Mereo @ Mereo @lemmy.ca

Mereo is a sociologist who is also a nerd. He believes in open-source softw

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A lot of people were given false hope that Brexit would magically solve all their problems. People now regret it.

What the hell happened to her leg?

What the hell?!?!?! This is a server OS! It needs to be as light as possible and for the sake of server stability and security, admins carefully choose the installed apps. Microsoft can't just install new applications on a whim.

This is fuged up.

Yes, I agree, it has to be fair for everyone. What I'm talking about is instinctive, primal behaviour that we can't control because we're social animals and when we meet we naturally have a discussion with the person we're talking to and we might end up talking about the project without taking into account our colleagues far away from the office.

We're still adapting to this new hybrid reality.

• Garbage in -> Garbage out (x2)
• Garbage in (x2) -> = Garbage out (x4)
• Garbage in (x4) -> = Garbage out (x8)
• Garbage in (x8) -> = Garbage out (x16)
• ...

The thing is, water cooler chats are impromptu, they are not planned. You meet your colleague, you talk about the weather, what's new in his life, and one thing leads to another, to maybe to talk about work and how to strategise to get something done.

These impromptu conversations happen on a whim, they happen organically. They cannot be forced.

Another service to the graveyard: https://killedbygoogle.com/

Ottawa's city council declared the city as the 'Shawarma Capital of Canada'. I think these goats will serve the city well. The news: https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-is-the-shawarma-capital-of-canada-council-declares-1.6830648

They will need to stay the course and not be tempted with huge Microsoft savings Microsoft will give them just like what happened with Munich: https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-not-windows-why-munich-is-shifting-back-from-microsoft-to-open-source-again/

It is nice to be a patient gamer. I recently bought Cyberpunk and I'm enjoying it. I will get Dragon Dogma's 2 when it comes out of beta.

In the early days of YouTube, after I saw a video where they boiled a can of Coke and found 13 spoons of sugar. I stopped drinking that stuff. Aspartame or not, I'd rather drink water.

Which DE are you using? I'm using KDE.

For NVIDIA users, that's the right answer. For AMD users, it's already ready. No problems here (6700xt)

Dude or Dudette, you've plenty of choice. If you don't want to pay for the software, no problem! Download an open-source app. Problem solved!

It is logical. With open source software, the source code is out there for everyone to see how user data is being handled. But with closed source, you can't, it's a black box, so you have to trust the developer on how user data is handled.

Nevertheless, they will need legal guidance to navigate this issue. These Lemmy instances are run by volunteers.

Yup. It is an official proof that the package wasn't delivered.

This sort was introduced in Lemmy 0.19:

A new scaled sort option has been added. This sort is identical to the Hot sort, but also takes into account the number of each community’s active monthly users, and so helps to boost posts from less active communities to the top.

https://lemmy.ml/post/5711722

"Just like the megathread," an announcement reads, "free-form ads encourage multiple users to come together, get the information they need, and deep dive into the topic at hand." Reddit explained that the open-ended nature of these ads will give advertisers more freedom to explore creativity and, hopefully, to start conversations with users.

Enshittification to the extreme....

Reddit is planning six tiers of early access based on each "participant's contributions to Reddit," the company said in its updated SEC filing. Those tiers are based on a user's "karma" score, ostensibly an aggregate total of up/down votes on posts and comments.

The first tier of users will be those "who have meaningfully contributed to Reddit community programs," though what that means isn't explained more clearly. After that come tier 2 users, who must hold at least 200,000 karma points or have taken at least 5,000 moderator actions. Tier three includes users and moderators who hold at least 100,000 karma points and have taken 2,500 moderator actions. Tiers 4 and 5 are each half of the previous tier's total, and tier 6 includes everyone else, with a waitlist available if the total number of shares purchased exceeds the original 1.76 million.

Basically people who karma farm with low effort posts. This will only encourage low quality posts.