Jerkface (any/all)

Could be a thing among FOSS projects

I usually treat a path as a series of dereference operations, each with a potential security precondition. You could protect /secure/… with credential checks, and report 403 at that point, before even looking at the rest of the resource path. It exposes the prefix but not the multiple endpoints that might exist below that point.

No. Because your vendor has locked you in and conditioned you for so long. They intentionally make this transition difficult. But once you’ve done it once, it’s easy to do it as many times as you need.

When I think “unix-like” I think, “everything is a file, configurations are human-readable, executables do one simple thing and combine to perform complex operations”

no /s

I find the community logo triggering.

I have written a template that I can just add notes to in a very simple notation and I get three scores, one tabbed for chromatic, one tabbed for a diatonic, and one without tabs to practice sight reading. Now that I’ve done the work, it’s super easy to take notes (no pun intended, but not a bad one) and embed it in my org journal or whatever. It did take me three or four hours to get everything working just the way I wanted. The output is gorgeous!

I adore lilypond and emacs

We say we’re not. But we keep coming back to it. Lemmy is only better than Reddit in the sense that capital isn’t exploiting us. But it’s still Reddit in every other respect, and we get to engage in our stupid little addiction with less social harm.

There are lots of places we could go for meaningful discussion. And sometimes that happens here, too! But it happens in the context of the medium, which absolutely does encourage circle jerking, dog piling, groupthink, and meme culture. Look, you can use a chisel in place of a Phillips screwdriver, but you’re going to get hurt a lot. Giving people downvotes and then telling them, tsk tsk, you must be NICE with your downvotes… it’s just an uphill battle.

Lemmy is at risk of becoming a circle jerk and an echo chamber

I’m not sure anyone aspires for it to be anything more than that.

people aren’t posting them because they’re worried about downvotes.

Such people are looking for a different medium. This is ersatz Reddit. We downvote. It’s fundamental to the culture and the format. It doesn’t have to appeal to everyone. There’s the whole rest of the Fediverse, where AFAIK you will not find a single downvote.

There is no “supposed to be used” for. They are meaningless internet points that we give to comments and posts for our own emotional enjoyment. Treating it as more than that is always going to cause problems.

Stole it from my character in “Shadows of Doubt”

So basically you paid money to store someone else’s oven. How long before we are installing vending machines in our kitchens instead of fridge and stove.

Been programming since the 80s, ditto.

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Then why are young men being disproportionately affected? Older men are not swinging like this.

I love unix shops.

1. this isn’t an image macro / meme template

2. this isn’t how the humor of a meme template works. This is the same joke, worse. This is just stealing a joke.

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