CosmicTurtle0

Never profits. Has to be revenue.

Companies and legally hide profits and show losses on their balance sheets whereas revenues are much easier to calculate and harder to hide.

Because many of these people signed on to be civil servants, not political pawns.

And the alt-right has shown that they are willing to kill to get their way. These people didn't sign up for that either.

There are brave souls who are standing up to fascism by digging their heels in. But there are people who never wanted the lime light, who only wanted to do their job. Their bravery is different because they are resigning, forcing the spotlight on them but in a different way.

She probably did the best right thing she could live with.

For years the army wanted to junk one of their tanks because it performed poorly and was too expensive to maintain. But because of our limitless lobbying system, the makers of the tank made their factories in key House districts. Every time it came up for renewal it passed with bipartisan support.

Because no representative wants to be the one that closed jobs for their constituents.

You can change the license moving forward though it takes a tremendous amount of effort.

Only rich companies have dedicated full time kernel developers. The vast majority literally take full advantage of the fact that the kernel is free (gratis). And any changes they make to the GPL2 kernel is still subject to open source disclosure.

I believe Torvalds has publicly stated that he wouldn't support a move to GPL3, let alone AGPL.

Reddit gives Google access to everything so that Google can train their AI

Reddit sold access. For short term gains. Because the quarter needed more money to beat the previous quarter.

If this isn't a leopard eating their face moment, I don't know what is.

Early co-pilot (before chatgpt) was pretty decent. You typed in a comment what you wanted to do and you could cycle through code examples easily. While it wasn't 100% accurate, it was close enough to get you what you needed and took care of the annoying work.

As soon as ChatGPT got integrated, shit went downhill fast and I uninstalled it. It was a night and day difference.

Fun fact about recipes: they are not copyrightable.

So you can't "pirate" them unless they put them behind a paywall, and even then you can download and reshare them.

I absolutely hate that Basics with Babish put his recipes behind a paywall.

I'm in the same boat. The ads have become terrible for me so I'm in the market for a new app anyway. I was hesitant to purchase a subscription because of the low number of releases.

Glad I didn't

I personally see three big issues with getting new users to Lemmy use and stat on Lemmy:

• knowing about it: It is a matter of time before Reddit bans linking to Lemmy. Either by outright preventing their discussion via shadow deletes or full deletes. join-lemmy.org would be well served by purchasing ads on Google and on Bing
• join-lemmy ux needs to be improved: this goes to your point and I fully agree that there needs to be a better onboarding experience. I am a fairly technical guy and even I had trouble understanding the major concepts behind Lemmy. Many of these concepts aren't terribly important to a new user though. At least at first.
• more and better content: this is fortunately getting better but we're not there yet

Really early on like right after the API fuckfest, there was a large influx of users who picked servers based on whatever. As a result, servers defederated and there was a lot of drama as a result.

Though that said I haven't heard much about defederating in some time.

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They don't care. I'd be shocked if this news even enters their brain.

All they saw was the headline "USAID Funding Cut". They didn't care about the consequences. They are focused on Red, White, and Blueland now and don't fuck one iota of a fuck about what's going on in a country they probably didn't think even existed.