@hirnbrot I'm not talking about that drama. I'm talking about people doing actual attempts at quality software engineering in tickets and PRs that are often completely ignored. If you want to verify, go read the tickets. ✌🏻 @Shamar@MatejLach
@HerraBRE Curators are expressing themselves. It's a use case worth considering. But yeah, this along with many other ideas are unlikely to be implemented.
@hirnbrot The general complete dead air from Gargamel when it comes to responding to people who put a bunch of time and energy into contributing, and otherwise badly constricted communication with would-be contributors. There's no middleman setup like in Clojure, but far lesser barriers have turned people off from contributing to Mastodon, including me. @Shamar@MatejLach
So Rich Hickey, (creator of #Clojure), wrote a thing where he argues that as a mere user of open-source, you're not entitled to anything from the maintainers.
I agree with the general principle and have made similar points myself, except that:
a.) If you want the 'fame' of having many users, mutual respect is necessary. You're not god.
b.) If you're not going to implement a feature, don't waste people's time by keeping the issue/discussion going, only to dash their hopes years(!) later.
instead of hounding people for not providing image descriptions, reply to their post with a transcript, if you have the time and desire to
it indirectly encourages them to put a description on future posts and it actually helps people instead of just being more negative energy
and if the person didn't include an image description because /they/ didn't have the energy to, instead of guilting them for it, you are, again, helping, rather than just contributing more negativity
With my re-exposure to poverty I cannot help but see all of these decisions middle-and-up class people make as colossal wastes of money when so many, including loved ones of mine and me myself, are in such dire straits that finding $100 on the ground would substantially ease our lives for a little while. So then I sometimes get cranky.
I think this means there are flaws both in my viewpoint, and in the actions making me cranky, tbh.
tfw your friend gets a brand new car (as in first model year brand new, as well as "lose 25% off the lot" brand new) for a bunch of marketing reasons when they could have had a better car for a lot less money.
it's like when people tell me they bought a computer at Best Buy followed immediately with "I thought about calling you first, but"
I guess still have trouble letting go of having my advice valued as the engineer friend, even though it's often annoying to be the engineer friend.
I think Zuckerberg is constantly bewildered by his creation because he can't internally reconcile his towering privilege & genius with having created the McDonald's of online (which is just as bad for the soul as real McDonald's is for the heart)
The real story is that Facebook's attempts to become more of an explicitly political actor have been hitting the fan. Zuck's tour of the US, which everyone thought was the beginning of a presidential bid, was probably the start of his attempt to understand the political landscape. He realized that Facebook couldn't stay out of politics and was trying to get more of a handle on it, outside of his usual bubble.
If you have a few billion people in the walled garden and you're making content decisions about what they see then this is always going to have an inescapable political dimension. You can claim to be "apolitical" and just following some censorship decision tree, but at some point that becomes no longer credible.
Is it possible to have a ramdisk on #Android, such that I could sync a keyfile to it from boot, but never have it be written to storage? Thinking of a #KeePass type database or similar.
The Cubieboard 2 (Allwinner A20) can build Pleroma + dependencies in less than half the time it takes on a Raspberry Pi Model B clocked at about the same speed. So, twice the cores, but clearly also some architectural improvements.