xantoxis

@xantoxis@lemmy.world

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

xantoxis,

well, 23 years ago this graph would have had windows 2000 WAY in the lead.

xantoxis,

This is incorrect. It’s true that most (in fact, I would say almost all) forks go nowhere but that doesn’t mean forking isn’t incredibly valuable. Even the example you cite, “original project is dead” isn’t just incidentally useful, it’s critical to open source. Other examples include:

  • project’s core team is part of a for profit org that is moving the project in a bad, profit motivated direction:
  • project’s leader suddenly and dramatically loses respect (maybe he killed his wife or something);
  • project’s leader dies without leaving a digital will regarding who controls the core repo;
  • project continues to direct effort into features while falling to address major security concerns;
  • project is healthy and useful in every way but there is an important use case not being addressed, and the fork would address it.

Even if 99% of forks fail, that’s irrelevant because 99% of original projects fail in the same ways. Forks are critical to open source.

xantoxis, (edited )

Why is this forbes article written like the author’s brother-in-law suggested lava as a cure for covid and he rolled his eyes and went “Now I gotta debunk THIS shit.”

deleted_by_author

    •
    xantoxis,

    It’s still a synonym for “average” but I think it comes with the subtext that in a world with a million choices, you have no reason to settle for average.

    xantoxis,

    Does that make it not a substantive complaint about nextcloud, if it can’t run well in docker?

    I have a dozen apps all running perfectly happy in Docker, i don’t see why Nextcloud should get a pass for this

    xantoxis,

    How often are y’all writing the date by hand?

    US residents: What big domestic policy improvements have the american people won from congress in the last 30 years? (kbin.social)

    Interpret improvements as you like. For me it's any large scale reforms or legislative packages designed to improve the country for all or see to the material interests of the majority without overly benefiting the elite....

    xantoxis,

    i’m sure the federal government could’ve stood in the way had they chosen to.

    In fact, they’re still trying to, for all three of these things.

    But, uh, yeah, it’s pretty much those three. The only other big one I can even think of is the crime bill, which is a net evil by a huge margin.

    xantoxis, (edited )

    There’s no need to kill anyone. As our climate collapses, that’ll start to happen on its own

    xantoxis,

    This joke always bugs me because it’s a spoken conversation in the context of the joke. He would say “what’s an Ery?”

    xantoxis, (edited )

    That we have the technology to make a paper towel dispenser that works well, and that we don’t do that very much because it’s cheaper to make one that works poorly, are not incompatible.

    When we get mass market flying cars, we’ll get incredibly shitty flying cars that crash all the time, about a week later.

    xantoxis,

    It’s basically always this. Your phone in the same room with someone else’s phone. This is stronger around christmas when people are looking for gift ideas, so they push this mind control shit on you even harder.

    It’s not actually listening to you–that’s been debunked multiple ways–but what it’s doing instead is arguably worse.

    xantoxis,

    One thing I’ve always wondered, and this is hardly the most unbelievable aspect of the science fiction elements of this show but it’s one of the most pervasive and constant; why don’t we ever hear the native languages of the aliens underneath the sounds of the universal translators? Most, although not all, of them speak by vibrating the air, so where are those sounds disappearing to?

    xantoxis,

    I like this theory, it feels like one of the authentic ways that slurs in earth languages actually get invented.

    xantoxis,

    Fixed it ages ago

    xantoxis,

    Lol at this meme being at the absolute bottom of the page above a “next” button. They stuck

    xantoxis, (edited )

    Yeah, one way to do this is to start transmitting what sounds like one half of a phone conversation.

    …
    “Hi, how have you been?”
    …
    “Ugh that’s the worst. You coming by soon?”
    …
    “Nice I’ll get the barbecue ready.”
    …
    “A functioning FTL drive you say?”

    xantoxis,

    This argument did not go well

    You can’t convince people to do their job with logic when they just don’t want to do their job. After minorities, the thing cops hate most is doing their job.

    xantoxis,

    Eh, it’s less intuitive than you might think, as someone who already knows how to do it.

    I once had to explain this process to a software engineer who was quite senior to me. The guy wasn’t any idiot, he was a pretty competent engineer, he just didn’t know this trick.

    The cops might even already know how to do it, they just don’t want to, because they’re cops.

    xantoxis,

    Best reason to close the lid: The things you do in the toilet smell. Lid keeps the smells from spreading.

    xantoxis,

    WHERE IS PART 3 I NEED TO KNOW THE FALLOUT

    xantoxis,

    It’s lucky he’s the vector data guy because if she was in charge of aiming it in there’d be rounding errors

    xantoxis,

    The thing is, all these words were used correctly. This isn’t a dumb person pretending to be in science, it’s just someone who can’t spell.

    xantoxis,

    Instructions unclear, became aroused

    xantoxis,

    Is it better if you snort it?

    xantoxis,

    Even if there weren’t competition (and there definitely is, spend some time in the New feed if you want to see some really bad posts that don’t make it there); I’d still want the best ones on top.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • localhost
  • All magazines
    •
    Loading…
    Loading the web debug toolbar…
    Attempt #