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Serinus

@ Serinus @lemmy.ml

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  • Beehaw on Lemmy: The long-term conundrum of staying here

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  • Yeah, the whole "this is THEIR software and we're just a few hobby people" struck me.

    Aren't the Lemmy devs in a pretty similar situation? I wouldn't be surprised if individual instances got more donations than the Lemmy project itself. (And to be clear, I don't expect any of that is a living wage for someone.)

    "Starting from scratch" is usually a pretty naive suggestion for a large project that seems to be functioning well in large scale production.

    I do get that there are problems, especially from a moderation perspective. But that's one scope of a much larger project.

    Pointing fingers seems less productive than pull requests and/or patience. And I'd be surprised if there were other, open software available that has the same functionality outside of the fediverse.

    I know of the issue with decommissioned servers, which has been resolved. I've seen the instances crashing less and less over time. I've experienced the software responding faster and more reliably. So I've seen some amount of progress. The project isn't dead. In fact you can watch what they're doing at their GitHub link. It's very, very active.

  • Beehaw on Lemmy: The long-term conundrum of staying here

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  • The way things like this tend to be done at scale is to rewrite one part at a time, however you can break it up.

  • Over 75% of voters want maximum age limit for elected officials, poll shows

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  • Because young voters don't show up to primaries.

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    An Open Letter to The NFL

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  • It's the biggest reason I've never gotten invested in traditional sports.

    I'm not paying $100/year for something I'm barely interested in to not even be able to watch the games I want.

    I just watch League of Legends. I can actually play the game, and it's free to watch with no blackouts.

  • Is it wrong for 25M to date 19F?

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  • Is she just starting college? A relationship with someone who's not at her school might be rough for her. I'd be forever disappointed if I didn't have those life experiences.

  • Is it wrong for 25M to date 19F?

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  • Yeah, there's really nothing wrong with a 50 year old dating a 19 year old. Age is just a number. There's no power imbalance there or expectations. It's perfectly healthy for the 19 year old to get into a long term relationship where their partner is going to be 70 before they're 40.

    Or, maybe, half your age + 7 is a good rule. It's pretty lenient.

  • The Globe and Mail: "Dear entitled white-collar workers: Time to grow up and return to the office". A thousand word ode to the status-quo that can be distilled simply as "know your place you entitl...

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  • Yeah, just put software on all the machines that tracks mouse clicks or keyboard presses every 20 seconds. Watch hardware devices for mouse jigglers. You can track every time they take a shit.

    Plus you get to layoff employees without calling it layoffs. Wall street loves that.

  • Sucking carbon dioxide out of the sky is moving from science fiction to reality

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  • No, it's not. But now that everyone is realizing carbon credits are bullshit, they need some other excuse to prevent them from doing what needs done.

    I can't believe we're still burning fucking coal. It's incredible.

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    Why (US) americans never seemed to like or use motorbikes as much as cars?

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  • With wider, faster roads and larger cars the motorbikes are a death trap.

  • Mike Huckabee: if Trump doesn't win, 2024 will be last election "decided by ballots rather than bullets" | Boing Boing

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  • They don't have that much power. It takes a lot (and a lack of sanity) for someone to "kill a bunch of people on their way out".

    The most they can do is something like Jan 6th with more competence. Something like that requires organization, and the FBI is pretty good at infiltrating organizations who are trying to grow enough to make a difference. January 6th wasn't stopped primarily because it was done by the President, and the office (for better or worse) gets more leeway with laws.

  • Elon Musk Threatens To Sue Anti-Defamation League For X’s Lost Ad Revenue

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  • It's hard to take that seriously when you use "xeeted".

  • wow thats great mate cheers helpful

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  • Not if you want to push the site hard to the right!

  • Starfield has been cracked

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  • The four day head start thing being bullshit was a good point. But yeah, I'm not likely to pirate an executable any time soon.

  • Threads' New Terms and Conditions Affects the Fediverse

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  • It's worth thinking about what you're putting out there, but you're right. This isn't a Threads specific thing.

    You're putting these posts on the internet. You should expect everyone to read them, including Threads and Google and Putin and Kim Jong Un. That's kind of the idea of public posting. They don't even need an API to do that.

  • New study gave $7,500 to 50 unhoused people

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  • But not in 100% of cases and therefore it's not worth trying. /s

    It is a difficult problem, because there really are some mentally disturbed people in that population too. You can absolutely tackle the problem slowly and one case at a time lift most people out of that situation. But any solution that treats them as a group will bring along the 10% of them that will literally shit all over everything you've tried to build.

  • 50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says - CBS News

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  • I want to argue that W's damage was more immediate, but I keep finding arguments against that.

    W might the the president most to blame for climate change. When Dems win it tends to be with a 50% + 1 majority, or close enough to it, while including senators from places like West fucking Virginia.

    Republicans at any time can do bipartisan things about climate. Dems don't have that power.

    I'd say any time between 1990 and 2010 was the time where there should have absolutely been enough consensus, and close enough to last minute to actually do something. Shut down all the coal plants in the West. Embargo countries that don't cooperate on climate. That could have been done. (And yeah, we could have absolutely shut down every coal plant in the West if we were willing.)

    Then I was going to add another caveat about reading the 9/11 report. I don't fully blame W for that. It's a thing that would have been possible for any president to miss. But he's the one who missed it. I don't fully absolve him of it, either.

    W's intentions behind the Iraq war may have been for the good of us all, but the results absolutely weren't.

    The war in Afghanistan can be shared mostly between Obama and Trump. We were there for 20 years and couldn't manage to make a safe haven. Could have built fucking walls around Kabul, built up the government only there, and let them work on expanding that control outward for the next 50 years.

    I still believe Trump's damage will be longer term. I don't know if he'll be able to outdo W, and he'll never reach Reagan levels of damage. But I don't think we've seen most of Trump's damage yet.

  • Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?

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  • Sure, there's that. Also, sometimes I just write bad.

  • Has anyone else noticed a sudden lack of reading comprehension skills?

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  • One of my last comments on Reddit was about this.

    The biggest difference I've noticed is that people have stopped reading sentences. They'll read all the words and then upvote based on the feeling those individual words give them. They won't consider the meaning of all those words put together.

    And yeah, "upvote does not mean agree" is something Reddit has always struggled with, but it has definitely had exponential growth lately.

    It has made me start writing more clearly. There are comments I've written that have been wildly misinterpreted from my actual meaning. Part of that is that I tend towards sarcasm, and it doesn't translate well over the internet no matter how absurd I get with it. But I've also started aiming to use more simple sentence structure.

  • Does anyone know why we’re defederated from beehaw.org?

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  • it isn’t sorting by “contribute/doesn’t contribute,” that’s for sure.

    It's both. You're not wrong with the groupthink thing, but they absolutely do help to combat disinformation and useless comments. I get that you've made a decision, but you don't need to rationalize away the negatives.