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wet_lettuce

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  • Beehaw's Demographics survey of June 2023!

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  • A couple of things: It sounds like you are assuming I am white.

    This response doesn't seem all that nice or inclusive. Calling someone with an, ironically, slightly different opinion than you (read: diverse), fragile and sensitive seems to be counter to the community you are trying to build here. Right? Am I crazy?

    I think we need to strive to have an environment where we can have open, honest, and sometimes uncomfortable conversations about all of this stuff. Being dismissive of it as "white fragility" isn't productive or helpful.

    As I said in my initial comment, I understand the intent of that section of the report, and I think more diversity is better than homogeneity, but the way that information was conveyed, and almost specifically that information, seems unwelcoming. For what its worth, I very intentionally joined Beehaw vs any other instance because I truly appreciate what you are trying to do here. So hopefully you take this in the manner it is intended: (hopefully) constructive criticism and food for thought.

  • Beehaw's Demographics survey of June 2023!

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  • I understood the intent, but words mean things and phrasing matters. As written, it doesn't seem welcoming or inclusive. They phrased the other sections much better--(which almost makes it seem more targeted even though I sincerely doubt it is)

    "We don't have as much diversity as we would like in this area, so in an effort to cultivate a richer community, we'll need to do more analysis and outreach. We are open to ideas!".

    The reality is: you can't force diversity. You can only make an environment where its welcome and encouraged--and you should be welcoming to everyone. Obviously this rubbed some folks the wrong way.

    As an aside: it's also a little short sighted to assume that bucketing people in a "white" group means they aren't diverse in their own right. I'd imagine there is quite a diverse makeup of "white people" on here-- people from Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere who all have very different perspectives, cultures, and norms that they bring to the table.

  • A tale of a new Lemmy instance, a bot infestation, the fallout, and how we dealt with it

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  • Because fuck that bot in particular!

  • Beehaw's Demographics survey of June 2023!

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  • The part where he says it's "mostly white people which is unfortunate" was an odd thing to say.

    Doesn't make white people feel very welcome I'd imagine.

  • Beehaw's Demographics survey of June 2023!

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  • The part where he says it's "mostly white people which is unfortunate" was an odd thing to say.

    Doesn't make white people feel very welcome I'd imagine.

  • Red Hat Tries To Address Criticism Over Their Source Repository Changes

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  • The GPL doesn't "encourage" redistribution. It requires it.

  • Podcast app Stitcher is shutting down in August

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  • I want to throw AntennaPod out there for anyone looking for a solid android podcast app. Its FOSS as well for those that care about that sorta thing.

    https://antennapod.org/

  • non-stickied PSA: Beehaw has signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact

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  • Look at what they are doing with Mark Zuckerberg. Their big PR campaign to show him as a mans man. Posting that he did the Murph challenge, talking about ju jit su, and accepting Elon's ridiculous challenge for a cage match.

    There is this fairly obvious PR campaign to make him seem less like a emotionless robot.

  • non-stickied PSA: Beehaw has signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact

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  • That combined with the lack of capitalization is off-putting for some reason. It grates on me and I can't put my finger on why.

  • We're Now Finding Out The Damaging Results of The Mandated Return to Office — And It's Worse Than We Thought

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  • Most companies that are going back to the office are STILL HAVING VIRTUAL MEETINGS. The hybrid environments ABSOLUTELY are. So you are getting all of the shitty aspects of going into the office and all of the downsides of not-in-person collaboration. It's the worst of both worlds.

    When you ask an employee to wake up an hour earlier, spend an hour in traffic, to pay for parking, to sit in a 'hotel cube', to get on a virtual meeting that they could have done at home...you are absolutely going to have people leave your company.

    The data on people equating lack of flexibility with a 2-3% paycut seems incredible low to me.

    I think its a much more significant impact than that. I know people who have basically taken a 20% paycut (lost their cost-of-living adjustment) to move to a different state--doing the same job remotely. That's basically a way of saying flexibility/remote work is work 20% to them.

  • Microsoft wants to move Windows fully to the cloud

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  • The road to (technological) serfdom

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    Its Time to Subsidize E-bikes

    clivethompson.medium.com /its-time-to-subsidize-e-bikes-900a862b8e76

  • Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'

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  • You cherry picked one line of my post and didn't address the entire context or intent of it. Im not defending companies or businesses using discord as a drop in replacement for forums or support pages. Imo that's a mis use of the tech.

    I think that's stupid.

    But discord isn't designed for that. It's a chat app (voice and text). I don't want my chats with friends publicly searchable on the internet. That's dumb. Having my emails publically searchable on the internet is dumb too.

    If a company started using Signal or Whatsapp for support, would you be clamoring for all signal and Whatsapp messages to be searchable on the internet?

    That doesn't make any sense. You seem more upset that companies are misusing Discord than mad at Discord.

  • World News @beehaw.org
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    IMF reports inflation driven by corporate profits

    www.imf.org /en/Blogs/Articles/2023/06/26/europes-inflation-outlook-depends-on-how-corporate-profits-absorb-wage-gains

  • U.S. pedestrian deaths reach a 40-year high

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  • They are called pavement princesses and mall crawlers.

    Lifted trucks and jeeps that have never even seen a gravel road

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    Mastodon's Eugen Rochko in talks with Meta?!😱

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  • Then apply that logic to Facebook and relax.

    Everyone is losing their minds over this.

  • Considering changing to PopOS as a content creator

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  • I game on Pop. I left windows on dual boot just in case, but I have only logged into Windows 2 times in 18 months and that was just to run updates because I realized I hadn't logged in.

    Since the Steamdeck came out, TONS more games work on linux.

    Davinci Resolve works on Pop as well. You are kinda screwed with Lightroom and PS though.

  • Poll: A historic number of Americans don't want a Biden-Trump rematch

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  • My hot take:

    Biden has been the best President we've had in 30 years.

    He's exactly who we needed when we got him. He got us out of Afghanistan. As much as a debacle as it was, he not Trump and not Obama pulled us out. His deft handling of the Ukrainian conflict where he used soft-power and influence to let the EU and NATO members come to decision to enact the super harsh sanctions themselves. Knowing that if the US pressed, they'd resist. It had to be their decision. He's continued to say and do all of the right things. His attempt to forgive student loans his huge. Some of the measures worked even if all of them didn't. He got the most meaningful infrastructure bill passed that I've ever witness. Neither Trump nor Obama could make it happen and Biden did it with a split Congress That infrastructure bill was also the most meaningful environment legislation that we've ever had That bill also paves the way for significant investment in our broad-band across the country Passed the Safer Communities Act ...actual gun related legislation since the Brady bill. Again, with a split congress. Gave us our first public defender SCOTUS justice. This might not seem like a big deal but I think its pretty significant given the amount of case law that exists that, so far, hasn't had a public defenders 'say' in it.

    I could go on but I gotta go eat dinner.

    People want to shit on Biden, but I actually like him. He's not perfect, but he's been insanely effective given everything he walked in to. Including him diligently and quietly rebolstering the executive branches that were gutted and had people leaving in droves in the last admin. Eg the Department of State. He's assigned quality folks into key roles and its making a difference.

    I voted for him without hesitation because well, the alternative was terrifying, but I was not expecting much from him at all. He's surprised me.

    edit: I literally can't figure out how to make this a list. Sorry for the wordblob.

  • Linux gamers, what distro are you currently on?

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  • Pop!_OS for life!

  • Google has a hidden browser inside the settings

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  • 100% but I believe these are typically locked down to one domain, and in this case its not.

    At least thats how I understand it. So I guess the article is a little misleading in that sense, but the net effect is the same. You have carte blanche access to the web, via android system webview, thats acting as a de-facto out-of-band browser. So its misconfigured or not locked down, which means you can use it effectively as a "hidden" browser.

  • John Goodenough has died

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  • I was just about to post this article (Thankfully lemmy warns you that it might be a duplicate!).

    This guy isn't a household name by any stretch but this invention quite literally changed the world. Few people have as far reaching of an impact as he had. Almost 101 years old too. I think he did Good..enough.

    (I'll see myself out)

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    Google has a hidden browser inside the settings

    matan-h.com /google-has-a-secret-browser-hidden-inside-the-settings/
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    Netflix got rid of the $9.99 basic plan in Canada

    www.narcity.com /netflix-canada-got-rid-of-cheapest-ad-free-subscription
  • Technology @beehaw.org
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    All programs should tell you where they store config files

    utcc.utoronto.ca /~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/ReportConfigFileLocations
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    1password implementing privacy-preserving telemetry system

    blog.1password.com /telemetry-system-roll-out/
  • Jokes and Humor @beehaw.org
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    "Stacy's Mom" on bagpipes