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Cake day: September 11th, 2023

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  • I was thinking about this the other day. Because Lemmy instances keep defederating from each other, I don’t really experience Lemmy. I experience a fragment of Lemmy as determined by the admins of the instance I’m connected to.

    Even if I run my own instance, I guess there’s nothing stopping instances from defederating from me (or just refusing to federate to begin with because my instance is too small to bother with).

    Is there even a way to experience all of Lemmy, including spam and things some people don’t agree with?








  • Yeah, package manager is a big one. Many of us got burned by rpm’s early on and just avoided all rpm-based distros since then.

    Of course as you say that hasn’t been a problem for over 10 years but the scars haven’t gone away.

    I’d only recommend Ubuntu to someone if I knew they knew some else using Ubuntu (so I could tell them to hassle that person instead of me when they have problems).

    Otherwise, I’d absolutely recommend Fedora, because it’s actually up to date unlike Debian. I use it myself because it tends to have the best of what the open source community has to offer while not needing constant tweaking





  • It’s more like android apps from early versions of Android before the permissions became user-managable.

    It won’t prompt you to give the application access to certain permissions, all the permissions are predefined in the manifest by whoever published the application to flathub. When you run the application you just hope it won’t cause too much havoc (you can of course verify the permissions before running it, but I guarantee most people won’t)

    Flatpak supports sandboxing but due to how most desktop applications want access to your home folder, network etc many apps simply disable it.

    Regardless of the level of sandboxing applied to the app, Flatpak is a great way for a developer to package once run anywhere. Prior to Flatpak, if you wanted to support multiple distros, you had to build a package for each distro or hope somebody working on that distro would do it for you.

    Inb4 AppImage was here first. And if you mention Snap then GTFO




  • It’s like rebrands.

    Most rebrands occur because the average marketing person is pretty average and “rebrand” looks good on your CV.

    A couple of million later, half way through, customers hate the new brand and the marketing people who started it have already left for greener pastures

    Redesigning a perfectly good design that everyone is used to allows you to put “designed Netflix user interface” on your CV, and since management has to spend a ton of money on it, suddenly your team is worth something