No idea what “organic fedi culture” is supposed to be… but are we, in the future, going to create communities to track everyone who sends a lot of unsolicited messages?

The concept of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deny_recognition applies to all online spaces, I can’t believe I have to point that out in 2025…

might as well be called [email protected]

Have you looked into Matrix?

There are languages that don’t have the concept of “punctuation” at all.

yup I too remember getting YouTube ads in Hungarian when I was there as a tourist - despite not understanding Hungarian at all and watching videos only in other languages, they really ought to know that

I think Latin doesn’t really have words for yes and no.

Scribus, ideally.

One piece of non-free software gone, many more to go.

My understanding:

• API = a communication interface between different pieces of software, can be running on the same machine (e.g. a library API) or on another (e.g. a HTTP API)
• library = code that provides some reusable functionality that someone else wrote and that you, as the application developer, are calling and using the return values of
• package = can mean different things depending on context and programming language, the metaphor is that it is code that somehow belongs together, but there’s no general way to define this
• framework = code that provides the general structure of code and that is extended by the application developer to implement actual functionality

The way it’s been explained to me is that the difference between a library and a framework is that a library is something that you call from your code, a framework is something that calls your code.

Agree with the main point, though disagree that FOSS is “boycotting capitalism”, many for-profit companies contribute to FOSS and FOSS can be used by for-profit companies too, much of today’s capitalism runs on FOSS.

The point of free software is that it does not have owners, so what exactly are you “boycotting”?

Why would one even get the idea to use AI for something like this?

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the universe.”

Precisely the opposite of what the world needs.

Copyleft licenses are harder to comply with, they usually come with clauses that can be interpreted in different ways, termination clauses, etc.

Yeah I know, I sort Lemmy by “new comments” and Mastodon obviously only chronologically.

It’s just that the first type of “social media” I ever used (in my childhood) was the web forum and I kinda miss that. :D

You want to switch from a free and open source browser to a proprietary browser and think this will improve your privacy?

in my mind it’s kinda the point of Ladybird to have a permissively licensed implementation of web standards, I like permissive licenses if only because they reduce legal risks

It was definitely a good development to let social media operators make automated “recommendations based on what you seem to like” instead of, you know, letting users decide manually what they want to see, amirite… /s

I don’t think there are any viable engines other than the three you mention. Other browsers than the three you mention are viable, I am typing this in LibreWolf, but they are all based on one of these three engines.

I recently tried Ladybird and it crashes e.g. when I try to access my Lemmy instance. Definitely not viable yet in 2025, but this doesn’t mean it must remain so.

TIL that you can declare return types this way in C++.

auto main() -> int

What programming language is this even?!

maybe, but there are also things it arguably does better than Linux, e.g. user access control

(If you can still find this story, I’d be very interested in it, please do link to it here.)