parens

joined 1 year ago
[–] parens@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

Apple should be called Malus, honestly. It's the Latin designation for "common apple" and sounds evil: exactly what Apple is.

[–] parens@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

And if you're European, participate in the elections in June to get more parties into the EU bodies that will take legislative action against companies like Apple. The EU is the reason Apple is even attempting this silliness because Apple was designated a gatekeeper in the Digital Markets Act: one of the great EU acts for consumers.

[–] parens@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Close enough. Graphics are about equal

[–] parens@programming.dev 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the face in the comic convey quite well that "haha why" was not a "wow, I'm interested" but "the fuck you doing, bro?". Especially since it's literally prefixed with "what the hell are you doing?".

Just because I type LOL doesn't mean I'm LOL

[–] parens@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You don't think there's a difference between "Why the fuck would you do that, you nincompoop?" and "Haha, why"?

[–] parens@programming.dev 29 points 1 year ago

Looking forward to the memes once this dies

(Zed's dead)

[–] parens@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] parens@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Does Trump need money to be president?

[–] parens@programming.dev 103 points 1 year ago (11 children)

HackerNews is full of these kind of people

Contributor: Hey guys, I wrote this proof of concept in a fortnight that does something fun!

HackerNews: Why the fuck would you do that, you nincompoop?

Contributor: I... thought it would be fun after shitty days at work

HackerNews: You could be spending your time making money or contributing to $subjectivelyMoreImportantProject. Be ashamed

People who can't accept that some people just want to have fun and do what they like.

[–] parens@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

That requires a population willing to vote for such legislators.

[–] parens@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's your opinion and I don't share it.

[–] parens@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Looking at the posts right now, most of them are pretty much what the bot would post: blog posts, announcements, interesting repos. A bot would add more of that.

To have people talking, you need to give them something to talk about and news is what people talk about, I think. We just have a large lurking community, which IMO isn't bad. To have people talk more, the only things I can think of are

  • projects the community works on together (bot may be one)
  • podcasts or videos with the community
  • questions from the community

A bot seems like the easiest in terms of investment.

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