intrepid @ intrepid @lemmy.ca

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FreeCAD needs contributions to help it reach 1.0.

A barbaric nation with devilish monarchy that other nations support just because of their oil money. Anybody whose government supports them should feel ashamed.

Is that a DSRV (Deep submersible rescue vessel)?

The problem isn't that FOSS projects are getting abandoned. The problem is the consumer mindset where FOSS projects are considered as the free (gratis) equivalent of proprietary software - a well packaged and eternally maintained ware that you just install and run. This is a convention that bigtech cultivated in order to get free labor and support.

The original free (libre) software philosophy was designed with sharing in mind. Somebody writes software to scratch an itch - i.e solve their own or someone else's problem. And then they leave the source code for others to adapt and use. You found a software that you like, but is abandoned? No problem! Just take it, update it and use it. I have done this. Don't know how to code? Ask someone else to do it for you - perhaps for a price.

Android is Windows' twin sibling.

Americans pick up weird habits and then insist that it's the right way. How is August 9th any better than 9th of August when the 9th is a subunit of August and not the other way around?

Another good example is the use of the imperial system. I've heard Americans often declare that it's a better system for manual use compared to the metric system. But the metric system has prefixes that differ consistently by 3 orders of magnitude, whereas the imperial system has rather arbitrary jumps between each successive unit. The metric system needs much less cognitive effort even for manual use.

I can understand that it's a matter of habit for Americans. But it's the lack of acceptance that there is a problem that leads to other problems like crashing a spacecraft onto Mars.

People rarely use them in real life, but ISO 8601 and RFC 3339 (both are almost identical) are the most natural ways of writing date and time. Just like how we write numbers, their components are written from left to right in the decreasing order of significance: yyyy-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS. I like it by default for precisely the reason you mentioned - sorting. It even helps quick visual comparisons.

My clock says the time is 45:09:00. Should feel so natural to anyone in the US, right?

Google has kicked up such a revolt that I find it easy to convince everyone to use Firefox. If they think they can keep abusing their userbase like this, then they are in for a surprise.

Hey! Don't let them know that they're doing the world a favor! You know - the 'don't be evil' thing.

Oh! come on! How hard is it to social distance in a tetrahedron?

Poacher poachers poaching the poachers?

Human greed is the worst thing this planet has ever produced.

I don't think it's possible for Google to link Aurora use to your account - especially if you don't log in to play services. Aurora uses anonymous accounts.

Unfortunately, the Aurora accounts are rate limited. That's a pain because Google has the shitty policy of geo-locking its apps for no good reason. Honestly, Google should be torn apart into a hundred tiny companies for its antitrust practices.

The vast majority of reports and commentaries about the incident say nothing about the race of the passengers. They instead talk about how stupid it is to use a composite hull for deep dives. People are interested in this news because of the hubris involved - and the wealthy to a lesser extent. But not by race.

Infinity for Lemmy is out already? If that's true, you won't have to wait too long for all the features you want.

Big platforms like Facebook, Digg, Twitter and Reddit don't fail in a day. Their decline is rather gradual. If you noticed any decline on Reddit's quality after the API lockdown, then that's the beginning of a gradual slide. Just wait for a while before judging the results.