PupBiru @ PupBiru @kbin.social

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things existed before 1945

The Beer Hall Putsch, also known as the Munich Putsch, was a failed coup d'état by Nazi Party (…) leader Adolf Hitler, …

i mean fingers crossed for that so that maybe we don’t have to use facebook events

… but also fuck meta

i think that the idea of actions (actions the concept not actions the product) is a really good way of building CI pipelines…

we all know that shell scripts are rubbish, so building your CI pipeline out in composable steps written in a proper language is much more robust

having those steps maintained by the open source community inside a marketplace is also excellent! you don’t need to manage things like setting up AWS variables, managing refresh tokens, etc: you can use an action just by referencing it, easier than you’d install a package… and those actions can use well-maintained open source libraries to do their jobs

there’s a whole lot more, but all the reasons basically revolve around the fact that the composable units written in a modern language shared with everyone is so, so much better than chaining bash scripts together: even if they can be run inside containers (which GHA can do too)

(also, i’ve found github actions much faster than gitlab ci… not comparing runner speed because obviously that’s highly dependent on what you host it in; just time to pick up jobs and time to start the agent)

there are (at least) 2 things that boycotts are meant to do:

• directly deny funding to the company which will pass that onto “causes” you disagree with
• make a statement that you and others disagree with decisions the company is making

in the first point, switching to a different brand produced by the same company clearly does nothing unless the at product has a lower margin (which isn’t even unlikely either: plenty of brands do the “budget”, “midrange”, “luxury” brand concept and budget is where they make their least overhead)

on the second however, that’s where you can maybe make a difference… if a company starts to see market share dip in their big name products, that’s problematic for them even if people are switching to other products in their line that are less well known, because it shows that people have more negative attitudes to their brands

the term sublemmy confuses the issue because it makes it harder to understand the idea that an instance isn’t just lemmy, which is another big question people have about the fediverse: what’s kbin, how does it interact with lemmy, how do i see things on mastodon, etc

sublemmy is probably not a great term, since it references lemmy rather than being a generic threadiverse term

i think quite the opposite… gitlab ci is very last-gen: github actions is where everyone in ci will be headed from now on!

also a crap excuse… P&G don’t make cheap products; they make brand name products… plenty of home brand stuff is cheap, and doesn’t actively support russias genocide

there are other discussions to be had about environmental impact, pay gap, etc but that’s not what we’re discussing

totally agree with that! however, from our experience with reddit and the threadiverse, it would have been nice (not expected!) if there’d been a little bit more of a mature alternative: if we had native apps, more stability, etc…

since OSS is so damn important, it’d be worth hedging our bets: don’t expect github to implode, but understand that OSS is too important to leave in the hands of a single organisation so we should have reasonable ideas and options for what would be a good federated alternative

im sure projects that deal with things like privacy and getting around national internet blocking (things that have been removed from github for censorship or “copyright” reasons) would be keen on having options

which is exactly why the fediverse is so good! you can host it yourself and shoulder the cost, join a free instance, donate something small… the cost is shared among many, which makes it far more acceptable for a lot of small passion projects

also worth noting that as usually with fediverse platforms, pixelfed data is accessible from other platforms like mastodon

ie you can retoot a pixelfed post afaik, and i believe that at least in kbin that means you can have a threaded conversion about a pixelfed post?

i even found out the other day that pixelfed does stories and live streaming!

though those things are based on reading the configuration settings in documentation, so i have no idea what those features are like….

the threadiverse wasn’t exactly popular until the reddit exodus

id probably flip it: are lemmy users smoking crack? if you’re going to run to a reddit alternative, it’d be wise not to choose alpha software!

yes and no: there are a couple of schools of thought!

of course, code by a lot of people without proper review is… risky

however, at least it’s able to be reviewed! and in time and with enough eyeballs, hopefully that code will become far more robust. that’s the benefit of transparency: anyone can review any line at any time!

remember: closed-source code as plenty of vulnerabilities too! just if we can’t review it, it’s much harder to work out what they might be… often, closed source vulnerabilities can exist for years without the vendor ever patching them because nobody is calling them out on it… hell, they can even know that their software is actively being exploited and just… not tell anyone

your experience does not match mine

which is not saying that your experience is wrong or that you’re using it wrong, however i and many others have managed to get exceptionally good results out of it, and you should be aware of that fact

referring to these experiences as “needing a babysitter” is needlessly provocative as well; we’re all just talking here: no need to insult the intelligence of anyone that has managed to use the tool in a way that works incredibly well

i hope that at some point in the future, you’re able to have your experience match ours, and have a similar feeling of “ooooh i see now… wait… OOOOOOH I REALLY SEEEE NOW”

mm totally! seems like a very “i’ll just wait for the next gen to buy an EV” kind of thing

… like, even if it’s possible it’s not possible… just the amount of energy required to be transferred into that battery wouldn’t charge in any existing charging infrastructure

i find even for really complex stuff it’s pretty good as long as you direct it: it can suggest some things, you can do some searching based on that, maybe give it a few links to summarise for you, etc

it doesn’t do the work for you, but it makes a pretty good assistant that doesn’t quite understand the subject matter

yeah but… who cares? we all won: there doesn’t need to be winners and losers

sure! in the fediverse, the content of users and communities is stored on the servers of the actor you’re interacting with. for now, i’m just going to specifically refer to microblogging and user-user interactions because that’s much simpler than the many different ways that the threadiverse interactions happen

so, if you send a message to a threads user, or that user interacts (likes, etc) your content then that data is stored on metas servers. heck, technically they don’t even need to interact: meta can just suck up all the data and use it for their analytics!

by contributing content to the fediverse on an instance that doesn’t defederate from, or you haven’t blocked threads some other way, your content is likely to be ingested by meta and go through their data processing…

you might not be using the threads UI, but threads is using you that’s for sure

their data will (maybe) be available, but as far as actual features threads is a whole different thing

think of it like kbin and lemmy: we can interact between them, but if lemmy adds a feature kbin doesn’t get it

so if threads adds a feature, mastodon and the rest of the fediverse doesn’t automatically get it

actually pinned posts i think is a good example for kbin and lemmy: they both have pinned posts, but they’re slightly different and therefor don’t operate correctly together