It’s funny to see people get offended just because they misunderstand the etymology of a word

I’ve got a story for you then:

You mean the GitHub account? It’s my personal one, 9-10 years old I think.

That might be it then. I never really read the getting started guide.

The stupidest problem I’ve seen arising from this debate was that with one employer they had a legally required retention policy, and instead of implementing it in their GitLab server software, they did it directly by coming in between GitLab and git. The result was that they had no idea which to use, so they protected both.

On one repo, we mistakenly made both branches, and there was no way to get rid of either, so it kinda just stayed there. It confused the hell out of new people.

I use master for my own stuff because of muscle memory, on the job IDC I use whatever, usually main these years.

Well, that is embarassing. It’s master.

I don’t remember setting this, but then again, I don’t remember a lot of things. Thanks!

Yeah, but there are probably more of Mandarin speakers than all the others combined.

Native English speakers are definitely a minority globally. And I’m not even saying taking over, just that in some places it might be an additional one, and English won’t be the language, only a language.

To the point that not knowing Mandarin at all might be a similar disadvantage in the world as not knowing English at all.

It kinda looks like the US might move to the other end of the cultural colonialism thing.

It might be worth it to pick some mandarin up.

You asked me to name a good service a government provides for a large number of people successfully. I named several. I get that you have ideological problems with goverments doing stuff, but governments not doing stuff results in what you can see in the US right now.

The original post is also not about a hypothetical ideological question, but that the US government was captured and dismantled by its corporations, and those corporations want to continue that societal rot over here. The EU cannot tolerate that.

They are not just funding existing projects like Lemmy, they are actively encouraging new projects by providing funding for “open internet” style stuff.

Though yes you are right, it is different from directly hiring people, since if they did that, it would be very hard to relinquish direct control of the project. Corps can’t act solely for the common good, governments have that as their stated mission.

You can host Libreoffice Online if you really want

Yeah, they know you’re addicted, and won’t let you cut yourself off

That’s fine, but then who does the search engine?

You can do things decentralized, and if you look into it, the EU is happy to fund projects to create decentralized internet services. Case in point, Lemmy’s primary funder is the EU.

You are posting on a social media platform solely funded by the EU.

But I’ve heard the USPS is not shit either. Publicly funded and run universities in the EU also provide the same or better service as those in the US for pennies on the dollar. Also, a lot of European railways are state run, like a lot of other public transit companies.

Also, the only space agencies that ever got to the moon were public. So were the ones that put the first man in space, and the first man on the moon, and the one that sent the first satellite into orbit and the farthest man-made object from Earth.

Just block payments from advertisers by revoking their business licence.

Who do you trust more, Google or the EU?

Tweets can be monetised? I only know Twitter from screenshots.

It’s broad consensus that’s featured there, so it manufactures consent less hard, and more importantly, the fact-check appears attaches to the original misinfo, so it gets reshared with it.

He is manufacturing your consent for the takeover.

Will they though? Mangione is behind bars, the media has largely sided with the CEO, and other insurance CEOs are probably getting police protection.

People sided with Luigi, and it showed that health insurance CEOs can be shot and killed relatively easily, and that it works in sending a message.

The police protection won’t save anyone, but it will remind both them and the masses that this is something that can happen.

I know “it will still happen later”, but the fact that it didn’t happen right now has already saved lives.