Why? I am not living in the us but it’s a useful phrase.

I know it’s a very unpopular opinion but I actually like the aesthetics of infrastructure and industry.

When I see a steel mill, an oil rig or powerplants like wind parks, hydro- or nuclear power I am reminded of the human ingenuity that went into it. How many people needed to band together to work on something bigger than their tribe. I am reminded of our awe inspiring power to shape our environment completely.

Of course with great power… You know the rest.

Some sort of super community that are searchable (i.e. not something Clientside) and span multiple servers. The fragmentation of having the same few communities everywhere is my biggest issue here.

In general I want more and better discoverability of communities anywhere.

It could be a good product. I neither hate it nor like it.

I personally know someone in advertisement and viral marketing is more widespread than I think people realize. That is why I would like people to be sceptical about stuff that gets recommended with this kind of frequency (and IMHO with text in a tone that I’ve read in actual viral marketing campaigns) especially if the product is commercial.

This method of advertising is used because it works and as you can see by the backlash here merely suggesting that it could be an ad and asking people to be sceptical/cautious is taken as breaking a social taboo.

My intention is not to personally attack you just to get that out of the way. That is why I prefaced my statement with the tinfoil hat part.

I don’t know if the company can afford that. I did not look into it enough but I know that viral marketing is not a very expensive marketing strategy and I hate it.

I can speak only on my experience here on Lemmy where I hear it mentioned with a rather high frequency and in ways that suggest to me that it could be an advert.

I will not apologize for being sceptical when it comes to commercial product recommendations and I suggest everybody do the same as viral marketing is extremely widespread in the modern net.

Ok I need to put my tinfoil hat on for a moment but I think there is some viral marketing going on for it on Lemmy. The frequency I see it recommended or mentioned and the unorganic way it is brought up gives me advert vibes.

I have horrible spelling and sometimes write in an archaic register. I also often write in a way that sounds rather aggressive which is not my intention most of the time. Ai helps me rewrite that shit and makes me more sensitive to tone in written text.

Of course just like normal spell check and auto completion feature one still needs to read it a final time.

Actually I think games would just include Linux Kernel modules for Anti-Cheat (which would be terrible as the Kernel has no consistent internal api). Or whole kernels that run in a hypervisor.

Never underestimate greed.

Removed by mod

Minecraft and dwarf fortress. I may pick up factorios extension if and when I have time

It… It is? I am not a native speaker but I would’ve for sure thought it was a male name…

I once got a temporary ban on another platform for arguing/suggesting that dude has become genderless.

I know multiple woman that use “dude” that way, but some people are somewhat understandably sensitive on the topic of gender.

That’s not the definition of the singularity…

Yes many. Probably more than I will ever watch :P

If I did not recommend them yet I also can’t stop doing that.

I did too much math today…

I was curious not knowing that evince is getting retired and looked into this It seems there was a problem even for established contributors which is why it was eventually forked. This Blogpost goes into detail.

It seems the main maintainer had very little time for the project. I don’t know if that was the case 4 years ago but if it was it would explain some things.

No thanks. I don’t want nor need to be in the club. Nor will I ever go out of my way to show people that I’m “worth having around” in my free time. I don’t think that’s healthy.

If they don’t see my worth or I am actually worthless to have around I’ll search for someplace else. Like I said already: I have never had that problem in any other project.

Also I don’t feel entitled to have my patches merged. I can maintain them myself if necessary.

Yes which is why I never said the whole of gnome is like that but what my experience was and why I suggested investigating if the claim has merit.

Great attitude! I was the issue all along. Who would’ve thought.

Strange that I didn’t have that problem almost anywhere else where I contributed.

Edit: you do see how your comment matches my experience that it feels more like a closed club of elites right?

Yea I think there is a misunderstanding. My first question was not rhetorical. I was just expressing that my personal experience matches the one described above.

With that both statements could have some truth: 5/6 MRs could be merged and it could still be that they dislike external contributions.

I will not file a complaint or anything like that. It was not that I was insulted nor assaulted just they gave me the vibe that external contribution was not very welcome. While frustrating that is ok, even if it could’ve been better communicated. Also it was like 4 years ago.

MRs from who? Because in my experience it often feels like a closed club in gnome land.

I’ve had experience trying to contribute to evince the gnome PDF viewer. It was so frustrating and I was immediately and repeatedly confronted with negativity and distrust that I quit. That was the only time I did that after making a serious effort.

If you scare away anyone else it’s no wonder that it seems like there is no problem.