I don’t see any downside at all if it’s layered on top of some other (very capable) keyboard-driven UI that can do all the same things.
The downside is that no existing tech company has enough self-control to actually keep these kinds of recordings private.
Rust is a really cool language, but all this drama has been very off-putting. I sincerely hope the team gets their shit together and learns from this.
Agreed. Rust the language seems like a good tool, but I am very discouraged from getting invested in it when at least half of anything I end up hearing about Rust is some kind of new drama or in-fighting among the people who oversee the language and its community.
Shit happens, I know, but with Rust it feels like the frequency and magnitude is way out of proportion to other dev-centered communities. I am not involved, and I do not want to be, but from the outside it often appears like many of the people who are in positions of leadership are more concerned with posturing and politics and exercising whatever power is afforded to them than they are with the actual programming language and the well-being of its community.
So there was a mix-up with a speaker. So then the organization responsible should make it right, and announce that there was miscommunication and that it will be handled differently in the future. If it happened because someone was acting unprofessionally, then handle that internally and separately. It is ridiculous that one mishandled invitation is spiraling into a public mess of personal attacks and 4,000-word blog posts.
Is your name Richard?
Nobody is guessing this one
Global warming, but it is totally propaganda-based stupidity
You don't have to trust everything you read online or see on TV to notice for your own self that the weather is getting weird in recent years, compared to how it used to be. Typically warmer, and it's happening pretty much no matter where you live.
Extremely new to all of this. If each can have the same name, then would that mean one instance of a lemmy “subreddit” that share the same name not be able to see the other?
Nope! That's why community names are often formatted like community@website. As many instances can use the same community name as they like, everyone can see and individually interact with each of them. Even if two communities are both named tech, they are still distinct from one another by the website that's hosting them.
I would also appreciate it if things would generally just stay still and stop updating while I'm trying to look at them, especially the posts timeline.
Hopefully this will come with the work that I know is going on right now to use HTTP instead of websockets in lemmy-ui. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/pull/1081
I promise I understand what I’m talking about, building for scale on a global level is what I do for a living. I also know something about open source projects, having co-founded Rocky Linux and the Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation and serving as its Director of Operations.
I'm not calling into question your qualifications. I do think you have misunderstood how lemmy works.
The lemmy.ml website could go dark tomorrow, completely offline, and lemmy would continue to exist and the software would continue to need maintenance and optimization. Those GitHub issues are for improvements that will help everyone, not only people using lemmy.ml specifically.
If you persuade lemmy.ml's admins to deploy a load balancer and whatever else, that doesn't help me. It doesn't help anyone who's hosting an instance that isn't lemmy.ml, which is most of them. It's arguable whether it even helps the admins and users of lemmy.ml itself, since half the point of federation is to not funnel users into one massive canonical instance that everyone is using. But if you write documentation or share automation tools that guide anyone on making their other federated instances more scalable, or if you contribute to lemmy's source code to make improvements there, then that helps everyone. It improves lemmy the federated network as opposed to improving only the single inconsequential instance that is lemmy.ml.
Nowadays, depending on the legislation of wherever you live, there might be requirements for a minimum amount of information you need to log and preserve for a minimum amount of time, and restrictions on what information you can’t log and need to remove after a certain amount of time, or upon request provide to users, delete, or save apart.
You're not wrong, but I don't think anyone is actually trying to enforce this for small-scale things like personal websites or lemmy instances.
any good imgur alternatives? I know they’re doing similar shenanigans to reddit to prep for IPO
My understanding of the imgur situation is that you should actually be fine for now, provided that you're signed into an account when you upload, and not using it for explicit content.
...Though I hope you have an account that you already registered some time ago, before they started requiring a phone number, if you didn't want to share your phone with them.
There was a clearly stated reason for these removals, but it is a reason that does not appear either in lemmy.ml's rules list nor on the page that you listed.
There were additional moderator actions citing the same "orientalism" reason that occurred while I was writing the post:
Screenshot of lemmy.ml modlog
It is my opinion that this is a significant rule to leave unstated.