it, things can happen, and you will in all likelihood burn out at some point. Don't make the fact that you receive some financial support a stressful element that just adds to your burnout. Try to get other developers onboard, to set up structures so that you don't feel bad for taking a break, and try to delegate responsibility. It probably feels like a waste of time that could be better spent coding—which is what you're good at after all—but if your project has gotten to this point, it's probably worth doing.

My impression from some of the women in my life is that Linkedin becomes a whack-a-mole game of "creep or contact". You're kind of supposed to accept connections with people you don't know because of professional reasons, but many of them are weirdos, and being accomplished in the same field as yourself is far from a guarantee that they won't turn out to be gigantic creeeps.

Man. Fuck LinkedIn and whatever sociatal pressures that made people think it's even a remotely acceptale platform.

My work Microsoft account doesn't work at all with Thunderbird. With my previous employer it did, but now my only option has been webmail.

I really hope this fixes that. Haven't looked into it yet.

Ah shoot, I didn't catch that. Didn't know about the Linux Foundation Europe at all actually.

Linux Foundation Europe provides a neutral, trusted hub

I feel like it's too rare I see such direct responses from organizations realizing America is failing.

I'm not sure if Servo can really be considered European, given that it's under the Linux Foundation which has headquarters in California?

That said, I love following the project. I'm writing this post from Servo 0.0.2 on Fedora, and for a site like Piefed it really seems to be performing quite well.

Anyone who wants to toke it for a spin on Linux just needs to download the zip, unpack it, and double click the file named Servo. Make sure to enable experimental features by clicking the icon in the top right corner of the window.

What is this post?

It seems to be an RSS feed showing this post, which is then bridged back to the fediverse by web.brid.gy, which then posts itself back into the fediverse.

Could this create a recursive loop? Whatever is going on here it looks a bit messed up, but if this post itself makes it back to the RSS feed and then becomes bridged things get messy real quick.

@anewsocial@mastodon.social - this might be worth for you guys to be aware of, even though I guess the bridge is technically working as intended.

Bluesky hardly challenges the establishment as far as I can see, they're just more venture capitalists waiting to enshittify.

Task failed successfully, I guess.

What I hate about it is that this unwillingness to be in a position of power is so correlated with actually being suited for it.

I also recommend reading Eugen Rochko's own post about it, as Andy Piper linked to as well.

I love and hate how Eugen starts this whole project, leads it into being something truly unique and wonderful that directly challenges some of the most evil and wealthy people on the planet, sets up institutional guardrails to make sure it will not be corrupted by any one individual gone mad with power, gives away his position after 10 years once he's sure the organization is in good hands, and then concludes in reflection that he does not "have the right personality" for running a project like this.

I hope it has not been to hard for him, and that he'll look back at it all as a positive experience in spite of the negative interactions. I don't think any sane person has a personality that is "right" for the kind of abuse public figures receive on the internet. But from the perspective of Mastodon and the Fediverse, it seems pretty clear that he was exactly the right type of personality for the job—including by stepping down when the time felt right.

If you get banned from Lemmy.zip and you think it's unjust you're probably better off moving to another instance where you're more aligned with the moderators. :)

I guess you could always send them a PM and ask what's up, but the main idea here is that you find an instance with a moderation policy that suits you. Since karma doesn't really matter here there's not much value in having an old account anyway.

Yeah, moderators of a community can only ban you from that community, server admins can only ban you from their instances. The only ones with the power to ban you completely are the lemmy.zip admins.

There are some power tripping happening here as well, but you're a lot less vulnerable. Just don't be a jerk and you should be alright. :)

Karma points is not really meaningful here, so I'm not sure if there's a way to view it from Lemmy.

Expanding on question 1:

Yes. You signed up from Lemmy.zip, who have their own set of rules for what is appropriate (as linked by trashcan). If you break them you'll likely be kicked out.

Furthermore, the sites and communities you interact with can ban you from talking to them: If the admins on the site I'm on (piefed.social) find your content to be inappropriate, they can ban your content from reaching users over here. That wouldn't affect you as much as being banned by lemmy.zip - it would just keep you from interacting with users and communities hosted at piefed.social.

Moderators of individual communities can also ban you, if they find that you break the rules in their community. If you're banned from a community you cannot participate in it any more.

Last, users can block you if they don't want to see your posts.

There's less of the funky shadow banning that Reddit does here, where your posts are rendered invisible to anyone but yourself without you knowing. I don't think that can happen at all.