viking

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[–] viking 1 points 1 year ago

Never had that issue. Which keyboard are you using, if you don't mind me asking? Personally I'm still on Swype & Dragon. Pioneer and still best of class, even though it was officially discontinued years ago.

[–] viking 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a virtual structure in github, not a legal construct. Those organisations have owners (minimum 2), but if they collude and go rogue, they can do quite a lot of harm. (See also https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/managing-peoples-access-to-your-organization-with-roles/roles-in-an-organization).

A formally incorporated nonprofit organization has statutes, organs, supervisory boards and all that by which they must adhere, so once set up properly, the software would be fully protected from malicious intent on a legal level.

[–] viking 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You're oversimplifying things. If the evil overlord (tm) demands to build weapons of mass destruction, is the proud engineer with a family of 5 who designs them innocent?

[–] viking 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Once it is an organization, yes, that's the whole point. Right now it is still an individual, that's the point I was trying to make.

[–] viking 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, you buy 3 AK's. Infinite money glitch.

[–] viking 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see a pumpkin.

[–] viking 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Swype keyboards are a godsend.

[–] viking 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have my doubts that a Republic of Sinaloa and the Grand Dutchy of Jalisco are going to work out.

[–] viking 4 points 1 year ago

A fresh install of ME was typically fine, the live update usually fucked things up big time.

I'd compare the Windows 11 disaster to Windows 8; only that they released 8.1 in relatively short succession, with most issues actively fixed.

[–] viking 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Someone is still in charge of the git account. No matter how many commits there are being made, unless the owner of the repo approves to merge them, it's not happening.

And sure, someone could create a fork that includes their changes if they aren't being merged, but then this separate fork might at some point lose compatibility with the original software. And on a purely semantic note, this fork wouldn't be the original mastodon either.

[–] viking 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree that 1.5 milhouse is quite a lot.

[–] viking 1 points 1 year ago

They are not necessarily the same people, I just maintained the general approach to contacting new folks just like I did back in school, and so far it's working out nicely.

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