hackris

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[–] [email protected] 85 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Please. For the love of god, NEVER use a proprietary app to use a piece of FOSS software. I think it's kind of sad that we have this amazing FOSS social network and people use fucking proprietary software to use it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Can someone please explain? Does the US only have two political parties? That sounds horrendously undemocratic. I know next to nothing about US politics so I may be wrong.

Edit: Also, why is one party called "Democratic" and the other "Republican"? Does this make the Republican party non-democratic? Is this a non-official naming scheme that people created or does seriously only one of them support democracy? Thank you for the answers :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Everyone has been polarised into an "Us vs Them" mindset. Keep us divided and channeling our collective rage at each other, lest we actually find power in our overwhelming numbers. It hurts.

I'm ready to get downvoted, but this is exactly the reason I'm incredibly sceptical about any conflicts going on, including wars. I just think the possibility of the "two sides" working together just to polarize society is too goddamn high. But of course, as soon as you bring a subject like this into a discussion, you immediately get bombarded with the "you are against my idea so you're an extremist" kind of vocabulary... For example: "Omg you're pro-russian" - meanwhile I volunteer to help Ukrainian people, but I guess I love Russia when I do that. Shit's wild...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I never needed hardcore anonymity but I was always sceptical why people think Briar is anonymous when it uses Bluetooth. Now that I know that the MAC is shared even without using Bluetooth, I'm even more confused. Thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can you elaborate on the Briar claim? Very curious.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I personally use JetBrainsMono, it's my favourite. What do you guys think?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice try, glowies :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In this case they were still using English, with minor differences. Imagine one of the Indian externals writing an internal script that utilizes the Indian localisation. You'd have to whip out a translator or dive into the docs for a tool which you may have already used countless times and know how it works when instead, they could have simply learned the English arguments for the tool.

Nothing against people not being native speakers of English, I'm not one either. I just think that this creates more problems than it solves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, and when you try to troubleshoot shit, it all falls apart and you can't really tell what's going on under the hood...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Of course, the end goal (mind the word "end") is to replace them. However, in this current situation, where many people are struggling to find a job, it's not good.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep, this sort of behaviour translates to Windows paths also. Why would they name a directory "C:\Users\Example\Desktop", when they can replace "Desktop" with a locale-specific name, which is not just a link to "Desktop", but a completely different directory which breaks any scripts expecting "Desktop".

We know MS well, their choice is clear :)

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