Jesus Christ Fedi

I don’t think it should have an emoji either, but how does this rule apply to real currencies being emojis? I mean there is dollar banknote 💵 and yen banknote 💴 and euro banknote 💶 as separate emojis, not just a general money one. And honestly, even most of the emojis referencing anything that has to do with money uses dollar signs, i.e. $. Were these rules made after these emojis were already added?

Do any of them have public transport directions?

Security concerns? Closed-source software is a security concern in itself!

A major Danish news site recently said they’d delete their accounts on Twitter :)

Although no plans for making a Mastodon account instead :(

the reality is such that the vast majority will go with the flow

This also works the other way though - once a critical mass moves elsewhere, the mob is quick to follow. I would encourage you to be part of that early snowball that starts the avalanche - be the change.

mostly my local police, fire department, and local govt are only on xitter

The thing is, they are there because the users are there. After all, they want to reach the most people with their important official messaging.

You have to leave to make them leave.

Project management. See for instance this talk: https://youtu.be/u3PJaiSpbmc?si=FbQGTfx4nERCb0R-

I won’t speculate as to why, but it looks like the new generation doesn’t like c and c++.

It’s not that hard to know why - these languages have footguns literally everywhere. They seem simple and powerful at first, but they turn into a monster soon enough. There are simply objectively better alternatives today, like Rust. It shouldn’t be surprising, it’s been so many decades after all.

I’m curious, is it reasonable to blame employees for their employers actions like this? I mean to a certain extent perhaps, depending on your position in the company (like if you are part of upper management then you are more responsible obviously).

Many people are just trying to get by and getting jobs is not easy. Is it okay to blame a person for working somewhere if they don’t have much other choice? Capitalism kinda forces you to work within the system like this.

You’re writing this on Lemmy, which is arguably forum software.

Of course, but it still makes sense to think carefully about the advantages of disadvantages of the tools you use when starting any project.

C++ is a very old, extremely complex language. There are arguably objectively better modern alternatives, such as Rust.

I’m quite sure such on the fly price changes are illegal. At least here in Denmark.

Agreed, I would definitely not refer to the first one as self hosting without qualifying further.

It attracts a different audience, so in aggregate it seems like your community is suddenly bigger because 1+1=2 right? What you don’t realize is that you’ve divided your community into two separate groups with possibly different wants, needs and cultures.

There’s a setting under Power/Battery on my phone to allow an app to run in the background, which makes it so it doesn’t get stopped. @mariah@feddit.rocks maybe that would help you?

Gifting is not the same as transferring an already bought game to another account. Can you do that?

I mean… They’re saying they can’t transfer games from one account to another right? But you could just put your account details in your will and anyone could login to your steam account and access your games, right?

Sure would be nice if they had the feature. But I’m not sure it’s such a big deal.

I don’t think it’s a dumb question.

Unfortunately I’m not sure there’s any guaranteed method to establish trustworthiness. It’s especially difficult because if there was, it would probably be easy for the scams to utilise and thus it would stop being a good method.

Anyways, I would say try to look at the people behind the software - do they have personal websites or do they work on other stuff that also seems reliable? What about the users, do they seem legitimate? Are the issues actual issues, not fake ones? Does the code seem maintained on a regular basis with non-trivial commits? Can you find online third party mentions that seem trustworthy?

That’s just what I could think of. But essentially, there is no silver bullet and you’ll just need to make a thorough assessment and decide if you trust it enough.