I think you are underestimating me, but I'm glad you are against America. I won't say what I think because that probably wouldn't be such a good idea for my health. But trust me we're on the same page.

Yeah the Debian Project's position makes a lot of sense to me. They're basically saying that they won't be wasting a bunch of resources trying to seek out LLM generated code and purge it and will instead just focus on making sure ALL the code is up to their quality standards. This will likely mean they spend a lot of time sifting out slop anyway, and will allow them to keep just focusing on making the project do what it's always done. Ship a stable, usable, and free distro.

Harmonica. Specifically when you have an old griselled cowboy playing it around a fire on a cold windy night in 1832.

For me it's more like "which one of these is least likely to give me a rash"

I used to not be able to leave the table until they could press on my stomach and feel how "full" I was. I used to force myself to eat until I was ready to puke. So now it takes a conscious effort as an adult to stop eating when I'm full.

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary”

Why is it a problem? Literally every single major social media platform has an ideological slant. Twitter (X) is the nazi one, reddit is the like omega liberal vote blue no matter who one, facebook is mindless reaction, etc. If lemmy.world was considered the "default" instance I could say the same thing about it being different than my own political beliefs.

I think the problem is that people can't handle seeing places they aren't welcome anymore. Marxist-Leninists are allowed to have their own spaces, and do not have to cater to other peoples views. There is ALWAYS going to be a dominant ideology and a set of rules on each instance. You don't agree with the ones lemmy.ml has. That's okay.

Algorithmic social media silos people into their little boxes where they only see what they want to see. People are so used to that now that imo they've forgotten how to handle being faced with a place/group of people who just fundamentally disagree with them, and are not open to hearing what they have to say. Yet that is just reality. People need to learn to deal the fact those places and those people exist.

You probably know a lot of the stuff just not the terms for it. If you are interested in like tiling or scrolling window managers you can look up videos on those terms and see them. The difference between them and a DE is that they are literally JUST a window manager. They don't come with the other features of a DE. You basically won't have a GUI unless you build one out. This gets you into the realm of like Linux ricing. Where people spend tons of effort and time making their computers look and function in a unique way.

same. Honestly if I didn't live in the US I would probably be less anti-american. Living here is very radicalizing.

My reply makes plenty of sense if you know how to read. I didn't call .ml liberal. Quite the opposite actually.

imo coffee is so utterly disgusting it doesn't matter what you put in it. You could piss in a cup of coffee and it wouldn't taste any worse.

哈哈哈哈哈哈美国人。。。；-；

Not only that but they explicitly said years ago that they WANTED someone to go make a liberal instance for liberals to use and do their own thing. Which is what happened. Yet people continue to throw a fit that .ml maintains its policies. The entire point of lemmy is that you can choose the instance that works best for you! The entire reason many of the original people came to lemmy was that reddit banned Marxist-Leninist (what you would call "tankie") communities. And even many just vaguely leftist spaces. So people made their own thing where no one person controls what is allowed and what isn't. That's what federation is all about. If you don't like that there are instances that disagree with you on a fundamental level and ban you for your opinions then you don't actually understand what the point of federation is to begin with. I mean ML is in the name. What did you expect?

(edit to clarify I'm asking the OP not the commenter I am agreeing with the commenter.)

What is lemmy.ml?

Recently there seems to be some of misunderstanding what the lemmy.ml instance is about, especially from newer users.

Lemmy.ml has always been a niche site, and it will most likely stay this way. We don’t have any intentions to turn it into a mainstream instance, or set a goal of getting as many users as possible. Our goal is simple: make an instance that people like to use. I would say that we have been successful in this, but obviously it is impossible to satisfy everyone.

The reason for this is that @dessalines and I are paid to develop Lemmy, while donations from lemmy.ml users only make up a negligible part of our income. Besides, having more users would force us to spend more time moderating, and less time for development. Lemmy works quite differently from big tech sites like Reddit in this regard: while they get more money with each extra user through advertising, for us it is the opposite. So we would much rather have a smaller, non-toxic, and friendly userbase, than a large one.

Part of the problem might be that lemmy.ml is described as “flagship instance”, which can certainly be interpreted to mean “mainstream” or “general purpose”. I struggle to come up with a better, more accurate description. If you can think of one, please comment here.

If you dont like the way lemmy.ml works, thats okay. Federation exists exactly to solve that problem, let different groups have their own instances, with their own rules and political views. You can see the list of existing instances, and instructions for setting up a new one on join-lemmy.org.

In particular, I would like to see someone (or a group of people) create a mainstream, or liberal instance. That should help to avoid further drama, and avoid attempts to turn lemmy.ml into something that it is not. @dessalines and I would certainly be willing to help with any technical problems that such an instance runs into, and include it on join-lemmy.org (just like any other instance that meets the code of conduct).

With Gnome it's the default to not have one on the desktop view. Then to remove the topbar you just use an extension. Just Perfection gives you a lot of UI tweak options.

It doesn't bother me much. I've actually kind of always wished more software would just stop changing things and go into maintenence mode. I do hope they continue getting funding for the security updates tho.

This is really hard to gauge for China specifically, because there’s as you noted no electorally elected officials.

As I noted? Not only did I not say this it's not true? China has elections...

I'm pretty sure there are laws that specifically say if you do something to prevent your plate from being read by these devices it's illegal. But it wouldn't matter anyway. They track you based on more than your plate. They even track pedestrians by looking at their clothing and such.

Was anyone hiding being a "tankie"? I mean I don't really use the term I just call it Marxist-Leninist but if that's what you want to call it I'm fine with that. I mean I'm clearly not trying to hide my political views if you look at my username. Not sure what you needed "evidence" for. But more power to ya i guess.

I see what you mean. You get rid of the buttons so you can click and drag the window bar without accidentally clicking them right? I've got everything so smushed into one bar it's like the opposite. Altho I really don't USE the buttons since I have it in fullscreen all the time and just close things from the Gnome task switcher. So maybe I'll remove my buttons too. Might be a good idea.

This is what I mean by the bar being all smushed together:

That's the entire screen. I messed with the browser settings to make it so I had more screen space for the actual webpage.