Yeah well, VLC has been open source for 23 years.
halm
joined 1 year ago
LOL, no. Those are releases for Obtainium, an Android app that downloads, installs and updates apps from sources like Github. You're probably looking for the Racoon for Friendica releases.
Yeah, more or less right. On Mastodon I'm a heavy filter user, so loads of terms and hashtags just GTFO. I don't see anything near that capability baked into Lemmy.
And I have to say, the more I think about it, the more important link source filtering is. Given how many posts are links to external sites I think it would be a great feature to sift out the chaff before you even have the chance to roll your eyes at it!
I will suggest filtering, by term and by source URL. I think it would help customize individual feeds, making it easier and perhaps more comfortable navigating the news.
Example A: term filtering: This should be fairly obvious. Say I'm a Linux user who could care less about KDE. But people keep gushing over it in the Linux subs I subscribe to, and the damn developers keep pushing new releases that also get posted. Argh! Filter out posts (maybe even comments) that mention KDE, Bob's your uncle. And I can still enjoy all those delicious GNOME posts. Definitely not a real world inspired scenario.
Example B: URL filtering: Simply(!) filtering out link posts by source URL. Not a fan of Fox News and/or WaPo? Filter out one site or the other by root URL, like *.foxnews.com or *.washingtonpost.com.
Me, I'd gladly filter out all and any YouTube links unseen by default. That's a constant noise generator I could genuinely live without. But I digress.
I hope the examples illustrate my point because I could clearly never explain a feature request succinctly nor to the point.
That was probably not on WeDistribute, who mostly write about the Fediverse.
What's that? Can't hear you over the din of volunteers trying to get all of the Internet Archive back online.
That's the difference, isn't it? People can use "AI" to make simple little things easier. Corporations want it to replace and automate the jobs of swathes of the workforce. It's the latter that is the "growth market", and the one that eats the most power.
"Wherever it's needed" is the operative term here, isn't it? Looking at how it's already being implemented, nobody seems to bother asking whether "AI" is really needed.
Came here to say that a 95% reduction in energy consumption will only greenwash a corresponding or larger increase in usage — but yours is of course the correct response! 👏👏👏
Hopefully not. They're clearly batting down the hatches and trying to centralise the market around WP.org — at least as far as The Verge calls ACF a "WP Engine plug-in", and (although I'm not sure how accurate that is) Mullenweg shares that impression.
This all feels like an odd subversion of open source software, where maybe the commercial branches of WP are spread thin financially and need to play hardball with rivals to corner the market? I honestly don't know, but Mullenweg's belligerent rhetoric re WP Engine seems desperate and over the top.
I'm reminded of that other time a happy-go-lucky FLOSS founder turned monopolist, although Moxie Marlinspike wasn't suing and being countersued when he personally shut down a third party Signal client in Github comments...
Lemmy and Debian are not the same.
Specifically Lemmy is exactly the same — a direct namedrop in tribute of a known musician or band. It's really no weirder than a band naming itself after archduke Franz Ferdinand, or after Nikolai Gogol 🤷
Pfft, that archaic little sunsail jalopy? Geordi had the same hobby, with the added challenge of bottling his recreations.
Besides, I'm sure some Bajorans would have notes on the cultural appropriation aspect.
(big /s if it isn't clear from context)