Stop discriminating on pointless metrics that may actually be harmful

• people from minority backgrounds are less likely to have had access to libraries and reading resources growing up. Thus less likely to read for pleasure.
• Men are more likely to favour Sci fi than women.

Your employer doesn’t give a fuck about you. You only exist to make them profit. Just pick the most talented individual and stop discriminating based on bullshit.

If everyone puts wind turbines on the balconies they might end up blowing the building over

Bevy is damn impressive. I can understand why it’s not suitable for large projects yet but for anyone tinkering or projects willing to adapt to a rapidly iterate ecosystem is well worth a look.

That’s actually insane.

I wonder if they’ve just sent out a generic rejection without checking it.

I live in the UK where it’s practically impossible to get fired.

In the UK you only get employment protections after working at a company for two years. Up until then you can be fired without reason

Is it definitely the MP3 format at fault here? Was your MP3 from an official source or could it have been from a faulty source or improperly transcoded?

I guess. I don’t get it.

This sums it up exactly!

You aren’t just downvoting comments you disagree with, you’re downvoting comments because you don’t understand them.

By downvoting instead of commenting you never open that discussion to learn about somebody’s view.

And by downvoting you’re reducing the chance that somebody else might see the comment. Who either does understand it, or responds to continue the discussion.

I completely agree, you’ve summed up my view far better than I could.

There’s also a controversial approach that if you’re debating with someone and you believe in the points you’re making then you should upvote even the comments you disagree.

By doing so the full thread of comments is ranked higher so more people see the incredibly clever points you’re articulating.

This isn’t so relevant on Lemmy right now because it’s still small so you might read all comments on ba post. But it made a massive difference on reddit where there were thousands of comments. So the algorithm becomes very selective.

It’s not harmless. They’re maliciously using downvotes and as a consequence lemmy’s algorithm will rank OPs content lower.

This isn’t a case of downvoting individual statements you disagree with, it’s harassment.

The mod took down my post without any comment, reply, or reason.

This is definitely enough reason to post in [email protected]

It also opens up an interesting debate about what is appropriate. While the mod action is understandable (they don’t want rival communities), it’s a bit of a misuse of mod tools to delete it in my opinion.

Then separately they’re harassing you by following you round downvoting everything you post. That’s the sign of somebody unhinged. They are able to compartmentalise actions that occur inside their community from the wider Lemmy.

You have no reason to so I presume you haven’t.

If we were actually in a discussion and you started downvoting all my comments I’d see it as a sign of pettiness and disengage.

I’d probably also tag you as a reminder to myself not to engage with you again.

This is precisely my reason for why they should be public.

In my view downvotes should be used sparingly, only to suppress spam and trolling comments that don’t add to the conversation.

By keeping votes private people just downvote anything they disagree with

understand what is the common idea about the fact that systemd could be a critical part of Linux which is in the hands of IBM and Microsoft and what this means for the linux community overall.

Either nobody cares, or it’s too much complottistic to be real.

I wasn’t familiar with the word complotism but yes I think this is the case - It’s just an unsubstantiated conspiracy.

Even if were true that Microsoft had taken over systemd by stealth. What is the harm? If they suddenly do something malicious with it then all the distros will just fork systemd and continue without the malicious elements.

I’ve read the update you made to your original post.

So I now understand your concern is Microsoft control systemd and the proof of that is that the project lead works for Microsoft? Is that the only proof?

I think it’s quite a grasp. There is no money in open source so the developers need jobs. In this case the developer happens to be employed by Microsoft.

I was impressed they resisted calling it micro$oft. That’s the usual sign of somebody adopting the tribal views of others.

In that case why not share your opinion?

Instead you’ve claimed you’re neutral and shared links to the views of 15 other people.

You haven’t even provided any context on these articles. Or quoted anything from them that you are concerned about.

Everything about this screams you’re asking in bad faith just hoping to waste people’s time or start an argument.

You provided 15 links.

Are you seriously expecting somebody to walk you through each one?

You’re claiming not to care either way about systemd and yet you’ve provided 15 sources against it and apparently done zero research into why it has been so widely adopted.

Weaponised incompetence.

They don’t want to try something new so they’re going to make it as hard as possible for themselves so they have an excuse to give up.

Then they’re going to post about it hoping everybody stays with them.

Why would a company have 40,000 VMs?! The scale of computing resources is always astronomically different to what I think a service would need.