footfaults

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[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 6 days ago

Trump is like your mother, you just have to call her on the phone on a regular basis so you stay in good graces.

Literally that's all that needs to happen to keep these pause extensions happening, just call him and let him talk

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

This is the same as people who don't want to pay artists for their work and just say they get paid in "exposure"

If you are using open source as a company, you should pay the maintainers money, either through hiring them or directly funding the development.

I donate money to the pieces of software I use every day, because I'm in a position as an individual to, but there are lots of companies that are free riding

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 week ago

It's 2003 and I'm protesting against an invasion of a country in the middle east that is based on a lie

It's 2025 and I'm protesting against an invasion of a country in the middle east that's based on a lie

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

this makes me worry because this could easily be used as justification that we don't "need" the bottom 60% of consumers to keep our consumption based economy functioning. We can just have the rich consume more.

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If it has been downloaded over 1.7 million times you need to contact Github about this, since it is an open source project that people are depending on, and discuss your github action usage with them and determine a path forward for continuing to use github actions

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The repositories that contain code that is for work need to be owned by your work, not your personal account. Have your work create a github organization and transfer your repos to their org.

 

Mind you, the weavers didn't just reject technological progress for the sake of rejecting it. They tried to work with the ownership class and their power looms in order to produce the same cloth faster and cheaper than they had before. For a time, it did work out, but the powers that be didn't want that. They wanted more money at any cost.

This article was worth sharing since we have had a number of struggle sessions and I have seen the term Luddite thrown about and people seem to be calling people Luddites for not embracing the AI slop.

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'd have to go and research. He was on Hillary's ticket in 2016 and that was around the time that Obama did the Iran nuclear deal so I don't think so? But he's an establishment Democrat so who knows what AIPAC has convinced him of

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 children)

So to be clear, this might be Kaine trying to 4d chess a vote that shows that there is not support for going to war against Iran. If the vote doesn't pass, the constitution requires that we don't go to war (don't laugh!)

Now, if it does pass then things are really bad.

This is assuming that Kaine doesn't want to go to war. I could be wrong about this because Kaine is shit, but surely not this shit. Maybe?

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 weeks ago

By creating your own format, you now have to create your entire ecosystem, or add functionality to existing systems to deal with your format. That is a huge undertaking and why media consortiums exist for stuff like JPEG, MP3, MP4, etc etc.

I don't know the music ecosystem at all, so I don't know what open source programs you could modify to support your format, but realistically that could easily be a year+ project.

If you're having fun, keep going, but it's a big challenge

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago

Catholic indulgences with extra steps

[–] footfaults@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yes, but there are a number of intermediaries between you and the bad things being done when you just own an index fund.

This is much much more direct linkage to the bad shit. They are getting much more money directly from the renting. That's way worse

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From 20 years ago but consistently relevant

 
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