I share your hope. I’m just offering the caveat that it might not go as quickly and smoothly as you expect (unless I’m reading your comments wrong - do correct me!)

It’s my perpetual gripe with many of those open tools that I love ideologically, but practically find lacking in some respects, typically UI/UX (including the pre-experience of the decision whether to use them). I don’t have all the skills or knowledge to fix the issues that bother me, as it’s often far eaiser to know what’s wrong than how to fix it.

I understand and endorse the philosophy that it’s unfair to demand things of volunteers already donating their time and skills to the public, but it creates some interdisciplinary problems. Even if capable UX designers were to tackle the issue and propose solutions or improvements, they might not all have the skills to actually implement them, so they’d have to rely on developers to indulge their requests.
And from my own experience, devs tend to prioritise function over form, because techy people are often adept enough at navigating less-polished interfaces. Creating a pretty frontend takes away time from creating stuff I’d find useful.

I don’t know if there’s an easy solution. The intersection between “People that can approach software from the perspective of a non-tech user”, “People that are willing to approach techy Software” and “People that are tech-savy enough to be able to fix the usability issues” is probably very small.

…oder einfach einen anderen Geschmack? Ich mag bitter, vor allem wenn noch andere Noten mitschwingen.

Is nicht für alle, das seh ich ein, aber ich bin bspw. mit Wein* oder Sekt nie warm geworden; Wirkung hin oder her. Das alleine kanns also nicht sein. Da bevorzuge ich dann doch ein leckeres Bier.

Über Geschmäcker will ich hier gar nicht streiten. Gibt bestimmt Dinge, die dir schmecken, mir aber nicht. So sind Menschen eben unterschiedlich, was ich auch gut finde:

Dann bleibt mehr für mich :p

*Außer einem guten Honigwein. Gibt aber auch da welche die nur widerlich sind. Vielleicht müsste ich nur mehr Weine probieren um einen zu finden den ich mag?

It’s so big that it can take a lot of bleeding before it dies. It doesn’t help that there is no significant enough consensus yet on an alternative.

It seems like some people are flocking to bsky, probably because it has better visibility and seems more accessible than Mastodon (“What’s an instance? How do I pick?”). Others are heading to Threads just because it’s there already.

If enough people move to some other platform to generate a critical mass, they’ll pull others too. Until then, inertia will keep X rolling a good while to come.

I prefer Mastodon to what is ultimately still a for-profit corporation (“public benefit” notwithstanding), but both are better than Twatter.

Ich iel: Gewalt sollte die letzte Lösungsmaßnahme sein, wenn alles andere versagt.

Ich in Zivilisations-Spielen: Mist, mit Gewalt komm ich nicht weiter. Dann muss ich es halt mit Diplomatie versuchen bis ich wieder genug Militär hab.

Echt so. Wogegen soll der läuternde Zorn der heiligen Kriegsmaschinen entfesselt werden? Wofür überhaupt eine Fabrik bauen, wenn sie nichtmal Feinde anzieht und damit Gelegenheiten für Verehrung des Geallesten* durch Zerstörung seiner Feinde? Nachher wird den Maschinengeistern langweilig…

*Laienversuch, Omnissiah irgendwie zu Verzangendeutschen - ggf gerne korrigieren

The value of distributed redundancy

Ich mag deinen Namen. Ich find den witzig. Dachte das könnte dich freuen.

Given the heavy use of subject-specific jargon, I’d guess as much. I wouldn’t go to the length of looking up neuroscience terms just to roast neuroscientists, because that just seems like a poor happy chemical return on the mental energy investment, whatever the proper terms for that might be.

Now, if you’d ask me to build a data model to analyse my unhappiness for key influencers, we’re in business.

Or maybe he felt it was a funny implication to make. I know we sometimes have a reputation for being serious, but some of us are just good at deadpan deliveries.

Seems like a case where a particular claim of a select group was generalised over a supergroup by way of being the subject of memes that ran away with the stereotype.

It’s like that one fraud falsifying studies about a specific type of vaccines in an attempt to sell his own, only for people to latch on to the “vaccine bad” part of the story without limit, nuance or critical examination.

Does anyone still know where the original “just friends” claim stems from, in which context, supported by which arguments, what refutations have been offered since and just how widespread among archaeologists it is today?

For the elites: conserve their hierarchy and the structures that enable the gradual accumulation of power in the hands of the few.

For the rest: conserve their place in the hierarchy and the comfort of the familiar.

I appreciate that you took the time to supply the nuances I omitted. While there is value in a positive framing, it’s important to acknowledge potential struggles as well. We can’t effectively tackle issues if we’re not aware of them.

In any case, while I’m not qualified to help you with your difficulties, I hope you find - or have found - a way to work on overcoming them. Dealing with insecurities, from my own experience, can be a tough process, further amplified by setbacks and a lack of perceived progress. But if you persevere, even if you might not feel that you have improved much, you may find yourself looking back at a time when it was worse and, by contrast, see the progress you’ve made. May that hope, that your future self will look back and be proud of your hard work, give you the strength to keep going.

Hourly wages for school teachers? I’m worried I might know the response, but does prep work outside school hours, in breaks etc. count as hours worked?

I considered that option too, but opted to go with the more positive guess. I’m not qualified either way, I just wanted to say something nice.

Well, you sound like a team player. You place the common good (fun together) higher than individual ambitions (or maybe place your own worth very low, I can’t tell from one sentence, but the outcome is the same).

Saying deliberately sounds like it’s not just a thing that you find yourself doing again and again, but a conscious choice. That suggests there was a choice to make; that the option of playing a self-centered character was something you were actively aware of, but were sufficiently repulsed by it to make a point of being better than those people.

I think you’re a nice person, empathetic, while not so entirely innocent as to not even consider the possibility, still principled and caring enough to actively defy it.

I think you’re a net good for this world.

Linux in general and Arch in particular are kinda laissez-faire in that they’ll allow you to shoot yourself in the foot. Some distros may put barriers in your way, others practically hand you the gun, but at the end of the day, the gun is freely available and it’s your own foot that you’re shooting.

That… that’s what they were saying, no? Companies should worry about their shit.

Die Infrastruktur ist belastet, weil wir über Jahrzehnte viel zu wenig investiert haben und das immer noch tun.

Das wäre der Punkt, auf den ich abzielen würde. Wenn die Aufnahme von Flüchtlingen ein Problem darstellt, ist es Zeit, die Infrastruktur zu verbessern.

Das größte Problem mit Flüchtlingen ist natürlich, dass sie den Rechten ein bequemes Ziel für Hetze liefern. Aber wenn sie so schon öffentlich als Problem wahrgenommen werden, würde ich das lieber als Ansatzpunkt nehmen, um auf echte Probleme hinzuweisen, statt zu versuchen hart zu kontern. Quasi den bestehenden Impuls umlenken, statt nur stur dagegenstemmen.

Vielleicht denke ich da zu naiv mit meinem strategischen Ansatz. Vielleicht funktioniert Politik so einfach nicht. Nur dass es in meinem Kopf Sinn macht muss ja nicht heißen, dass ich auch außerhalb meines Kopfes Recht hab.

Aber am Ende haben wir das gleiche Ziel. Wir müssen uns nur über den Weg einig werden :p