Reactions are common in lots of forums though, gold is just a special reaction.
A special upvote if you will, its not really that deep.

I think he’s referring to how Reddit used to operate on Tencent funding.
Tencent is partially owned by the Chinese government.

instead hunt for FLAC format. it’s lossless.

Any recommendations on where to do this?

Com feels like company or .com which also stands for company. Doesn’t feel right at all.

As a lifelong adblock user, I recognize your pain.

Nice, that’s good to hear. I’ve only played Skyrim via proton once before I switched to local streaming, so I’m definitely not educated on how it works.

I’ve played MO2 Skyrim through a Steam Link before, and for that to work you have to add MO2 with the launch options from the shortcuts you can make from MO2, this way Steam registers MO2 as a game.

I’d imagine you would need to do the same for proton to work, though that assumes it even runs.

I’m curious, is SKSE even supported through proton? Not sure why it wouldn’t but still curious.

I like slice.

I think it was a more tongue in cheek reference to the incompetence of the companies and how they will use that data in practice, but I might have read too much into it. Regardless, intentionally clicking the wrong items on captchas shouldn’t cause a crash unless the companies force it to by cutting corners.

FOSS software enables the user of a software to effectively maintain ownership of their own device which is 100% a political thing.

That’s an entirely different domain of politics in my mind, my point was there’s no reason to focus on what divides you from the creator when 9 times out of 10 the software itself is unrelated and contributed to by thousands that all have differing opinions on the same topic.

No need to try and find issues where there aren’t any.

I think that’d be best, basically an entire porn federation completely isolated, we can name it horny jail!

software is always made for a purpose and the purpose can be indeed (and is) very often linked to political or social cause

Its not though, typically software exists to serve a basic function at its core, and it could be used or contributed to by anyone for any number of things.

Was referring more to people trying to politicize software and push them into political movements they’re unrelated to. Open software is at is core free and as such anyone with any political leaning could use it or contribute to it and no one would know, and no one should care.

I mean ethically its a debatable topic, if I don’t help fix someone’s car and then he crashes it, its not my fault, he shouldn’t have driven it while it was broken.

Same with user generated or AI data, it works 99.9% of the time, but that 0.1% is too dangerous to deploy in a life endangering situation.

I think its the “never raise this subject here again” Comes off as a bit aggressive.

I actually would really like something like new Reddit, Lemmy is far too horizontally dense despite wasting tons of space on both sides. I can’t actually tell which comment is the top most either.

Generally its just difficult to discern what exactly I’m seeing.

If I don’t find something soon-ish I’ll probably get deep into making my own restyle script.

It’d be the business’ fault not ours, you shouldn’t use unreliable user data for something so important.

One great thing about about software is you don’t have to agree with or care about what the creators thoughts and beliefs are, software is at the end of the day just software.

Doesn’t get any less political than that.

Yeah, I’ve been a software engineer for years and I too had to have a sit down to ‘figure it all out’ with mastodon. Though Lemmy seems far more my style, so hopefully this gets some power behind it.