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Cake day: January 13th, 2022

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  • Well, to reference Julia Evans another time:

    head and HEAD are specifically the third meaning of ‘branch’, i.e. the newest commit on a branch, but can also refer to a commit not on a branch, when in that detached head state.

    And while I’m not enamored with these names either, I can’t think of a word that I like better for this meaning.


  • Recently, I saw a toddler ask her mom why a snowman decoration was wearing a scarf. And the mom decided to go the playful route and said that the snowman is probably cold. So, the toddler followed up asking why the snowman is out here and not inside the house, where it’s warm? To which the mom replied that it would melt, if it was inside…well, uh, not this one, as it’s a decoration made out of wood.

    And like, yeah, these are some tough questions.
    Do you just explain to a toddler that humans put up decorations, which don’t always make infinite sense?





  • Knusper@feddit.detoMemes@lemmy.mlOmg, nooo.
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    11 months ago

    Nah, FOSS stands for “free and open-source software”. There was a time before paid software was a thing, so the “free” there stands for freedom.

    In a lot of ways, it means the same as open-source (access to source code and allowed to modify+redistribute it), but it’s more idealistic and political, looking to prevent software from restricting what users can do.









  • Knusper@feddit.detoMemes@lemmy.mlI love piped bot
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    11 months ago

    This is a bit of me-thing, but yeah, I’m annoyed that YouTube is the way it is. It’s non-trivial to embed videos from there without violating the GDPR, so embedded videos are basically not a thing these days on general-purpose social media.

    And personally, I also want to avoid the tracking from clicking through to a YouTube video and Google encourages long-ass videos, so I always hesitate before clicking through. Also, people without ad blockers go through a completely different circle of hell before a video starts.

    Basically, I miss the days when memes could just be short videos. Where everyone could see on the embed that, oh, it’s a 30 second video, I can watch that. And then they’d just click play, without leaving the page.

    I do understand that likely no one would care to provide the bandwidth for dumb meme videos on PeerTube either. But yeah, I just dream of that being a thing.


  • Your question might have been downvoted, because people (including me) read it the wrong way.

    I thought, you were saying people shouldn’t be proud of being straight edge.

    And your reasoning:

    I feel like it includes a good amount of intolerance and judgement.

    …, I thought, was supposed to say that you think people, who are straight edge, are themselves very intolerant and judgemental.

    Words can just be ambiguous, I guess.


  • They do have a history of such things happening, yes, which is why my comment exists in the first place. Normally, I would assume this to just be the result of regular shitty management practices paired with regular shitty profit motives.

    The history makes it look like they might genuinely have a higher motive here, and I’m saying I still don’t think so, because it would be far too petty and I don’t see them benefitting that much from it.