[–] 2 points 4 hours ago

I think there is some pride and value in setting things up in a way that reduces friction.

I myself am of a similar opinion tho. Someone maintaining a thing as a hobby doesn't owe me shit. If it's too tedious to figure out, I'll move to another solution. It's really nice, when I get the option of a consumable bundle. But if they can't, don't like or simply don't care for ease of consumption — tough luck for me I guess.


tl;dr

Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth

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  • [–] 2 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    A user is not owed "ease of use" for every random thing on GitHub. It's appreciated, but unless something is given in return for the software, it's on the user to figure their shit out.

    I'm not against helping users. If they're civil, they should be addressed. But anyone coming with anger and entitlement, like the original meme, should absolutely be shown the door.

    At the end of the day, GitHub is a developer platform. And release distribution is a feature to make the developer experience better. Take it or leave it.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

    Oh. my. god. That just triggered me and I'm a dev. WHY THE FUCK ARE RELEASES AT THE BOTTOM ON MOBILE??!

    Like on the desktop it's right there in the right panel. Then I open the mobile interface for some APK and for the life of me I can't fucking find it. So I enable desktop mode and there it is. Jesus fucking Christ I hate it. It took me months to find it.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 hours ago (7 children)

    When we're talking about free software someone makes in their free time, I don't think the normie is entitled to anything. I made a thing and gave it away to the world, figure it out.

    That being said less friction is better, so I really appreciate when the dev gives simple to consume packages.

    This dynamic changes when money starts getting exchanged, either explicitly by buying or implicitly by donating, the sponsor is entitled to have their needs acknowledged and addressed.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

    Had to google what the fuck is a gogurt. But I agree, that's horrible. I'd make a joke about making bigger, full circumference bites like a man, but this community scares me a little so I'll refrain.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 days ago

    Is this some kind of American joke I'm too European to understand?

    They teach kids to identify unknown words by guessing based on clues in pictures with the sentences

    The fuck you mean guess? What if the text has no pictures? Wat!?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 days ago

    It's a good and, I'd say, well thought through argument, however, it's completely irrelevant.
    You read my position as if it came from a place of faith and then responded from the same place of faith. I think that's why none of you arguments worked or will work on most of the people here.

    You can't cite the Bible to me, because I see it at the same level of fiction as Lord of the Rings. Fundamentally, all of the context, nuance and logic in your theological argument is mute.
    I could try and address concrete points from your response that miss the mark for me on this level, but I'd rather try and give you context on where does my position come from. I'm not trying to convince you, nor will you be able to convince me.


    I'm an atheist. I don't believe in a god, nor I think it necessary. Good and evil are social constructs. A mouse is neither good, nor evil; the same applies to the universe in general. There's no higher purpose, afterlife or absolute judgement.

    A question I see more often regarding this: "If there is no God, what then stops a person from killing and raping, and stealing, and etc.?" To this I'd say — the person themself.
    We are social creatures, we want to and live in communities. This communal lifestyle can be just as good of an anchor for morality as faith. (A somewhat relevant reference).
    Morality can be fully separate from faith and doesn't require a god. Which seems like a much simpler argument than existence of an unprovable (by the same token, undeniable), all-powerful, beyond human comprehension being. Simple doesn't necessarily mean correct, but considering my options I'm inclined to go with the non-magic one.

    Another point worth addressing is nihilism. If there is no god or afterlife, what's the point of living? To this I'd say there is none, but why is that bad? If there's nothing else besides the existence I already have, that's all the more reason to appreciate it.
    Again, I'll come back my social creature reasoning. Knowing that this is all there is makes it all the more special and worth maintaining, protecting. I want to keep my relationships with loved ones, I want to share it with my offspring. What I don't want is religious promise of happiness. I don't need a promise, I need happiness in this life.

    There is this philosophical argument for faith where believing in God means at least not losing much, and not believing — at most losing everything. But to me this seems backwards. If a god is truly divine and loving, it should not care for my opinions and only judge me by merit. If, however, a god is not that, then I don't need it and reject it. If it doesn't exist, well, none of these discussions matter then, do they?

    I wont even go into Christian church with it's absurd rituals and show.
    Although, I do understand why people turn to religion. It comforting to have something bigger then oneself.
    To me, though, it's freeing to know I don't matter in the grand scheme of things. I can't change the world, but I can try and be happy with people I care about.


    I don't believe in a god and, if it exists, I reject it.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

    Good thing he apologised, yet it still looks that the c-suit still mostly concerned with speed. Apologizing for shitty behaviour is still worse than not being shitty in the first place.

    FYI, I don't think this situation is cause enough to ditch Proton, but I still stand by my original comment.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    In one exchange, an employee in the company’s security Slack channel urged Proton to at least take a few days to pentest newly written code before pushing it live. “That’s bullshit and loser thinking. Of course it’s possible to be fast and secure,” Yen wrote in the channel at the end of August. “Stop thinking always of how to be slower, and focus more on how to be faster.” Yen added, “stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.”

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    Boost 1.0.28
    Android 14

    Images in cards seem to work fine, but when clicked to open in fullscreen it loads with a black screen and just stays black.

    Has anyone encountered such behaviour?


    EDIT 1:
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