lemmesay

lemmesay, 8 months ago

I’ve come to the same terms.
other day I decided to open reddit.com and noticed that almost every other (re)post was from a bot. even the top comments were from bots.
since then I’ve added reddit to my growing blocklist.

I now spend more time on feeder, an RSS reader app.

lemmesay, 8 months ago

average keepass enjoyer

lemmesay, 8 months ago

or just sync the file using syncthing or plain old rsync?

lemmesay, 9 months ago

> chad GNU/Linux respecting my preferences.
> only updates when I do sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade.
> finishes updating kernel and 150 packages in less than 5 minutes whilst I’m merging a pr.
> I close computer when I’m done, unaware of updates.
> open it up next day and it starts like nothing happened.
> mfw I read this post

lemmesay, 9 months ago

tons of alternatives.
search engines with independent indexes(i.e., not beholden to any big search engine):

• mojeek
• brave search(semi independent)
• kagi(semi independent)

meta-search engines(gets results from other search engines):

• startpage(google)
• duckduckgo(bing)
• qwant(bing)
• swisscows(bing)
• metager(multiple sources)
• searx(ng)(multiple sources, configurable by user)

I’m still missing a ton but this should give you an idea.

for more, see this interactive graph, or this Wikipedia list which includes other niche types of search engines as well.

I personally use mojeek(because of their independent index) with duckduckgo as a fallback.

lemmesay, 8 months ago

didn’t know about the page. thanks! and good to see you on Lemmy.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

I meant billionaires for their actions and creations, and not by birth like most techbros are.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

when you put it that way, I realise how being so rich is anti to what most of these people are known for.

speaking of which, here’s a to-scale representation of how rich some people are.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

yeah, now I do see that.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

it’s alright mate. your rant helped me see things in a different light. so thank you.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

I have a question:
almost every single person that you know as a good guy may have a little but of an uncanny side. at which point does a person not remain an overall good person?

or do we take the person for who he/she is, and use(and learn from)his/her actions as an example, both good and bad ones?

I’m asking primarily because I don’t know an answer to it.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

I was thinking more along the lines of “if they had that much money, their projects could’ve received more impact.”
like if free software would become mainstream.

though now I realise that’s an idealistic view and with money, people will become corrupt.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

that’s a good point. if i get it right, you mean that since wealth is a resource, it should always be in the hands of those who are accountable(like the government)?

lemmesay, 9 months ago

I have an unfavourable view of gates despite his philanthropic actions. mainly because of his buying of large farmlands and his opposition to freely licence astra zeneca’s vaccine.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

I never heard the acronym before.
also, you could say that in case of Aaron Swatrz too.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

thanks for explaining

lemmesay, 9 months ago

I understand your point, but those weren’t the words he said. though I don’t think that’s going to make a difference.

I like RMS for what he did(and is doing) for the free software community. I can also talk about some uncanny things about Gandhi, but that doesn’t make his contribution to the independence movement and his views on nonviolence any less relevant.

to me, a person should be seen in his entirety. because only fictional characters are without flaws.

lemmesay, 9 months ago (edited 8 months ago)

you can read everything in great detail and with citations here if you have the bandwidth.

but I’m not sure if the commenter is mixing two unrelated accusations towards him.

stallman is known for his fixation on certain choice of words, which is the reason most people get him wrong. that’s why I shared the link to read his exact words and make up your mind by yourself.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

I agree with your point in spirit, but again, he didn’t say any such thing. I haven’t talked to him in person, so, I can only rely on internet to validate/refute those claims.

he is the public face of free software because others have their own terminologies(e.g.: open source championed by bruce perens and eric raymond), with which the GNU project disagrees.

lemmesay, 9 months ago

then the lore of Linyos Torvoltos would’ve been true :p

lemmesay, 9 months ago

case in point: Mitchell Baker, CEO of Mozilla corporation(the for profit arm of Mozilla organisation) got 7 million dollars of salary in 2022

lemmesay, 9 months ago

[conventional commits] (www.conventionalcommits.org/en/v1.0.0/) will save you.
or maybe commitizen if you’d like not to write them by hand.
and maybe commit and tag version, which will create changelogs for you of you follow semver

lemmesay, 9 months ago

i agree with your request. vim used to scare me first.

as a side note: one of the reasons I believe as to why vscode grew in popularity was due to it lowering the barrier to just open up the editor and use it right away(with plugin system and a nice GUI). it is something vim by default doesn’t do.