Lol. I download a library or program to do a task because I would not be able to code it myself (to that kind of production level, at least). Of course I’m not gonna be able to audit it! You need twice the IQ to debug a software compared to the one needed to even write it in the first place.

Would you be okay with a US instance then, for example? They have couped, bombed or invaded only 48 countries so far (including mine). Or perhaps an European instance! They invaded both Africa and America and particioned them nicely as well as exercised a bit of genocide, as a treat.

I didn’t think about this, but they’re a French company, so maybe they could do it on the French instance?

…Actually it would make more sense yeah and it would help raise awareness of other issues by the sidelines, given European servers are also being made subject to jerky stuff.

Oh? What instance, or rather, what instance country, would you prefer?

Why? There are awesome communities there. Also Firefox, but they’ve long since fallen below “awesome”.

You can just unblock it temporarily.

Or connect from an account in another instance (or directly from an account in .ml).

Just connect directly from a .ml account or from an instance where .ml is not blocked. That’s the beauty of the Fediverse: you can reach someone for the useful stuff they do, not not-reach them because people do not like the neighbourhood where they are established.

This tbh.

I don’t understand why is this not he standard for Lemmy and the Fediverse. We got here, among other things, to get away from the kind of crap enabled by JS-first web.

Which further emphasizes the question. If things are bad enough in Switzerland that you have to consider leaving, where to?

There is ⚝ U+269d “Outlined White Star”. Tho no idea how well it looks at any usual reading resolution (12 to 16 pt).

Still too problematic, as what is legal and not in the EU depends on the trendy neo-nazi party du jour. Check Germany, for one, where apparently showing any disapproval of Israel gets you Gestapo’d, or that’s what Lemmy administrators in Europe seem to fear. Or Italy / Spain, where any attempt to liberate sports transmissions gets half the internet shut down.

Oh, did I even mention Turkiye?

Honestly, I’ve always been of the opinion that projects that are intended to be truly international need to build up to some sort of “all humanity” jurisdiction or international waters jurisdiction. Since it’s not like the UN is going to provide any sort of aid here.

Two out of three. I read the post and that’s exactly what the admins of F.O say will do. It’s them who are stirring up shit.

What does “empathy in communication” have to do with a software project?

Not having read Stein’s work, I can only mostly guess it’s related to the emphasis on the “communication” part as it applis to effective communication of duties, milestones, failure modes and reactions in a project. Torvalds’s tirades for example were awesome and most of the time well-deserved for the idiot trying to accidentally the kernel, but are quite more of a bummer and a momentum-killer when looked at at a project-wide scope.

I’m all for empathy, don’t get me wrong, but ideally software projects are more focused on technical correctness than feels

(Not) sorry to say, that age has long sailed. Remote teambuilding, capitalism and AI have made it that we now need to actually care and be watchful why or how something is being made to work, on the technical sense. Just look at the situation with Mozilla or Signal (offering systems that can be described as free, but are being offered so in a rather adversarial manner).

Like, of course; tho any sort of “accounting” should IMO start from the base that the intent of this entire thing is to publicly share public information.

Not them but yes but it’s not a feature of the system, it’s a failure of the humans.