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It only becomes unscarce if you tell everyone else how to do it. If you can make gold, and no one else can, then its free money for you.

European at the start of the coma, American when they wake up.. ducks and runs

rust (site:programming.dev | site:lemmy.world)

That seemed to work, I guess you could keep appending instances?

Its just google, so no user specific impact.

Generically, with site:programming.dev, replace with your own instance.

But it assumes two things:

1. That the instance is indexed by google.
2. That the answer is actually there.

You may need to try a different instance for 1, but 2 is not really solvable.

Answered, will you post about her results here when its published?

Well, it certainly shifts the abortion debate...

What happens when the family farm runs low on food, or a parent loses their job?

"Well, tommy's always been a bit odd, you know what to do. Shame, he almost made it to 18".

Would be interesting to see if the Chinese and US communities eventually separate entirely, or if there will remain some significant cross over between them. The article implied significant cross over, but your experience so far seems less so?

I even dont think its Russian bots, just plain old capitalism and a general decline in journalistic integrity. Any article that hypes up XYZ, I assume is written by a marketing firm representing XYZ. :(

Definitely valid points, and I might be wrong. It definitely isnt a super glowing article, but "flocking to" part of the headline struck me as a bit hyperbolic, which is probably the root of my skepticism.

My conspiracy, if you want to call it that, is that I dont think article is the product of actual journalism. I think Xiaohongshu has paid for that article to be written, to give the impression that the influencers are moving to it, and its the next tiktok. One of the listed authors has never published anything else, and the site isnt exactly a mainstream news site.

I dont mean that your tone is bot like or anything, just that they would want authentic voices.

I do find it hard to beleive, because look at the reddit and twitter transitions. They either took years (bluesky is only barely starting to gain notability, and I'm not convinced that isn't also doing astroturfing) or never happened (Lemmy userbase is a rounding error). Getting people to switch social media is very difficult. And tiktok isnt even banned yet.

Also, just because there are no ads, doesn't mean that no one is propping up the business. Someone is paying to keep the servers running and lights on, and an astro turfing campaign isnt that expensive. Social media companies either grow or die.

So if your liking this new site, power to you, but I suggest you enjoy it while it lasts, because its going to have to become profitable somehow, and that is never good for the users.

With all due respect, this comment is exactly what a faked "Grass roots marketing campaign" would write. But your account has an extensive post history, so thats a lot more effort than a typical astro turf account.

Also, inflating subscriber numbers and view counts wouldn't be out of the question either, remember Facebook video...

Yeah, this honestly sounds like a press release with made up "users". Definitely part of a marketing campaign.

Still sounds like it could get quite messy if Google adds a feature, Qualcomm adds a fix to that feature and then you need to add a fix on top of that. Does it work better in practice and just needs to been seen to be understood?

Competence, Time and Direction are often quite hard to find in any professional team, let alone an open source team :D

Are you at liberty to describe those strategies further? Or point to some other resource? Its never been a situation that affects me, so I'm curious to learn more.

Its a 3d printer, it does not need to be networked (often can't be networked, without octoprint etc), so no real potential for spyware. Safety features being turned off causing fires is about the worst that can happen.

Its worth considering if you want to do 3d printing for producing prints, or tinkering with the printer itself. A lot of the cheap kit printers are very bare bones, so you'll end up spending lots more time tinkering and upgrading. If you just want to make items, spend more on a higher end printer.

Cheap first and upgrade later is pretty reasonable though.

Requirements gathering is really really difficult, and its why I am currently not worried about an LLM taking my job.

For my work, I had a project where the requirements were gathered for us, which stated that A was completely forbidden, but X, Y and Z were required. We developed to that spec, released it, and it turned out that the users actually needed A all along. We added A, and now A is the only feature they use... Shame, because X, Y and Z were cool features, and I was really proud of them, but a complete waste of time developing them.

Yup, so convincing upstream to take the changes is really the only option, which gets you back to point 1.

As a developer (not affiliated with either of those projects), you have to understand a couple of points:

1. Adding features means increased maintenance burden. Any feature that is added must be tested and maintained, and once released, often cannot be changed without significant user push back.
2. Users often have no idea what they actually want. If a project just implements what every user asks for, it'll end up being a disjointed mess of a project. Developers have to draw a line somewhere.
3. Unless someone is paying for the work, developers have zero incentive to make changes. A democratic committee can make all the requests they like, but unless the developers are on board, nothing will happen. (Also, tying into 2, but good luck getting a committee of users to agree on anything)

The only real answer is to fork the software, make the changes and hope that either everyone switches to your fork, or the upstream accepts the changes. That is the Open Source way of doing things.

That looks pretty convoluted, but yeah, thats kinda what you'd need to do. There are a lot of bits and pieces there, so if open source is essential, youd want to check that all are OS.

A more pragmatic approach may be to simply accept that because you can flash the firmware, that is good enough. The first party firmware will probably be good, assuming its not had safety systems turned off, and if the firmware actually becomes a problem you can always switch later?

If this is your first printer, I would stick with the stock firmware unless there is something wrong with it. Klipper/Marlin/etc dont really matter as long as it produces the correct print output.