Let's be honest this is how it actually usually plays out:

1. Be a huge company

2. Make your employees sign an NDA

3. Make your code closed source

4. Use GPL code and not give a shit because you're a huge company with a legal team bigger than your Dev team

how we never got proper authorization

Why do I feel like this is a domestic abuse situation. Husband broke her laptop in order to reduce her attempts to communicate with others? She goes to get it repaired, he finds out.

I think it's the belief that the wife can't authorise the repair..

I'd hate to live in a world where just because something isn't immediately useful it shouldn't be researched.

Being able to demonstrate the ability to suppress a sonic boom would be huge.

I think we can blame the education system. At some point it became solely about passing some arbitrary threshold of students with high exam scores rather than about teaching students how to get by in life.

End result was an education system that simply teaches kids how to pass exams rather than basic life skills like critical thinking.

Yeah it's the one thing putting me off the platform. Like I'd describe myself as pretty hard left, and a pacifist. But Russia is a fascist state performing an unprovoked attack on a neighbouring nation. Just because many NATO nations have right wing problems (and tbh I feel a lot of people on the left haven't heard the expression "don't make the good the enemy of the perfect" - shit is bad in the West but it's nothing compared to life in Russia) doesn't undo that fact and Ukraine has the right to defend itself and it's right that we support that.

The fact that some may consider NATO's support to be hypocritical given the middle East doesn't mean it's wrong.

"Electric buses aren't safe because the batteries can catch on fire"

London here running hybrids for over half a decade with no issue.

At this point being a Republican should be considered synonymous to being part of a conspiracy to commit treason and be treated as such.

And the command prompt uses the directory terminology anyway with the dir command.

Yeah at the end of the day the fact the Fediverse is decentralised doesn't grant some magic immunity to local laws. I'm surprised there are people who think this?

There is an argument that tankies aren't exactly ownership by the people.

Like you don't look at the USSR and think "oh yeah the people really had ownership over their means of production*.

Ownership by the people implies the people have a say.

Yeah I was going to say the reason there hasn't been significant progress on a HIV virus isn't because it isn't possible but because for the longest time the bodies that could provide funding for the research thought HIV killing 'the gays' was a desirable outcome....

It makes no sense, our roads weren't even designed for it.

Though there is an extra exception on the weighing people thing. If it's a scientific or medical setting then the measurement is in kg (because official organisations are meant to use metric (though some of the weirder elements of our current government are trying to undo that for reasons)).

For those confused on the outside as to why we do this to ourselves there is sound reasoning. We switched to metric quite late having mostly done it to align with the EU. This means our largest demographic (boomers because of course) were brought up on an imperial measurement education. That means colloquially people use imperial as that's what they know. Officially most things are done in metric now but imperial measurements are included with items on sale to help the metric challenged generation. Metric is what is taught in schools with imperial only taught as a "if you encounter an imperial measurement this is what it is in metric". Though obviously there is a bit of a drag effect because when everyone else is using Imperial for measuring a particular thing, of course the kids are going to use that measure as well.

Road and speed signs stuck with imperial as the cost of replacing literally everything is greater than the value it would bring (especially given the demographic knowledge issue). And alcohol is measured in pints as the concept of a British pint is a cultural heritage (plus the extra 68ml compared to our European brethren is a bonus).

The aim was the eventually phase out imperial entirely as the people who weren't educated in metric gradually die out, though there as I said there are a bunch of government who decided for some reason to try and push officially switching back to Imperial for the sole reason of "let's diverge from the EU for the sole reason of being able to say brexit actually had a point to our boomer voters".

And not just the instance admins would be at risk as well. Any time you view an image your device is making a local copy of it. Meaning every person who viewed the image even accidentally is at risk as well.

I have noticed in my time on Lemmy is a recurring theme of users calling out "Reddit-like behaviour" then those same users engaging in the most toxic discourse reminiscent of the worst of Reddit.

Proton is revolutionary but it still isn't a solution for every game. And that's not even getting into the lack of support Nvidia gives to anything Linux.

... I can think of one possibility - an instance known that lemmy.world recently defederated from.

American plugs terrify me.

I would presume because their work insisted?

Yeah I was going to say VC throwing money at the newest fad isn't anything new, in fact startups strive exploit the fuck out of it. No need to actually implement the fad tech, you just need to technobabble the magic words and a VC is like "here have 2 million dollars".

In our own company we half joked about calling a relatively simple decision flow in our back end an "AI system".