biddy

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[–] biddy@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I agree in this case.

But there's a narrative that software needs regular updates or it's worthless, but some things are just done and stable.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If it's feature complete, a keyboard doesn't need regular updates. According to the other thread it's not feature complete, so it could be abandoned. Since it's FOSS any enthusiastic person could stop it from being abandoned.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

Which makes the argument that heat pumps don't work in the cold completely wrong from a user perspective.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 7 points 2 years ago

I disagree, a lot of white collar work is simply writing bullshit.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

I don't think US politicians can get much older without being dead. This is a systemic problem, not a demographic problem, since other countries with similar demographics don't have the age problem.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

That I'm confused what message you're trying to convey with your picture of an ordinary boring car-centric suburb.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl -1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's a suburb. What's your point?

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

One where you can't hear your neighbors.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

So those 900 people live where? In the sea?

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not luck. Things are built for a reason, the regulations and structures of society are designed, and it artificially dictate s what is built. Perhaps they live in a place where the regulations mean that sensible livable apartments are fairly abundant. Perhaps you don't. That's not luck, those places were designed that way.

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

You might live in a place which already has some form of land value tax. Although a key distinction is that LVT is a tax on just the value of the land, not the value of the entire property that includes buildings, landscaping, ect. ...

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A program is written in source code. However in order for that source code to run on your device, it has to be "complied" into a "binary". Open source apps mean that the source code is avalible, however someone still has to do the compiling. Fdroid does the compiling themselves, which means they can guarantee that the binary in their repository came from the source code, aka it is reproducible from the source code. Izzy gets the developer to compile the code themselves, which means that a malicious developer could submit a binary that's different to the source code.

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