I could see that. I have a few projects I’d love to explore in VR, but I’m glad giving Zuck access to our pupil dilation data never took off. I wonder if VR would be better off if oculus stayed independent. Sure it got a lot of funding and dev, but that happening under meta’s control really lost its appeal-- for me anyways. I still hope open source projects like simulavr will take off one day.

Metaverse and VR such a colossal failure it’s not even remembered as bullshit they were trying to sell us.

Surely there’s an outlier. A record-breaking “oldest” dog older than-- Nope

My username comes from “pemptagonist,” the fifth most important character in a play (after protagonist, deuteragonist, etc). I thought it was funny, but maybe there’s something in that because I don’t trust my luck one bit.

Maybe, but if so, I bet it’s negligible. When it comes to discovery, there’s so many places I’d look for FOSS projects before going GH. Except maybe to check awesome-lists, but you don’t have to be on GH to be linked on one (and I’ve seen them popping up on Codeberg). GH’s design in general doesn’t seem to promote stumbling across new projects. Even if I’m wrong, one could always mirror on GH.

As for contributing, if someone is willing to go though the trouble to contribute, I’d hope they’d go through the trouble of signing up on a new platform. Maybe there’s a non-zero number of contributors who would not, and that’s an unacceptable for some projects. There’s also potential for more contributors if they trust a project is living FOSS principles and less at-risk of vender lock-in. The fosstodon thread shows people care about where a project lives. The arguments in favor of staying on GH seemed mostly inertia-based.

You’re right. I don’t mean to minimize the effort required. The effort required is a big part of the argument in favor of moving, or at least aspiring to move to a platform with more open and interoperable values. I can’t imagine MS will make that transition any easier as time goes on despite forgejo and others best efforts. I’ve no problem with an OSS projects using GH but I’d hope they’d take the risk more seriously in a discussion about it.

Edit: I also don’t think the effort is wasted or insurmountable. Regarding broken links, I’ve stumbled across many projects that have changed their GH repo to a mirror and link to their new platform. And RE logistical v philosophical reasons, I consider avoiding vender lock-in to be risk management and part of a project’s long-term logistics.

I agree, and I can forgive OSS projects still using it, but if they’re inviting a discussion about it I’d hope they’d be more sensitive that:

1. github is not static
2. being on a Microsoft platform carries a significant risk (embrace, extend, extinguish).
3. There are plenty of successful OSS hosted elsewhere and each one helps the whole system grow.

They seem to think github’s PR, CI, etc features are head-and-shoulders above the rest, and are hand-waving concerns around vender lock-in. They’re also saying it would be painful to move because of the aforementioned vendor features that have them locked in. Really seems to miss why many go FOSS in the first place.

I use and donate[d] to OrganicMaps. I think they’re great, but I paused donations around the CoMaps split and have been waiting for the dust to settle. Their responses in the fosstodon thread seem so tone def: They’re asking about github on a mastodon instance and responding that it’ll be a worse product if they move. Thinking it’s time I give CoMaps a shot. [edit: add 2nd link for context]

Barefoot, shirtless, through broken glass. Linux is one helluva drug.

“URG? Must be trans ideology…”

- the FBI, probably

awesome-lists might be what you’re looking for. If you’re talking platforms, search ddg or alternativeto.net for “social bookmarking” I believe there’s even some self hostable options that may have the functionality you want. Sorry for the “look it up” suggestion, I don’t know your specific needs or remember exact names offhand.

Or maybe no shooter at all

Forgot the gym membership. With a car you can drive to the gym to walk on a treadmill.

Too smart for capitalism where cheap > efficient

It’s why a vast majority of buildings in the US are designed without the local climate in mind (ie using passive heating and cooling systems for that climate). They let HVAC handle making the same design hospitable for all regions. It’s the lowest cost design and build for the highest sale price. All energy and maintenance costs after sale are the consumer’s problem. Relevant podcast episode about how dumb our building designs are due to AC. It has some staggering figures i don’t remember offhand.

Useful until she needs to access anything mass-manufactured where height effects experience: cars, planes, cloths, beds, chairs, countertops, rakes, rollercoasters, etc.

Having sports where height is an advantage does not change that the world was designed at about 4/5th the scale of what would be comfortable. It can be tiresome after a few decades.

I do this, but now I have 10k+ bookmarks, fairly organized, but the bookmark manager is trash. It is slow and getting slower. Also, searching history feels like '90’s web search: hopeless if you don’t remember exact keywords.

+1 for cheeseburger pizza. Luckily my first order included the pickles, because I wouldn’t have thought to ask. I like pickles for the same reason i like pineapple on pizza, it adds a crunchy/juicy texture that keeps the pizza from feeling too heavy. I also love vinegar, so that’s a bonus.

Looking like recursion with organs: all organs placed inside a large-intestine-like animal. And if it swallowed a mouse, another set of organs, and if that mouse swallowed … etc

This looks awesome! I’d just been collect my GPS data thinking one day I’d analyze/visualize it on my own-- not expecting anyone else to make a such a comprehensive program. The UI looks really slick. I’m looking forward to testing it out. Hopefully this weekend. Thank you for this!