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  • The KDE guys have been on fire for the past two years. Between their theming, color selection, and session handling they’ve come a long ways. They’ve also implemented some gnome-only features such as the overview, albeit in a very optional way. As opposed to eliminating a panel and forcing you to use the overview to see what applications or windows you have open, or available to launch, it’s just a window management tool instead of a UX paradigm.

    Their wayland session is stable and also deals with xwayland in a very different way. If you set a custom scaling factor, the QT apps and GTK apps are talked to in a way that makes the same scaling factor consistent across all your applications, even under a wayland session with xwayland. The Gnome devs hand-wring about how the world has to be perfect before implementing an idea, where the KDE devs try something and then iterate if it’s successful.




  • Shadywack@lemmy.worldtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlPlease, do not use Brave.
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    1 year ago

    What’s ironic is that there wasn’t crypto hate. Though for me that’s why Brave can go diaf, along with crypto. Crypto is dogshit puffed full of birdshit, and I can’t fucking stand pro-crypto anything. I actively work against crypto, and am quite pleased that I’m given multiple opportunities to undermine and fuck over the crypto communities. Also it will not stop, until crypto is dead, so you making it seem like a bad thing to be anti-crypto is falling on deaf ears for me.

    I’m for whatever is against crypto. The more damage I can personally do to the crypto scene, the better.






  • You’re a really pleasant person, and I’m also rethinking, it’s such a mixed bag of a concept as to what’s “better”. Maybe what really matters is the overall oversight of the instance hosts and style of administration for these micro-communities. I really do appreciate the tone of discussion here and have to check myself as people here don’t need to wear the “battle gloves” as it were.


  • That is a really good point, and I’m on the same page with you as far as reposting where credit is given. What I’m referring to on the concept of reposts is more akin to something posted by an originating author, which is neglected or ignored, until a high karma user simply reposts it and an engagement algorithm is tuned to float it in the feed based on karma and individual user-influence. The end result is that original content gets discouraged in lieu of limited gatekeepers of the “hive mind” nature of deigning what’s “popular” vs the quality of content sorted by non-karma based metrics, if that makes sense.

    To put it another way, it’s just my personal preference after seeing the sheer amount of low effort karma farmers that recycle unoriginal content recently posted who are able to float posts to the top, as opposed to truly original or engaging ideas being encouraged.

    That’s for me at least why I’m so turned off to the idea of a user-centric reputation model as opposed to the content quality metrics, that being the individual upvote and downvote trends for each post. There won’t ever be a perfect system, and I’m sure there will be reasons to attack that notion later.


  • It was key to the early days of Reddit’s success, and the byproducts of this approach have produced effects that many view as a net-negative. Karma farming and copying content overall harmed the quality of content as time went on. While it was initially a successful engagement mechanism, in a more mature environment it will be counter productive, in my opinion.


  • I gotta call bullshit. I’ve no doubt that they have a robust team on the IT side that branches into BAU, Devops, Ops, CSC, and Neteng…but to really put it into perspective that staff could run the show with 500 people. That’s also factoring in a good rotation for on-call and backshifts. The other 1500 are broken up into marketing, strategy, administration, and a bunch of other bullshit like “convergence”. I’m sure they have vendor management, government relations, and a few other trappings…but the vast majority of what they have is stupendously useless.

    They have developers working on shit nobody wants, nor will they ever use. The way companies work in this day and age is the epitome of resource waste and bullshit job titles. I’m pushing back on that notion. There’s something, sure, but 2k people’s worth is a tremendous waste. You’re not off base being surprised it isn’t more too, as many companies simply waste more time and salary on stupid worthless shit that doesn’t benefit the company or its mission, and it’s often at the behest of the board and/or investors who do risk management and growth strategy (that seldom pans out).