That amazing experience of having to print out instructions at a friends house to recover a dual-boot system after either grub fucked up or windows XP fucked up. Good times.

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A blog entry on how it works and what it does at a high level could be nice. I’m not sure what I’m looking at, but there must be some API call to Lemmy and it’s probably happening on the server due to CORS; not sure how this would work just in the browser if the Lemmy instance has CORS setup…

Edit: OK the instance 0d.gs does in fact not have CORS 😮 That’s a little concerning…

Hold up, neither does programming.dev? Uh… @recursive_recursion@programming.dev and @Ategon@programming.dev is that safe? I’m not a security expert but doesn’t this allow for cross site attacks?

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Steve Jobs should be a casket 👀

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May I introduce you to left parenthesis and right parenthesis? May I further introduce you to millions of parentheses?

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the idea boils down to either outside instances aggregating votes made on their side and sending final voting result on a scale -1/0/1 or alternatively this aggregation could be done by the hosting community

Could you provide an example calculation? I’m not getting it. Do you want to map values from one range to another e.g [-1000,1000] to [-1,1]? Will each instance have its own mapping?

Also, computationally, I’m not sure how this is going to work iteratively. From what I understand, activitypub sends events either singular or batched to other servers e.g User X votes up, that’s an event sent, User Y votes down, that’s another event sent. If I’m not mistaken, lemmy doesn’t store the events it receives so reconstituting a vote tally isn’t possible.

I kinda get where you’re coming from, but I’m not sure it’s the right solution.

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Goddammit, that’s a good one 🤣

Thanks!

What am I missing? What’s wrong with zip? Should tar.gz be used instead?

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clearly not

Fine, be that way 👋

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There’s constructive criticism and then there’s just yapping.

“Ermagerd GIMP devs are so shit at design” = yapping

“Just build a platform for designers” = supposed solution + it’s so easy, people are stupid for not having built this yet = yapping

Had it been, something like

I’m not a fan of GIMP’s design. It would be cool if had a way to help them. Maybe a platform to connect devs and designers? It could work like …

That would’ve been a completely different discussion.

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Alright making this really simple.

These are the interpretations of you and your words:

• you are a dev
• you think GIMP’s design is shit
• you think GIMP devs should be better at design and are worth shitting on
• you purport to have a solution

My words:

• stop shitting on devs for design
• build the solution you purport to have

Nowhere do I say “designers should write code”.

Are we on the same page now?

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here should be a platform that enables designers to relatively easily contribute to open source projects without learning git or whatever the fuck.

Make it then.

Do you know how difficult it is to make software that runs, let alone runs well? Do you know how difficult it is to stay on top of the constant messages, issues, PRs, and just churn that comes alone when that particular software gets popular? And on top of that devs are supposed to be design gods too?

If you think you have the solution: build it. Be a part of the solution. The developers of GIMP can’t do everything.

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C++ might not be as memory-safe as Rust, but let’s not pretend a Rust code base wouldn’t be riddled with raw pointers.

I’m curious. Why do you believe the last statement to be true?

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So many things I’d have to look up to understand what’s going on and why this is supposedly transphobic.

What bothers me more is private discussions being aired publicly.

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The German ministry for data protection and information security aka BfDI (yeah, it’s a mouth full) has one https://social.bund.de/

So has the Dutch government: https://social.overheid.nl/

And the EU has an official one too https://social.network.europa.eu/

Dunno if there are more. Maybe the French, Italians and Spanish do too. Maybe a list of governmental mastodon instances would be nice.