I might do that! It's also possible that app has become more usable in the 2-3 years since I looked at it.
So, Twitter 2...
I want to believe their intentions are as they say, but I Have Questions...
...starting with: why would anyone with truly good intentions be building YACS (Yet Another Centralized Service) in this day and age?
My top theory now is that they're using "record label" tactics: hire and deploy a bunch of truly sincerely well-meaning kids to write your promotional copy, interface with the potential customers, and build the initial service. (...while making sure the fine-print lets you enshittify it all later without let or hindrance.)
...but I'd love to be proved wrong.
If anyone knows anything about the people behind this, please feel free to pass it along.
@tcit I was all excited by that and started to use it for a couple of projects -- but quickly ran into issues that basically made it unusable :-/
RE: https://mastodon.world/@ombialik/117173539610648496
our originario ancestors were doing genetics experiments with all sorts of flora because from teosinte they got maĆz, aka corn:
the word MAĆZ or MAIZE comes from what my TaĆno ancestors called corn:
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zea_mays#Terminolog%C3%ADa
btw lots of autochthonous american words come from the TaĆno language: barbecue, hurricane, maize; just to name a few.
@EveHasWords I first heard "pulchritude" in a song by Paul McCartney. (This is largely irrelevant to your post, but for some reason I feel compelled to mention it.)
I just have to wonder: why doesn't #Nextcloud (written in PHP) have an app to integrate* it with #MediaWiki (also written in PHP)?
I guess it could be difficult -- nowhere near as difficult as doing web-based office apps (like Collabora), but also there's probably not anywhere near as much interest in it either.
(* I'm thinking of things like... being able to edit a folder-structure as a wiki, providing MW's markup, templating and extensibility and also special syntax for referring to other Nextcloud features outside the wiki -- like non-wiki files, calendar entries...)
...and for that matter, why doesn't Nextcloud have a Git manager? (Or does it, somewhere?)
@nil They seem to think of everything in terms of "winning" some imaginary competition -- and they see {"winning" by making everyone else lose} as equally valid to {"winning" by doing something better}. There's no concept of the common good.
@artemis ...and this is why they're so terrified of progressive candidates who win primaries despite not toeing the Dem establishment party line: their whole system of control falls apart if they don't get to decide who the contestants are.
@splendorr Each year when I'm asked where I want to be taken out for my birthday, the list of answers I have to skip because they no longer exist gets longer. :-/
@rnd ...and Linux has gotten less choosy about its friends, over time, while Windows has become more so.
MacOS is the expensive friend, for sure... who always wants to be taken to the same bar for long discussions about their problems...
@Asuyuia Future thought: a fund that just pays people to write (or create in other ways). It doesn't have to be saleable, it doesn't even have to be "good"; it just has to meet some minimum standards of originality... or maybe not even that; we should be paying people to live, but maybe requiring some kind of creative output is one way of making it more doable without having a proper budget for it.
Definitely seems better than a "work" or "job-hunting" requirement, anyway. Eff that with a brick.
Fifty three years ago I started the day as a child and ended it as a mom. This was the first photo of me and my daughter. We both still had our hospital bracelet on.
The hospital where she delivered never even gave me a room. I was left in a hallway and discharged about eight hours after I arrived. As an unwed mother I didn't warrant a red carpet welcome. I paid them $250 and went home to the room I rented in an old Victorian house. Obviously there were holes in the wallpaper but we were warm and safe and we were living within our means. I was fourteen years old and ninety eight pounds.
I'm sharing my story because it shows all good things are possible.
My daughter turned into the best kind of human.
It wasn't easy but I have zero regrets.
True grit was never personified by John Wayne types but by regular people surviving against the odds.
Disappointing the doubters was sweet consolation.
She gave me the gift of grandkids too.
I've had a good life.
So far.
@rnd ...or in the current regime's definition, "anything we dislike".
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system, public health, and bunnies, what have the Romans ever done for us????"
RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@AmandaMarcotte/117167779972215498
(Image is just a screenshot of part of the linked article.)