A friendly reminder that cars are still highly destructive, whether powered by petrol, battery, or hydrogen, and whether driven by a human or automation. The only real environmentally, economically, and socially responsible solution is to drastically reduce the amount of trips made by car, by introducing road diets and modal filters, by having mixed-use medium or higher density zoning, by building high quality safe separated bike paths, and good quality, frequent, affordable public transport.

Also, keep your pets on your property. If there’s no way to keep them from leaving your yard, keep them inside. It’s better for them (they live longer on average, even if you control for the increased likelihood of getting run over) and for the environment.

I’m not sure what “piece linked” you’re talking about, since none of the parent comments of this comment actually have a link in them.

This is the first time I’ve ever heard of FUTO, but I did read their statement about open source and it sounds pretty good to me. I actually think they’re capitulating a little bit too much by deciding not to call it open source anymore. As far as I’m concerned, if the source is available and anyone can contribute, that’s open source. I don’t particularly care whether or not it’s free for Google to incorporate it into their increasingly-enshitified products or not.

Creative Commons (an org to which FUTO says they have donated) doesn’t like their licences being used for software, presumably for finicky technical legal reasons. But if you imagine the broad spirit of their licences applying to software, all the main CC licences would be open source in my opinion. All combinations of Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike, and No Derivatives, as well as CC0 respect the important elements of open source.

Yup, sounds great to me. I could see a world in which it becomes a bad thing because they try to enforce it by pulling a Google and blocking users from installing extensions that aren’t through their official add-on store, but as it is, it’s hard to see any reasonable criticism.

When Reddit was down, most (all?) Lemmy and Piefed instances were still up. Aside from the number of users currently on the platform, I don’t see any significant ways that Lemmy is worse for the average user than Reddit.

I thought for sure you’d be right. But it turns out, no! Dupe comes from 15th century French duppe, thieves’ jargon, thought to come from Latin huppe/hoopoe, an extravagantly crested bird. Duplicity comes from Latin duplicitatem “doubleness”.

I’ve never heard “gyped” or “jipped”. I’d say you were “duped”.

But that could be because I speak a dialect which features strong yod-coalescence. So “dune” and “june” are pronounced the same. So perhaps I have heard it, but simply eggcorned it into “dupe”.

Huh?

I’m apparently banned in c/guns, c/liberalgunowners and c/asklemmy

Are you sure? There’s no ban that shows up for you in the mod logs of any of those communities.

Some clients go out of their way to mark posts by a moderator in some way, though

This is something I really think Reddit did better than Lemmy tbh. Mods don’t appear special in any way, unless they specifically declare “this post is me acting as a moderator”. And only then is it highlighted green (or in some other way depending on the client). Ditto admins.

3x / week is the minimum-threshold to sustain a yt-channel

Eh? There are excellent popular YouTube channels that post way less frequently than that.

I think it would be a mistake to try and draw any clear comparison between a YouTube channel and a Lemmy community. But for YouTube, I’d say weekly is really the minimum of where you want to be while trying to grow.

fitness-workout-threshold: 3x / week sustains our health, 4x / week brings us closer to our optimal health

I ran a 3:15 marathon on 7 runs per fortnight, and a sub-18 min 5k on roughly 3 runs per week. On the other hand, I wouldn’t dare try a triathlon, even a relatively modest goal of 2:30:00 Olympic distance, on fewer than 2 runs, 2 rides, and 1 swim per week, for 5 total workouts minimum.

Exercise is even harder to compare to Lemmy than YouTube is, in my opinion. Because with exercise, the length, intensity, and variety of that exercise plays such an enormous factor.

I don’t know anything about this Ratchet & Clank game, but as far as old mobile tie-ins to existing console franchises go, I remember 2006’s Daxter being really good.

Ludo? I haven’t played that since I was a tiny kid! I can’t say I remember much about how it’s played.

The preferred term in the study of cults is “high demand religion”.

From what little Mandarin I’ve learned, I’d say the two are far enough apart

There are probably some loanwords, and I’d guess being able to read Chinese might help reading kanji, but beyond that, yeah, the two languages are completely unrelated linguistically. Japanese is effectively a language isolate, not related to any other languages in the world. (There are technically some minority languages on Japan’s outlying islands with their own separate but related languages, so it’s not quite a language isolate, but close.) That includes being unrelated to Chinese and Korean languages. (Incidentally, Korean is like Japanese, almost-but-not-quite a language isolate.)

No conspiracy here. That’s just literally not what that subreddit is for. It’s for open-ended discussion questions. Rule’s right there in the sidebar.

Australia, Germany, Canada, Russia, India, Brazil, and a bunch more countries are gonna disagree with you there.

Oh, and Gene Roddenberry.

Lemmy ⊂ Threadiverse ⊂ Fediverse

Greenwich Mean Time.

Because it’s mean.

Not even auto-update. Just auto detect updates. Then you go and download it yourself manually.

Auto-update-detection meant that the software was calling out to a remote server, so they updated the TOS to reflect that, and people got upset.

From what I could tell when I looked into it after a comment someone left on [email protected], some people were very upset at the privacy implications of Audacity adding an update detection mechanism (which can be turned off, and which is not included at all in the default build if you build it yourself).