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Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't seen this in person so I can only speculate, but I bet they'll only provide the sources as a tarball or something instead of a git repo, which will make it a PITA for anyone do actually do anything useful with it. I mean, you could potentially still build a full distro from it, but you wouldn't be able to feasibly maintain it without the ability to do a sync and merge from upstream. So this way, Red Hat achieves their goal of being able to kill any spinoff distro, whilst still remaining compliant with the GPL.

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Reddit's r/sysadmin mods have chosen NOT to participate in the blackout (www.reddit.com)
 

No, we will not be going dark. The reasons are simple:

  1. This form of protest has proven ineffective on reddit repeatedly.

  2. Shutting down the sub on a Monday will have an adverse impact on our readers, including possible production issues.

  3. We have avoided reddit "politics" intentionally and will continue to do so.

You are more than welcome to avoid participating on that day which will make the message far clearer to reddit through their metrics than shutting down the sub to folks in need who would be here anyways.

It's disappointing to see the r/sysadmin mods take this stance, but I guess in a way it's a good thing that they've shown their true colors.

Here's hoping that c/sysadmin thrives and replaces it in the near future as the go-to place for all sysadmin stuff.

lemmy.ml is overloaded, use other instances instead in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Edit: If you moderate a large subreddit, do not link your users directly to lemmy.ml in your announcements

How/which URL should we link to then? Now is the best time to get users to switch to Lemmy so we need to make it as newbie friendly as possible. Already the application process has put off some people (I do like that bit though, keeps away the low effort folks). Thanks.

Reminder to all: Be respectful when disagreeing. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could we also have a rule saying that downvotes should not be used for disagreements? Downvotes should be meant for off-topic, or factually incorrect content. Disagreements should be debated in the comments, respectfully of course.

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Join us on Discord! Movie/game nights and meetups! (lemmy.ml)
 

Hey all,

If you use Discord and want to engage on a more real-time basis, feel free to jump on! There's always folks around, with engaging discussions and activities, such as Jackbox party games, movie nights, gaming and IRL meetups for those of you in Aoteoroa.

https://discord.gg/nzfriends

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Which games you've been playing the longest but never finished? (lemmy.ml)
 

For me:

  • Breath of the Wild: 400 hours in, have done only 50% of the game. But now that TotK is out, I'm not sure if I'll ever complete BotW. Perhaps if I'm stuck on a deserted island with my Switch and have nothing better to do, I may pick it up again.

  • Skyrim: Countless hours, never really done much of the main storyline, always get lost in modding and optimising the game. Own it on practically all platforms too. But one of these days, I'll get to the main quest...

  • Dangerous Dave: Been playing this DOS game on and off since 1990 but still haven't managed to beat it. I always die around level 6/7, blasted sun keeps killing me.

Which project(s) made you go “I can't believe this is open-source”?😎 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Darktable is awesome. People rave on about Lightroom like it's irreplaceable, but Darktable exists and is a legit alternative.

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Welcome Future Welly Redditors (lemmy.ml)
 

Nothing to see here. For now.

Were you expecting some content? Well, be the change you want to see!