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[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People comparing the hits of yesteryear to the norms or even lows of today is a thing.

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think the actual take is probably closer to "I wish we went back to a time when record companies would take a bet on anyone, regardless of the overall package, looks etc"

Which tbh, is probably more of a fairy tale view of years olden days than anything else.

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm really curious if they can make video injection of ads cost effective.

It feels like mangeling video streams into one, potentially re-encoding the video as they go... sounds expensive

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oceania tends to refer to the region, including both Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia, and the many small island nations.

Sometimes, we are "collectivly" treated as a continent, despite being almost all island nations with no land boarders.

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I've had... thoughts on this lately.

I do social dance (wcs) as one of my several hobbies. And I kind of compare ot to church now. We go once a week, we do the thing, and we have a community around it, with community leaders.

The world might be slowly leaving religion behind, but I have to wonder of we're losing something else in the process.

(Find some WCA classes in your area, we're all weird as fuck, it's a often a community of introverts with a niche interest in common, and set rules of interaction (would you like a dance?))

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 28 points 2 months ago (8 children)

is it decades of hacky code, or decades of battle tested code?

I haven't touched wordpress in... many years, but I've seen far too many developers look at old code and call it junk... only to break things horrifically when they attempt a rewrite.

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago (3 children)

A port of a browser is relatively minimal effort. Typically, the changes are largely cosmetic, and occasionally skin deep.

There's a reason none of the ports of Chrome caught the recent snafu with Google having its own special addon that fucks your privacy.

Developing a browser, Firefox or Chrome, takes a huge amount of effort, and are on a similar scale to both Windows and Linux. It's a lot. There are a lot of places to hide things. Taking all of that, and making V2 continue to work... well it'll be alright to start with. It's probably a flag somewhere currently. But in 2 years time? 5 years time? It will take a lot to keep V2 working, let alone back porting V3 features that people may actually want.

Just use Firefox instead.

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

I mean, that argument starts to wade in to the Mozilla foundation as a whole, and what their purpose is, and that's a giant kettle of fish.

Theoretical game. They lowball Google on how much Google pays them. How do people react? I don't see them doing that and say, "Man, I'm glad Firefox is reducing Google's influence over them". I see them making a thread about how Firefox is giving Google a discounted rate because they're all corrupt technofacists.

The core problem there still exists IMO. Funding.

What we really need is a reasonable way for open source, free, software, that exists for the good of the whole, to get money. But that has it's own kettle of fish, where does it come from, how big is big enough to get some, what if they charge for support, how open is open enough.

Something something, seize the means of production, communism, etc.

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Ok idealist.

What is your alternative funding stream for Mozilla?

It's bad.

Is it worse than the advertising owned browser that gives your information directly to said advertiser?

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

DAM DAM?

ACDSee even shows thumbnails for Affinity Photo project files

You're telling me there's an image managing program out there, that works with Affinity, and for some reason people aren't talking about it?????????

[–] Goodie@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (5 children)

If they had library management even close to what lightroom offers, I'd be there.

I may yet jump ship for photoshop.

 

I've been looking for a photography community in the fediverse that isn't just a dumping ground of photos.

Does anyone know of one?

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