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• AFAB = assigned female at birth; basically because they happened to have a vagina at birth, so they were supposed to like pink and dolls and a lower paycheck and whatever else society has decided the female experience should be like.
• AMAB = assigned male at birth
• NB = non-binary; a person that identifies neither as male nor as female. They might be something in the middle, or they might be something completely different.
• femme = basically the way women have traditionally looked or behaved (long hair, pink etc.)
• fundie = fundamentalist Christian; basically very conservative, very eccentric people with world views they claim to be traditionally Christian
• bussy = boy pussy; the anus of a man, or it may also be used to describe the vagina of a transmasc person
• transmasc = transmasculine; a person who was assigned female at birth, but who rather identifies with masculinity and may have taken measures to be perceived as such (clothing, hormones, surgery etc.)

Big difference to the Wikimedia Foundation is how much money they need. The Mozilla Corporation (which develops Firefox) has around 750 employees.

Optimistically, only 500 of those are devs and work on Firefox. If you pay those a wage of 100,000 USD, that makes 50 million USD of costs just for wages.

Firefox has less than 200 million monthly active users, so everyone using it would need to donate $0.25, or alternatively 1% of users would need to donate $25, yearly.

That’s a lot of money to hope people donate, and this is a very optimistic ballpark estimate.

Yeah, the amount of money they get from donations is so tiny compared to what they need for developing Firefox, that they don’t even divert it for Firefox.
They use it for activism, community work and in the past, they’ve also passed it on to other open-source projects, which are also important for the web but don’t have the infrastructure or public awareness to get donations directly.

I guess, you could buy a handful of USB sticks…

I mean, if we’re talking about all those problems, the no-type-annotations issue is rather specific for Python, JS/TS and Ruby.

But in general, I feel like there’s somewhat of an old world vs. new world divide, which happened when package registries started accepting libraries from everyone and their cat.

In C, for example, most libraries you’ll use will be quite well-documented, but you’ll also never hear of the library that Greg’s cat started writing for the niche thing that you’re trying to do.

Unfortunately, Greg’s cat got distracted by a ball of yarn rolling by and then that was more fun than writing documentation.
That’s the tradeoff, you get access to more libraries, but you just can’t expect all of them to be extremely high-quality…

As a musician, this is how I feel when talking to percussionists. Pretty much anything that makes a sound can be used for percussion and plenty of them have been given specific names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_percussion_instruments

Yeah, man, I’ve got this chronic fatigue thingamabob and if you’re asking me when I’m most energetic, the answer is never…

Breath of the Wild took a somewhat novel approach to open-world in that it filled the game world with lots of interesting landmarks, then gave you lots of movement options and just let you explore on your own.

In particular, because Nintendo took a risk and introduced this novel concept into an established series, it had a big audience and enough budget to really show off that this concept works.

That’s why lots of gamedevs took inspiration and steered their open-world games into similar directions.

While I’m not aware of any titles that I would refer to as “clones”, the question isn’t far-fetched:

Multiple games have since cited Breath of the Wild as an influence. These include Genshin Impact, Ghost of Tsushima, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Halo Infinite, Elden Ring, Pokémon Legends: Arceus, and Horizon Forbidden West.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Breath_of_the_Wild#Legacy

Some indie titles I’d throw in, that clearly took inspiration:

• A Short Hike
• Lil Gator Game
• Tchia

Statcounter relies on web tracking to try to estimate the usage shares. Theoretically, there could be millions of science PCs running Linux, but one guy is browsing the internet with a Windows PC. Basically, take this data with a massive grain of salt…

Just because a company has created a product, doesn’t mean that anyone has made a moral judgement. Even if some vegetarians decide to eat this, it still doesn’t mean that all vegetarians agree.

I had my mum try some fried tofu recently and she said, it tastes like spam. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It always bothers me about this whole vertical tab concept, that, on a theoretical level, I’m fully on board with what you’re saying. But in practice, I’ll often have Firefox tiled side-by-side with another window, and then it’s painful for that sidebar to take up any space at all.

I am happy, though, that this feature is being integrated for the people that find it useful.

I don’t understand what he’s saying at all, though.

They announced both initiatives, LLM and built-in sidebar tabs, I think, even in the same blog post.
An LLM is much easier to integrate, of course it’s going to be ready a few months earlier.

I do not understand what was supposedly worked on for 10 years. Assuming he means sidebar tabs because LLMs didn’t exist 10 years ago, yeah, they’ve done the work to allow for extensions to provide sidebar tabs. You install Tree-Style Tabs or similar and you have sidebar tabs.

I haven’t looked into the chatbot thingy at all yet, but if it meets basic quality standards (local LLM, not too large in size, actually helpful), then personally, I do actually think that it should be included by default, because it’ll primarily help out the kind of users who don’t know to install add-ons.

Like, people had the same complaint with the translation feature they included, and I’m just seeing my dad who doesn’t speak English, who would never hear of such an add-on, where this just opens up a big chunk of the web to him.

It’s often a matter of people re-sharing content from other platforms, where the source had already been stripped…

Hmm, I think, you can download one of the .tar.gz files from here: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/releases
Unpack it and then just run the executable that’s inside.

And yes, images are absolutely possible.
You can just place the image file in the file structure and then in your Markdown file, you can use this syntax:

![Optional description for sight-impaired users](relative/path/to/image.png)

I usually create an “images” sub-folder next to the Markdown file, then it’s just:

![](images/something.png)

That Lemmy guide uses mdBook: https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/

It originates from the Rust ecosystem, but it’s basically language agnostic.
You basically provide it Markdown files in a certain file structure and then it does the rest. Really easy to use.

I don’t know a thing about cats, but I would’ve expected there to be more diseases in the city, with all the humans, car exhaust, trash etc…

At first I thought, they’re releasing this news now to drown out the Concord news, but 30 year anniversary, maybe they did have this planned a little longer. 🙃