Oh yes of course, the whole world has of course been watching the mass protests and general strike being organized with baited breath, oh wait.

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Come on doc, you’ve gotta help us, we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!

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Jesus fucking christ. If you do this, and exploit Ukraine while they are literally under the gun, the US will be dead to the rest of the western world.

I cannot express how hard you can go fuck yourselves.

The literal rest of my life will be spent trying to fuck over America and Americans. Fuck you, you selfish, coward, pieces of shit.

Yes, but I would point out that:

a) a bunch of those commercially supported Foss projects still started out as a personal project of one of a small handful of programmers that then got popular and exploded.

b) more importantly yes, a lot of commercially useful FOSS is developed by paid developers working at tech companies as part of their line of work, stuff like browsers, languages, frameworks, packages, etc. but a lot of the most iconic and beloved consumer facing FOSS applications are not, as at that point if theyre non exploitative then there’s no reason for a corporation to support or build on them. Corporations prefer to support Foss infrastructure that’s so general they can still use it to build closed exploitative projects.

One aspect of FOSS that most people don’t appreciate is how it’s funded. Like how it’s actually funded.

Once you put a dollar value to the hours put into it, it fairly quickly becomes apparent that most FOSS projects are basically only possible because super rich software engineers (relative to the average person) have the relative luxury to be able to dedicate a ton of free time and effort to building something they think should exist.

It’s why there was a huge FOSS boom after the dot com crash when a ton of software engineers suddenly got laid off but were relatively wealthy enough to not have massive pressure to immediately start grinding a 9-5 again.

It’s a very easy change to default ‘Auto expand media’ to true for half of new users, and see what effect it has over a few months. It’s also a fun experiment with no real drawbacks.

Writing the code to do that is very easy, determining what metrics are actually important and impact user success and what metrics accurately track user success is much harder.

I do generally agree though! Personally I just asked the instance admins of lemmy.ca to redirect lemmy.ca/r/... URLs to lemmy.ca/c/... URLs (rather than 404ing), as a tiny user facing feature for Redditors coming over, and they did it in a second.

No. If you’re going to be pedantic, at least be right.

Average

noun

1. a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.

The term average, inherently refers to at least three different ways to calculate the central value in a data set. What you’re talking about is mean, but it can also mean mode, or median, and there are other, even, more complicated calculations than those depending on your context.

So yes, average, is an inherently vague and hard to define term.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average

It’s not that popular of a concept on here, probably since there’s massive selection bias (everyone here evidently found a way to struggle through), but you’re completely right and I find that that lazer focus on usability is one place that Open Source advocates and projects often struggle with.

And personally, I think it’s because most open source projects are built and run by programmers since they’re the ones who can build an open source project, whereas a consumer facing site like Reddit / FB / TikTok/ IG, would be planned out and designed by a product manager, working closely with a designer and market researcher, and then get programmers to build that for them.

It’s a model that’s really difficult to pull off though in a community primarily consisting of programmers volunteering their free time, but I think it’s worth keeping that in mind. Open Source projects that are consumer facing (and especially ones that rely on network effects), really need to work hard to stay in that user facing headspace.

Yeah, exactly, like saying “thankfully we don’t have to have sex”. It’s naiive and ignorant of the actual world we live in, and not helpful to the conversation at hand.

Bruh it’s like people are having a conversation about how best to treat someone’s STD and youre coming in saying sex is bad and you just shouldn’t have sex.

You’re not discussing the morals of the situation at hand, you’re derailing the conversation to talk about your moral crusade instead.

And then he publicly disavowed and abandoned that guy.

If I wanted to have a conversation about the ethics of eating meet I would, and if you have a solution for suddenly convincing everyone to be vegan then that’s great, do it.

Otherwise, don’t muddy the waters with your irrelevant abstinence only moralizing during a harm reduction conversation.

I literally am vegetarian at the moment, Im just not a crusading idiot about it.

I think I know exactly how many Americans are protesting right now.

Google what harm reduction is if you need to hear yourself type so badly.

He could literally just say whatever he wanted on a hot mic.

Stop trying to pretend it was a protest. It wasn’t.

No they fucking wouldn’t. They would sit at home and watch the Superbowl and clap along like they are right now.

America really wants to invite a Canadian sized IRA on themselves, I suppose they can fuck around and find out.