What does open source itself mean?

Does it mean anybody can access information about lemmy like upvotes?

Can any person access lemmy data to know what I upvote?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47692342

Not OC question, but rather copied this from the pragmatic programmer

As a user, would you rather (1) wait for them [the software dev/company] to get all the bugs out, (2) have complex software and accept some bugs, or (3) opt for simpler software with fewer defects?

If someone didn't understand, I mean something like this, not quite so bad, well, sorry, I just found this picture:

I recently saw "Rampage" from 2009. Its basically a movie where a spree shooter is portrayed as the good guy/anti-hero. Several parts gave me that pit in your stomach, teeth gritting uncomfortable moment. I really hated it. Although I'm not surprised there are sequals I am disappointed and will not be watching them.

The school has already given us a schedule for what we can do. We're going to museums, factory tours, that sort. So no suggestions for any activities to do or places to go to.

I would like some tips on some things I should know about Germany, perhaps some German phrases I should understand, cultural differences, or laws I need to know. Anything important that I should be aware of?

It will be about a weeklong trip

It could be an album, movie, tv show, whatever.

The hot days have come, I am wearing a teeshirt with "Let me sleep" on the back, shorts "I am retired, you are not" and flip flops. I am going to my work (a bank)

When I switch the box fan in my kitchen on/off, the stove igniter fires once ("clicks"). The box fan is plugged into a different kitchen outlet than the stove is, though they're probably on the same circuit.

Should I be worried? What the heck would even cause this?

edit: ah beans. guess I'll text the super

In a comment I've made a little bit ago, I mentioned that I was tasking myself to discover music that was played on an old radio program that I listened to from the 2000s. And it is looking to be a lot more prolonged and tedious than I had thought. I've been able to find a program that has done an amazing job at removing the host's voices to where, I can't tell where they start or stop talking, I get hints that there were points of voices being there, but it's non-existent.

I've tried before in the past to use Audacity, but being that all recordings were done in Mono and not Stereo, no matter what I tried, the voices would still remain. So now that hurdle is done with, the next task is to go through all 139 episodes and all episodes average 1 hour to 2 hours. That's a long time if you're doing radio or podcasting, it's a lot of talking to do. Then it's a matter of listening back and forth at one points certain songs begin and end, marking times to point them out with.

I might pick out some standout favorites, episodes that contained the most songs that I would have wanted the most from them. Then once all of that is figured, the next course of action is to clean up the sample audio, because most of these episodes were recorded in Mono so there's going to be a lot of distortion and muddiness.

Then once all of that is done, the next challenging task is, actually finding someone who'll be able to identify what is played. I don't know electronic/techno music too well, I'm not entirely familiar with artists outside Daft Punk, Celldweller, 3Teeth and Pendulum to name a few. The only thing that sortof helps narrow things down is that they were all played on DI.FM at the time, so it may or may not help.

From there, it's just hoping I find them out there online.

It's a big project, but I've listened to these episodes for 18 years now and what kept me coming back to them besides nostalgic purposes, was the music played in them that never got identified.

Why do you prefer the Fediverse over other Social Media?

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Let's say you're a "benevolent dictator" with complete power over legislative and judicial processes. What laws would exist involving speech(public square and private)? What would punishments look like (if any)?

I must have noise to go along with going to sleep. Usually thats an audio book or long-form video essay type YouTube videos. I wear one earbud to bed if I'm sleeping at night with my girlfriend or just blare it from the TV if I'm sleeping alone during the day (rotating shift). I feel like when I don't have engaging audio and I'm trying to sleep I can't quiet my mind enough to sleep. A fan or random ambient noise isn't enough for me.

We bought our house three years ago and everything seemed fine with the septic system. The inspection report said it was "functional but aging" which we thought was no big deal. Fast forward to last spring and we started noticing a few things that we completely ignored at first.

The grass over the drain field was greener and growing faster than the rest of the yard. We actually thought that was a good thing. Then we started getting a faint smell near the back of the house after heavy rain, nothing terrible just a slight sewage odor that would go away after a day or two. We figured it was normal for an older system. Then one morning after a week of rain the whole back section of the yard was soggy and spongy to walk on, and there was grey water pooling near where the drain field ends.

Turns out the drain field had been slowly failing for probably over a year and all those "minor" signs were the system screaming for help. The septic tank itself was fine but the soil around the drain field had become completely saturated and could no longer absorb anything. We had to get the whole drain field replaced which was not cheap. Looking back the signs were all there and if we had caught it earlier we could have probably saved a lot of money by just doing maintenance and partial repairs instead of a full replacement. The guy who did the work told us that most homeowners ignore the early warnings because they don't know what to look for.

So for anyone with a septic system what warning signs did you miss or catch early? And for those who had to replace or repair theirs what was the process like and how much did it end up costing? Would love to hear other people's experiences so nobody else makes the same mistakes we did.

People crying about Nintendo Online pricing. First off, it's for an entire year, not by monthly, so I don't know how that's a negative. That's just an example.

Figured someone on here might know or know how to fins out.

I know with the current administration and oligarchs, things seem pretty bleak. I want to scream sometimes. But we don't have a lot of control over that. Focus on making your own bubble pleasant. There's so many people doing the same, that if you could see a visual of all the good bubbles, you'd be astounded.

On a personal level, I've been where you are. For YEARS. Most of my life actually. When I was 40, my marriage and community life were stale and empty. I felt hollow, unfulfilled, and hopeless. I knew I wasn't going to make it another five years. So I adopted a dog, even though my spouse said no. That baby got me out in the world and talking to neighbors, she was like a superstar, drawing everyone's attention. It ignited a spark that I thought was completely out.

I came to the realization that divorce was an option, so that's what I did. I moved across the country near family and life has been incredible. At first it was terrifying. Going through a divorce is brutal and things didn't get better immediately. But it was like I crawled out of a cave and saw an expansive world I wanted to explore.

A few years later, I met my current spouse. Every day im so happy and fulfilled. If I could go back to the person I was when I was in that dark place, I would show them how much stronger and resilient I've become and thank them for somehow finding the bravery to make that terrifying jump.

This was my journey. Yours will look vastly different. But I'm so grateful that I didn't end things when I wanted to.

So I guess the answer is, we don't know when things will get better. Life really can surprise you. And there are so many people along the way who want to help you. If you're thinking of ending your life, then shake up your life and go on an adventure before you do. Don't die in the cave, but somewhere amazing, hopefully sometime in the distant future.

Anyone out there with real medical knowledge, or industrial hygiene knowledge, of how much heat a human and their society can take before people just die and society crumbles?

Because looking at the situation from the USA, things are looking grim in India. Severe weather about to get worse and the closure of the straits of hormuz means less power for Air conditioning, no pumped water and no way to handle sewage. All this in a country with lethal air quality levels.

Better yet, is anyone on this site actually there, and have some ground truth they are willing to share.

How much heat can we take before things fall apart and we just die.

I'm not looking for a political discussion, or doomer porn, this is more of a concern for humanity question.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/05/whats-a-super-el-nino-and-other-el-nino-questions-answered/

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2026/05/20/heat-strokes-are-part-of-the-job-in-delhi-construction-workers-endure-43-c-heat_6753631_114.html

Been doing some digging. Answer seems to be "it depends".
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/how-hot-too-hot-humans-record-temperatures-rcna160261

After more than 1.5y I have been browsing the other site again, and I have noticed that most assholes have disappeared.

Take for example this section about recent developments in anti-trans bathroom bans in the UK, to which someone said:

As a queer trans woman, I'm pleasantly surprised by this comment section. Thank you to everyone who is an ally.

Well, I don't remember this being the case on the other site. I have seen a similar progressive user base manifest itself in other "thorny" threads as well.

I wonder what has actually happened since the Exodus. I swear I have seen more shills and trolls here, than I have seen in the few weeks I have been browsing the other site.

So I entertain different propositions. One is that a lot of bad faith actors have stopped being paid for it. Or they have naturally moved to Xitter as their natural habitat.

Some of my theories get weirder, like some of the worst people on the other site were so mad at spez that they were part of the Exodus and ended up here organically. Or that the Fediverse is in the eye of bad faith entities and some of the operations were moved onto Lemmy, possibly infiltrating the very same political spaces that are now targeted as "extremist".

What are your own pet theories about where the fuck the overwhelmingly transphobic portion of the other site did go?

I use Linux and I created a video that's pretty low resolution, by zooming in. It's so pixelated that it really isn't going to work as-is, so I tried to use a few of the AI video upscalers out there--TensorPix and others, but none really helped.

I included one of the frames from the video to show how pixelated it is, so I'm hoping for something that will fix it. Since I'm on Linux, I'm hoping to either find something I can use in the browser, or something that's compatible with Linux.

Does anyone know of any that would be able to greatly improve the quality and "create previously unseen details" (which is what TensorPix said it would do) to a great extent?

I found professor Glenn Diesen in Youtube and his delightful interviews with experts in geopolitics.

His interviews, although high quality, clean and very rational sounding, are clearly bias towards Russian or at least Russian friendly points of view. He is, after all, professor of Russian internationals affairs.

My question: Is there something like Diesen's interviews (the format, bringing global experts and just letting them talk) with a host more specialized on the western point of view?

Although interesting, I don't think hearing only prof. Diesen is a balanced approach to understand geopolitics. Hence my question.

Thanks.

As per title, I am looking for a legit site that I can get a Portuguese NIF (Tax Identification Number) online. I have seen this one, but i don't believe it to be legit, and the TrustPilot reviews aren't great either.

Does anyone know of any legit ones?

EDIT - I have found a legit site, but it seems a bit 'American' to me.. The reviews are great, but they charge in US$ and this thread makes it seems something I wouldn't want. Although one reply says that they all do that etc. I'm starting to think that getting one online mightn't be worth it for the hassle.