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You could give 25 million people who are either veterans or disabled a million dollars…

Not to rain on your parade (I think the idea of a military parade is patiently wasteful and dumb, meanwhile we don’t do enough as a nation to care for veterans and disabled people), but that would be a lot more than $45 million. More like $25 trillion… or 25,000x $1 billion… or 25,000,000x $1 million.

Broad brush, indeed; it seems like their most outspoken clergy is a whole lot more liberal than their most outspoken congregants… But, yeah, “validated and honored” sounds about right.

Hey, at least they promote Lemmy!

Fair enough. Although, for those reading at home, I’ll reiterate the distinction between nonprofit and charity; all charities are nonprofits, not all nonprofits are charities. Research universities are an example.

On that note, I guess I’m enough of an academic to not consider grants a “gift” … It’s not consumerism-driven revenue, but it’s hard to call it a gift when you’re on the hook to produce something (research papers & prototypes) that you then turn around and use to sell for more revenue (in the form of grants).

Being a “non-profit” doesn’t mean the company “shouldn’t make profit” … It means that the owners/investors don’t earn anything extra based on profit. The organization itself still needs to be financially sustainable.

As shady as Mozilla is, they’re competing against a functional monopoly, so the playing field is hardly fair.

I’ve been calling him “God-King” for years … ironically, to shed light on the cult nature of MAGA …

I do not like this timeline.

“Two things can be true at the same time.”

Even if people can’t agree on who’s lying about what, we can definitely agree that there’s one and only one sitting president on our lifetime who has called himself a king.

Completely agreed. At one point, maybe 12 years ago, I remember trying to learn NP++'s macro system. It was better than whatever we had at the time, but I’m glad I didn’t spend more time than I had to. Just a couple months ago, a coworker was raving about how great NP++ macros are … to do a task handily solved by some light regular expressions and/or column edit mode. Both REs and CEM are far more ubiquitous concepts than some bespoke, domain-specific language for defining repetitive tasks.

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Clearly this is a controversial statement. I’m team “use what’s available and preference tools that get the job done quickly.”

I work in several different languages. VSCode has TreeSitter and a bevy of slick plug-ins. NP++ does not. I can use VSCode on both Windows and Linux. If I’ve got a desktop environment, I will hands down pick VSCode over NP++ every time.

Otherwise, let’s be real, NeoVim is king.

Uhh I’m in the same boat… I wouldn’t call myself a “conservative” … I just was looking for an instance that wasn’t completely full. If there’s some Nazi shit going on here, I’m out.

If it’s used as an identifier to link together rows from different tables. Also known as “joining” tables. SSN (with birthdate) is a unique identifier, and so it’s natural to choose as a primary/foreign key.

I fear signal has to be mentioned a thousand times from all directions before they “trust” it.

Yes. A thousand times yes. The risk profiles humans naturally adapted to are not well aligned with the artificial risk profiles we see today. I can’t fault someone for not transcending their own natural instincts, because heaven knows I can’t.

Signal is licensed under AGPL.

Then nuance is dead and nothing is good enough.

Okay, so the Apache license is a “closed source” license?

Sure. That’s one possible vector. Is it “Open Source” software? Yes, they accept contributions for the community. It’s is “Libre” software? No, they depend on closed source software.

I’m trying to illustrate that the definition of “open source” can be weaponized for no good reason. Dismissing Signal because it doesn’t fit a narrow definition of “open source” makes everybody less secure. I have a hard enough time convincing my non-tech-savvy friends to switch to Signal. There’s a snowball’s chance in Hell I’ll convince them to use something even more obscure.

Following that logic:

Many popular Linux distros contain closed source blobs. Ergo Linux is closed source.

Not open source

There are lots of good reasons to be upset with how Signal produces builds. And maybe Signal has no good reason why they keep opaque dependencies. But by every common definition of the term, Signal is open source. Being on FDroid is not the definition of open source.

Please don’t gatekeep. There are better ways to criticize Signal. This is not one of them.

Non-sarcastic reply:

Horseshoe theory isn’t so much about “the far-left is the same as the far-right” as it is about “all authoritarians derive power from the same human instincts” and the further left or right you go, the more authoritarian you have to be in order to achieve the social narrative you’re aiming for.

Edit: misplaced word