I feel a bit split about this. Seems it is an actual law, and it kind of makes sense. You probably don’t want random components from unknown people and places in your multi million dollar space equipment. But it feels rather arrogant to just demand such things.

Is NASA actually a customer? Did they pay for a license to use curl (genuine question - I’m not familiar enough with it to know if enterprises and organisations require a paid license)? Are they planning on becoming a paying customer? Do they make donations to the project? If not, it feels kind of rude to send a demand letter to the lead developer of a free piece of software straight up demanding a formal letter stating where the free software is being developed and maintained (for free), or if outside the USA, that the free software has been tested in the USA. Oh, and a bonus demand that such information be returned within 5 business days (naturally with an implied “or else”, just to really make sure those pesky people maintaining open source software for free really get the memo)

In any case, why don’t all their scary 3 letter spy agencies go and figure it out on behalf of NASA themselves? It’s open source, they could just like, read the source, test the source, and audit the source themselves. Or fork it and make any modifications they’d like to ensure its safety

I don’t blame the person sending the emails, obviously, they’re just following orders, but the whole email reads as very entitled and arrogant, assuming NASA don’t provide any compensation to the project and projects maintainers for their use of curl

Who looks at this and thinks it isn’t satire lol? I sometimes struggling with telling satire apart, too, but this is the most obvious piece of satire I’ve seen in a long time.

Thanks!

Heya, sorry for the necropost, but would you mind sharing how you’re doing on storage these days? I’m looking at spinning up a Lemmy instance of my own and I’m curious about the storage aspect on small instances

Np. I mainly reuploaded it since discord introduced that thing where attachment links expire after a few days and stop working

Embedded (and non Discord) link:

I’m always worried about inadvertently doing this, so I’ve been trying to make a conscious effort to ask people if they need more context rather than assuming they do or don’t. It’s actually a good approach I think. Although it does depend on whether the person you’re talking to is likely to just say “oh yeah, I know what that is” when they really don’t

Why’s it a static gif

Solutions always seem to come to me in that weird phase of thought between almost asleep and actually asleep

many engineers do not know how to effectively communicate with management when something will result in terribly written software and just do it anyway.

I imagine this is partly a result of bad and misinformed managers too though. There’s a lot out there who have 0 clue wtf you do, just that you make computer do thing yet still act like they know your job better than you

You forgot the snark!

Closed as duplicate. Learn how searching works you stupid, foolish clodpoll.

Isn’t this the same country that made the drinking age 21 because of car accidents?

No worries! Here’s an example of a post by a mastodon user on a Lemmy community (another telltale sign is that virtually no lemmings use hashtags):

https://aussie.zone/post/7464977

And one of those deep mention comment threads (though I’ve seen deeper):

https://aussie.zone/comment/4629969

Interesting, I use boost and didn’t know about that. Like client side flairs, neat!

I’ve never seen that before. I wonder if it’s an instance dependent setting?

Yeah, my last post on Reddit was actually to my profile redirecting people here. Don’t think we have that here yet, although it could be useful.

I never really saw it used for anything useful though, it was primarily used for spam in my experience. But it would probably improve compatibility between us and mastodonians

With instance I know, you don’t give a commercial licence to re-use your content like you do on reddit. For example, Lemmy.world team cannot sell your comments to train an AI

It’s worth noting that although nobody has a licence to steal your content, this is the internet, and the nature of the fediverse makes it easy to siphon if somebody really wanted to.

Sure, that’s a violation of your copyright and completely disrespectful to you as a person, but do you or your instance have the resources to take action against whatever multi-billion dollar company decided to copy everything you’ve ever done?

Ironically, the only jeans posts I saw were people complaining about the jeans posts. I don’t know whether I’ve just blocked all the communities or people that were posting them or what, but it was the same story with the beans thing

You can view who votes for things? I think that’s a kbin thing, isn’t it?

There’s also Mastodon, a Twitter-like service that currently Kbin users can interact with (but not Lemmy).

They can interact with us though, and then we can interact back. We can’t really “post” there, but if a mastodonian makes a post in a Lemmy community, us lemmings can see it, and then we can reply to them. But we can’t do twitter style posts on their forum

The biggest telltale sign you’re talking to a mastodonian rather than a lemming is that you’ll see them @ everybody in the entire thread in every single reply, since that’s how replies start on twitter and mastodon. I’ve never actually received a notification for the @'s, I think it’s functionally closer to just linking to your user profile than an actual mention, but once you get deep in a thread you’ll see every comment starting with 60 different @'s.