SEO slop is the first thing that comes to mind. It’s super-charged in ubiquity with AI now, but it’s been a thing about as long as search engines.
Sometimes you land on a page and you can tell you’re only there because they loaded it with keywords, repeating the same phrases you searched for in every variation.
Right! It’s not that there’s less. It’s that there’s a discoverability issue, and on top of that more stuff means less cultural relevance for any given work.
I don’t think I’d personally have much use for it, at least so far.
But I see it going dark places. If people figured out how to delete their own, that’s one step away from authorities or even just criminals being able to rewrite other people’s realities.
Yeah, it’s pretty sparse here all around. But don’t be afraid to try opening threads like the ones you mentioned in the comms people recommend.
A lot of communities here have subscribers, that just aren’t seeing anything to comment on. If you ask a question or give people a space to talk about themselves, sometimes a few will come out of the woodwork to chime in.
Pizza is also, like other foods, apparently a salad.
I mean, yes, but I don’t think anyone is intending to do use packages only based one factor. Popularity is a reasonable heuristic for quality and long-term continued support. And my reading of OP is that they’re trying to gauge the popularity to use it for that. I think it’s also a decent enough measure for discovery, since usefulness (hopefully) should correlate with popularity and the latter is more measurable.
Libraries are awesome!
Nice touch making Months plural and Day singular.
I also like how Wednessecond isn’t going to be the end of the list, trailing comma is there.
Cursed.
Cathedral and Bazaar is one of the classic essays. It’s available in book form too.
Free Software, Free Society from RMS is also a foundational text. It’s online, but you can buy a hardcopy as well.
I’m sure there are more up to date options, but those are the basics to get started.
Now I don’t have to type that in again. Phew!
In the past, I’ve used Fcitix (in Plasma anyway) and found it to work well.
Since I switched distros and moved to Wayland though, I haven’t managed to get it working again.
Same here. I keep Tubular and Pipepipe installed alongside of NewPipe. Usually at least one will work if I update to latest releases.
False Swipe.
If I’m going out, at least break the rules of reality.
The idea you’re getting at is ‘security by obscurity’, which in general is not well regarded. Having secret code does not imply you have secure code.
But I think you’re right on a broader level, that people get too comfortable assuming that something is open source, therefore it’s safe.
In theory you can go look at the code for the foss you use. In practice, most of us assume someone has, and we just click download or tell the package manager to install. The old adage is “With enough eyes, all bugs are shallow”. And I think that probably holds, but the problem is many of the eyes aren’t looking at anything. Having the right to view the source code doesn’t imply enough people are, or even meaningfully can. (And I’m as guilty of being lax and incapable as anyone, not looking down my nose here.)
In practice, when security flaws are found in oss, word travels pretty fast. But I’m sure more are out there than we realize.
Interesting, I never knew. Is that the case for aviation industry in other parts of the world too?
Enjoy clicking the cat!
Right! Emphasis, however sadly, on ‘should be’.
Hard to say it’s not getting enough attention - there are a lot of serious problems going on in the world today, that people are justified in making noise about.
But one of my pet issues is the switch to the metric system in the US. Why are we not working towards this? It was standardized decades ago. Should be uncontroversial to deprecate imperial, even though it obviously can’t happen overnight.
My parents weren’t very restrictive. But one time, to get me to stop asking for a new game, my Dad said I couldn’t get any new ones until I beat the last game I got.
I think about that a lot still. I think it would have been a good rule, outside of some edge cases like games that were endless or too easy.
But it was off the cuff, he didn’t remember saying it. By the time I finished some game and brought it up, I think he said something like “well don’t you have other games you never finished?”
Check out !communitypromo@lemmy.ca and !newcommunities@lemmy.world to keep an eye out for cool comms. (Also, the former has a pinned post with suggested communities that are not politics/tech.)