jeremyparker

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Idk if it's actually open source, but they seem to be going on the open source financial model: make an awesome thing and then survive on the generosity of people with money who appreciate it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

iBroadcast lets you upload your music and listen to it anywhere - phone, browser, or offline access. I have like 42,000 songs and I've been using it for years. It's awesome.

To get the mp3s, I still use the website that's often referenced in old /mu/ memes/instructions.

I'm pretty sure it hits all your features - I'm not sure about lyrics though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure if this is what that person meant, but, usually it's on the original development team to handle outreach and building the identity of the software - in Lemmy's case, they have a bit of a not-great reputation... Even if they had the reach, that reputation hurts.

Having Mozilla - or any top tier foss-friendly company - kinda take the reins a bit would probably be good.

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

there's a term for appropriating the struggle of an oppressed group the way you just did, but I can't remember what it is. Anyway - I feel like you're assuming everyone is talking about you when we're not... If we don't like something that you like, you can just mind your own business...?

If there's a post about someone doing something bad, and people talk about how bad it is, but you think it's good, are we all supposed to stop talking about it because you showed up?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

please let us make bad choices and don't talk about why they're bad

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fwiw the guy who made Brave is the same guy who who wrote JavaScript. He created Firefox too iirc, but was booted by Mozilla for being loudly and publicly homophobic.

I haven't heard anything about him being a pedophile, however.

(It's probably worth mentioning: he wrote JavaScript over the course of 10 days in 1995, iirc. Over literally the next 28 years, JS has been developed and maintained by everyone but Eich - so if you're weirded out by the fact that Eich wrote JS, he really did very little of it. If all we had was his version of it, it would be nowhere near as prevalent as it is today. JavaScript is still garbage, but at least it's our garbage.)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think that just means you weren't part of the test group.

I was part of it. It's not that ad blockers don't work - they still work fine. YouTube just doesn't load the content; it's a full screen modal telling you to disable it.

When it happened to me, I was able to just open the link in a private window and it loaded fine - ive_never_seen_this_man_before_in_my_life.jpg - but that may have just been because it was a test; if they roll this out to everyone everywhere I'm guessing that wouldn't work.

The other thing that worked was yt-dlp ... Hopefully that won't be impacted by the adblock prohibition... That also gets around workplace filters (at my work anyway).

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

Still do. To be clear, I'm talking about the human species, not like moths or turtles or something. Smart phones are pretty common, actually.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Gin is closer to gif than gift?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's the children who are wrong, all three billion of them. The only ones who are right are me and my friends. We don't have any justification or valid argument, we're just right because we say we are.

That's you. That's what you sound like.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Also who said it's a proper noun

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

Why? He has no linguistic expertise, and he didn't have the perspective of the format's popularity when he made that decree. And his decision was based on intentionally infringing on copyright. And it intentionally goes against the intuitive pronunciation. And the term "gif" now even refers to files that aren't even .gif - it's way past him.

This may sound harsh, and I want to acknowledge that he did something really awesome - but the Jif pronunciation will not survive once he, as a person, is forgotten. But the format will. It's not his anymore.

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